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We were warning this forum about Trump's intentions to follow Project 2025 for months before the election. So many of the authors and contributors of this Heritage Foundation template for making America an authoritarian state were in Trump's first administration. And many are also this time.
In fact, the man responsible for the whole thing, Russell Vought, was made the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Trump's cabinet. Donald Trump's name appears over three hundred times in the text of the published project. But oh goodness, NO! He doesn't have any idea about it or what it is or... gee, anything about it!
The first link below leads to a Project 2025 Tracker where you can see eactly how much of it Trump has already enacted so far. So pedophile's bitch need never be oblivious to it again.
Here’s How Trump’s Executive Orders Align With Project 2025—As Author Hails President’s Agenda As ‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’
Paul Dans, the former leader of hard-right policy agenda Project 2025, cheered President Donald Trump’s agenda as being “beyond my wildest dreams” in an interview with Politico, as the president’s first months in office have featured a slew of executive orders that reflect proposals outlined in the policy blueprint, even as Trump has long tried to distance himself from it.
Key Facts
• Project 2025 includes a 900-page report proposing a total overhaul of the executive branch, which was crafted by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups in 2023 as a roadmap for the next conservative president—namely Trump—to follow.
• Trump has repeatedly denied having any involvement with Project 2025, after Democrats highlighted it as a key reason to vote against Trump in the election, and while there’s no evidence he’s explicitly following its proposals or has any plan to, many of the steps he’s taken since his inauguration are in line with suggestions made in the policy blueprint.
• DEI: Trump has taken significant efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives throughout the government—and in the private sector—since taking office, signing multiple executive orders aimed at abolishing those programs, which mirrors Project 2025’s calls for the next conservative president to “eliminate every one of [the Biden administration’s] wrongful and burdensome ideological projects,” writing, “Nondiscrimination and equality are the law; DEI is not.”
• Among the “DEI” policies Trump revoked is a 60-year old policy from 1965 that prohibited employment discrimination by government contractors and empowers the federal government to impose consequences for any discriminatory practices, which Project 2025 explicitly called to revoke, writing that abolishing the Lyndon B. Johnson-era executive order would mean contractors will “be less subject to the changing political whims of a President that might impose significant new costs or burdens.”
• Border Security and Defense: Project 2025 is largely in line with Trump’s broad moves to restrict immigration and tighten security on the southern border, with both the president and Project 2025 advocating increasing detention facilities for undocumented migrants, taking steps that would give local law enforcement more jurisdiction over identifying undocumented migrants, rescinding Biden-era immigration policies, restricting undocumented immigrants’ abilities to receive public funds and restricting parole programs for migrants, among other moves.
• Federal Spending: The Trump administration’s recent decision to broadly halt federal assistance, which it later walked back, echoes Project 2025’s call for the president to “use every possible tool to propose and impose fiscal discipline on the federal government,” saying, “Anything short of that would constitute abject failure”—a passage written by Vought, whom Trump tapped to lead the Office of Management and Budget, which issued the funding pause memo.
• The Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have more broadly aimed to cut spending throughout the federal government beyond its outside assistance, after Project 2025 claimed, “Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening,” alleging federal funds are used for “nearly every power center held by the Left.”
• Federal Workforce: The Trump administration has made substantial job cuts throughout the federal workforce through buyouts and mass firings, after Project 2025 advocated for a dramatically reduced federal government, arguing, “the surest way to put the federal government back to work for the American people is to reduce its size and scope back to something resembling the original constitutional intent.”
• As part of its proposals for the federal workforce, Project 2025 strongly advocates for replacing career civil servants with political appointees dedicated to the president’s agenda, and Trump has taken multiple steps toward that goal already, including reimplementing a “Schedule F” order that makes it easier to fire career officials, imposing a hiring freeze for career civil servants and restricting collective bargaining agreements for unionized workers—all of which Project 2025 suggested.
• Blocking Biden Funds: Trump’s move to block government agencies from spending funds appropriated through Biden-era infrastructure and inflation bills is reflected in Project 2025, which said those laws should be repealed and it “support[s] the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs.”
• Education: Trump is reportedly planning to abolish the Department of Education, with newly-confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon telling staff the agency is undertaking a “historic final mission”—though he couldn’t get rid of it unilaterally without Congress—after Project 2025 proposed getting rid of the agency, arguing, “The future of education freedom and reform in the states is bright and will shine brighter when regulations and red tape from Washington are eliminated.”
• Trump has also signed executive orders restricting funding for K-12 schools that “indoctrinate” students based on “gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology,” reflecting views espoused in Project 2025—though that proposal doesn’t call for restricting funding—and an order for agencies to investigate how to implement policies that expand “school choice,” after Project 2025 called for the government to use federal funding to “[empower] families to choose among a diverse set of education options.”
• NOAA: One of Project 2025’s proposals that gained widespread attention was that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA—which handles weather monitoring, among other functions—should be dismantled and the National Weather Service should commercialize its weather forecasting, and while the Trump administration has not yet gone that far, it has reportedly fired hundreds of NOAA staffers and canceled leases at some weather forecasting centers, sparking fears that the cuts could affect preparedness and responses to future storms.
• Climate Change: Project 2025 proposed leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, which Trump did on his first day in office, and the president’s broad proposals to roll back climate change policies is in line with Project 2025, which denounced the Biden administration’s “radical climate agenda” and called for climate change efforts to be removed from governmental efforts like providing foreign aid and regulating agriculture.
• Energy: Trump declared a “national energy emergency” and broadly took action against efforts on renewable energy, like the Biden administration’’s pro-electric vehicle policies and federal wind energy projects—saying the U.S. should instead increase energy production through oil and gas drilling—after Project 2025 similarly claimed the U.S.’ “energy crisis is caused … by extreme ‘green’ policies” and said the next president “must be committed to unleashing all of America’s energy resources.”
• Trump also created a “National Energy Dominance Council” in order to “to make America energy dominant,” after Project 2025 urged the next administration to “prioritize energy and science dominance.”
• Abortion: Though Trump has not taken broad steps to restrict abortion, as Project 2025 advocates, he did issue an executive order undoing Biden-era policies that weakened the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal dollars from being used on abortion, as Project 2025 advocated for, and reinstated the “Mexico City Policy” that prohibits non-governmental organizations receiving federal funds from performing or promoting abortion.
• Foreign Policy: Trump signed an executive order calling for the secretary of state to put the agency’s operations “in line with an America First foreign policy,” echoing Project 2025’s calls for the State Department to “ensur[e] that the interests of American citizens are given priority,” and signed another order threatening punishments if State officials don’t “faithfully implement the President’s policy,” after Project 2025 called for the next administration to eliminate the “tug of war” between the president and career officials and overhaul the agency “into a lean and functional diplomatic machine that serves the President.”
• Trump’s executive order to sanction countries that refuse to go along with his hardline immigration policies—which led to a trade standoff with Colombia over whether the country would accept deported migrants—also reflects Project 2025, which says the executive branch should “quickly and aggressively address recalcitrant countries’ failure to accept deportees by imposing stiff sanctions until deportees are in fact accepted for return (not just promised to be taken).”
• World Health Organization: Project 2025 denounced the World Health Organization before Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the public health institution, with Project 2025 authors claiming the WHO’s “manifest failure and corruption … during the COVID-19 pandemic” posed “danger … to U.S. citizens and interests,” and the U.S. “must be prepared to take appropriate steps in response” to any international organizations that purportedly threaten its interests, “up to and including withdrawal.”
• Global Organizations: Project 2025 broadly said the next administration “must end blind support for international organizations” and “seriously consider” withdrawing from groups “that no longer have value, quietly undermine U.S. interests or goals, or disproportionately rely on U.S. financial contributions to survive”—foreshadowing Trump’s executive order to remove the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), stop providing funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and review the U.S.’s involvement in the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
• Transgender Rights: Trump’s moves against transgender rights include ordering the government to only recognize Americans’ sex at birth, banning federal prisons from classifying inmates based on their gender identity, reinstating his ban on transgender Americans from serving in the military and restricting gender-affirming care for minors, after Project 2025 broadly called for gender ideology and identity to be removed from government policies and for the transgender military ban to be reinstated.
• Trump also signed an order rescinding federal funding from school programs that allow transgender women to participate in women’s sports, after Project 2025 decried the federal government “forc[ing] school districts to undermine girls’ sports and parents’ rights to satisfy transgender extremists.”
• Refugees: Trump suspended refugee admissions in an executive order on his first day, after Project 2025 said the “federal government’s obligation to shift … essential screening and vetting resources to the forged border crisis will necessitate an indefinite curtailment of the number of USRAP refugee admissions.”
• Sanctuary Cities: Trump signed multiple executive orders saying the government should try to block “sanctuary cities” or areas that offer greater protections to undocumented immigrants from receiving federal funding, after Project 2025 said Congress should “set financial disincentives” for areas that implement “sanctuary” policies.
• Death Penalty: Trump directed his attorney general to pursue the death penalty where applicable—as in Project 2025, which says the federal government should “enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable”—and actually went even further than Project 2025, saying the death penalty should be imposed in crimes involving the murder of law enforcement officers and capital offenses committed by undocumented immigrants, “regardless of other factors.”
• Security Clearances: Trump signed an executive order giving security clearances to any individual designated by the White House counsel to receive one, rather than waiting for the full background check process to be completed, with Project 2025 also decrying the “extraordinary delays” caused by the clearance process.
• Project 2025 also backed up Trump’s decision to revoke many former government officials’ security clearances, saying the next president “should immediately revoke the security clearances of any former … senior intelligence officials who discuss their work in the press or on social media” without prior authorization.
• FEMA: Project 2025 proposed the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be moved to the Department of the Interior and reformed—which Trump suggested he may do, saying he will sign an order to “begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of them,” while his administration has also cut jobs at the disaster relief agency.
• The policy proposal also supports Trump’s suggestion he could refuse to give FEMA funds to areas that oppose him politically, with Project 2025 arguing FEMA grants should only go to areas that “can show that their mission and actions support the broader homeland security mission”—though Project 2025 specifies that wouldn’t include disaster relief funding, while Trump has suggested he could also withhold those funds.
• Military Policies: Trump reinstated members of the military who were discharged for not complying with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as Project 2025 urged, and also signed an order ending DEI programs in the military, after Project 2025 called for the military to “eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.”
• Federal Regulations: Trump has signed executive orders imposing a cap on federal regulations and directing agencies to identify puportedly “unlawful” regulations, after Project 2025 broadly denounced the “administrative state” and advocated for “reining in the regulatory state and ensuring that regulations achieve important benefits while imposing minimal burdens on Americans.”
• IRS: The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly planning to slash half of its workforce, after already laying off approximately 7,000 workers in earlier job cuts, gutting an agency that Project 2025 referred to as “a poorly managed, utterly unresponsive and increasingly politicized agency” which requires “meaningful reform.”
• Student Loans: Trump signed an order that seeks to limit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for public servants and has suggested he wants to abolish the Education Department and move the office that handles student loans to a different agency—echoing plans outlined in Project 2025, which calls for the Office of Student Aid to be moved to the Treasury Department and for the federal government to end all student loan forgiveness, criticizing the public service program for “prioritiz[ing] government and public sector work over private sector employment.”
• Transportation Security Administration: The Department of Homeland Security ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized TSA workers—with the union now going to court in an effort to restore the agreement—after Project 2025 suggested the TSA should be privatized entirely or a new “government corporation” should be established to run TSA outside the scope of Homeland Security.
• Defense Production Act: Trump signed an executive order March 14 that revoked a number of Biden-era directives invoking the Defense Production Act—which expedites the manufacturing of various products—for infant formula and “green energy” technology like solar panels, after Project 2025 criticized overuse of the Defense Production Act and said it should only be invoked “in the gravest circumstances.”
Crucial Quote
Dans, the former president of Project 2025 who resigned before the election, praised the Trump administration’s policy moves in an interview with Politico, saying what Trump is doing in office is “actually way beyond my wildest dreams.” “What we had hoped would happen has happened,” Dans told Politico when asked if he would have handled anything differently, given the controversy Project 2025 garnered. “So I can’t imagine how anything could end really any better.”
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