| The dismantling of the administrative state is at the core of Project 2025, enacted through Trump’s Executive Orders and DOGE. There are two excellent tools that help you track specific executive orders.You can track Project 2025 by a specific agency with this tool, or you can track each chapter of Project 2025 by executive action with this one. Both trackers are alarming in their forecasts. Here in New Hampshire, Governor Kelly Ayotte is implementing her NH version of DOGE, her Commission of Government Efficiency or COGE. Her stated goal is to streamline government, which means to cut spending. Ayotte’s hidden agenda? Similar to Trump’s. In order to cut taxes for the wealthy and out-of-state corporations, Ayotte must cut programs and services for working families. This article lays out Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances in New Hampshire, again alarming as it seeks to shift the burden of taxes from the wealthy down the income ladder to the less wealthy, cutting programs for women, wiping out critical child care for low-income families and restructuring students loans. Fast forward to today in New Hampshire and what we are experiencing. 1. Loss of job protections for thousands of government employees. Do you know someone who got laid off? 2. A drastic overhaul of agencies like the complete elimination of the Department of Education. Rep.Mary Hakken-Phillips pushes back against $25M GOP cut to the University System on NH Ayotte proposes changes to cut down on the cost of the Medicaid program Official in charge of NH school voucher program attends Trump ceremony dismantling US Department of Education 3. Funding Freeze/cuts to agencies. Cuts to grant funding for flooding in the Connecticut River watershed Cuts to Head Start—affecting 1,234 low-income children in New Hampshire. Cuts to Social Security offices and staff Cuts to USDA food programs, food banks to buy local produce—a double whammy impacting our small farmers and our families Cuts to Family Nutrition Program in NH—House Republicans voted to take away the Women, Infant, and Children’s Nutrition Program, WIC. Cuts to NH Family Planning program—Republicans on the committee voted to eliminate the New Hampshire Family Planning Program. 4. Education and DEI—end diversity and inclusion programs, recognize only two genders. Multiple anti-LGBTQ bills were passed last week in the NH House of Representatives, and this is being replicated in other states. 5. Divert funding from public schools to religious, private, and home schools via a “school voucher” program or “Freedom Accounts.” NH House/Senate lift income limits on EFA program These budget cuts are not sustainable and with Trump’s recent clawback of $80M from NH, Ayotte must reevaluate the budget. We cannot risk the solvency of the state for the sake of the mega-wealthy. Call Governor Ayotte. (603) 271-7676. Share stories about how you will be/have been impacted by these cuts. Tell Ayotte to pass a fiscally responsible budget. |
