History of Project 2025 in Timeline

Project 2025, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, is a comprehensive plan to restructure the U.S. federal government under a conservative ideology. Launched in April 2023, it aims to consolidate executive power and implement right-wing policies across various governmental departments. The initiative includes detailed policy proposals, a database for vetting and recommending loyal personnel for federal positions, and a framework of executive orders designed for immediate presidential action to enact these changes. Essentially, Project 2025 outlines a roadmap for a significant overhaul of the government's structure and policies under a conservative administration.

1964: Cited the Civil Rights Act

In 2025, a DOJ reformed per Project 2025's recommendations would combat affirmative discrimination or anti-white racism, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

1970: Enactment of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act

In 1970, the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act, enacted as Title X of Public Health Service Act, which offers reproductive healthcare services.

1994: Michael Bromwich became Justice Department inspector general

In 1994, Michael Bromwich became Justice Department inspector general.

1999: Michael Bromwich's tenure as Justice Department inspector general ended

In 1999, Michael Bromwich's tenure as Justice Department inspector general ended.

2001: Resurgence of Unitary Executive Theory

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the unitary executive theory has seen a resurgence and popularization within the Republican Party.

2003: Federal death sentence carried out

In 2003, during Donald Trump's first term, the federal government carried out the first federal death sentence since 2003.

2008: U.S. Supreme Court ruled against capital punishment for child rape

In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana that capital punishment for child rape violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2010: Obama administration retired similar missile programs

In 2010, the Obama administration retired similar missile programs.

2013: B61-12 modernization programs began

In 2013, the B61-12 modernization programs began and have been continued by each administration since.

2014: W80 modernization programs began

In 2014, the W80 modernization programs began and have been continued by each administration since.

2016: Speakers worked for Donald Trump

In 2016, most of the speakers in the videos worked for Donald Trump in some capacity, including on his 2016–2017 transition team, in his administration, or in his 2024 reelection campaign.

2016: Trump signed a pledge to examine the public health impact of Internet pornography

In 2016, when the Republican Party nominated him for president, Trump signed a pledge to examine the "public health impact of Internet pornography on youth, families and the American culture".

2017: US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

In 2017, Mandy Gunasekara claimed to have been an instrumental advocate for the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

2017: Speakers worked for Donald Trump

In 2017, most of the speakers in the videos worked for Donald Trump in some capacity, including on his 2016–2017 transition team, in his administration, or in his 2024 reelection campaign.

2018: Trump's Claim to Fire Robert Mueller

In 2018, Trump claimed he could fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

2018: Trump restarted funding SLCM-N

In 2018, Trump restarted funding these SLCM-N.

2019: Trump's Claim of Presidential Power

In 2019, Trump said that Article Two of the U.S. Constitution grants him the "right to do whatever as president", a claim among supporters of the unitary executive theory.

January 2020: HHS nicknamed the Department of Life

In January 2020, Trump HHS secretary Alex Azar nicknamed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Department of Life.

2020: Trump Establishes Schedule F Job Classification

In 2020, Trump established the Schedule F job classification by executive order. Biden later rescinded this classification. Russell Vought, who worked on Schedule F during Trump's first term, joined Project 2025 and advocated reviving Schedule F during Trump's second term.

2020: Questionnaire to Test Potential Government Employees' Commitment to Trumpism

In 2020, White House Presidential Personnel Office employees James Bacon and John McEntee developed a questionnaire to test potential government employees' commitment to Trumpism.

2021: Curtailing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

In 2021, Project 2025 recommends curtailing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

2022: Biden administration canceled the funding

In 2022, the Biden administration canceled the funding.

2022: Supreme Court ruled state abortion bans are constitutional

In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that, contrary to Roe v. Wade, state abortion bans are constitutional.

April 2023: Heritage Foundation publishes Project 2025

In April 2023, the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025, a political initiative to reshape the federal government and consolidate executive powers to favor right-wing Republican policies. The project includes a policy document, a personnel database, and executive orders to implement the policies.

April 2023: The Heritage Foundation publishes the 920-page Mandate

In April 2023, the Heritage Foundation published the 920-page Mandate, written by hundreds of conservatives. Nearly half of the project's collaborating organizations have received dark money contributions from a network of fundraising groups linked to Leonard Leo.

May 2023: Bacon and McEntee Join Project 2025

In May 2023, James Bacon and John McEntee, former White House Presidential Personnel Office employees, who in 2020 developed a questionnaire to test potential government employees' commitment to Trumpism, joined Project 2025. The project utilizes a similar questionnaire to vet recruits for adherence to its agenda.

August 2023: DeSantis embraces Project 2025

In August 2023, Ron DeSantis embraced Project 2025.

November 2023: Miller's Plan for Immigration Enforcement

In November 2023, Stephen Miller told Project 2025 participant Charlie Kirk that the operation would rival the scale and complexity of "building the Panama Canal". He said it would include deputizing the National Guard in red states as immigration enforcement officers under Trump's command, to be deployed in blue states.

2023: Anti-Transgender Attacks

In 2023, Brynn Tannehill argued that The Mandate for Leadership in part "makes eradicating LGBTQ people from public life its top priority", while citing passages from the playbook linking pornography to "transgender ideology", arguing that it is related to other anti-transgender attacks in 2023.

2023: Mobilizing the military

In 2023, Stephen Miller proposed immediately mobilizing the military at the start of second Trump administration for domestic law and immigration enforcement under the Insurrection Act of 1807.

2023: Heritage Foundation's Personnel Database Plan

In 2023, the Heritage Foundation announced its plan to have 20,000 personnel in its database by the end of 2024.

2023: Consideration of Deputizing Local Police

In late 2023, Stephen Miller was reported to have considered deputizing local police and sheriffs, as well as agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration, for immigration enforcement. These forces could then arrest illegal immigrants nationwide, holding detainees in internment camps near the border before deportation. Trump has also spoken of rounding up homeless people in blue cities and detaining them in camps, while funding for the Mexico–United States border wall would increase.

February 2024: Project 2025 has over 100 partner organizations

By February 2024, Project 2025 had over 100 partner organizations. The Southern Poverty Law Center identified seven of these as hate or extremist groups.

April 2024: Policy on Immigration Violators

In April 2024, Heritage stated that Project 2025 policy includes "arresting, detaining, and removing immigration violators anywhere in the United States".

April 2024: Kevin Roberts discusses Project 2025 with Trump

In April 2024, Kevin Roberts said that he had talked to Trump about Project 2025, however, the Trump campaign denied this conversation.

April 2024: Heritage releases "5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025"

In April 2024, in response to criticism, the Heritage Foundation released a document titled "5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025", restating previously published objectives that the radical left hates families, uses the climate crisis to scare Americans, and wants the country to become like the Soviet Union, North Korea, or Cuba, and that woke propaganda should be eliminated.

May 2024: Heritage Grant for Project Sovereignty 2025

In May 2024, Heritage announced a $100,000 grant for Project Sovereignty 2025, aimed at researching federal civil servants' backgrounds to identify and alert Congress and the American people to "anti-American bad actors" in the administrative state.

May 2024: Russell Vought named policy director

In May 2024, Russell Vought was named policy director of the Republican National Committee platform committee. His organization, CRA, is on Project 2025's advisory board.

May 2024: Ruth Ben-Ghiat describes Project 2025 as an authoritarian takeover plan

In May 2024, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of fascism and authoritarian leaders at New York University, characterized Project 2025 as "a plan for an authoritarian takeover of the United States". She claimed the project intends to abolish federal departments and agencies to destroy liberal democracy's governance and create structures for autocratic rule.

June 2024: NATO members allocating GDP to defense

As of June 2024, 24 of the 32 NATO members had allocated at least 2% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to defense.

June 2024: American Accountability Foundation Research

In June 2024, the American Accountability Foundation, under Tom Jones, researched backgrounds of high-ranking federal civil servants through Project Sovereignty 2025, funded by a $100,000 grant from Heritage, with the objective of posting online the names of 100 people who might oppose Trump's agenda.

July 2, 2024: Kevin Roberts creates controversy with statement

On July 2, 2024, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts created controversy by saying, "we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

July 5, 2024: Trump denies knowledge of Project 2025

On July 5, 2024, Donald Trump denied any knowledge of Project 2025. Political commentators dismissed Trump's denial.

July 2024: Heritage claimed to have nearly 20,000 profiles

As of July 2024, Heritage claims to have nearly 20,000 profiles, though those could simply be empty after someone started the process and did not finish.

July 2024: CRA director discusses executive orders

In July 2024, CRA director of research Micah Meadowcroft said in a secretly recorded interview that Project 2025's executive orders would be distributed during the presidential transition in such a way that they would never be made public.

July 2024: Donald Moynihan comments on Project 2025

In July 2024, Donald Moynihan of Georgetown University commented on Project 2025 and the risks of corruption in American government and abuse of political power.

July 2024: Oren Cass criticizes Project's Leadership

In July 2024, Oren Cass, a contributing author of "Mandate's" chapter on the Department of Labor, criticized Project 2025's leadership, advocating for focusing on solving people's problems instead of promoting Christian nationalism or a second American revolution.

July 2024: Project 2025 releases statement

In July 2024, Project 2025 released a statement saying the project "does not speak for any candidate or campaign". Trump reiterated his disavowal of Project 2025, but Paul Dans confirmed ongoing connections with Trump's campaign. Dans stepped down as director in August, with Kevin Roberts assuming leadership.

July 2024: Stephen Miller seeks to remove America First Legal from Project 2025

In July 2024, Stephen Miller, a former Trump advisor, sought to remove his organization, America First Legal, from the Project 2025 list of advisory board members.

August 6, 2024: Book release postponed

On August 6, 2024, the release of the book "Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America" by Kevin Roberts was postponed until after the November election.

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August 2024: Oversized copy of The Mandate used as prop at Democratic National Convention

In August 2024, an oversize copy of "The Mandate" book was used as a prop during the 2024 Democratic National Convention, highlighting opposition to Project 2025 after attention from Biden and Harris's campaigns increased public awareness of it.

September 24, 2024: Book release by Kevin Roberts

On September 24, 2024, Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 architect, was scheduled to release his book "Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America," with a foreword by JD Vance.

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November 13, 2024: Hostile reception at book release event

On November 13, 2024, The Guardian reported that its reporter encountered a hostile reception at one of Kevin Robert's book release events in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. The reporter was expelled from the event despite being invited.

November 2024: Stephen Miller appointed as advisor

In November 2024, Stephen Miller was appointed as an advisor to the White House for Trump's second term.

2024: Right-wing commentators say Project 2025 is the official plan

After Trump won the 2024 United States presidential election, left-leaning media sources highlighted how right-wing commentators began saying on social media that Project 2025 was the official plan. Former White House advisor Steve Bannon and Texas official Bo French supported transparency about implementing Project 2025.

2024: Trump nominates Project 2025 contributors to positions in his second administration

After Trump won the 2024 election, he nominated several Project 2025 contributors to positions in his second administration, including Brendan Carr to lead the FCC and Tom Homan as a "border czar." Subsequently, Karoline Leavitt, herself an instructor for Project 2025's "Conservative Governance 101" training program and Trump's pick for White House Press Secretary, stated that "President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025".

2024: Heritage Foundation's Personnel Database Goal

By the end of 2024, the Heritage Foundation aimed to have 20,000 personnel in its database.

2024: Project 2025 described as a plot to undermine constitutional order

In 2024, David Corn of Mother Jones called Project 2025 "the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the presidency", suggesting it could lead to autocracy if successful in conjunction with a GOP victory.

2024: Flat Tax Rate Proposal

In 2024, Project 2025 proposed simplifying individual income taxes to two flat tax rates: 15% on incomes up to the Social Security Wage Base ($168,600), and 30% above that. An unspecified standard deduction would be included, but most deductions, credits and exclusions would be eliminated.

2024: Capital Gains Rate Reduction

In 2024, Project 2025 proposes reducing the capital gains rate for high earners to 15% from the current level of 20%.

2024: Roberts expresses concern over crime in the U.S.

In 2024, Roberts expressed concern over crime in the U.S.

2024: Supreme Court Decision Trump v. United States

In 2024, Several Project 2025 partners praised the Supreme Court decision Trump v. United States, which grants broad immunity from prosecution for acts committed in the course of a president's official duties.

2024: Speakers worked for Donald Trump

In 2024, most of the speakers in the videos worked for Donald Trump in some capacity, including on his 2016–2017 transition team, in his administration, or in his 2024 reelection campaign.

2024: Trump campaign officials maintain contact with Project 2025

In 2024, several Trump campaign officials maintained contact with Project 2025, viewing its goals as aligned with their Agenda 47 program. After winning the 2024 election, Trump nominated some of the plan's architects to positions in his second administration.

January 2025: Executive actions aligned with Project 2025's goals

In January 2025, Executive Order 14191, "Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families", diverted funding from public schools to private school vouchers, aligning with Project 2025's education system goals. Trump initially signed an executive order freezing new foreign aid for 90 days, and later required stop-work orders for all existing foreign aid, as advocated by Project 2025.

January 20, 2025: Trump Signs Executive Order

On January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order to that effect.

January 20, 2025: Dismissal of State Department Employees

On January 20, 2025, Project 2025 advocates for the dismissal of all Department of State employees in leadership roles.

February 7, 2025: NIH to change maximum indirect cost rate for university research grants

On February 7, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would change its maximum indirect cost rate for university research grants from 50% in some cases to 15%, as recommended by Project 2025.

2025: Federal Government's Role in Education

According to Project 2025, the federal government's role in education should be limited to statistics-keeping in 2025. It also suggests curtailing federal enforcement of civil rights in schools.

2025: Prosecution of Political Rivals

In 2025, Clark also promoted making the Department of Justice less independent of the president in order to let Trump prosecute his political rivals.

2025: Policy on Immigration Violators

In 2025, Heritage stated that Project 2025 policy includes "arresting, detaining, and removing immigration violators anywhere in the United States".

2025: Criticism of LGBTQ+ Protections

In 2025, LGBTQ+ writers and journalists have criticized Project 2025 for its proposals to remove protections for LGBTQ+ people and to outlaw pornography by claiming it is an "omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children".

2025: Downsizing the EPA

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates downsizing the EPA, particularly closing the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. They also aim to reverse the 2009 EPA finding on carbon dioxide emissions.

2025: Advocating for expanding the death penalty

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates expanding the use of the death penalty to include crimes such as pedophilia.

2025: Changes to Education Funding and Programs

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates for the expiration of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, removing $18 billion in federal funds. It also supports school vouchers and ending programs like Head Start.

2025: Healthcare Policies in Project 2025

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates for the federal government to promote the Medicare Advantage program, which consists of private insurance plans, and suggests that federal healthcare providers should deny transgender people gender-affirming care.

2025: Changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

In 2025, Project 2025 aims to alter the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by making it easier to fire employees and to remove DEI programs. Conservatives consider the NIH corrupt and politically biased. Severino suggests that the CDC should not publish health advice, because it is inherently political.

2025: Aiming to enforce Comstock more rigorously

In 2025, Project 2025 aims to enforce Comstock more rigorously at the national level to prohibit sending abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortions through the mail.

2025: Use of Insurrection Act

In 2025, Project 2025 contributor, has investigated using the Insurrection Act for other purposes, including suppressing protests like the George Floyd protests.

2025: Federal Contractor Citizenship Requirements

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages Congress to mandate that federal contractors consist of 70% U.S. citizens, with the goal of raising it to 95%. It also advocates for the president to reinstate Executive Orders 13836, 13837, and 13839, which concern federal agencies' handling of labor unions, grievances, and seniority.

2025: Encouraging robust protections for the unborn

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages the next president "to enact the most robust protections for the unborn that Congress will support".

2025: Research Funding Aligned with Conservative Principles

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages the president to ensure that research funded by taxpayer dollars aligns with conservative principles, potentially reducing funding for climatology research.

2025: Withholding Disaster Relief Funds

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages the president to withhold federal disaster relief funds granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should state or local governments refuse to abide by federal immigration laws, by, for example, not sharing information with law enforcement.

2025: Revoking NPR Stations' Noncommercial Status

In 2025, Project 2025 entertains the idea of revoking NPR stations' noncommercial status, forcing them to move outside the 88–92 range on the FM dial, which could then be taken by religious programming. Brendan Carr, who wrote the article on the Federal Communications Commission in Project 2025, was appointed by Trump to lead the FCC, and subsequently launched an investigation into NPR and PBS, in accordance with Project 2025.

2025: Reducing Federal Role in Education

In 2025, Project 2025 envisions a significant reduction of the federal government's role in education, emphasizing school choice and parental rights. It proposes closing the Department of Education and transferring control to the states.

2025: Differing Views on Foreign Trade

In 2025, Project 2025 exhibits conflicting views on foreign trade, with Peter Navarro advocating for reciprocal tariffs and Kent Lassman promoting free trade policies.

2025: Prioritizing national interests in foreign policy decisions

In 2025, Project 2025 favors neither interventionism nor isolationism, instead insisting that all decisions related to foreign policy prioritize national interests.

2025: Rescinding Title IX Policies

In 2025, Project 2025 hopes to influence Congress to rescind the Biden administration's Title IX policies and restore the first Trump administration's regulations, seeking to redefine sex under Title IX.

2025: Identifying threats to U.S. national security

In 2025, Project 2025 identifies all communist and socialist parties and states, including China, as threats to U.S. national security and expresses concern over China's influence on American society.

2025: Trump as Dictator

In 2025, Project 2025 is portrayed as a plan designed to allow Donald Trump to function as a dictator by undermining the restraints within the system. The project intends to destroy the rule of law, posing a threat to the basic values of the country and the safety of its citizens.

2025: Opposition to Radical Gender Ideology

In 2025, Project 2025 opposes what it calls "radical gender ideology" and advocates that the government "maintain a biblically based, social-science-reinforced definition of marriage and family". To achieve this, it proposes removing protections against discrimination based on sexual or gender identity, and eliminating provisions pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from federal legislation. Federal employees who have participated in DEI programs or any initiatives involving critical race theory might be fired.

2025: Curtailing Consent Decrees

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes curtailing legal settlements called consent decrees between the DOJ and local police departments. It also suggests that if the responsibilities of the FBI and another federal agency, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), overlapped, then the latter should take the lead, leaving the FBI to concentrate on (other) serious crimes and threats to national security.

2025: Reclassifying Federal Civil Service Workers

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes reclassifying a significant number of federal civil service workers as political appointees to replace them with Trump loyalists. This involves establishing a personnel database aligned with Donald Trump's ideology. The project recommends that a White House Counsel be selected who is "deeply committed" to the president's "America First" agenda for Trump's second term.

2025: Reconsidering Accommodations for Journalists

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes reconsidering the accommodations given to journalists who are members of the White House Press Corps. It also proposes defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, as "good policy and good politics" because it accounts for "half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year".

2025: Restrictions on Transgender Students and DEI

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes requiring public school teachers to obtain written permission from a transgender student's legal guardian before using the student's preferred pronouns. Project 2025's backers also want to target the private sector by reversing "the DEI revolution in labor policy" in favor of more "race-neutral" regulations. Project 2025 is part of a trend of intensifying backlash against DEI in the early 2020s.

2025: Medicaid and VA Funding Cuts

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes various methods to cut funding for Medicaid, including caps on federal funding, limits on lifetime benefits per capita, stricter work requirements, and eliminating federal oversight. The project also advocates cutting funding to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

2025: Social Media and Election Integrity

In 2025, Project 2025 pushes for legislation requiring social media companies to not remove mainstream political positions from their platforms. It also would prevent the Federal Elections Commission from countering misinformation or disinformation about election integrity. The Brennan Center for Justice wrote that Project 2025 threatens to amplify attacks on election officials and throw the weight of the federal government behind those antidemocratic efforts.

2025: Incentivizing Challenges to Climatology Research

In 2025, Project 2025 recommends incentives for the public to identify flaws and misconduct in climatology research and legally challenge it.

2025: Aligning federal organizations with the policy that abortion is not health care

In 2025, Project 2025 said Trump should align federal organizations with the policy that abortion is not health care and promote American health "from conception to natural death".

2025: Presidential Control over Executive Branch

In 2025, Project 2025 seeks to place the federal government's entire executive branch under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of various agencies.

2025: Abolishing the Economic Development Administration

In 2025, Project 2025 suggests abolishing the Economic Development Administration (EDA) at the Department of Commerce, or repurposing it to assist "rural communities destroyed by the Biden administration's attack on domestic energy production".

2025: Cutting federal funding for transit agencies

In 2025, Project 2025 suggests cutting federal funding for transit agencies nationwide in the form of the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program and views the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) unfavorably, calling it a waste of money.

2025: Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act

In 2025, Project 2025 supports repealing the Inflation Reduction Act and closing the Loan Programs Office, reorienting funding away from climate change and renewable energy research.

2025: Reforming the Department of Justice (DOJ)

In 2025, Project 2025 views the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a bloated bureaucracy with personnel infatuated with a radical liberal agenda and states that it has "forfeited the trust" of the American people. The project proposes that the DOJ must be thoroughly reformed and closely overseen by the White House, and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) must be personally accountable to the president.

2025: Climate Change Mitigation

In 2025, Project 2025's manifesto includes eliminating climate change mitigation from the National Security Council's agenda and encouraging allied nations to use fossil fuels.

2025: Project Sovereignty 2025 Objective

In 2025, Project Sovereignty 2025's objective was to post online the names of 100 people who might oppose Trump's agenda. Some found Project Sovereignty 2025 reminiscent of McCarthyism, when many Americans were persecuted and blacklisted as alleged communists.

2025: Republican Climate Advocates Disagree with Project 2025

In 2025, Republican climate advocates disagreed with Project 2025's climate policy, with some considering the Inflation Reduction Act crucial and others noting growing consensus among younger Republicans about human-caused climate change.

2025: Developing executive orders and proposing regulations to roll back Biden's abortion policies

In 2025, Severino told a Students for Life conference that Project 2025 was developing executive orders and proposing regulations to roll back Biden's abortion policies and solidify a new environment in the wake of Dobbs.

2025: Recommending reversal of FDA approval of abortion pills

In 2025, Severino writes in the project's manifesto that the Food and Drug Administration should reverse its approval of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol on ethical grounds.

2025: Miller's Plan for Immigration Enforcement

In 2025, Stephen Miller told Project 2025 participant Charlie Kirk that the operation would rival the scale and complexity of "building the Panama Canal". He said it would include deputizing the National Guard in red states as immigration enforcement officers under Trump's command, to be deployed in blue states.

2025: The American Principles Project advocated for state laws that reduce pornography's accessibility

In 2025, The American Principles Project, part of the Project 2025 advisory board, has advocated for state laws that reduce pornography's accessibility.

2025: Dramatic buildup of nuclear weapons

In 2025, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists called Project 2025's nuclear policy "the most dramatic buildup of nuclear weapons since the start of the Reagan administration" and the beginning of a new global nuclear arms race.

2025: DOJ Reforms and Priorities

In 2025, a DOJ reformed per Project 2025's recommendations would combat affirmative discrimination or anti-white racism, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The plan also envisions making the FBI and DOJ more directly accountable to the president and expanding eligibility for the federal death penalty. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division would "prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers" with DEI or affirmative action programs.

2025: Enforcement of federal law against using the U.S. Postal Service for transportation of medicines that induce abortion

In 2025, in Project 2025's "Department of Justice" section, Gene Hamilton calls for enforcement of federal law against using the U.S. Postal Service for transportation of medicines that induce abortion.

2025: Recommendation to ban pornography

In 2025, in the foreword of Project 2025's Mandate, Kevin Roberts argues that pornography promotes sexual deviance, the sexualization of children, and the exploitation of women; is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; and should be banned.

2025: Authorizing the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service to enforce the law outside of the White House

In 2025, like Trump, Project 2025 believes that the District of Columbia is infested with crime and suggests authorizing the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service to enforce the law outside of the White House and the immediate surroundings.

2025: Executive Aggrandizement

In 2025, political experts suggest Project 2025 embodies executive aggrandizement, mirroring democratic backsliding seen in countries like Russia and Venezuela. This involves institutional changes led by elected executives. Rachel Beatty Riedl of Cornell University highlights the threat to democratic rule through the consolidation of executive power, potentially reducing American citizens' engagement in public life. Phillip Wallach from the American Enterprise Institute characterizes the project as visions bordering on authoritarianism.

2025: Creation of videos to support training

In 2025, the database and modules were low-budget productions focused on ideology rather than practice and ProPublica has published 23 of the videos Project 2025 created to support the training.

2025: Restoring religious and moral exemptions to contraceptive requirements

In 2025, the project seeks to restore Trump-era "religious and moral exemptions" to contraceptive requirements under the ACA, including emergency contraception (Plan B), which it deems an abortifacient, to defund Planned Parenthood, and to remove protection of medical records involving abortions from criminal investigations if the records' owners cross state lines.

2025: Advising deprecating promotion of abortion and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents

In 2025, to prevent teenage pregnancy, Project 2025 advises the federal government to deprecate what it considers promotion of abortion and high-risk sexual behaviors among adolescents.

2025: Sale of Military Equipment

In 2025, under Project 2025's plan, congressional approval would not be required for the sale of military equipment and ammunition to a foreign nation, unless "unanimous congressional support is guaranteed".