#USCensusQuestions

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Continuing my review and summarization of Project 2025, Chapter 21 covers the Dept of Commerce. Please pay special attention to #8. You’ll get a chuckle out of it.

1. Streamline and rearrange multiple bureaus: the International Trade Administration, the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Development Finance Corporation, US Trade and Development Agency, Export-Import Bank and consider if they should even exist

2. Consolidate the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau and the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics into a more manageable, focused, and efficient statistical agency

3. Dismantle the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service because they are the “drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity” and privatize the Weather Service, Marine Fisheries Service, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services, and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

4. Fully staff the Office of the Secretary with political appointees who must that ensure that funds are not being diverted to programs which do not align with Administration priorities. NB: Political appointee ≠ qualified appointee, simply a Trump "yes" man.

5. Get rid of all advisory committees which are hostile to conservative principles 

6.Ensure that Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary positions are and senior policy and decision-making positions are always held by political appointees 

7. Promulgate policies to better prevent technology and weapons transfer

8. This is a great line! When authoritarian governments explain what they plan to do, believe them unless hard evidence demonstrates otherwise. NB: When authoritarian political parties explain what they plan to dominate believe them.

9. Withdraw the 30x30 Executive Order, the Associated America the Beautiful Initiative which “advance an agenda to close vast areas of the ocean to commercial activities" such as fishing and off-shore drilling"

10. Get rid of the Marine Mammal Protection Act

11. Elevate the Office of Space Commerce to set a robust and unified whole-of-government commercial space policy that cements U.S. leadership in a crucial industry of the future

12. Place political appointees in the Census Bureau to align it with conservative principles and add a citizenship question and reevaluate the race/ethnicity questions

13. Abolish the National Advisory Committee and reevaluate all other committees including the Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations as it is a “hotbed for left-wing activists intent upon injecting racial and social-justice theory into the governing philosophy of the Census Bureau.”

14. Eliminate funding for the  Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), the only federal agency solely dedicated to the growth and competitiveness of minority-owned businesses.

15. Review federal policy regarding free speech online and provide policy solutions to address big tech’s censorship of speech.