Project 2025

Project 2025
EstablishedApril 21, 2022 (2022-04-21)[1]
Location
ServicesRecruitment and training of government workers loyal to Donald Trump
Director
Paul Dans (until August 2024)
President
Kevin Roberts
Publication
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (2023)
Parent organization
The Heritage Foundation
Budget$22 million[2]
Websitewww.project2025.org Edit this at Wikidata

Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project)[3] is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States and consolidate executive power in favor of right-wing policies. The plan was published in April 2023 by The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank, in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.[4][5]

The ninth iteration of the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership series, Project 2025 is based on a controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory that states that the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the president.[6][7] The project's proponents say it would dismantle a government bureaucracy they say is unaccountable and mostly liberal.[8] Critics have called it an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan[9][10][11] that would steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[12] Legal experts say it would undermine the rule of law,[13] separation of powers,[5] separation of church and state,[12] and civil liberties.[5][13][14]

The project calls for merit-based federal civil service workers to be replaced by people loyal to Trump and to take partisan control of key government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce (DOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).[15] Other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Education (ED), would be dismantled or abolished.[16] It calls for reducing environmental regulations to favor fossil fuels and proposes making the National Institutes of Health (NIH) less independent while defunding its stem cell research.[17] The blueprint seeks to reduce taxes on corporations, institute a flat income tax on individuals,[18] cut Medicare and Medicaid,[19][20] and reverse as many of President Joe Biden's policies as possible.[21][22] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[23] removing legal protections against anti-LGBT discrimination,[24][25] and ending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs[5][25] while having the DOJ prosecute anti-white racism instead.[26] The project recommends the arrest, detention, and mass deportation of illegal immigrants,[27][28] and deploying the U.S. Armed Forces for domestic law enforcement.[29] The plan also proposes enacting laws supported by the Christian right,[9][30] such as criminalizing those who send and receive abortion and birth control medications[31][32][33] and eliminating coverage of emergency contraception.[19]

Most of Project 2025's writers and contributors worked in either Trump's first administration (2017−2021) or his 2024 election campaign.[a] Several Trump campaign officials maintained contact with Project 2025, seeing its goals as aligned with their Agenda 47 program.[8][39][40][41] Trump later attempted to distance himself from the plan.[b] After he won the 2024 election, he nominated several of the plan's architects and supporters to positions in his second administration.[49][50] Four days into his second term, analysis by Time found that nearly two-thirds of Trump's executive actions "mirror or partially mirror" proposals from Project 2025.[51]

  1. ^ Restuccia, Andrew (July 12, 2024). "Project 2025 Has a Radical Agenda for Trump. He Has Other Plans". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on July 13, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024. The project—which started in April 2022...
  2. ^ Swan, Jonathan (December 1, 2023). "Paleoconservative or Moderate? Questions for Staffing the Next G.O.P. White House". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  3. ^ "About Project 2025". The Heritage Foundation. February 6, 2023. Archived from the original on November 13, 2023. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  4. ^ Haberman, Maggie; Savage, Charlie; Swan, Jonathan (July 17, 2023). "Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 13, 2023. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d Mascaro, Lisa (August 29, 2023). "Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan to Dismantle the US Government and Replace It with Trump's Vision". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023. While many of the Project 2025 proposals are inspired by Trump, they are being echoed by GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy and are gaining prominence among other Republicans.
  6. ^ Barrón-López, Laura; Popat, Shrai (July 9, 2024). "A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump's links to its authors". PBS Newshour. Retrieved August 15, 2024. 'And constitutional scholars that I have spoken to have said that the decision, that Supreme Court decision, could strengthen the basis of Project 2025, which is known as the unitary executive theory, which essentially says that the president has total control over the executive branch, over all the federal agencies.'...'Professor Moynihan added, Amna, that ultimately the Supreme Court decision could help any future president justify getting rid of longstanding independence of the Justice Department or other agencies that are known to be independent, that it could allow them to justify totally doing away with that.'
  7. ^ Savage, Charlie (July 4, 2024). "Legal Conservatives' Long Game: Amp Up Presidential Power but Kneecap Federal Agencies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 15, 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Hirsh, Michael (September 19, 2023). "Inside the Next Republican Revolution". Politico. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved November 6, 2023. For Trump personally, of course, this is a live-or-die agenda, and Trump campaign officials acknowledge that it aligns well with their own 'Agenda 47' program.
  9. ^ a b Ward, Alexander; Przybyla, Heidi (February 20, 2024). "Trump Allies Prepare to Infuse 'Christian Nationalism' in Second Administration". Politico. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  10. ^ Knox, Olivier (July 18, 2024). "It's Trump's Big Night. Welcome to the Coronation". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on July 23, 2024. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
  11. ^ Carless, Will (July 29, 2024). "Project 2025 decried as racist. Some contributors have trail of racist writings, activity". USA Today. Archived from the original on July 30, 2024. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  12. ^ a b Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (May 16, 2024). "The Permanent Counterrevolution". The New Republic. Archived from the original on June 7, 2024. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
  13. ^ a b Stone, Peter (November 22, 2023). "'Openly Authoritarian Campaign': Trump's Threats of Revenge Fuel Alarm". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 27, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
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  17. ^ Ortega, Bob; Lah, Kyung; Gordon, Allison; Black, Nelli (April 27, 2024). "What Trump's war on the 'Deep State' could mean: 'An army of suck-ups'". CNN. Archived from the original on April 28, 2024. Retrieved April 28, 2024. Project 2025's blueprint envisions dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI; disarming the Environmental Protection Agency by loosening or eliminating emissions and climate-change regulations; eliminating the Departments of Education and Commerce in their entirety.
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  22. ^ Logan, Nick (June 27, 2024). "You may hear Project 2025 during the U.S. presidential election campaign. What is that?". CBC. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024. The Heritage Foundation, the influential group behind Project 2025, has laid out sweeping reforms of virtually every aspect of government, including a plan that critics warn will line the public service with employees loyal to a Republican commander-in-chief, as well as providing an ultra-conservative framework for policies. Its stated goal is to undo most everything implemented in the previous four years of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration.
  23. ^ Levien, Simon J. (October 1, 2024). "What to Know About JD Vance and Project 2025". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 5, 2025. Retrieved February 5, 2025.
  24. ^ Pengelly, Martin (September 15, 2023). "US Hard-Right Policy Group Condemned for 'Dehumanising' Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 15, 2023. Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  25. ^ a b Barrón-López, Laura; Popat, Shrai (March 27, 2024). "How a second Trump presidency could impact the LGBTQ+ community". PBS NewsHour. Archived from the original on June 13, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2024.
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  29. ^ Arnsdorf, Isaac; Dawsey, Josh; LeVine, Marianne (December 6, 2023). "Trump 'Dictator' Comment Reignites Criticism His Camp Has Tried to Curb". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2023. The news reports prompted Trump campaign senior adviser Susie Wiles to complain to the project's director, Paul Dans of the Heritage Foundation, saying that the stories were unhelpful and that the organization should stop promoting its work to reporters, according to a person familiar with the call.
  30. ^ Swenson, Ali (July 3, 2024). "A conservative leading the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution". Associated Press News. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  31. ^ Miranda, Shauneen (March 2, 2024). "'Department of Life': Trump allies plot abortion crackdown for second term". Axios. Archived from the original on May 1, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  32. ^ Miranda Ollstein, Alice (January 29, 2024). "The Anti-Abortion Plan Ready for Trump on Day One". Politico. Archived from the original on February 3, 2024. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
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  34. ^ Tait, Robert (July 8, 2024). "Republicans call Trump's move to distance himself from Project 2025 preposterous'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024. Of the 38 people involved in the writing and editing of Project 2025, 31 of them were nominated to positions in Trump's administration or transition team – meaning 81% of the document's creators held formal roles in Trump's presidency.
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  38. ^ Alfonseca, Kiara. "What is Project 2025? A look at the conservative presidential wish list". ABC News. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  39. ^ Arnsdorf, Isaac (May 16, 2024). "Trump alumni raising millions for legal defenses while scouting for White House hires". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on May 15, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024. Officials from PPO and Project 2025 are in regular contact with Trump campaign advisers, though the groups' activities are officially separate and unsanctioned.
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  41. ^ Ibrahim, Nue (July 3, 2024). "What's Project 2025? Unpacking the Pro-Trump Plan to Overhaul US Government". Snopes. Archived from the original on July 4, 2024. Retrieved July 4, 2024. Campaign officials once told Politico Project 2025's goals to restructure government ... indeed align with Trump's campaign promises. But in a November 2023 statement, the Trump campaign said: "The efforts by various non-profit groups are certainly appreciated and can be enormously helpful. However, none of these groups or individuals speak for President Trump or his campaign." Without naming Project 2025, they said all policy statements from "external allies" are just "recommendations".
  42. ^ Gleeson, Cailey (July 5, 2024). "Trump Disavows Project 2025: Calls Some Of Conservative Group's Ideas 'Absolutely Ridiculous And Abysmal'". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024. Former President Donald Trump distanced himself on Friday from Project 2025—a controversial package of conservative policy ideas by the Heritage Foundation
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  44. ^ Bahari, Sarah (July 9, 2024). "What is the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025?". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024. Trump, meanwhile, has publicly distanced himself from the plan.
  45. ^ Dent, Alec (July 10, 2024). "Trump 2024 vs. Project 2025". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on July 12, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024. Of the 37 authors of the project's core agenda, 27 came from Trump's orbit...'It's totally false he doesn't know what P25 is,' one former senior adviser said of Trump's remarks. 'Privately, he is of course talking to Heritage, and [Heritage president] Kevin Roberts has reportedly even met with Trump on P25.'...There is a good chance, though, that he will use at least the project's list of loyalists to staff a second administration.
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