Project 2025 is a detailed plan published by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing policy institute, with input from many prominent Republicans
Their stated purpose is to “Liberate the American people & allow them to have self-government from the tyranny of the administrative state.”
Project 2025 will:
• Restructure the federal government to drastically increase presidential power, dismantle the separation of powers, & reduce accountability.
• Impose Schedule F status for tens of thousands of federal employees to allow the President to replace career civil servants with unqualified partisan loyalists, destroying the merit-based system of selecting government employees under the 1883 Pendleton Act [page 80].
Trump already attempted to impose Schedule F in his 1st term. The Heritage Foundation is currently compiling a database of loyalists to serve in Trump's potential 2nd term.
After filling out a job application, Project 2025 & RNC applicants are interviewed by Trump advisers. They are asked about their loyalty to Trump & whether they believe the 2020 election was "stolen."
• Put all government agencies under presidential control. The President will be able use the government (DOJ, FBI, etc.) to go after & jail his enemies (like Putin), including anyone who speaks out against him (undermining freedom of speech) [page 43, 825, also in Trump's Agenda47].
• Deploy the military for domestic law enforcement to suppress protests or dissent under the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Trump already threatened to do this during his last term.
• Bring back "impoundment" where the executive branch can refuse to spend money provided by Congress, which was declared illegal in 1974.
• Prohibit the FBI from combating the spread of disinformation [page 550].
Russia, China, & Iran are actively trying to interfere with American elections, according to US intelligence agencies.
• Prevent the CDC from advising that school children should be masked or vaccinated, which could lead to outbreaks & resurgence of preventable diseases [page 454 ].
• Abolish the DHS [page 121], CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) [page 874], NOAA [page 674], & Department of Commerce [page 663]. Privatize the TSA [page 166].
• Outlaw abortion, the abortion pill , & IVF [page 38, 450, 458].
Even though Project 2025 is now pretending to moderate their position on abortion, their job application shows their true position.
• Outlaw pornography [page 5].
"Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned."—Project 2025
• Monitor pregnant women [page 450, 471].
• Destroy the separation of church & state, & install Christian nationalism [page 4, 261, 351, 481, 560, 581, 589].
• Abolish the Department of Education [page 319].
"President Trump pledges to close the Department of Education."—Agenda47
• Defund public schools, & use taxpayer money to fund private & religious schools [page 5, 319, 350, & 351].
• Promote homeschooling [page 348].
• Create a new federally operated university called the "American Academy" (to indoctrinate "patriots") & a Presidential Administration Academy to "educate" political appointees.
• Impose 10% tariffs on all imported goods [also in Trump's Agenda47], which will significantly increase domestic prices.
Trump falsely said about these tariffs, "A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No, no, no; It’s a tax on a foreign country. And it’s a tax that doesn’t affect our country."
The Cato Institute, a right-wing, Libertarian think tank said, "Trump’s Tariff Plan Will Raise Prices for Consumers."
Even Project 2025's job application acknowledges that tariffs raise prices.
• Reduce the number of tax brackets from 7 to 2 (many lower & middle class taxpayers will pay more, while many high earners will pay less), & lower corporate tax rate to 18% [page 696].
• Introduce a consumption tax, such as a National Sales Tax, which will increase prices of everything purchased [page 698].
• Defund public broadcasting, including PBS & NPR [page 246].
These are just the main points.
Project 2025 does the exact opposite of its stated goal.
It is the blueprint for a Fascist/Authoritarian takeover of America.
Since receiving backlash, the Heritage Foundation has been doing damage control & pretending to soften their positions...
don't let them fool you.
Read for yourself in their original plan.