Opinion: “The policies described in Project 2025 would be a disaster for the Midwestern farmers we’ve represented.”
- Authors John Doggett and Bob Dinneen wrote this Opinion for The Des Moines Register. It is being shared widely.
“To put it bluntly, farmers and renewable fuel industry workers who take the time to read the Project 2025 recommendations on agriculture and energy are likely to be terrified — just as we were.
“The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 — billed by the conservative think tank as a “policy agenda” and “playbook” for the next president of the United States — has become controversial as more and more details about it are revealed.
“Former President Donald Trump is disavowing any knowledge of it. Certainly, implementation of Project 2025’s agriculture and renewable fuels policy recommendations would be an absolute disaster for Midwest agriculture and biofuels.
“For the sake of our nation’s corn growers and ethanol producers, who we once proudly represented in Washington, D.C., Trump should disavow it — and do so specifically, clearly, and publicly. Project 2025’s farm and energy policies were written by once and potentially future leaders in his administration who would shape policy if he wins in November. So, whether Project 2025 itself survives as a “playbook” for a future Trump administration or not, its specific policy recommendations need to be unambiguously repudiated by Trump now or they will quite likely resurface if he were to take the oath again.