Project 2025
The Blueprint Being Executed Right Now
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This is not a plan. It is a checklist. As of February 2026, the Trump administration has initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025's domestic policy agenda — 283 of 532 recommended actions across 20 federal agencies. The people who wrote it are the people running it.
What Project 2025 Is
Project 2025 is a 900-page governing blueprint produced by The Heritage Foundation and more than 100 allied organizations, published in April 2023. Its stated goal, in the words of its own architects: to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the administrative state.
It is not a wish list. It is an operational manual — with specific executive orders, agency-by-agency instructions, personnel recommendations, and legal strategies designed to be implemented immediately upon taking office.
The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact have been monitoring the Trump administration's implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint's executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies. Center for Progressive Reform
Paul Dans, Project 2025's director, wrote in his foreword to the report: "Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Four Components — Not Just a Document
Project 2025 was designed from the beginning as four integrated tools working together:
The Blueprint — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — 900 pages of policy proposals organized agency by agency, covering every corner of federal governance from immigration to climate to reproductive rights to the federal workforce.
The Personnel Database — A vetted roster of conservative candidates for government positions, designed to ensure that loyal political appointees replace career civil servants across every agency on day one.
The Training Academy — A program preparing those candidates to seize control of their agencies immediately, before career staff could organize any response.
The Legal Strategy — Pre-written executive orders and regulatory actions designed to withstand legal challenge and move faster than courts could respond.
Russell Vought, one of Project 2025's key architects, now heads Trump's Office of Management and Budget — the nerve center through which a president can exert influence across the entire federal government. Peter Navarro, who wrote Project 2025's section on trade, serves as a top trade adviser. Brendan Carr, who wrote a section recommending reforms to the Federal Communications Commission, now runs the FCC. The people who wrote the plan are the people executing it. ACLU — Project 2025 Explained
What It Proposes — By Category
The following proposals are drawn directly from Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — the full document is available in the toolkit below. Mandate for Leadership — Full Document
The Federal Workforce and Democratic Institutions Place the entire federal bureaucracy — including the DOJ, FBI, FTC, FCC, and Federal Reserve — under direct presidential control. Eliminate civil service protections for tens of thousands of career employees under Schedule F, replacing them with political loyalists. This is the mechanism by which every other proposal becomes permanent.
Immigration End asylum protections. Use active-duty military for enforcement. Eliminate the prohibition on enforcement in sensitive areas — schools, playgrounds, churches. Pursue mass deportation. Palantir's ELITE tool and ImmigrationOS are the technological infrastructure executing this agenda.
Reproductive Rights Remove Mifepristone from the market or restrict it to seven weeks. Enforce the Comstock Act to ban mailing of abortion medications. Replace the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force with a federal pro-life task force. Suggest government tracking of all births and abortions.
LGBTQ+ Rights Federal declaration that men and women are biological realities. Eliminate all DEI programs. Remove legal protections against anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. Propose banning pornography and having the DOJ prosecute anti-white racism.
Education Eliminate the Department of Education. Expand school vouchers and charter schools. Eliminate Head Start, which serves 833,000 children living in poverty. Remove federal protections for students based on gender identity.
Healthcare Repeal the $35/month insulin cap for Medicare seniors. End Medicare's $2,000 annual out-of-pocket drug cost cap. Impose lifetime caps on Medicaid coverage.
Climate and Energy Cut federal funding for renewable energy. Downsize NOAA for raising alarm on climate change. Abandon climate commitments. Increase fossil fuel production.
Economy Massive cuts to corporate and personal income taxes. Consider abolishing the Federal Reserve. Return to gold-backed currency.
Nuclear Weapons Place multiple warheads on each Minuteman III ICBM, add nuclear capabilities to hypersonic missile systems, expand pre-positioning of nuclear weapons in Europe and Asia, and direct the National Nuclear Security Administration to transition to a wartime footing. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists called this the most dramatic buildup of nuclear weapons since the start of the Reagan administration. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Organizations Behind It
Project 2025 was not produced by Heritage alone. More than 100 organizations signed on. Key participants include:
Core coordinating body: The Heritage Foundation
Legal and litigation infrastructure: Alliance Defending Freedom · America First Legal (founded by Stephen Miller) · American Center for Law and Justice · Judicial Crisis Network
Policy and think tanks: Claremont Institute · Texas Public Policy Foundation · Heartland Institute · Ethics and Public Policy Center · Foundation for Government Accountability · Independent Women's Forum
State-level networks: ALEC · Conservative Partnership Institute (founded by Mark Meadows and former Trump officials) · Honest Elections Project
Religious and social conservative organizations: Family Research Council · Concerned Women for America · American Family Association · Moms for Liberty · Liberty University · Hillsdale College
Media and messaging: Media Research Center · Young America's Foundation
The full partner list is available in the downloadable toolkit.
What Has Already Been Implemented
As of February 2026, the Trump administration has initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025's domestic administrative policy agenda — 283 of 532 recommended actions across 20 federal agencies. Center for Progressive Reform
In some areas the administration has gone beyond even Project 2025's already extreme recommendations. While the plan calls for weakening greenhouse gas standards for fossil-fueled power plants, the Trump administration moved to repeal them altogether. NPR
Implemented actions include: Schedule F reinstated, mass federal workforce reductions, all DEI programs eliminated, emergency abortion care guidance rescinded, Paris Climate Agreement withdrawal, immigration enforcement expanded using Palantir's ELITE tool, gender-affirming care restrictions, and Title IX protections removed.
Track It Yourself
These trackers are updated regularly and are the most reliable way to monitor ongoing implementation:
Center for Progressive Reform — Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker
Project 2025 Observer — community-driven tracking across 34 agencies
NAACP Legal Defense Fund — Project 2025 Tracker — civil rights impact focus
Reproductive Freedom for All — Tracker — reproductive rights focus
The Documents
The full Project 2025 research library is available in the downloadable toolkit:
📄 PROJECT_2025_Summary.pdf — accessible plain-language summary of all major proposals
📄 PROJECT_2025_Subject-by-Subject Breakdown.pdf — detailed policy breakdown by issue area
📄 PROJECT_2025_Mandate-For-Leadership_ORIGINAL.pdf — the full 900-page original document
📄 Project 2025 — Partner Advisory Organizations — the full list of organizations involved
📄 Heritage Foundation Project 2025 Agents — individuals connected to the project and their government roles
What Can Be Done ✅
Track implementation using the links above and share what you find with your network. Contact your Representatives and Senators demanding hearings on Schedule F, agency dismantlement, and Project 2025's implementation across federal agencies. Use FOIA requests to document how proposals are being executed in your region. Support litigation organizations challenging unlawful executive actions — the ACLU, Brennan Center, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Earthjustice, and state attorneys general are all active.
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