Project 25 is a federal agenda and blueprint for the restructuring of the executive branch published by former Trump administrative officials in partnership with the Heritage Foundation, an organization that opposes among many things along the lines of abortion and reproductive rights and much more. Project 2025 is the largest publication with a 900-page manual for reorganizing the federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda.
Some important proposals that are pushed in Project 25 are gutting abortion access, mass deportations, abusing warrantless surveillance, unleashing undue force on protestors, severely limiting voting access, censoring critical discussions in classrooms, and rolling back trans rights. One significant proposal under Project 2025 is banning books. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plans to support less federal intervention, including the deletion of the U.S. Department of Education and more support for “school choice” policies. Hence, Project 2025 plans to censor academic curricula, ban books, and restrict educators’ voices.
Heritage Foundations president Kevin Roberts writes “The noxious tenets of critical race theory´ and gender theology´ should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country”. Project 2025 is expanding its efforts into book banning, making it a federal priority and criminalizing librarians who allow students to read banned books. Some books that are pushed to get banned are Between the World and Me, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Handmaid’s Tail, Nineteen Minutes, Percy Jackson, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Red Queen.
Books are supposed to encourage students and allow them to be seen through literature; book bannings revoke what thousands of American students love. Kamala Harris said during her 2023 Fight Our Freedoms tour in Arizona, “[It is an] attempt to take us backward in a way that is also meant to marginalize people and make them feel small and to judge people and the hate that it is fueling.”
Book banning does not protect children, it limits their learning. If high schoolers never read To Kill a Mockingbird they will never understand the literary acquisition and the importance of the novel. Project 2025 proposes the changes that are “promised” under President-elect Donald Trump. Book banning being one of its proposals conveys a debatable topic that can cause dispute. If you want to know the complete list of books being banned under the project, check online and purchase the books before they are removed.
