Project 2025 Has Been a Disaster. Heritage’s Family Agenda Might Be Worse

Pro-choice demonstrators protest outside of The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on November 9, 2024, following the re-election of former President Donald Trump. Credit: Reuters/Bryan Dozier

The Heritage Foundation brought you Project 2025 in order to completely transform the U.S. federal government. Now, it’s rolling out a new plan to save the American family.

To ring in 2026, the conservative think tank that provided the blueprints for the administrations of President Ronald Reagan and President Donald Trump released a new 168-page policy plan titled Saving America by Saving the Family. The Heritage Foundation’s plan claims that its goal is to encourage more “fertile” men and women to marry younger and have more children. But curiously, this plan for America’s families recommends programs like marriage boot camps and“community rest” laws, not policies that have been empirically shown to encourage family growth and stability—such as the expansion of paid parental leave and flexible work schedules.

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