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oneabout half Recommendations in Project 2025 has become the official policy, presidential directive, or overall goal of the Trump administration during the first 12 months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The nearly 1,000-page ultra-conservative policy blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation think tank in 2023 is widely regarded as a possible manifesto for Trump’s second turn, despite denials by the candidate himself and many people around him.
Filling the federal workforce with political appointees, Phase out the Ministry of EducationThese include canceling major policies related to climate change during the Biden administration, eliminating diversity policies and offices, and increasing immigration deportations. Significant policy changes consistent with conservative mission.
This is an unsurprising finding, as key Trump administration officials are all authors or contributors to Project 2025, including Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, border czar Tom Homan, FCC Chairman Brendan Kahl, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, trade adviser Peter Navarro, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, and others.
However, The president appeared to downplay his understanding of the In June 2024, he declared that “I don’t know anything about the 2025 plan” and “I don’t know who is behind it.”
Here are the following areas: independent Found that Trump administration policies reflect ideas laid out in 887 pages 2025 plan.
federal workforce
Project 2025 Recommendations for Executive Office Reorganization The federal workforce has some of the most significant overlaps and the Trump administration’s agenda.
The overall goal of the federal workforce (particularly the executive branch) is to eliminate career civil servants and ensure that the majority of employees are aligned with the president’s agenda while reducing the size of the workforce through cuts in appropriations and funding.
2025 Planning Call Reinstating Trump’s first-term executive ordersmaking it easier to fire 50,000 employees by classifying them into Schedule F and assigning them to at-will roles, making it easier to fire them. Trump did it on day one. The call for Project 2025 was also successfully implemented Office of Personnel Management strengthens controls Federal Workforce Recruitment Process.
While the Department of Government Effectiveness was not part of Plan 2025, its swift and massive layoffs helped shrink the workforce. About 317,000 employees left government jobs.
Additionally, Plan 2025 calls for the president to exert more power over the executive branch by: Pushing the Supreme Court to overturn precedent This prohibits the president from firing individuals. The case is currently being heard by the High Court.
Cuts to grants and funding
Project 2025 recommends that nearly every government department and agency conduct a thorough review of grants and contracts to ensure that funds are not allocated to projects that are inconsistent with the president’s agenda.
Trump has achieved this goal First try freezing all grants Then take a more consistent approach and cut funding for policies or programs he disagrees with. Much of this affects USAID.
Over the past year, the government has Cut funding to nonprofits or organizations working on green energy projectsand the cancellation of research projects targeting renewable energy.
Plan 2025 explicitly calls for the government to cut funding for public media outlets like NPR, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—all of which the president has already done.
educate
Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon made it clear that they Plans to phase out the Ministry of Education – A recommendation that Project 2025 clearly recommends.
While shutting down the department entirely would require congressional action, Plan 2025 lays out ways the government can reduce the department’s power. The Trump administration has turned many of these recommendations into policy.
This includes Repeal Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Policy, Eliminate protections for transgender or non-binary studentsrepeal diversity initiatives, and promote parental choice.
Trump also implemented the “2025 Plan”, requiring the government to Deny or review accreditation of colleges and universities Adopting DEI policies may be seen as not doing enough to protect religious freedom.
migrant
Tougher immigration policies in Plan 2025 are synonymous with the Trump administration, and if anything, the president has gone further than the authorization would suggest to crack down on legal and illegal immigration.
The president has tightened visa restrictions for foreign-born workers, penalized “sanctuary” cities, imposed harsher penalties for undocumented immigrants with criminal records, expanded the country scope of the travel ban, and sought to redefine birthright citizenship (although Plan 2025 does not require this.)
Project 2025 asks the president to consider using the National Guard or other military personnel to assist immigration operations along the border and to consider increasing federal law enforcement presence in “sanctuary” cities.
Trump took both suggestions and combined them National Guard troops deployed in cities where immigration operations are taking place.
DEI and LGBTQ+ protections
The Trump administration quickly achieved Plan 2025’s goal of removing all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion in department policies, but it also proposed punishing those involved in promoting DEI.
Trump has also rolled back protections for transgender people, redefining “sex” and “gender” to no longer include non-binary or transgender people as the 2025 plan calls for.
The administration also reinstated a Trump administration policy Ban transgender people from joining the military and rescinding Biden-era policies that protected transgender student-athletes.
The administration also adopted other specific recommendations in Plan 2025, such as eliminating Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, modernizing nuclear facilities and rolling back environmental protections to increase oil and gas drilling.
Entering 2026, the government may adopt other recommendations in Plan 2025 that were not implemented quickly, namely implementing policies and goals to counter China.