If the 2025 project was President Trump's plan for his second presidency was a great dispute point during the presidential campaign.
His opponents in the race, the first President Biden and then the vice president Kamala Harris, aggressively tried to link it with the unpopular book of conservative plays of the Heritage Foundation, which was announced in 2023. Trump denied vociferantly that it was his plan, and the White House still does.
Now, several months after Trump's second mandate, what is clear is that he is working with incredible speed to implement a variety of policies that are aligned with those adopted by the authors and conservative collaborators of the 2025 project, some of which Trump has designated for prominent administration positions.
A monitoring project states that Trump has already implemented more than 40% of the recommendations of the 2025 project.
Here are five areas where alignment is evident:
Federal Bureaucracy
In a 2025 project chapter on the executive's powers, Russell Vought, who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget during Trump's first mandate, imagined that Trump moved quickly to “break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” by shooting a large number of federal career employees, install loyal to power positions and take control of the federal chains of the congresses.
Vaught argued that federal career employees with liberal inclinations had taken too much power, and the next conservative president should take that power.
When Trump was chosen, he appointed Vought to head OMB, and Vhought again, along with the government's efficiency department led by Elon Musk, he went to work quickly by attacking the federal bureaucracy.
The OMB frozen billion dollars in federal funds assigned by Congress. Vaught promoted the dismissals of the mass government ordering federal agencies that “focus on the maximum elimination of functions that are not ordered by stature.”
The courts are now listening to multiple challenges to the shooting, the cuts of funds and other efforts of the Trump administration to reduce the size of the federal government.
Immigration
Trump appointed multiple hard phrases of immigration with links with the 2025 project to prominent roles in his administration, including Stephen Miller as his personnel deputy director for politics and Tom Homan as his “border tsar”. They have also pressed several policies proposed by the Play Book.
The 2025 project said that the prioritization of the “application of border and immigration security, including detention and deportation,” was crucial, asked that many more detention beds be believe schools, hospitals and churches and churches.
The Trump administration ordered the largest mass deportation program in the history of the United States, requested that billions be invested in new massive immigration detention facilities, and quickly eliminated ice policies that came out of raids in sensitive places. He has also claimed broad executive powers to attack immigrants in the country illegally, as recommended by project 2025.
Transgender problems
Project 2025 proposed that all federal regulations that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity to be terminated, that the members of the transgender service be expelled from the army and that the attention affirmed by gender is strictly limited.
He also requested prohibitions of federal funds for the attention affirmed by gender and that “gender ideology” was eliminated from all school curricula, suggested that transgender athletes were endangering girls' sports and asked for the total erased of transgender identities in federal, political and material regulations.
Trump has begun to implement all these policies. His administration announced plans to eliminate the members of the transgender service, ordered the elimination of LGBTQ+ references in materials from the agency, threatened local schools that allow transgender athletes to compete, threatened hospitals that provide gender statement attention and began to raise federal funds from LGBTQ+ medical care suppliers.
Trade
In his chapter on commerce, economist Peter Navarro argued that the United States must expand national manufacturing and asked the next president to take a particularly hard line in commerce with China.
Promptly after being elected, Trump appointed Navarro as his main counselor for trade and manufacturing. In a matter of months, he announced that sweeping new “reciprocal tariffs” against nations around the world and even more rigid tariffs in China, suggesting that these movements would return manufacturing work to the United States.
The episode sent shock waves through the global economy and has produced rare examples of rejection against the Trump agenda of the Republicans in Congress.
Education
The 2025 project asked to dismantle the Department of Education.
The Trump administration has ordered mass layoffs there, that the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, called the “first step” to eliminate the agency. He has also tried to terminate hundreds of millions of dollars in education of education and ordered schools throughout the country to put an end to “diversity, equity and inclusion”, or DEI, initiatives and support for transgender students.
The 2025 project also asked to end the federal funds for the Corporation for Public Transmission, accusing both the public transmission service and the national public radio, and even “Sesame Street”, to house anti -conservative biases and have little educational value. Trump signed an executive order to reduce funds.
