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NM news org identifies impacts of 'Project 2025' on state residents

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024   

A New Mexico nonprofit news organization wants voters to know what is included in "Project 2025" and how it could potentially change the course of their lives.

The New Mexico Political Report has looked into what is viewed by some as a blueprint for the next Republican president and it has published targeted stories about the document's proposals.

Matthew Reichbach, editor of the New Mexico Political Report, will lead a public discussion in Santa Fe this Thursday, featuring the reporters who wrote the stories.

"We already have reporters that are experts on reproductive rights, on the environment, on elections, so those are the things that we're going to focus on," Reichbach explained. "But you could devote an entire month to this sort of stuff and not even scratch the surface. It's wild."

Project 2025 is a product of the far-right Heritage Foundation and proposes mass deportations. It also recommends eliminating or rolling back safeguards on clean air, clean drinking water and protected public lands and dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

New Mexico is one of the country's poorest states, where almost 60% of residents are insured through Medicaid. They would risk losing coverage because of proposed "limits or lifetime caps."

Reichbach argued Project 2025 is a radical document in many ways but especially when it comes to reproductive rights and abortion.

"It would be a fundamental change to the way things have worked in modern American history, essentially, because medication abortion would be eliminated," Reichbach pointed out. "That's the way most abortions take place these days and this would eliminate that."

Although former President Donald Trump has denied being associated with the document, contributors include members of his previous administration. Reichbach contended it should not matter to voters if Trump was involved or not.

"It isn't all about Trump, because this is a roadmap for conservatives in general," Reichbach emphasized. "This is what these folks want to do, no matter who's president. Maybe it's not in 2025, but what about 2029?"

Support for this reporting was provided by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.


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