If anyone wants a great example of how Project 2025 will roll out regarding privatizing federal departments and replacing the existing civil service force, here is an article from the Washington Post that foretells the 2025 2025 scenario.
Early in his presidential campaign, Trump needed a cash infusion to keep the campaign going. Unwilling or unable to supply the cash infusion himself, Trump, or most likely his aides, came up with the idea of shaking down Egypt’s dictator, President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, for $100 million.
As this Washington Post article (“$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt”) details, the two met in Egypt and Europe, and soon, the Egyptian intelligence agency asked the Egyptian central bank to put about $100 million in cash in canvas bags. The bags of cash reportedly weighed about 200 pounds.
Trump and his Attorney General William Barr kept the deal secret and prevented any investigation into the deal, but word leaked out about Trump’s shakedown of Abdel Fatah El-Sisi. It soon became clear that Trump did not want to buy a pyramid.
“Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019,” the Washington Post revealed. “The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.”
What followed next was typical Trump criminality. The Post reported that “within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case and documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case was halted by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.”
Another Classic Trump Cover-Up
If this sounds familiar, it should.
This is a classic Trump cover-up.
But what does it have to do with Project 2025?
A key component of Project 2025 calls for replacing the 2.2 million federal employees with people who pass a Trump loyalty test. These people don’t necessarily require the skill for the new job, but they have to prove their loyalty. This is spelled out in section three of the report, “Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy.” (page 69.) 
But like everything else in Trumpland, I bet the new replacement civil servants will have to buy their jobs. The higher the salary, the more they will pay. That is the classic pay-to-play rule.
The big question is who will be selling the jobs. Again, that is classic pay-to-play. The job sellers will be the biggest gangsters Trump can find, and they will conduct interviews and spell out the details of the bribery.
It is uncharacteristic for Trump to give away these jobs for free to perfect strangers. He will be the head of the snake who will get a piece of every job sold, every privatized federal agency, and every federal contract awarded.
This is what his hero Putin does, and it is why Putin is reportedly the wealthiest politician in the world, with an estimated net worth between $70 billion and $200 billion.
Trump knows this, and his ascent to the presidency will allow him to become the wealthiest man in the world, which is all he ever wanted.
Appointing Workers Who Cannot Belong to Unions
Republicans hate unions, so it is no surprise that Project 2025 will appoint workers in a union-free environment. The report states (page 14), “Congress should also consider whether public-sector unions are appropriate in the first place. Until the middle of the 20th century, the bipartisan consensus held that these unions were incompatible with constitutional government.30 After more than half a century of experience with public-sector union frustrations of good government management, it is hard to avoid reaching the same conclusion,”
To reform the federal bureaucracy, especially in the posts and departments closest to the Trump White House, the report states that “Any new Administration (i.e., the Trump administration) would be wise to learn that it will need a whole cadre of sound political appointees from the beginning if it expects to direct this enormous federal bureaucracy. A close relationship between the PPO at the White House and the OPM, coordinating with agency assistant secretaries of administration Presidential Transition Project and PPO’s chosen White House Liaisons and their staff at each agency, is essential to the management of this significant, multilevel, resistant, and bureaucratic challenge.
“If ‘personnel is policy’ is to be our general guide, it would make sense to give the President direct supervision of the bureaucracy with the OPM Director available in his Cabinet.”
Giving Trump “direct supervision” is handing him the keys to shakedown new employees. He will use it, just as he used it on the president of Egypt. This is the beginning of the new American oligarchy, and it comes packaged in the Project 2025 plan.
