Project 2025 has landed in the Oval Office.
922 p Policy Manifesto Described as a “playbook of action” for a new conservative administration drawn up by more than 140 veterans of the Donald Trump’s The White House, many of whom returned this week, is tied to more than 30 executive orders from Trump’s first week, despite condemnation from his campaign.
The proposal, which calls for hundreds of federal policy changes and a massive consolidation of power, has become a flashpoint in the 2024 election, forcing the president to distance himself from several allies he has sought. They used to invite to come back later.
Trump said in a discussion that he was “not going to read” the document prepared by the Heritage Foundation and routinely distanced himself from policy directives during the campaign. But his first day’s staff and policy actions read almost like direct implementation of policy.
Trump has already tapped Project 2025 author and contributor Russ Vot to lead the Office of Management and Budget, and Brendan Carr to head the FCC, the agency he has overseen within Project 2025. wrote a chapter of, and Tom Homan as the ‘Border Czar,’ along with several other Heritage Foundation alumni.
Many of Project 2025’s responses to border security also reflect Trump’s Day One orders on immigration. While the document “calls for the use of active-duty military personnel to assist in border apprehension operations,” Trump’s A day’s executive order The directive “to the armed forces… [to] Prioritize the protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States along its national borders.”
Project 2025 also supported an order by President Lyndon B. Johnson overturning a civil rights initiative that barred federal contractors from engaging in racial discrimination as a countermeasure to the “DEI revolution in labor policy.” . At page 584, the mandate advises that “the President should…repeal EO 11246. [Johnson’s Equal Employment Opportunity order]”
Trump’s Tuesday’s order The reference to Project 2025 uses much of the same language that recommends repeal, including similar diatribes against corporate DEI initiatives.
The president’s repeal of the Biden-era sex discrimination protection order takes similar guidance from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. In a piece written by Vote, the playbook calls for the immediate repeal of Biden’s Executive Order 14020.
Trump’s order to end the policy “would end the central promotion of abortion; inclusive sexuality education; and the birth of a new gender ideology,” Vought wrote. Trump’s Opening Day Order complements these policy recommendations with largely similar language, asserting that “gender theory replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-changing concept of self-assessed gender identity.”
Other clear federal policy changes included in the mandate and signed by the president on his first day include a broader mandate to extract oil and gas from Alaskan territories with less regulation and an end to the Biden-era promotion of electric vehicles. Trump also abandoned the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, two petitions of the far-right manifesto.
Not every executive order projects straight through 2025. One, which gives Trump broad license to fire career civil servants and replace them with partisan appointees at many levels of the federal bureaucracy, was included in the mandate but was initially the first policy. Trump administration.
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