Project 2025 is a blueprint for “the next conservative administration” to remove checks and balances across the federal government, strengthen Presidential powers, deliver complete fealty to the President throughout agencies and offices by purging the federal government of civil servants and experts throughout all levels, and to implement major restrictions on Americans rights, freedoms, services, and opportunities, while reversing corporate regulations, tax increases, and accountability mechanisms that aim to protect American consumers and our environment.

Project 2025 includes four “pillars” they describe as:

Pillar I —this volume [Mandate for Leadership]—puts in one place a consensus view of how major federal agencies must be governed and where disagreement exists brackets out these differences for the next President to choose a path.

Pillar II is a personnel database that allows candidates to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review and voice their recommendations. These recommendations will then be collated and shared with the President-elect’s team, greatly streamlining the appointment process.

Pillar III is the Presidential Administration Academy, an online educational system taught by experts from our coalition. For the newcomer, this will explain how the government functions and how to function in government. For the experienced, we will host in-person seminars with advanced training and set the bar for what is expected of senior leadership.

In Pillar IV —the Playbook—we are forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.”

Personnel Goals

1. Remove and remake the personnel across the federal government to ensure loyalty to President Trump, a strengthened Executive Branch, and incapacitated regulatory agencies tasked with corporate oversight and consumer protection.

2. Recruit, vet, and train loyalists ready to operationalize a would-be President Trump’s agenda.

3. Re-issue Trump’s Schedule F Executive Order to permit mass firings.

4. Avoid checks and balances designed to prevent executive overreach by relying on acting officials in senior roles, averting Senate confirmation requirements, and by leaving roles across agencies vacant.

5. Put in place training, incentive mechanisms, and personnel removal policies, that demand and reward loyalty while punishing anyone who resists implementing the President’s agenda.

6. Leave vacancies where doing so will reduce friction for senior appointees.

Restructuring Goals

1. Attempt to eliminate or gut whole agencies or offices including the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, the DOJ’s Office of Civil Rights, the Federal Reserve, and the Environmental Protection Agency

2. Assert Unitary Executive Theory by rejecting Humphrey’s Executor (prompting the Supreme Court to decide whether or not to intervene upon challenges) as a constraint on executive power over independent agencies. The Trump Administration would remove long-serving experts from agencies including the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Elections Commission, and the National Labor RelationsReview Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the National Science Foundation, and the Central Intelligence agency, among dozens of others.

3. Relocate key offices within agencies to locations that better serve the Administration’s agenda. As an example, Project 2025 calls for transferring the Office of Foreign Labor Certification from the Employment and Training Administration and instead becoming “directly accountable to the Secretary with a politically accountable Director,” to oversee H visas.

4. Privatize offices and programs including the National Weather Service, FEMA Flood Insurance, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Energy Information Administration.

5. Reform the filibuster to no longer require 60 votes to end debate, and thus, to pass major legislation. The primary exception is for budget matters, which can include reconciliation bills. Additionally, judicial nominations and executive branch appointments are no longer subject to a filibuster. The legislative filibuster can be eliminated by either a two-thirds vote (extremely unlikely) or, potentially, by a majority vote (known as the nuclear option, which is how the changes to judicial nominations were made). The latter option is more likely. Project 2025 does not call for abolishing or exempting the filibuster, but many of the major legislation Project 2025 calls for would practically require filibuster reform.

6. Take advantage of SCOTUS overturning Chevron,** **a 1980s Supreme Court case, which held that when a statute is ambiguous (which many are, as Congress tends to leave laws a bit vague for the agencies to fill in the gaps, e.g., “the EPA has the authority to regulate emissions” – well, what does that mean?) courts will defer to an agency’s interpretation of the regulation, because they have the technical expertise that the courts lack. The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Loper Bright on June 28 makes regulating corporations and protecting consumers more challenging for agencies whose experts will now have to rely on more issue-specific legislation from Congress.

On July 5, 2024, Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025, stating on Truth Social that: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” As Judd Legum states in Popular Information, however: “this is false.” Legum continues that: “Project 2025’s 922-page policy agenda has 30 chapters and 34 authors. Twenty-five of Project 2025’s authors served as members of the Trump administration. Another Project 2025 author, Stephen Moore, was nominated by Trump to the Federal Reserve but forced to withdraw ‘over his past inflammatory writings about women.’ Further, William Walton, the co-author of the chapter on the Department of the Treasury, was a key member of Trump’s transition team.” A CNN review found that at least 140 people who worked for Trump are involved with Project 2025.

New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan, an expert on Project 2025 and Trump’s second term plans after reporting on both for over two years, offers a breakdown of how closely Trump’s promises align with Project 2025’s plans.

Project 2025 presents real, feasible, dangerous proposals for people, animals, our planet, our economy, and for our international world order. In the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership document, the Heritage Foundation Founder and former President Edward Fuelner writes “But the 2016 edition was one of particular note. It earned significant attention from the Trump Administration, as Heritage had accumulated a backlog of conservative ideas that had been blocked by President Barack Obama and his team.

Soon after President Donald Trump was sworn in, his Administration began to implement major parts of the 2016 Mandate. After his first year in office, the Administration had implemented 64 percent of its policy recommendations.”

Project 2025 leveraged over $20M in dark money- anonymous donors who use multiple vehicles that are virtually untraceable to contribute- to create plans and recruit people to operationalize those plans to ensure America’s federal government in a second Trump term will serve the industry giants and billionaires behind Project 2025 and its 100+ affiliates, while neutering the government’s capacity to serve all Americans.