History of Project 2025 in Timeline

Project 2025 is a comprehensive plan by The Heritage Foundation to overhaul the US federal government, concentrating executive power to advance conservative policies. Released in April 2023, it anticipates a Republican presidential victory in 2024 and aims to restructure numerous aspects of the government to align with a specific political agenda. It is a detailed roadmap for a potential future administration, focusing on policy changes and personnel decisions.

1964: Civil Rights Act

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was cited as a basis for combating anti-white racism.

1965: Elementary and Secondary Education Act

In 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was enacted, which Title I provides $18 billion in federal funds for schools in low-income areas that Project 2025 wants to remove.

1994: Bromwich was Justice Department inspector general

Michael Bromwich was Justice Department inspector general from 1994 to 1999

1999: Bromwich was Justice Department inspector general

Michael Bromwich was Justice Department inspector general from 1994 to 1999

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

In 2003, the federal government carried out the first federal death sentence since 2003.

2008: Kennedy v. Louisiana

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.

2009: EPA finding on Carbon Dioxide

In 2009, the EPA found that carbon dioxide emissions are harmful to human health, a finding that Project 2025 wants to reverse.

2017: US Withdrawal from Paris Agreement

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

2017: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Cut

In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

2018: Trump's Claim on Firing Special Counsel Mueller

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

2019: Trump's Claim on Presidential Power

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

2020: Questionnaire to test commitment to Trumpism

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

2020: Trump Establishes Schedule F Job Classification

In 2020, Trump established the Schedule F job classification by executive order, which was later rescinded by Biden at the beginning of his presidency. Russell Vought, who worked on Schedule F during Trump's first term, later joined Project 2025.

April 2023: The Heritage Foundation Publishes Project 2025

In April 2023, The Heritage Foundation published Project 2025, a political initiative aimed at reshaping the federal government and consolidating executive power, in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.

May 2023: Bacon and McEntee Join Project 2025

In May 2023, James Bacon and John McEntee, former White House Presidential Personnel Office employees who had developed a questionnaire to test potential government employees' commitment to Trumpism in 2020, joined Project 2025, where they used a similar questionnaire to screen potential recruits.

August 2023: Ron DeSantis Embraces Project 2025

In August 2023, Ron DeSantis publicly embraced Project 2025.

November 2023: Miller Discusses Immigration Enforcement with Kirk

In November 2023, Stephen Miller told Charlie Kirk that the immigration 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 and deploying them in blue states. He also considered deputizing local police and sheriffs, as well as agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

2023: Attacks against transgender people

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.

2023: Stephen Miller's Proposal on Military Mobilization

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.

February 2024: Project 2025 Includes 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: Heritage 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: Roberts Discusses Project 2025 with Trump

In April 2024, Kevin Roberts stated that he had discussed Project 2025 with Donald Trump, though the Trump campaign denied this.

April 2024: Heritage releases document defending Project 2025

In April 2024, responding to criticism of the project, Heritage released a document titled "5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025". The document restated many of its previously published objectives, claiming the left hates families, uses the climate crisis as a tool for scaring Americans, and wants the country to become like the Soviet Union, North Korea, or Cuba, and stating that woke propaganda should be eliminated at every level of government.

May 2024: Heritage Announces Grant for Project Sovereignty 2025

In May 2024, Heritage announced a $100,000 grant for Project Sovereignty 2025, stating the research's purpose was "to alert Congress, a conservative administration, and the American people to the presence of anti-American bad actors burrowed into the administrative state and ensure appropriate action is taken."

May 2024: Vought Named Policy Director of the Republican National Committee Platform Committee

In May 2024, Russell Vought was named policy director of the Republican National Committee platform committee. Vought claimed that Trump blessed the Center for Renewing America (CRA), which is on Project 2025's advisory board.

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

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 stated that the project's intent to abolish federal departments and agencies "is to destroy the legal and governance cultures of liberal democracy and create new bureaucratic structures, staffed by new politically vetted cadres, to support autocratic rule".

June 2024: NATO Defense Spending

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

June 2024: Kiron Skinner on State Department Employees

In June 2024, Kiron Skinner could not name a time when State Department employees obstructed Trump policy, despite her view that they are too left-wing.

June 2024: American Accountability Foundation Researches Civil Servants

In June 2024, the American Accountability Foundation was researching the backgrounds of key high-ranking federal civil servants, called Project Sovereignty 2025, with the goal of posting online the names of 100 people who might oppose Trump's agenda.

July 2, 2024: Kevin Roberts Creates Controversy with Comments on Second American Revolution

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; however, political commentators dismissed Trump's denial.

July 2024: Heritage Foundation Staffing Database Size

As of July 2024, The Heritage Foundation claims to have nearly 20,000 profiles in its staffing database for potential future administrations, but some staffers have privately questioned the true number of viable candidates.

July 2024: CRA Director's Secretly Recorded Interview

In July 2024, CRA director of research Micah Meadowcroft stated in a secretly recorded interview that executive orders drafted by Project 2025 and the CRA would be distributed during the presidential transition, ensuring they would never be made public.

July 2024: Donald Moynihan Comments on Project 2025

In July 2024, Donald Moynihan of Georgetown University wrote about Project 2025.

July 2024: Trump Reiterates Disavowal of Project 2025

In July 2024, Donald Trump reiterated his disavowal of Project 2025. Also in July 2024, Project 2025 Director Paul Dans confirmed that his team had ongoing connections with Trump's campaign. During the week of July 29, Dans told Project staff that he would step down as director in August to focus on the election campaign, and Kevin Roberts assumed leadership of the project.

July 2024: Oren Cass Criticizes Project 2025 Leadership

In July 2024, Oren Cass, a contributing author of Mandate's chapter on the Department of Labor, criticized the project's leadership, saying it should focus on solving people's problems instead of promoting Christian nationalism or a second American revolution.

July 2024: Stephen Miller Seeks Removal from Project 2025 Advisory Board

In July 2024, Stephen Miller sought to remove his company, 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 associated with Project 2025 was postponed until after the November election.

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

In August 2024, an oversize copy of The Mandate was used as a prop during the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

September 24, 2024: Book Release by Kevin Roberts

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

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November 13, 2024: The Guardian reports hostile reception at book release event

On November 13, 2024, The Guardian reported a hostile reception its reporter encountered at a Project 2025 book release event in Manhattan or Washington, D.C. Despite being invited, the reporter was expelled from the event.

November 2024: Stephen Miller Appointed as Advisor to the White House

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

2024: 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.

2024: Trump nominates Project 2025 contributors to positions

After Trump won the 2024 election, he nominated several Project 2025 contributors to positions in his second administration. Brendan Carr, Tom Homan, and Russell Vought were among those nominated. Karoline Leavitt claimed that "President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025", even though she herself is an instructor for it.

2024: The Heritage Foundation's Personnel Database Target

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

2024: Project 2025 Seen as Threat to 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", indicating its potential path to autocracy if successful alongside a Republican victory.

2024: Project 2025 Aims to Provide Personnel and Ideological Framework

In 2024, Project 2025 aimed to provide the Republican presidential nominee with a personnel database and ideological framework.

2024: Roberts on pursuit of happiness

In 2024, Roberts claims that U.S. is a place where "inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries".

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.

2024: Heritage Foundation Briefs Presidential Candidates on Project 2025

In 2024, the Heritage Foundation briefed other Republican presidential primary candidates on Project 2025, focusing on policies Trump could implement.

2024: Supreme Court Decision Trump v. United States

In 2024, the Supreme Court made a decision in the case Trump v. United States, granting broad immunity from prosecution for acts committed in the course of a president's official duties. This decision was praised by some partners of Project 2025.

2024: Capital Gains Tax Rate

In 2024, the capital gains rate for high earners is at 20% before Project 2025 proposes a reduction.

2024: Tax plan proposal

Project envisions eventually moving from an income tax to a consumption tax, such as a national sales tax. In the interim, the Project seeks to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). It further recommends simplifying individual income taxes to two flat tax rates: 15% on incomes up to the Social Security Wage Base ($168,600 in 2024), and 30% above that.

January 2025: Executive actions align 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, a move directly aligned with Project 2025's goal to reshape the education system. Also in January 2025, the administration sent a notice requiring that stop-work orders be issued for all existing foreign aid, after an initial freeze.

January 20, 2025: Trump Signs Executive Order to Revive Schedule F

On January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order to revive Schedule F, which aims to destroy the administrative state and fire federal workers.

January 20, 2025: Project 2025 on Dismissing State Department Employees

On January 20, 2025, Project 2025 advocates for the dismissal of Department of State employees in leadership roles and their replacement with ideologically vetted appointees.

February 7, 2025: NIH changes indirect cost rate based on Project 2025 recommendation

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.

April 2025: Book-length study of Project 2025 published

In April 2025, journalist David Graham published a book-length study, "The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America".

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2025: Trump's budget freezes and spending cuts reflect Project 2025

According to Media Matters for America, Trump's early budget freezes and spending cuts in 2025 reflected Project 2025's aggressive push to downsize government programs and shift power to conservative institutions. In addition, his push to weaken FEMA is part of a broader Project 2025 strategy to reduce the federal government's role in disaster relief and shift responsibility to state and private entities.

2025: Federal Role in Education According to Project 2025

According to Project 2025, in 2025, the federal government's role in education should be limited to statistics and civil rights enforcement should be curtailed, shifting responsibilities to the Department of Justice.

2025: Clark's Promotion of DOJ Independence Reduction

In 2025, Clark promoted reducing the Department of Justice's independence to allow Trump to prosecute political rivals, though Heritage denies such plans in Project 2025.

2025: Project 2025 Seen as Threat to Constitutional Order

In 2025, 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", indicating its potential path to autocracy if successful alongside a Republican victory.

2025: Trump's TikTok policy diverges from Project 2025's stance

In 2025, Donald Trump's policy on TikTok diverged from Project 2025's call to ban the app.

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: Former Trump staffers involved with Project 2025

In 2025, Mark Meadows and Stephen Miller are identified as former Trump staffers involved with Project 2025.

2025: Project 2025 Partners on Supreme Court Decision

In 2025, Media Matters reported that several Project 2025 partners praised the 2024 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.

2025: Project 2025 on "Woke Propaganda" in Schools

In 2025, Project 2025 addresses concerns about "woke propaganda" in public schools by proposing to reduce the federal government's role in education and increase school choice and parental rights.

2025: Project 2025 on Downsizing the EPA

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates downsizing the EPA, reversing the finding that carbon dioxide emissions are harmful, and blocking the expansion of the national electrical grid.

2025: Expansion of the Death Penalty

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

2025: Project 2025 on Education Funding

In 2025, Project 2025 advocates for the expiration of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and promotes school vouchers while cutting funding for free school meals and ending the Head Start program.

2025: NIH and CDC Changes

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. It also proposes that the CDC should not publish health advice, because it is inherently political.

2025: Project 2025 on Title IX Policies

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

2025: Dictatorial functions for Donald Trump

In 2025, Project 2025 appears to be designed to allow Donald Trump to function as a dictator by removing restraints in the system and destroying the rule of law, implementing ideas that would threaten the safety of everyone in the country.

2025: Project 2025 and the Insurrection Act

In 2025, Project 2025 contributor Jeffrey Clark investigated using the Insurrection Act for purposes including suppressing protests, while the Heritage Foundation denied any plans to use it.

2025: Federal contractor citizenship requirements

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages Congress to require federal contractors to be 70% U.S. citizens, ultimately raising the limit to 95%. It also calls for reinstating Executive Orders 13836, 13837 and 13839, which relate to how federal agencies address labor unions, grievances, and seniority.

2025: Withholding FEMA Funds

In 2025, Project 2025 encourages the president to withhold federal disaster relief funds granted by FEMA should state or local governments refuse to abide by federal immigration laws.

2025: National Guard as immigration enforcement officers

In 2025, Project 2025 includes deputizing the National Guard in red states as immigration enforcement officers under Trump's command. These forces would then be deployed in blue states. Miller considered deputizing local police and sheriffs for the undertaking, as well as agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

2025: Policy for Immigration Violators

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

2025: Project 2025 Split on Foreign Trade

In 2025, Project 2025 is divided on foreign trade policy, with Peter Navarro advocating for reciprocal tariffs and Kent Lassman promoting free trade agreements.

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". It proposes removing protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual or gender identity and eliminating DEI provisions. Federal employees involved in DEI programs or critical race theory initiatives might be fired.

2025: Reclassifying Federal Workers

In 2025, Project 2025 proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees to replace them with Trump loyalists, establishing a personnel database shaped by the ideology of Donald Trump. For Trump's second term the project recommends selecting a White House Counsel "deeply committed" to the president's "America First" agenda.

2025: White House Press Corps accommodations

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 and revoking NPR stations' noncommercial status.

2025: Consent Decrees and Agency Responsibilities

In 2025, Project 2025 recommends 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 overlapped, then the latter should take the lead.

2025: Project 2025 on Scientific Flaws

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

2025: Project 2025 on Executive Branch Control

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

2025: Medicaid and VA Funding Cuts

In 2025, Project 2025 suggests a number of ways to cut funding for Medicaid, such as caps on federal funding, limits on lifetime benefits per capita, and stricter work requirements. The project also advocates cutting funding to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

2025: Project 2025 on Economic Development Administration

In 2025, Project 2025 suggests abolishing the Economic Development Administration (EDA) or redirecting its efforts to assist rural communities affected by the Biden administration's energy policies.

2025: Law Enforcement in D.C.

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

2025: Project 2025 drafted with input from former Trump officials

In 2025, Project 2025's 1,000-page proposal was drafted with input from a long list of former Trump administration officials who are poised to fill the top ranks of a potential new administration.

2025: Project 2025's Manifesto on 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 has the objective to post online the names of 100 people who might oppose Trump's agenda.

2025: Republican Climate Advocates Disagree with Project 2025

In 2025, Republican climate advocates disagreed with Project 2025's climate policy, highlighting a division within the party.

2025: Scholar of fascism views Project 2025 as authoritarian takeover plan

In 2025, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a scholar of fascism and authoritarian leaders at New York University, described Project 2025 as a plan for an authoritarian takeover of the United States. She stated the project's intent to abolish federal departments and agencies and to create new bureaucratic structures.

2025: Scrutiny of Project 2025 reignited by Trump's actions

In 2025, Trump's actions as president reignited scrutiny of Project 2025, with critics warning that his administration is actively implementing its agenda across multiple sectors. Paul Dans expressed satisfaction that Trump's early executive orders align with the project's Mandate for Leadership. Trump's executive orders on gender policies, federal hiring, and foreign aid reflected the project's policies, signaling a shift toward more autocratic governance.

2025: Combating Anti-White Racism

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 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: Project 2025 would add to risks of corruption

In 2025, according to Donald Moynihan of Georgetown University, Project 2025 would add measurably to the risks of corruption in American government. He stated that it would reduce the quality of government and open the door for abuses of political power.

2025: Restrictions on Teachers' Pronoun Usage

In 2025, according to Project 2025, public school teachers who want to use a transgender student's preferred pronouns would be required to obtain written permission from the student's legal guardian. The project's backers also aim to target the private sector by reversing "the DEI revolution in labor policy".

2025: Medicare Advantage and Transgender Healthcare

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

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

In 2025, following his election victory in 2024, Donald Trump nominated several contributors to Project 2025 to positions in his administration, including Brendan Carr, Tom Homan, and Russell Vought.

2025: Bannon and French support transparency about implementing Project 2025

In 2025, former White House advisor Steve Bannon and Texas official Bo French supported transparency about implementing Project 2025.

2025: Project 2025 on Military Equipment Sales

In 2025, if Project 2025 were implemented, Congressional approval would not be required for the sale of military equipment and ammunition to a foreign nation, unless "unanimous congressional support is guaranteed".

2025: Reforming the Department of Justice

In 2025, in the view of Project 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has become "a bloated bureaucracy with a critical core of personnel who are infatuated with the perpetuation of a radical liberal agenda" and has "forfeited the trust" of the American people due to its role in the investigation of alleged Trump–Russia collusion. It must therefore 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: Trump's plans align with Project 2025

In 2025, many of Trump's indicated plans for a second term fell in line with the Project 2025 outline, according to New York magazine.

2025: Political Experts on Project 2025

In 2025, political experts described Project 2025 as representing significant executive aggrandizement and a potential threat to democratic principles.

2025: Public awareness of Project 2025 rises after Biden and Harris campaigns bring attention to it

In 2025, public awareness of Project 2025 rose after the Biden and Harris campaigns brought attention to it and said it would be Trump's agenda. The focus on opposition to Project 2025 increased during the transition from Biden to Harris as the nominee.

2025: Heritage defends Project 2025

In 2025, responding to criticism of the project, Heritage released a document titled "5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025".

2025: Project 2025 Contributors Nominated or Appointed to Roles in Trump Administration

In 2025, several authors and contributors to Project 2025 were nominated or appointed to roles in the second Trump administration, including Michael Anton, Paul S. Atkins, Steven G. Bradbury, Troy Edgar, Jon Feere, Pete Hoekstra, Roman Jankowski, and Peter Navarro. Trump's nominations were confirmed faster than in his first term and faster than Biden's cabinet nominations.

2025: Conservatives criticize Project 2025

In 2025, several conservatives and Republicans criticized Project 2025 for its stances on climate change and trade.

2025: Project 2025's appropriation of civil rights for white Christians furthers Trumpist goals

In 2025, the appropriation of civil rights for white Christians by Project 2025 was seen as furthering the Trumpist goal of delegitimizing racial equality while making Christian nationalism a core value. Doing away with the separation of church and state is the goal of many architects of Trumpism, from Project 2025 contributor Russ Vought to far-right proselytizer Michael Flynn.

2025: Executive order aligns with Project 2025's goal of expanding capital punishment

In 2025, the executive order "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety" was a step toward Project 2025's goal of expanding capital punishment. It directs the Attorney General to seek the death penalty in cases of murder of a police officer and capital crimes by illegal aliens and also directs the DOJ to ensure that states that wish to apply the death penalty have a sufficient supply of lethal injection materials.

2025: Social Media Regulations and Election Integrity

In 2025, the project 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.