Project 2025 is the Republican plan for the first 180 days of an elected Republican president.
It removes the checks and balances in our 3 branches of government.
The executive branch will have the most power.
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The Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project is a far right effort to install a future anti-democratic presidential administration, through the ability to take swift executive action that would radically redefine the way our government operates, impacting society and undermine our economy. The Heritage Foundation and more than 100 organizations have joined together in this effort.
Plans for the project are detailed in a 900+ page policy guide, “Mandate for Leadership,” authored by former Trump administration officials and other extremists, providing a radical vision of unpopular policies for our nation and the detailing the strategies needed to implement it.
Agenda 47 is the Trump campaign’s version of Project 2025. The campaign website lists his platform’s objectives in broad terms, with no specifics for implementation. However, more specific information can be found on the website. Links are available throughout this article from Forbes What Is Agenda47? What To Know About Trump’s Policy Agenda If Elected As He Speaks At RNC.
Associated Press: Trump’s protests aside, his agenda has plenty of overlap with Project 2025
Trump Administration Record means that there is an historic record for his actions and policies. One of the biggest mysteries is why so many people believe the economy would fare better with him. The record shows that was not the case 2017 – 2020. Links to resources, listed by major issue topics.
🚩Some of the ways Project 2025 will impact Americans
► Give the office of President increased powers, undermining democracy
► Replacement of civil servants with party loyalists
► Transform the FBI into a political taskforce
► Restrict reproductive rights and access to reproductive healthcare
► Remove protection of the personal information of people who receive reproductive care
► Enable corporations to cut overtime pay, relax worker safety rules, allow workplace discrimination
► Undo Medicare’s new ability to negotiate lower prescription prices for seniors
► Limit which disabilities qualify veterans for benefits
► Roll back civil rights protections, including cutting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related (DEI)
▶ programs and LGBTQ+ rights in health care, education, and workplaces
► Restrict access to food assistance
► Eliminate the Head Start program
► Abolish the Department of Education
► Restrict safety nets for farmers to ‘unusual situations’
► Restrict the federal government’s mandate to combat climate change
► Disband the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
► Eliminate funding for key public transportation projects
For more details, see the next topic: Resources explaining the impact of Project 2025, for a list of videos and articles.
🚩Resources explaining the impact of Project 2025
VIDEOS
PBS News Hour A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump’s links to its authors Jul 9, 2024 (Video 6 min.)
Democracy Docket The Dangers of Project 2025 Explained (Video, 15 min.)
ProPublica Project 2025 Private Training Video: The Federal Workforce (Video, 33 min.)
ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” The videos are being published as ProPublica obtains them.
House Oversight Committee Rep. Ro Khanna Questions Project 2025 co-author Jonathan Berry (Video, 5 min.)
Red Wine & Blue Heather Cox Richardson Talks Project 2025 (Video, 54 min.)
Rural Progress Summit Ruth Ben-Ghiat Discusses Project 2025 (Video, 45 min.)
ARTICLES
Democracy Docket What is Project 2025 And Why Is It Alarming?
Democracy Forward The People’s Guide to Project 2025 (Easy to follow, drills down into specifics, page numbers from this original 900 page document)
Voter’s of Tomorrow Gen Z’s Guide To Project 2025
Teen Vogue Project 2025: What Is It and How Would It Impact Gen Z and Millennials?
Civil Discourse With Joyce Vance Trump’s Project 2025; Project 2025 Columns Index
Media Matters A Guide to Project 2025
The Guardian The force behind Project 2025: Kevin Roberts has the roadmap for a second Trump term
Politico The anti-abortion plan ready for Trump on Day One
Forbes Project 2025 Is A Blueprint For Business Disaster
Media Matters Project 2025 leader The Heritage Foundation calls for Social Security cuts
CNBC Lower capital gains tax, cuts to food benefits: What Project 2025 could mean for your wallet in a Trump presidency
The Guardian Trump and Project 2025 are attacking the Department of Education. How might they reshape US schools?
NPR Project 2025’s director steps down, but the think tank says work will go on
Project 2025: How Popular Are The Policies? (Includes comparisons to Trump policy statements)
Also see Agenda47 — The Trump platform is essentially the same basic policy approach
🚩List of Chapters and the Authors of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” (includes 25 former Trump administration officials)
Plans for the project are detailed in a 900+ page policy guide, “Mandate for Leadership,” authored by former Trump administration officials and other extremists. Donald Trump has recently denied any knowledge of the project in a July 5, 2024 Truth Social post: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.”
Resources:
Newsweek, Oct. 9, 2024 Donald Trump Says Project 2025 Author ‘Coming on Board’ If Elected
CNN, July 11, 2024, Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved
MSNBC Trump denies knowledge of Project 2025, despite multiple connections to allies (Video, 10 min.)
Newsweek Ex-Trump Administration Officials Involved in Project 2025: Full List
Revolving Door Project Former Trump Officials Wrote 25 of the 30 Chapters in the Project 2025 Playbook
Authors of the Mandate for Leadership, by chapter, former Trump officials noted:
Chapter 1: White House Office, Rick Dearborn, former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Intergovernmental Affairs and Implementation
Chapter 2: Executive Office of the President of the United States, Russ Vought, former Trump Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Chapter 3: Central Personnel Agencies: Donald Devine, Senior Scholar for “The Fund for American Studies” and adjunct scholar at The Heritage Foundation; Dennis Dean Kirk, former Trump Senior Advisor to the Chief Information Officer; and Paul Dans, former Trump Administration Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Chapter 4: Department of Defense, Christopher Miller, former Trump Administration Acting Secretary of Defense
Chapter 5: Department of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli, former Trump Administration first as acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and then as the acting deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Currently National Chairman of the “Election Transparency Initiative”
Chapter 6: Department of State, Kiron K. Skinner, former Trump Administration Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State
Chapter 7: Intelligence Community, Dustin J. Carmack, former Trump Administration Chief of Staff to Director of National Intelligence
Chapter 8: U.S. Agency for Global Media, Mora Namdar. former Trump Administration Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs; Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation
Chapter 9: Agency for International Development, Max Primorac, former Trump Administration Acting Chief Operating Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Chapter 10: Department of Agriculture, Daren Bakst, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment (CEI is a non-profit libertarian think tank, advancing the principles of limited government)
Chapter 11: Department of Education, Lindsey M. Burke, Director of the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation Lindsey Burke
Chapter 12: Department of Energy and Related Commissions, Bernard L. McNamee, former Trump Administration Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2018 to 2020
Chapter 13: Environmental Protection Agency, Mandy M. Gunasekara, former Trump administration official at the Environmental Protection Agency
Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, former Trump administration director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights; appointed by Trump to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States days before President Biden’s inauguration
Chapter 15: Department of Housing and Urban Development, Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD, former Trump administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Chapter 16: Department of the Interior, William Perry Pendley, former Trump administration acting director of the Bureau of Land Management from 2019 to 2021
Chapter 17: Department of Justice, Gene Hamilton, former Trump administration lawyer and policymaker serving within the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. Played key roles in ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, creating the administration’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy, and in revoking the Temporary Protected Status of immigrants from Sudan and South Sudan.
Chapter 18: Department of Labor and Related Agencies, Jonathan Berry, former Trump administration acting Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor
Chapter 19: Department of Transportation, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former Trump administration acting assistant secretary for economic policy at the Department of the Treasury in 2018 and 2019
Chapter 20: Department of Veterans Affairs, Brooks D. Tucker, former Trump administration Acting Chief of Staff of the Department of. Veterans of Affairs
Chapter 21: Department of Commerce, Thomas F. Gilman, former Trump administration Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce
Chapter 22: Department of the Treasury, William L. Walton, former Trump administration 2016 transition team as co-head of economic issues for federal agencies, Stephen Moore, advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign, and David R. Burton, Senior Fellow in Economic Policy at Heritage Foundation
Chapter 23: Export-Import Bank, Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist, and Jennifer Hazelton, former Trump administration public affairs official in the State Department in 2017 and public affairs official at the Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2020 and 2021
Chapter 24: Federal Reserve, Paul Winfree, former Trump administration deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council, and director of budget policy (2017). Appointed by Trump to the Fullbright Foreign Scholarship Board in 2019.
Chapter 25: Small Business Administration, Karen Kerrigan, president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council)
Chapter 26: Trade, Peter Navarro, former Trump administration director of the National Trade Council in 201, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy from 2017 until 2021. He was also a close adviser to Trump, largely on trade. He also advised on the COVID-19 response and Trump’s false election fraud claims, and Kent Lassman, president and CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Chapter 27: Securities and Exchange Commission, David R. Burton, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy in the Heritage Foundation; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Robert Bowes former Trump administration Senior Advisor To The Assistant Secretary Dept. of Housing and Urban Development and Held multiple other positions, including advising Stephen Miller
Chapter 28: Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, former Trump administration official General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 2017-2017 and Current Commissioner of the FCC, 2017-present
Chapter 29: Federal Election Commission, Hans A. von Spakovsky, former Trump administration Member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, 2017-2018
Chapter 30: Federal Trade Commission, Adam Candeub, former Trump administration Acting Assistant Secretary at the Department of Commerce, 2020-2020; Deputy Associate Attorney General, 2020-2021
🚩Agenda 47 — Trump Campaign Platform
► Immediately slash regulations
► Baseline tariffs on foreign goods (Note: the costs of tariffs are paid by purchasers of those goods, not the foreign government)
► Phase in tariffs and import restrictions to bring back production of all essential medicines to the US
(Note: executive orders issued by Trump in the final days of his administration were struck down in the courts.)
Newsweek Donald Trump Says Project 2025 Author ‘Coming on Board’ If Elected
Forbes What Is Agenda 47? What To Know About Trump’s Policy Agenda If Elected As He Speaks At RNC.
USA Today As Trump creates distance from Project 2025, conservative Agenda47 comes into focus
Washington Post Trump has unveiled an agenda of his own. He just doesn’t mention it much.
Baptist News Global You’ve heard of Project 2025? Now meet Agenda 47
Dasia Shade What is Agenda 47? | what you’re probably missing about Agenda 47 & Project 2025 (30 min. video, conversational style)
Candidate Website President Trump’s Plan to Save American Education and Give Power Back to Parents
(Note: these education proposals echo “Moms for Liberty” talking points.)
🚩The Record: Trump Administration 2016 – 2020
Pew Research: How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
Reuters Factbox: Donald Trump’s legacy – six policy takeaways
HEALTH CARE:
Kaiser Family Foundation President Trump’s Record on Health Care
Center on Budget Policies & Priorities The Trump Administration’s Health Care Sabotage
WOMEN’S RIGHTS:
Center for American Progress Women Have Paid the Price for Trump’s Regulatory Agenda
Global Justice Center Factsheet — Reproducing Patriarchy: How the Trump Administration has Undermined Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care
ECONOMY:
Associated Press Many remember solid economy under Trump, but his record also full of tax cut hype, debt and disease
FactCheck.org Trump’s Final Numbers
Tariffs
Forbes Trump’s Tariffs Were Much More Damaging Than Thought
Brookings Institute Did Trump’s tariffs benefit American workers and national security?
Penn Live Tariffs were meant to help but Pa. farmers are hurting under Trump tariffs
Politico ‘Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back
Council on Foreign Relations 92 Percent of Trump’s China Tariff Proceeds Has Gone to Bail Out Angry Farmers
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT:
Brookings Institute What is the Trump administration’s track record on the environment?
New York Times The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
CIVIL RIGHTS:
The Leadership Conference Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
Pro Publica Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government
Human Rights Watch Trump Administration Again Weakens LGBT Protections
VOTING RIGHTS:
Brennan Center for Justice Background on Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission
CNN Trump administration has Voting Rights Act on life support
NPR Trump Push To Invalidate Votes In Heavily Black Cities Alarms Civil Rights Group
The Guardian Trump attacks and vote by mail: the top voting rights stories of 2020
Economic Policy Institute The Trump administration’s attacks on workplace union voting rights forewarned of the broader threats to voting rights in the upcoming election
CHALLENGING THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION:
Campaign Legal Center Results of Lawsuits Regarding the 2020 Elections
WITF These Republicans did a deep dive into 2020 election lawsuits, including in Pa. Here’s why most of them failed
USA Today By the numbers: President Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the election
Factcheck.org The Facts on Trump’s Post-Election Legal Challenges