Project 2025 USA

Project 2025, officially titled the Presidential Transition Project, is an initiative led by The Heritage Foundation and over 100 other conservative organizations to reshape the U.S. federal government. Established in 2022, it was designed to provide a ready-to-use policy blueprint and a vetted pool of personnel for the next conservative president. 

The Four Pillars

The project is built on four central components: 

1. Mandate for Leadership: A 900+ page policy guide recommending specific reforms across every federal department.

2. Personnel Database: A "LinkedIn-style" database of thousands of conservative loyalists to replace non-partisan civil servants.

3. Presidential Administration Academy: An online training program to prepare recruited personnel for government roles.

4. The Playbook: A "secret" set of draft executive orders and immediate actions for the first 180 days of the new administration. 

Core Policy Goals

The initiative focuses on four main themes: restoring the family as the center of American life, dismantling the "administrative state," defending national sovereignty/borders, and securing individual rights. 

• Executive Power: It advocates for "unitary executive theory," which would place currently independent agencies (like the DOJ and FBI) under direct presidential control.

• Civil Service: It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal employees as "at-will" political appointees (known as Schedule F), allowing for mass firings and replacements.

• Social Issues: Recommendations include banning pornography, removing federal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, and using the Comstock Act to restrict the mailing of abortion pills.

• Education & Climate: It calls for abolishing the Department of Education, ending various climate research programs, and significantly increasing fossil fuel production. 

2025 Implementation

Following Donald Trump’s inauguration in early 2025, his administration has rapidly moved to implement many aspects of the project. 

• Personnel Alignment: Several of Project 2025’s authors have been appointed to high-ranking positions, including Russell Vought (OMB Director), John Ratcliffe (CIA Director), and Brendan Carr (FCC Chair).

• Executive Action: By the end of 2025, analysis showed that nearly two-thirds of Trump’s early executive orders mirrored or partially mirrored proposals from the project, including orders to end birthright citizenship and curb DEI efforts.

• Agency Reorganisation: The administration has begun transferring major functions of the Department of Education to other agencies and has created a new worker classification (Schedule G) to facilitate at-will firing of federal employees.