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Brookings Institution. Roxana Muenster. “Project 2025: What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Media and Technology.” Brookings, July 22, 2024. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/project-2025-media-tech.
Washington Blade. “Project 2025 Labels LGBTQ Materials as ‘Pornography’ in School Libraries.” Washington Blade, August 2024. https://www.washingtonblade.com/story/project-2025-lgbtq.
Florida Phoenix. “Heritage Foundation’s Radical Call to Classify Librarians as Sex Offenders.” Florida Phoenix, October 2023. https://floridaphoenix.com/project2025-librarians.
EveryLibrary Institute. Interview with Molly Peterson. Washington Blade, August 2024.
U.S. Department of Education. “Title I Funding Fact Sheet.” December 2024. https://www.ed.gov/title1-facts.
Inside Higher Ed. J. Blake. “How Trump’s Early Actions Compare to Project 2025.” Inside Higher Ed, April 15, 2025. https://insidehighered.com/articles/trump-project2025-compare.
Pengelly, Martin. “Ex-Project 2025 Chief Says Trump’s Actions Are Beyond His ‘Wildest Dreams.’” The Guardian, March 17, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/project2025-trump-wildest-dreams.
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Fact Check
¹ White House, “Fact Sheet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal,” The White House, November 6, 2021, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/06/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/. President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in November 2021, allocating $1.2 trillion toward rebuilding transportation, broadband, and public utilities, with active project rollouts into 2024–2025.
² U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation — January 2023,” bls.gov, February 2023, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02032023.htm. Unemployment under Biden reached 3.4% in January 2023, the lowest level since 1969, and remained at or near historic lows (3.5–3.8%) through 2024.
³ U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Consumer Price Index Summary,” bls.gov, March 2025, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm. Inflation, which peaked at around 9% in June 2022, was significantly reduced to approximately 3–3.5% by early 2025, although it remained above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.
⁴ U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Year 2023 (Second Estimate),” bea.gov, February 2024, https://www.bea.gov/news/2024/gross-domestic-product-fourth-quarter-and-year-2023-second-estimate;
Goldman Sachs Research, “U.S. Economic Outlook Update,” December 2024.
U.S. GDP grew steadily through 2022 and much of 2023 (~2% annualized), although by late 2024 forecasts predicted a slowdown and possible mild recession beginning in early 2025.