Section III. The General Welfare

A Section 3 introduction discusses the highlights of myriad proposals that follow in chapters 10 through 20. No author is listed, suggesting the co-editors of The Heritage Foundation are key authors. They highlight needed changes at Health and Human Services, which houses the federal health assistance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, whose large budgets are to blame for the ongoing national debt, conservatives argue.

Here, Project 2025 aims fury at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their handling of the Covid epidemic, including “irrational, destructive, un-American mask and vaccine mandates,” per Project 2025. They also highlight the role of NIH, and Director Anthony Fauci, who is deemed villainous. “NIH was responsible for paying for research in aborted baby body parts, human animal chimera experiments—in which the genes of humans and animals are mixed, “and “gain-of-function viral research that may have been responsible for COVID-19” claim conservative critics. The HHS and Department of Justice are given special attention here for having “gone off the rails” with a cultural agenda of “Leftist wokeism.” The next HHS Secretary, Project 2025 proposes, “should pursue a robust agenda to protect the fundamental right to life, protect conscience rights, and uphold bodily integrity rooted in biological realities, not ideology.” They should reverse the Biden Administration’s focus on “‘LGBTQ+ equity,’ subsidizing single- motherhood, disincentivizing work, and penalizing marriage” with a pro-life, pro-family agenda. The DOJ “should also enforce existing federal law that prohibits mailing abortifacients, rather than harassing pro-life demonstrators; respect the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech, rather than trying to police speech on the internet; and enforce federal immigration laws, rather than pretending there is no border.” The following chapters present the key proposals for each department.