Donald Trump’s Project 2025
A Return to Autocracy
The Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project is a well-funded (eight-figure) effort of the Heritage Foundation and more than 100 organizations to enable a future anti-democratic presidential administration to take swift, far-right action that would cut wages for working people, dismantle social safety net programs, reverse decades of progress for civil rights, redefine the way our society operates, and undermine our economy.
A central pillar of Project 2025 is the “Mandate for Leadership,” a 900+ page policy playbook authored by former Trump administration officials and other extremists that provides a radical vision for our nation and a roadmap to implement it.
Chapters
Stop The Coup (see resources section) has read all 887 pages of the Project 2025 manifesto and have broken it down here for you by chapter to help get your head and hands around the GOP’s draconian vision for America — an unprecedented attack on our democracy and call for autocracy. The chapter names are listed below with links to the Key Proposals and Full Summary for each chapter.
Section 1 – Taking The Reins Of Government
1 – White House Office
2 – Executive Office of the President
3 – Central Personnel Agencies
Section 2 – The Common Defense
4 – Department of Defence
5 – Department of Homeland Security
6 – Department of State
7 – Intelligence Community
8 – Media Agencies
9 – Agency for International Development
Section 3 – The General Welfare
10 -Department of Agriculture
11 – Department of Education
12 – Department of Energy and Related Commissions
13 – Environmental Protection Agency
14 – Department of Health and Human Services
15 – Department of Housing and Urban Development
16 – Department of the Interior
17 – Department of Justice
18 – Department of Labor and Related Agencies
19 – Deparment of Transportation
20 – Department of Veterans Affairs
Section 4 – The Economy
21 – Deparment of Commerce
22 – Department of the Treasury
23 – Export Import Bank
24 – Federal Reserve
25- Small Business Administration
26 – Trade
Section 5 – Independent Regulartory Agencies
27 – Financial Regulatory Agencies
28 – Federal Communication Commission
29 – Federal Election Commission
30 – Federal Trade Commission
Training Videos
Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track.
If You’re Not Onboard Sit This One Out
Eradicate Climate Change References
The Removal Of All Equity Plans
Fifty People Are Not Enough
There’s So Much Hostility To Basic Traditional Values
They’re Not Ready For The New York Times
This Email Should’ve Probably Been A Meeting
Presidential Training Administration Academy
One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.
The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025 most of the speakers in the videos have previoously worked for the former president.
Conservative America
Conservative Movement History
Appointees and Policy Making
The Federal Workforce
Presidential Transitions
Federal Background Checks and Security Clearences
Appointee Survival Guide
Time Management for Employees
The Art of Professionalism
Staffing an Office
Left-Wing Code Words and Language
Working With the Media
Oversight and Investigations
Federal Budget
The Administrative State
Federal Regularitory Process
Passing New Regulations
Executive Orders
Advancing the Presidents Agenda
Navigating Policymaking
Working With Congress
Coalition Building
Social Media Messaging
Resources
