SEATTLE—On Monday, November 25, Governor-elect Bob Ferguson announced a Transition Team subcommittee that will focus on protecting Washingtonians from the Heritage Foundation’s (a conservative think tank) Project 2025.
According to Ferguson, the Project 2025 agenda include gutting access to abortion, mass deportations, limiting access to the ballot box, rolling back LGBTQ+ rights, ending environmental protections, warrantless surveillance, undermining collective bargaining and the rights of workers, and more.
“We are preparing in case President Trump attacks Washingtonians’ core freedoms,” Governor-elect Ferguson said. “We will keep Washington moving forward no matter what happens at the federal level.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee who lost to President-elect Donald J Trump, has warned Americans about “Trump’s Project 2025” agenda — however, Trump has claimed publicly that he “knows nothing” about the 900-page Project 2025 document.
According to The Guardian, Trump’s transition team will blacklist potential officials to be in his administration who have links to the creation of the Project 2025 manifesto.
The transition working group will be co-chaired by Jennifer M. Allen, CEO of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates (PPAA), and King County Councilmember Jorge L. Barón. At PPAA, Allen oversees the work protecting and promoting reproductive health, rights, and justice in Alaska, Hawai’i, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and Washington. Councilmember Barón previously served as the Executive Director for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project from 2008 to 2023.
“I am honored to assist Governor-elect Ferguson in his transition into this new role and to co-chair this important subcommittee,” said Barón. “As an immigrant and as the proud parent of a trans daughter, I am particularly grateful that the Governor-elect is committed to protecting all Washington state residents, and especially those communities at greatest risk of having their rights attacked by the incoming federal administration.”
“This is a critical time in our nation as we look to the possibility of our communities being under attack from many different directions. I’m honored to serve on Governor-elect Ferguson’s transition team and to co-chair this subcommittee to support his leadership in our state and country in championing and safeguarding reproductive rights and all of the rights of Washingtonians,” said Allen.
The subcommittee’s work will culminate in policy priorities for the first 100 days of Ferguson’s term to shore up protections against the Project 2025 agenda. Additional policy focuses of the Transition Team subcommittees will be announced in the coming days.
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
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Fuck you Bob, you are wasting my tax money on this shit. Why not help Washington state deal with Washington state things? Like power outage on the west side?
Ferguson you are rotten person .
Ferguson is supporting freedom and equal rights for all. That is what this country’s forefathers fought for in creating a democracy which is currently being threatened by those who want to take control of and strip us of our basic freedoms and rights.
Just remeber, you said rights for. Even the unborn, no matter how far along the pregnancy is, has the right to life.
This is a Washington thing. You think we don’t have immigrants that work on farms??? What do you think food prices are gonna do when there’s no one working on farms or houses aren’t being built because Trumps deported? What do you think is gonna happen to the maternal death rate in the state if Trump goes through with a notional abortion ban which is outlined in project 2025. Texas’ maternal death rate is up 56% since the fall of Roe.
Mass deportations? The target is illegal immigrants, and while I support some illegals, I do not support all of them, and it is high time to stop the mistaken belief a child born in this country is automatically a citizen. A child born to a foreign ambassador while in America is not an American. Also, what am I to think when Bob voices support for those who break the law? Further, while there is much in 2025 that requires a fine eye, there are some items Democrats should have done but never did. Consider page 696 that suggests making the tax code simpler and more fair. I say welcome to the suggestion.
What a waste of time! Why did people elect this clown? Focus on Washington. Trump is going to squash you like a bug.
Thank you Ferguson for fighting for our freedoms here in the state of Washington. I started reading the Project 2025 and it sounds horrible how our going to try take all our rights away. It’s a nightmare what is said in Project 2025. That would surely going back in time and even worse. I meant by all of this what is United States Of America for if we have no freedom. I been fearful of what is to come and my mom said to me you don’t be afraid of nothing to keep praying and to stay strong. I am glad to be from Tacoma WA. And I been living here for most of my life. I have a lot family from Montana and I move there for awhile and it never felt like home like the state of Washington does. Anyway again thanks for fighting for our rights.
I meant upon reading project 2025 how they, well mostly Trump is going to taking our rights away. Just correcting my error above on the first comment I wrote.
Ferguson is an idiot. He has consistently advocated for more restrictions on our RIGHTS as protected by the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution and Article 1, Section 24 of the Washington state Constitution. Not granted, protected. He should not have been elected, he should have been jailed.