Day 6 (really Day 7, but I labeled it wrong on Facebook, so we’re just going with it) (it's going to be a shorter one because I've got some other things to do) of reading and sharing my notes on Project 2025 (the long title is Mandate for Leadership 2024: The Conservative Promise, in case you're searching for it). Here’s my approach and why I’m doing this.

We're still in "Chapter 2: Executive Office of the President of the United States" by Russ Vought (I explained his bio on the previous post). This is in the first section of the document, "Taking the Reins of Government."

SUMMARY

This section is on the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Vought summarizes the function of the OSTP and says there's been bipartisan focus on research and development around Industries of the Future. "Under President Trump, IOTF priorities were artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), advanced communications/5G, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology. Under President Biden, this list has been expanded to include advanced materials, robotics, battery technology, cybersecurity, green products and clean technology, plant genetics and agricultural technologies, nanotechnology, and semiconductor and microelectronics technologies. These priorities should be evaluated and narrowed to ensure consistency with the next Administration's priorities."

MY OPINION

Wonder which ones they'll narrow?

SUMMARY

Vought argues for reshaping the U.S. Global Change Research Program and "related climate change research programs." He says the USGCRP, which produces the National Climate Assessment, should have a "purely informational and advisory" role, as should other groups working on climate change.

**-"Finally, the next Administration will face a significant challenge in unwinding policies and procedures that are used to advance radical gender, racial, and equity initiatives under the banner of science. Similarly, the Biden Administration's climate fanaticism will need a whole-of-government unwinding. As with other federal departments and agencies, the Biden Administration's leveraging of the federal government's resources to further the woke agenda should be reversed and scrubbed from all policy manuals, guidance documents, and agendas, and scientific excellence and innovation should be restored as the OSTP's top priority."

MY OPINION

Again, I really wish they would define "woke," since it is all over this document. I understand "woke" as learning how racism affects so much of policy and behavior and trying to right past wrongs, knowing that we won't get it perfect.

And I know a lot of people on the Left who don't think Biden is a climate fanatic. Perspective all depends on where you're standing.

As I said, today was a short one. Tomorrow we move on to the Council on Environmental Quality, still in this chapter. It also includes sections on the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gender Policy Council, and Office of the Vice President. I'm hoping to get through them all tomorrow.