Project 2025 facts for kids
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| Established | April 21, 2022 |
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| Services | Recruiting + training loyalists |
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Director
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Paul Dans (until August 2024) |
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President
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Kevin Roberts |
| Publication | Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (2023) |
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Parent organization
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The Heritage Foundation |
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Budget
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$22 million |
Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States and remove checks on executive power in favor of right-wing policies. The plan was published in April 2023 by the American conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.
The ninth iteration of the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership series, Project 2025 asserts a controversial interpretation of the unitary executive theory according to which the entire executive branch is under the complete control of the president. To achieve its goals, the project calls for merit-based federal civil service workers to be replaced with people loyal to the president to take partisan control of key government agencies, like the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Commerce (DOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Other agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would be dismantled, and the Department of Education (ED) abolished.
Once these measures are in place, the president would be free to implement the agenda, including reducing taxes on corporations and capital gains, instituting a flat income tax on individuals, cutting Medicare and Medicaid, and reversing Biden's policies.
Project 2025 is closely connected to Donald Trump, with many contributors and Heritage Foundation employees associated with him, his 2024 campaign, his first administration, and his allies.
After Trump won the 2024 election, he nominated several of the plan's architects and supporters to positions in his administration. Four days into Trump's second term, analysis conducted by Time found that nearly two-thirds of his executive actions "mirror or partially mirror" proposals from Project 2025.
See also
In Spanish: Proyecto 2025 para niños
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