What is Project 2025? A look at the conservative platform Joe Biden says 'will destroy America'

Its authors call it the U.S. conservative movement's 'mandate for leadership,' designed to guide a potential second term for former U.S. president Donald Trump.

They call it the U.S. conservative movement's "mandate for leadership," a 900-plus-page blueprint backed by dozens of right-wing groups and designed to guide a second term for former U.S. president Donald Trump, should he win this November's election.

While Trump has publicly distanced himself from The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, critics describe the platform as a doomsday scenario for American democracy, a whole-of-government capture designed to rid the federal system of its nonpartisan staff and replace them with an army of MAGA loyalists, transforming the United States as they know it, forever.

Meanwhile, the project’s proponents say it stands as a plan to “unite the conservative movement and the American people against elite rule and woke culture warriors,” and represents “the best effort of the conservative movement … and the next conservative President’s last opportunity to save our republic,” as described by foundation President Kevin Roberts.

But what's actually going on in the voluminous pages of this election cycle's most controversial theory of the case? Here's what to know:

Released late last year by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a policy guidebook built to "assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State," as described on its website.

Policy recommendations are far reaching, targeting thousands of unelected, non-partisan public servants at federal departments and agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the view of the project, such career administrators should be replaced with political appointees that stringently adhere to the will of the government of the day, as elected by the voters.

"The next Administration must not cede such authority to non-partisan 'experts,' who pursue their own ends while engaging in groupthink, insulated from American voters," the project reads.