Latino Voters Coalition Launches Campaign Against Project 2025

Seven organizations focused on engaging Latino voters ahead of the presidential election have found that while many are aware of Project 2025, few understand its details and potential consequences. In response, these groups, mostly left-leaning, have formed a coalition to launch a bilingual campaign, "Defendiendo Nuestro Futuro, Latinos Against Project 2025," targeting Latino voters in swing states. The campaign aims to educate the community on Project 2025's implications for issues like education, health care access, reproductive rights, climate change, immigration, and workers' rights. According to Yadira Sánchez, executive director of the organization Poder Latinx, less than 20% of the Latino community is aware of Project 2025, partly due to a lack of information in Spanish. Katharine Pichardo-Erskine, executive director of the Latino Victory Foundation, expressed concern about Project 2025's plan to limit federal education policy, which she argues would undermine vital education programs that help break the cycle of poverty in Latino communities. Project 2025, developed by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, serves as a policy blueprint and personnel database for the next Republican president, receiving support from over 100 conservative organizations.

Impacts of Project 2025

Project 2025 proposes limiting health care access and reproductive rights by implementing spending caps on Medicaid, potentially affecting the nearly 18 million Latinos enrolled in the program. Furthermore, the project would prioritize the deprivation of efforts to combat climate change and roll back environmental regulations, disproportionately affecting Latinos who already face higher vulnerability to the detrimental consequences of climate change. The project also outlines measures to halt the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from collecting employment statistics based on race and ethnicity, which would hinder tracking workplace discrimination and dismantle the National Labor Relations Board's oversight role, further eroding workers' protections and their right to unionize.

Despite these concerns, a spokesperson for the Heritage Foundation did not respond to requests for comment. The organization's Project 2025 website states, "The Left has spent millions fearmongering about Project 2025, because they're terrified of losing their power."