The FDA Under Siege: How Trump, Musk, and Project 2025 Are Rewriting Drug and Food Safety for Profit and Politics
By Justin Jest – Gonzo Journalist, Reluctant Realist, Connoisseur of Chaos
The Food and Drug Administration—the agency tasked with keeping your food safe, your drugs effective, and your medical devices from exploding inside you—is being systematically transformed into something entirely different.
Under Project 2025, the Trump administration, and Elon Musk’s unelected Department of Government Efficiency, the FDA is being reprogrammed into a tool for corporate deregulation and political ideology.
Medicine? Now a battleground.
Drug approvals? Streamlined for the right people, obstructed for the wrong ones.
Consumer safety? Well, that depends on who’s profiting.
Project 2025’s FDA: Faster, Looser, and Politically Compliant
The Project 2025 blueprint doesn’t want to eliminate the FDA—it wants to remodel it into a lean, obedient, and ideologically pure version of itself.
- Step 1: Break the Link Between Regulators and Pharma—But Only in Some Cases
→ The plan bans FDA regulators from working for pharmaceutical companies for 15 years after leaving office, claiming it will eliminate “agency capture.”Sounds great—except corporate capture isn’t really being removed, just redirected. The plan does nothing to stop the revolving door between FDA officials and conservative think tanks, biotech venture capital firms, or politically connected pharmaceutical interests. - Step 2: Fast-Track Drug Approvals (for the Right Kind of Drugs)
→ Project 2025 calls for slashing red tape so cheaper generics and new lab-developed tests hit the market faster.→ But not all drugs are welcome. The playbook explicitly demands that the FDA reverse its approval of mifepristone, the abortion pill, under the guise of safety concerns.→ In other words, deregulation for profit is good. Deregulation for reproductive autonomy is bad. - Step 3: End the FDA’s Power Over Abortion Drugs
→ The FDA is being directed to restrict access to abortion medications, reinstate in-person dispensing requirements, and reverse decades of scientific consensus that these drugs are safe.→ The reasoning? It was “politicized” in the first place.→ Translation: Science is valid unless it contradicts conservative ideology.
This isn’t about making the FDA more efficient.
It’s about making it obedient.
Trump’s FDA: A Factory for Fast Approvals and Political Crackdowns
Once back in office, Trump wasted no time installing an FDA Commissioner who aligns with the Project 2025 vision.
- Transparency rules were tightened—not a bad thing, but also a convenient way to introduce more political oversight into regulatory decisions.
- Pharmaceutical lobbying loopholes were cut off—unless, of course, they benefited the right kind of private industry.
- Patent abuse and “regulatory games” were targeted—not to break corporate power, but to favor generics over brand-name drugs in select cases.
Meanwhile, Trump’s FDA, backed by Elon Musk’s government efficiency squad, started moving even faster to implement the ideological agenda.
- Restrictions on abortion pills were reinstated to make access harder.
- Mifepristone’s approval is being “re-evaluated”—meaning the administration is working on justifying a pre-determined decision to ban it.
- The era of telemedicine abortion is being rolled back, forcing women to make in-person visits just to access medication that’s been safely used for decades.
This isn’t about “protecting consumers.” It’s about weaponizing the FDA to advance a conservative moral agenda.
Elon Musk: The Unofficial CEO of Drug Regulation
And then, of course, there’s Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now the de facto overseer of America’s regulatory apparatus.
- Musk’s “efficiency” team is gutting FDA oversight, streamlining approvals for the right industries while slowing them down for politically inconvenient treatments.
- He has personal stakes in biotech, AI-driven medicine, and space-based pharmaceutical research— and now he has direct influence over the agency that regulates all of it.
- He has access to government financial data, insider regulatory processes, and the ability to shape the future of medicine itself.
A free market visionary in theory.
A corporate monopolist in practice.
If you trust Musk to decide what medicine you can take, congratulations—your prescription just became a business transaction.
What This Means for You
Without a truly independent FDA, here’s what happens:
- Drug safety standards will loosen. The push for faster approvals means rushed, under-tested medications hitting the market.
- Abortion medication will likely be banned. Science won’t matter—the ideological agenda will win.
- Big Pharma will still dominate—just in a different way. The power dynamic will shift, but the exploitation of consumers will continue unchecked.
This is not “draining the swamp.”
This is handing the keys to the kingdom over to the right set of billionaires.
Your Health, Bought and Sold
This isn’t just about the FDA.
This is about who decides what medicine is available to you.
It’s about what happens when science takes a backseat to ideology.
It’s about what happens when billionaires control the future of healthcare policy.
And under Trump, Project 2025, and Musk’s shadow government, the future of the FDA is clear:
You’ll get the drugs and treatments they want you to have.
And you won’t get the ones they don’t.
Welcome to corporate-sponsored, government-approved medicine.
Hope you can afford it.
