Project 25

Project 25  (ideology)
Founder(s)	Heritage Foundation

Project 25, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation that aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power if Donald Trump wins the 2024 United States presidential election. Project 25 asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under unitary executive theory and proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with people loyal to the president. Proponents of Project 25 argue it would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy, and would infuse the government and society with conservative Christian values. Critics have characterised Project 25 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the US toward autocracy. Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, separation of powers, separation of church and state, and civil liberties.

Project 25 envisions widespread changes to economic and social policies and the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favour fossil fuels. The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts, but its writers disagree on protectionism. It recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be transferred or terminated. Funding for climate research would be cut, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be reformed along conservative principles[vague]. Project 25 seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid, and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care. Project 25 seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception and enforce the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills. It proposes criminalising pornography, removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative action by having the DOJ prosecute "anti-white racism". Project 25 recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants. It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement. It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences.

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