What is Project 2025?

Photo: STOP PROJECT 2025 March to Heritage Foundation, 27 January 2024 by Elvert Barnes Photography, Wikimedia Commons

What is Project 2025?

by David Esparza

Led by the Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 other conservative organizations, Project 2025 is a written document and comprehensive plan to undo, defund, and replace the previous presidential administration’s policies, programs, and appointees, with the overarching goal of centralizing power in the executive branch. 

Project 2025 includes all three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) and is designed, in effect, to resist the constitutionally mandated system of checks and balances, as well as the separation of powers. Project 2025 includes “The Conservative Promise,” a highly detailed guide in the areas of healthcare, national security, education, and economic policy.  Though candidate Trump denied any knowledge of Project 2025, and his campaign even went so far as to say they would ban anyone associated with it from serving in his administration, President Trump’s administration is, in fact, now filled with authors and architects of this comprehensive conservative overhaul of the U.S. Government.

As prescribed by Project 2025 for its first 180 days of implementation, sweeping changes in each of these areas of public policy have already been enacted via some 60 executive orders. A number of these executive orders, including those ending the granting of birthright citizenship and a sweeping freeze on federal grants and loans, have either been rescinded by the Trump administration or temporarily blocked by federal judges.

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