Project 2025's DHS chapter reframes migration almost entirely as a military-enforcement problem, stripping out the diplomatic, development, and humanitarian tools that address root causes — the absence of which guarantees the cycle of border pressure continues indefinitely.
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Project 2025's defense chapter calls for nuclear arsenal expansion, a Taiwan-first force planning construct, and sweeping acquisition reforms that accelerate spending while bypassing the congressional oversight mechanisms that already fail to catch a department that has never passed a clean audit. Loosening budget controls without strengthening audit requirements is not modernization — it is institutionalizing unaccountability at scale.