There are a series of significant policy changes listed in Project 2025 for the military.
Project 2025, manufactured by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, offers a lengthy list of policy recommendations for the U.S. military that would include increasing the size of the Army, banning transgender service members and bringing back troops that were dismissed over COVID-19 vaccinations.
Sean Timmons is a managing partner with Tully Rinckey PLLC. He said the main basis of the plan comes down to ridding of the wokeness within the United States military.
"The wokeness is detrimental to national security," Timmons said. "It's about focusing on DEI versus combat effectiveness and combat priorities."
According to Timmons, the DEI-friendly policies in the military started with the Obama administration but were ramped up to another level under President Biden. The military has been too focused on "transgender nonsense."
"Everything is about promoting people of color, diversity and pride month versus qualifications, credentials and skills," he said.
The plan's mention of adding 50,000 soldiers to the military also mentions reducing the number of generals. Timmons said it's important to have a professional army that's ready to defend the country and national interests.
Also, a lot of military individuals were left without a job after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, a violation of their religious liberty. Timmons said those individuals deserve backpay.
"They truly believed it was harmful to them and they asked for a religious exemption which they should've been granted under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act but they were denied," said Timmons.
Democrats have been promoting Project 2025 as more of a "scare tactic" and a way to gaslight people into believing it's a Trump-led "dystopian reality TV show" type of plan. Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly said he is not associated with the group. Timmons said the proposals within the plan have already been around for quite some time and most of it wouldn't take effect anyways under a second Trump presidency and with a likely Democrat filibuster.
"They're just policy advocacy ideas that are no different than what the ACLU has put out," Timmons said. "Most of Project 2025 will face opposition and won't make legislative ground anyway."
"There's no reason for the panic and the complete, utter lunatic-level meltdown over the proposals," Timmons added.