What is Project 2025? Inside the far-right’s plans for 2nd Trump presidency
Global News
Recommendations laid out in Project 2025, a blueprint for the 'next conservative President,' have experts worried that it would push the U.S. towards authoritarianism.
A far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025 has increasingly become a talking point on the U.S. campaign trail as the contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump heats up.
Biden and the Democratic Party have been seeking to tie Trump to the controversial initiative and convince voters that its extreme conservative policies would be representative of a second Trump term. For his part, Trump says he has nothing to do with Project 2025 and believes “some of the things that they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous.”
Project 2025 comes in the form of a 900-plus-page book of policy recommendations, a blueprint for the “next conservative President.” Notably, it advocates the dismantling of the Department of Education, bringing the Department of Justice (DOJ) under presidential control, criminalizing abortion drugs and abolishing the Federal Reserve, among many other suggestions.
To help achieve this dramatic reshaping of the U.S. government, the project recommends that thousands of federal workers be fired and conservative appointees take their place. The initiative has gone so far as to release an online questionnaire, vetting individuals for a “Presidential Personnel Database” that the next President can use to staff the federal bureaucracy.
“Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State,” the project proclaims on its website.
Experts are alarmed that if these proposals were set in motion it would degrade America’s system of checks and balances and push the country towards authoritarianism. Many of the proposals would trigger immediate legal and constitutional challenges.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, published the sprawling manifesto in April 2023.
The project claims to not speak for any presidential candidate, though it believes Trump will win and he can “decide which recommendations to implement.”
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