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Established | 2022 |
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Purpose | Reshape the U.S. federal government to support the agenda of next Republican president |
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Director | Paul Dans |
Main organ | Mandate for Leadership |
Parent organization | The Heritage Foundation |
Budget | $22 million[1] |
Website | www |
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Project 2025 is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee, presumably Donald Trump, win the 2024 presidential election.[2][3] The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and unitary executive theory.[4][5] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable the next Republican president's policies.[6][7] In doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy.[8] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.[9][10] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[9][11] Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[12] the separation of powers,[3] the separation of church and state,[13] and civil liberties.[3][12][14]
Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to the government, particularly economic and social policies and the role of the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and sharply reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuel production.[12][15] In addition to trying to undo "most everything implemented" during the Biden administration,[16] the blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[17] though its writers disagree on the wisdom of protectionism.[18] Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be either transferred to other agencies or terminated.[19][20] Funding for climate research would be cut and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be reformed according to conservative principles.[21][22] The project seeks to cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid[23][24] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.[25][26] The project seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception under the Affordable Care Act[23] and enforce the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills nationwide.[26][27] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[28] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[28][29] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs[3][29] and affirmative action[30] by having the DOJ prosecute "anti-white racism."[31] The project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. by using the military to capture and place them in internment camps.[32][33] The Project proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.[34] It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences.[35][36]
Some conservatives and Republicans have criticized the plan for its stance on climate change[37] and foreign trade.[18] Other critics believe Project 2025 is rhetorical "window-dressing" for what would be four years of personal vengeance at any cost.[8] The project's authors acknowledge that most of the proposals would require the Republican Party to control both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.[8] Some aspects of the plan have recently been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and would face court challenges, while others are norm-breaking proposals that might survive court challenges.[38]
Although Project 2025 cannot, by law, promote a specific presidential candidate, many contributors have close ties to Donald Trump and his 2024 presidential campaign.[39][40][41] The Heritage Foundation, a think tank closely-aligned with Trump,[42][43][44] coordinates the initiative with various conservative groups run by Trump allies.[45] In 2023, Trump campaign officials acknowledged the project aligned well with their Agenda 47 program.[46] Trump campaign advisers have had regular contact with Project 2025,[47] though the project's controversial proposals have also caused the Trump campaign to view it as an annoyance.[48][49] On July 5, 2024, Trump publicly distanced himself from Project 2025, saying he "knew nothing about it" and that some of its ideas were "ridiculous and abysmal".[50][51][52][53][54] Trump's claims were dismissed by some critics, who pointed to the involvement of figures close to Trump in the project.[55][56] The distancing came days after Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts suggested in an interview that there would be a second American Revolution, which was criticized by Democrats and others for containing what they viewed as a veiled threat of violence.[57][58] The project has employed warlike rhetoric and apocalyptic language[59] in describing a "battle plan" to regain control of the government.[a]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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.
The 922-page plan outlines a dramatic expansion of presidential power and a plan to fire as many as 50,000 government workers to replace them with Trump loyalists.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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.
Its stated goal is to undo most everything implemented in the previous four years of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).[Jeffrey] Clark also helped draft portions of the Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term, including outlining the use of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement, as first reported by the Washington Post.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).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.
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.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).The most detailed articulation of what a second Trump term would look like was cobbled together by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Called "Project 2025," it is a book-length presentation of a sweeping overhaul of government and governance. It is also, in the current view of the Trump campaign, an annoyance: It gives Trump's opponents something to point to and elevate to voters as unacceptable, even though it isn't actually offered by Trump himself.
Former President Donald Trump distanced himself on Friday from Project 2025—a controversial package of conservative policy ideas by the Heritage Foundation
Donald Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, a massive proposed overhaul of the federal government drafted by longtime allies and former officials in his administration, days after the head of the think tank responsible for the program suggested there would be a second American Revolution.
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Trump, meanwhile, has publicly distanced himself from the plan.
Trump's post came three days after Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts' comments on Steve Bannon's 'War Room' podcast about a second American Revolution. Democrats and others criticized what they viewed as a veiled threat of violence.
His call for revolution and vague reference to violence also unnerved some Democrats who interpreted it as threatening.
we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).His call for revolution and vague reference to violence also unnerved some Democrats who interpreted it as threatening.
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