Project 2025
President Donald Trump is following the most radical agenda in the history of the country, a blueprint designed by dark money interests via the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
Now, the authors of Project 2025—including FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller—are in the White House, and they’re not holding back in bringing their plan to life. So far they’ve:
- Issued layoffs at the Department of Education to limit its civil rights division;
- Purged civil servants who are not sufficiently loyal to Trump’s extreme right-wing agenda from federal agencies; and
- Moved to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.
Within Trump’s first 180 days of taking office, Project 2025 laid the track to attack reproductive rights, undermine the rule of law, and expand cruel and inhumane immigration policies.
Project 2025 originated with the Heritage Foundation, and more than half the groups supporting the effort have received over $62.1 million in funding from Leonard Leo’s dark money network.
In July 2024, the director of Project 2025, Paul Dan, stepped down, leaving Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts as the leader of the effort going forward. Roberts is known for his inflammatory, controversial language, once stating that America is “in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Roberts has also praised the authoritarian leader of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, saying he wants to “destroy” the administrative state in the United States, and claimed that President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 presidential election.
Leadership at Project 2025 may come and go, but make no mistake: Project 2025 remains the blueprint for the Trump administration that is fiercely moving forward with a plan to trample American freedoms.