How do Michigan voters feel about Project 2025?

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A recent statewide poll of 600 active and likely Michigan voters asked participants whether they approve of a conservative organization’s “Project 2025” agenda .

Project 2025, written by members of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation–including many senior officials from the former Trump administration–is a nearly 1,000-page document with plans for a future Republican presidential administration.

The document outlines plans to greatly expand the control that a president has over federal agencies, by giving the president authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil service employees and appoint replacements who are loyal to the administration’s agenda.

The president’s control over departments would then enable the administration to more easily achieve the goals of Project 2025. Some of the goals include:

• Reducing taxes on corporations.
• Eliminating the Affordable Care Act.
• Directing White House control over enforcement and prosecution decisions made by Department of Justice lawyers and agents of the FBI.
• Renaming the Department of Health and Human Services to the “Department of Life” and creating a “Life Task Force,” responsible for creating a national abortion database by requiring states to report the number of abortions performed and more specific information about each abortion
• Eliminating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which provides weather, climate and coastal science services including the tracking of hurricanes
• Requiring the federal government to maintain a definition of marriage and family through biblically-based, social-science reinforced terms

The question asked of Michigan voters in the July EPIC-MRA poll was as follows:

“After hearing some of the policies endorsed by the Heritage Foundation, which in their words is designed to install ‘…the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel…[to] take back our country,’ do you approve or disapprove of the overall aims outlined in Project 2025?”

EPIC-MRA statewide poll, July 13-17 , 2024

Responses to the question were as follows:

25% total approve of the overall aims

65% total disapprove of the overall aims

The poll of 600 active and likely voters was conducted by EPIC-MRA from July 13-17. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4%.

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