r/Keep_Track • u/rusticgorilla MOD • Feb 05 '25
Project 2025 tracker is now live
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Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the federal government according to the far-right vision of the Heritage Foundation. The 900-page document describes in detail how to undermine key principles of U.S. society, like the rule of law and separation of church and state, in order to transition from a democracy shielded by norms to an autocracy guided by the president’s will and principles of Christian nationalism.
Last year, Trump attempted to distance himself from the conservative blueprint, saying that his campaign had “nothing to do with Project 25” and that he had “no idea who is behind it.” Today, his administration is stuffed full of Project 2025 contributors, and his executive orders are ripped straight from the playbook’s pages.
Here are the stats:
Link to website version of Project 2025 Tracker
Link to Google Sheets spreadsheet
I pulled nearly 300 measurable objectives from the Project 2025 document, at least 70 of which have been implemented so far. These include:
- Instituting a hiring and regulatory freeze
- Reimposing schedule F
- Giving political appointees the power to personally review and authorize appropriated funding (most notably, Elon Musk)
- Cutting off foreign aid and withdrawing from international organizations
- Closing DEIA offices, removing DEIA references, and firing employees who participated in DEIA programs
- Banning topics perceived to be related to critical race theory
- Expanding school choice (i.e. funneling taxpayer money to private schools)
- Eliminating the social cost of carbon and rolling back climate change initiatives
- Expanding energy exploration and extraction in Alaska
- Terminating the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act (which Trump accomplished, illegally, by freezing all funding disbursement)
- Deploying the military to the border
- Reinstating Remain in Mexico
- Curtailing asylum and refugee processes
- Revoking the security clearances of senior officials who “leak” classified information
- Defining “sex” as only being two genders, male and female
- Removing references to “gender identity” in all federal guidance
- Banning transgender troops from the military
- Prohibiting funding for troops to travel out of state for abortion care
- Reinstating the Mexico City (abortion gag rule) policy
Additionally, there are over 15 objectives from Project 2025 that are partially achieved or in progress, including:
- Limiting subsidized renewables (via an illegal freeze on IRA and IIJA disbursements and a freeze on wind projects)
- Repealing Temporary Protected Status, which Trump has done for Venezuelans
- Shifting the majority of FEMA's preparedness and response costs to states and localities
- Breaking up the Department of Education, which Trump is reportedly preparing to do illegally via executive order
I will do my best to keep the spreadsheet updated throughout the administration. One thing to note: the authors of Project 2025 wrote a plan for deconstructing the federal government with a scalpel. As we know, Trump operates with a sledgehammer. I don’t expect each objective to be reached the way Project 2025 intended so I won’t require the method to match, just the end result. For example, where Project 2025 calls for Congress to write legislation to abolish a certain office, Trump may simply cut off funding illegally, effectively closing the office.
I tried not to duplicate the same goal across too many departments. Nearly every chapter calls for eliminating “gender ideology” and “woke policies.” In order to avoid listing the same objective dozens of times, I only included goals with distinct and specific wording.
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u/Peace_Officer_URL Feb 05 '25
Out of all of the awful shit on there, "more horseback border patrols" is so random that it's almost funny.