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Project 2025 Season 3
<p><strong>Project 2025</strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-3">[a]</a> is a collection of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States">conservative</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics">right-wing</a> policy proposals from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> to reshape the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States">United States federal government</a> and consolidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)">executive power</a> should the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)">Republican</a> nominee win the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election">2024 presidential election</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Haberman,_Savage_&_Swan_2023-4">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Mascaro-2023-5">[4]</a> It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service">federal civil service</a> workers as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_appointments_in_the_United_States">political appointees</a> in order to replace them with people more willing to enact the next Republican president's proposals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Mascaro-2023-5">[4]</a> It asserts that the president has absolute power over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_branch_(US)">executive branch</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Haberman,_Savage_&_Swan_2023-4">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-6">[5]</a> Project 2025's critics have characterized it as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism">authoritarian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism#United_States">Christian nationalist</a> plan to transform the U.S. into an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocracy">autocracy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-7">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Ward-2024-8">[7]</a> Many legal experts have said it would undermine the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law">rule of law</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers">separation of powers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States">the separation of church and state</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Mascaro-2023-5">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Stone_2023-9">[8]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties">civil liberties</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#cite_note-Larson-2024-10">[9]</a></p>