The Project 2025 Bill

Gaslit Nation

Trump, Politics, Left, Democracy, Resistance, News, Society & Culture, Progressive, Liberal, Kendzior, Chalupa, Resist

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s “Big Evil Bill” sped through Congress, to sell off public lands, gut healthcare, destroy rural hospitals, outlaw state AI regulation for a decade, make it harder to take out loans to go to college, and unleash an immigration enforcement regime bigger than anything we’ve ever seen. ICE will now have a budget bigger than the FBI, DEA, U.S. Bureau of Prisons combined. This is an oligarchy fever dream that will painfully backfire on everyone.

Trump’s Big Evil Bill is the blueprint of Project 2025 in action: a theocratic, authoritarian takeover of our democracy. This bill will expand presidential powers, weaken the lower courts, and crush humanitarian protections and put our already militized police state on Russian Olympian super steroids. Russell Vought, Trump’s OMB Director and the architect of Project 2025, made sure the money was there to turn July 4th into a funeral for the American Revolution by installing a mad king.

But here’s the truth hiding in the despair: the more pain this bill causes, the more people it radicalizes. Just as past generations rose up during times of injustice, many Americans, especially those who embraced Trump’s con, like those manosphere-brain rotted Gen Z men, will be forced to wake up. They’ll see the betrayal. They’ll feel it. And some will finally fight back.

The far-right had a 40-year plan. We need ours. One model: The Gay Revolution by historian Lillian Faderman. It's the story of how love, courage, and relentless organizing by small groups of determined people, many forced to become activists because of state cruelty like the kind we’re now seeing, and won against impossible odds. The Gay Revolution is our roadmap of hope, and it pays tribute to the countless men and women, many who risked everything, many whose names we may never know, to cast out the darkness with love and defiance.

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Show Notes:

The song featured in this episode is First They Came for Queers by Mr. Madam Adam. Find more of their music here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/first-they-came-for-queers/1690696748?i=1690696753

How to Protect Your Community from ICE: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start

How Trump’s bill will supercharge mass deportations by funneling $170bn to Ice https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/immigration-trump-big-beautiful-bill

Donald Trump’s weapons freeze on Ukraine could bring catastrophe https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/02/ukraine-russia-war-trump-weapons-freeze-missiles/

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/justice-department-rioter-weaponization.html

House taking key vote on Trump's "big, beautiful bill," after GOP holdouts threaten final passage https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-big-beautiful-bill-rules-committee/

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0:00.0	I'd like to say, you know, a little controversial, but I couldn't care less.
0:03.0	We have a lot of bad criminals that came into this country, and they came in stupidly.
0:09.0	It was an unforced error.
0:11.0	It was an incompetent president that allowed it to happen.
0:14.0	It was an auto pen maybe that allowed it to happen.
0:17.0	And it did happen, but we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time people that whack people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking and kill them people that knife you when you're walking down the street they're not they're not new to our country they're old to our country many of them were born in our country I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too you want to know the truth so maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together. But I think getting them out, you know, we forget about them. We have some very bad, we had some bad accidents in New York. And they're an accident. Welcome to Gaslit Nation's bonus show. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller,
0:55.9	Mr. Jones.
0:57.0	The film The Cremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it.
1:01.3	If you've seen killer clowns from outer space, you'll understand the circus that Congress
1:07.9	is right now because Trump's big evil bill is making its way through what can only
1:14.1	be described as a Kremlin clown show. There's no sugarcoding it. It's bad, really, really bad.
1:23.7	Trump's big evil bill will strip $1 trillion from our health care system. At least 17 million people will
1:32.5	lose health insurance. Rule hospitals will shut down. Public lands across about a dozen states
1:39.6	will be sold off. The bill includes a 10-year moratorium on states regulating AI, effectively opening
1:48.3	Pandora's box, and leaving the rest of the world to deal with the consequences. This big evil
1:55.8	bill is a greedy authoritarian power grab just when you think it can't get any worse.
2:04.8	There's this from The Guardian.
2:07.6	The measure would authorize a level of immigration enforcement spending that analysts and
2:14.1	advocates say is without precedent.
2:20.5	Trump's so-called big, bill dedicates roughly $170 billion for immigration and border-related operations, a staggering
2:30.6	sum that would make ICE the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the federal
2:39.2	government. As I was reading that just now, I was reminded of that quote in George Orwell's
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