Trump Moves Match Up With Project 2025 Despite Election Campaign

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Dec 28, 2025, 2:07 AM

trump moves match up with project 2025 despite election campaign

President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington, as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Director of the Office of Management and Budget... Project 2025 was co-authored by Vought, and facets of the Heritage Foundation’s plan can be found in a majority of Trump’s policies. Photo by: Evan Vucci / AP, file Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive actions align closely with the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, with analyses showing that a swath of its recommendations have been implemented through executive orders, including verbatim language in... [1] [2] Of his 26 orders on his first day in office back in Januray, 16 aligned directly with Project 2025 proposals, despite Trump’s campaign disavowal of the controversial plan.

[3] Mass deportations and immigration enforcement Trump launched what officials call the largest deportation program in U.S. history, investing billions in detention facilities and ending ICE restrictions on raids in sensitive areas. [4] The crackdown expanded detention facilities, empowered local law enforcement for immigration enforcement, restricted public benefits for undocumented immigrants and rolled back Biden-era parole policies. [5]

As a 2024 presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan by the conservative nonprofit the Heritage Foundation to overhaul the federal government, claiming he knew nothing about the initiative. Less than a year into his second presidential term, however, his presidential administration has embraced many of Project 2025's core ideas — advancing policies that align with its recommendations on immigration, education, fossil fuels... The Heritage Foundation formally revealed Project 2025 in 2022, framing it as a possible guide for a future Republican presidential administration. The initiative centers on a roughly 1,000-page document that recommends giving the executive branch more power, reversing policies sponsored by former President Joe Biden and enacting numerous department-level changes. Below, we outline what Trump has said about Project 2025 over time, both as a presidential candidate and the country's commander in chief. He's gone from denying any involvement in the initiative to promoting his connection to one of its key authors in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform.

No federal document, including executive orders, cite Project 2025, despite the fact that several Trump-sponsored measures align with the Heritage Foundation proposal. <iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/05/09/trump-america-first-project-2025-heritage-foundation"></iframe> The vast majority of Trump’s executive orders have come from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the so-called "America First" plan. How the Trump administration is turning Project 2025 and the so-called 'America First' agenda into reality. Tami Gouveia, Paul Farmer professor of practice at Boston University School of Social Work. Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, also at BU.

At the center she leads the Beyond 2025 Action Hub, which is a searchable database based on two major policy proposals — Project 2025 and the America First Agenda. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: In April of 2023, about five months after Donald Trump announced he was running in the 2024 presidential election, the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation released a roadmap of how they... That roadmap is called Project 2025 and it's 922 pages long. Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump denied having any involvement in Project 2025. In fact, he said he didn't even know what it was. Here's Trump at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 20th, 2024.

DONALD TRUMP: Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, and I don't even know, some of them, I know who they are, but they're very conservative. Amanda Becker, The 19th Amanda Becker, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Orion Rummler, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th Mariel Padilla, The 19th This story was originally published by The 19th. In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to...

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in... The swath of executive orders and memoranda he’s implemented align with some 115 of the right-wing blueprint’s 317 goals, an online tracker finds From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important... At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. Nearly half of the initiatives laid out in Project 2025 — which is considered by many to be a blueprint for the second Trump administration — have already been implemented by the president, a... Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth Dafydd Townley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Throughout the 2024 presidential election campaign, Donald Trump denied claims he intended to shape his second administration’s policies around Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a renewed conservative America. But despite his repeated denials, Trump 2.0 has adopted much of Project 2025 into the White House’s agenda. The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing Washington think tank which published Project 2025, has provided policy guidance for Republican presidents since the Reagan administration. Despite the foundation’s longevity, Project 2025 has met with opposition from many quarters. Photo: President Donald Trump appears at a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.

(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The 922-page policy manifesto described as a “playbook of actions” for a new conservative administration crafted by more than 140 veterans of Donald Trump’s White House, many of whom returned this week, is aligned... The proposal, which calls for hundreds of federal policy reversals and sweeping power consolidations, became a flashpoint in the 2024 election, forcing the president to distance himself from numerous allies he’d later invite back... Trump said in a debate that he was “not going to read” the Heritage Foundation-crafted document and routinely distanced himself from the policy directives during the campaign. But his first-day staffing and policy moves read like a near-direct implementation of the policy.

Trump Moves Match Up With Project 2025 Despite Election Campaign

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