Project 2025
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Project 2025 documents the Heritage Foundation's comprehensive plan to reshape the federal government — and its implementation after Trump's return to office in 2025.
The 920-page "Mandate for Leadership" published in April 2023 was not merely a conservative policy wishlist. It was a detailed operational blueprint for dismantling the administrative state and replacing it with a system of centralized presidential control. Key components:
1. Schedule F: Reclassify ~50,000 career civil servants as at-will employees, enabling mass replacement with political loyalists
2. Agency dissolution: Eliminate the Department of Education, gut EPA enforcement, restructure DOJ
3. Independent agency capture: Move FTC, FCC, SEC, NLRB under direct White House control
4. Impoundment authority: Assert presidential power to refuse to spend appropriated funds
5. DEI purge: Eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the federal government
6. Climate suppression: Fire NOAA/EPA scientists, cancel National Climate Assessment, Paris withdrawal
7. Christian nationalism: Infuse government policy with conservative Christian doctrine
8. Immigration enforcement: Mass deportation using military resources and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
By early 2026, Project 2025 was substantially implemented — leading to a third presidential impeachment for "systematic dismantling of constitutional governance." The category documents the blueprint and its execution, demonstrating that institutional capture is not an accident but the product of deliberate planning.
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The Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025, a comprehensive presidential transition project designed to provide a detailed policy blueprint and personnel apparatus for the next Republican administration. The project assembles over 100 conservative organizations to draft policy recommendations and pre-vet thousands of loyalists for political appointments. Heritage President Kevin Roberts announces the goal: to have a 'governing agenda' and 'army of …
The Heritage Foundation publishes the 920-page 'Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,' the policy heart of Project 2025. The document proposes eliminating the Department of Education, dismantling climate and environmental protections, criminalizing pornography, expanding presidential power, ending no-fault divorce, and overhauling the civil service through Schedule F. Trump initially distances himself from the document, but after the 2024 election, it …
Trump signs an executive order reinstating and expanding Schedule F, reclassifying approximately 50,000 federal career civil servants as at-will employees who can be fired without cause. The order targets independent expertise across agencies: scientists at NOAA and EPA, economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health experts at CDC and NIH, and career prosecutors at DOJ. Thousands are fired or …
Trump issues an executive order eliminating all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices and programs across the federal government. The order, drafted by Project 2025 authors, requires all agencies to identify and terminate any positions or contracts related to DEI. Thousands of federal employees are reassigned or fired. The purge extends to contractors and grantees, threatening funding for universities and …
Trump appoints Russ Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought, who served as OMB director at the end of Trump's first term, was a key architect of Project 2025, authoring its chapter on executive power. Vought immediately begins implementing Project 2025's budget proposals: impounding funds Congress appropriated, freezing disbursements for programs the blueprint targets, and …
The Trump administration, following Project 2025's climate chapter, fires hundreds of NOAA and EPA scientists. The National Climate Assessment is canceled. EPA enforcement actions drop by 80%. The US withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement for the second time. NOAA's climate research division is reorganized into a 'commerce-focused' unit. Project 2025's goal is achieved: federal climate science infrastructure is effectively …
The Trump administration restructures independent federal agencies to bring them under direct White House control. The FTC, FCC, SEC, NLRB, and other independent agencies are moved to within the Executive Office of the President. Commissioners can be fired at will by the president. The move, recommended in Project 2025, eliminates the legal fiction of agency independence. The reorganization faces court …
Trump signs legislation dissolving the Department of Education and converting federal education funding into block grants to states with no federal strings attached. Title I funding for low-income schools, IDEA funding for special education, and Pell Grants for low-income college students are all block-granted. Project 2025's education chapter, which called for 'eliminating the Department of Education's role in K-12 education,' …
The Democratic-controlled House impeaches Trump for 'systematic dismantling of constitutional governance,' citing the Schedule F purge, impoundment of appropriated funds, targeting of political enemies through DOJ, and the independent agency restructuring. The impeachment is the third of Trump's career. The Senate, with a narrow Republican majority, votes to acquit. The impeachment underscores how thoroughly Project 2025's blueprint has been implemented …