Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project,^[3] is an initiative coordinated by the Heritage Foundation that aims to promote conservativeand right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government

and consolidate executive power should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election.^[4][5] The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under unitary executive theory.^[6][7] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with people loyal to the president.^[8][9] Proponents of the project argue it would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and liberal government bureaucracy.^[10] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with conservative Christian values.^[11][12] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.^{[11][13][14][15]} Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,^[16] separation of powers,^[5] separation of church and state,^[17] and civil liberties.^[5][16][18]

Project 2025

Established	April 2022; 2 years ago[1]
Purpose	Reshape the U.S. federal government to support the agenda of Donald Trump
Location	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Services	Recruiting + training loyalists
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]
Website	www.project2025.org

Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to economic and social policies and the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuels.^[16][19] The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,^[20] but its writers disagree on protectionism.^[21] It recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be transferred or terminated.^[22][23] Funding for climate research would be cut, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be reformed along conservative principles^[vague].^[24][25] The project seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid,^[26][27] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.^[28][29] The project seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception^[26] and enforce the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills.^[29][30] It proposes criminalizing pornography,^{[31]: 5 [32]} removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,^[32][33] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs^[5][33] and affirmative action^[34] by having the DOJ prosecute "anti-white racism".^[35] The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants.^[36][37][38] It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.^[39] It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences.^[40][41]

Some conservatives and Republicans have criticized the plan for its stance on climate change^[42] and trade.^[21] Other critics believe Project 2025 is rhetorical "window-dressing" for four years of personal vengeance^[10] and undoing "[al]most everything implemented" by the Biden Administration.^[8] The project's authors acknowledge most proposals would require the Republican Party to control the House of Representatives and Senate.^[10] Some aspects have been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Courtand would face court challenges; others are norm-breaking proposals that might survive court challenges.^[43]

Although Project 2025 cannot legally promote a presidential candidate, many contributors are associated with Trump and his campaign.^[44][45][46] The Heritage Foundation employs many people closely aligned with Trump,^[47][48][49] including members of his 2017–2021 administration,^[50] and coordinates the initiative with conservative groups run by Trump allies.^[11] In 2023, Trump campaign officials acknowledged the project aligned well with their Agenda 47 program.^[10] Trump advisers have had regular contact with Project 2025,^[51][52] but criticism of the project's controversial proposals led Trump and his campaign to distance themselves from the project—saying he knows "nothing about it" and calling unspecified parts of it "ridiculous and abysmal".^{[47][53][54][55]} Some critics have dismissed Trump's claims, pointing to the many contributors who are expected to get leadership roles in a future Trump administration and the 300 times Trump had been mentioned in the plans as of July 10, 2024.^[56][57][58]

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