Trump Project 2025 And The Dismantling Of The Administrative State

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-Oct 27, 2025, 1:21 AM

trump project 2025 and the dismantling of the administrative state

The Daily Journal search functionality is currently unavailable. We will have this back up as soon as possible. The Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturned the Chevron Deference Doctrine, aligns with Project 2025's aim to curb Administrative State overreach. By enhancing judicial oversight of agency rulemaking, the ruling may limit federal agencies' regulatory actions without clear legislative authorization. Founder The Law Offices of Selwyn D.

Whitehead A Primer on how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises et al v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al abrogating the Chevron Deference Doctrine is advancing the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership’s goal of dismantling the “Administrative State.” I. Overview of the goals and impact of the Project 2025 Mandate on Federalism On a special episode (first released on May 15, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: For over 40 years, the conservative Washington think tank Heritage Foundation has issued a “Mandate for Leadership” to guide incoming...

The centerpiece of its latest version is Project 2025, a roughly 900-page blueprint created with input from more than 100 conservative groups. It outlines how President Donald Trump’s second administration could reshape the federal government. What are the goals of Project 2025 and what roadmap does it lay out for deconstructing the administrative state? Author David A. Graham, a staff writer with The Atlantic, is out with a new book on this very topic. “The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America,” is on bookshelves now.

He joins us on The Excerpt to discuss whether or not Trump’s policy choices align with Project 2025 so far and what might lie ahead. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Project 2025 is a set of conservative recommendations regarding U.S. government structure and policy, designed by the Heritage Foundation for a conservative president starting in 2025. It includes a database of vetted candidates and a training program for political appointees. The Heritage Foundation, a prominent right-wing think tank, designed and promoted Project 2025.

Major recommendations include dismantling the administrative state, reinstating Schedule F, dismissing State Department leadership, overhauling the Department of Justice, abolishing the Department of Education, and reforming the Department of Health and Human Services. Critics argue it would create an authoritarian Christian nationalist state by expanding presidential power and promoting conservative Christian values. Critics see the Project as a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law, civil rights, and the separation of church and state. Far from a vague set of promises, Project 2025 offers a detailed roadmap for dismantling existing federal agencies, staffing the government with loyalists, and enacting sweeping policy changes across a range of issues, from... This article examines the potential impact of Project 2025 during Trump’s crucial first 100 days, exploring how this ambitious plan could rapidly transform the American political landscape. Project 2025 is a product of the Heritage Foundation, one of Washington's most prominent right-wing think tanks.

It first produced policy plans for future Republican administrations in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was about to take office. It has produced similar documents in connection with subsequent presidential elections, including in 2016, when Trump first won the presidency. The document itself sets out four main policy aims: (1) restore the family as the centrepiece of American life; (2) dismantle the administrative state; (3) defend the nation's sovereignty and borders; (4) and secure... Some of the proposals have already formed the basis for Trump's executive orders - although in a number of cases they are also mentioned in other policy documents, including the Republican platform and Trump's... During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of the... Trump claimed he knew “nothing about Project 2025” and had “no idea who is behind it,” despite evidence to the contrary, while Democrats portrayed the document as “Trump’s Project 2025.”

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ran an ad campaign tying Trump to Project 2025 and created the website TrumpsProject2025.com. At the Democratic National Convention, multiple speakers warned about the project’s proposals (not always accurately), including speakers who used an oversize copy of the book as a stage prop. Democrats focused on specific Project 2025 proposals – including some, such as closing the Department of Education, that Trump did support and has acted on since returning to office, and others, that he didn’t... Since taking office, Trump has been actively implementing or trying to implement many of Project 2025’s recommendations through directives, executive orders, his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and major pieces of legislation, notably the... During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by veterans of the... Trump claimed he knew “nothing about Project 2025” and had “no idea who is behind it,” despite evidence to the contrary, while Democrats portrayed the document as “Trump’s Project 2025.”

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ran an ad campaign tying Trump to Project 2025 and created the website TrumpsProject2025.com. At the Democratic National Convention, multiple speakers warned about the project’s proposals (not always accurately), including speakers who used an oversize copy of the book as a stage prop. Democrats focused on specific Project 2025 proposals – including some, such as closing the Department of Education, that Trump did support and has acted on since returning to office, and others, that he didn’t... Since taking office, Trump has been actively implementing or trying to implement many of Project 2025’s recommendations through directives, executive orders, his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and major pieces of legislation, notably the... The attack on the administrative state takes on only half of it—the wrong half. Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With

In many ways, the first month of the second Trump administration has been shocking. The President has quickly and emphatically demonstrated his contempt for the Constitution, for Congress and the courts, and for federal workers and foreign allies alike. But if some of the particulars have come as surprises, the basic outlines of the administration’s plan to decimate the regulatory and service-providing portions of government while consolidating and building executive enforcement capacity were... Shortly after his election, Trump announced that Elon Musk would “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” The America First Policy... Trump’s own flood of executive orders targets independent agencies and civil servants, among others. At the same time as it strikes at regulatory agencies, the Trump administration has been arrogating agency resources for a mass deportation plan that Stephen Miller calls “an undertaking every bit as .

. . ambitious as building the Panama Canal.” Even as it attempts to purge FBI agents seen as insufficiently loyal, the administration has detailed FBI and DEA officers and U.S. Marshals to interior enforcement work. It has used military planes for removals and the Guantanamo military base for immigration detention, and it is actively “ramping up plans to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites across the United States.” As... military capacity, increasing the number and authority of ICE officers, and devolving power to law enforcement field offices.

The 922-page document outlines a series of policy proposals that would fundamentally transform the nature of the federal government, experts say. Is the blueprint really a “government-in-waiting?” Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s latest vision for a potential second Donald Trump presidency, has been under the microscope since the Republican National Convention commenced this week in Milwaukee. The 922-page policy document outlines a series of policy proposals that would fundamentally transform the nature of the federal government, Northeastern experts say. Such objectives call for dismantling the “administrative state” through, among other things, the elimination of whole departments; the reclassification of civil servants into political appointees (known as the Schedule F plan), thus stripping them... Is Project 2025 really a “government in waiting”?

Many of the ideas contained in the blueprint reflect the Republican Party platform as it stands, from immigration to government and regulatory overhaul and education reform. But the sprawling ideological document could contain the means with which to execute on many of those party objectives, testing the viability of a whole host of radical policies at a moment when Republicans... The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant in Wyoming. | Photo by J. David Ake/AP File As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025—a detailed policy battle plan from the Heritage Foundation that was backed by over 100 right-wing organizations.

In theory and in practice, Project 2025 is an attempt to reverse engineer American society to what it was well over 100 years ago by undoing social-safety-net programs that emerged from World War II,... Now, more than three months into Trump’s second term, he appears to be following through on much of the Project 2025 agenda. Paul Dans, the former head of Project 2025, said Trump’s actions were beyond his “wildest dreams.” “This is deconstructing the administrative state and walking back a lot of this progressive architecture that had been... Over 40 percent of Project 2025’s recommendations have been achieved or are in progress overall, according to the Project 2025 Tracker. On the initiative’s environment and energy-related proposals, 60 percent have been or are being implemented. The Natural Resources Defense Council says that the Trump administration has averaged at least one destructive action or proposal each day during the course of its first three months—over 100 in total.

Meanwhile, a Guardian analysis finds that Trump and his team have initiated 145 anti-environment actions over his first 100 days in office—more rollbacks than Trump completed during his entire first term. “It’s the most anti-environment, anti–public health administration in the history of the country,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics and a former EPA regional administrator, told Sierra. “It’s really hard to fathom the level of damage being done. This damage is going to be felt for decades.”

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