Project 2025, chapter by chapter
Updated Jun. 29, 2025
This list is my personal study guide. I started working on it on Apr. 17, 2024, with the aim of sharing what I learned with anyone who would listen. (At the time, too few voters were aware of Project 2025’s existence, let alone the danger it represented.)
As of the November election, my study guide remains incomplete. However, I’ve continued adding to it. I also find myself referring to it often, which is why I’ve chosen to repost it in a more accessible location. If I still find it useful, perhaps others will, too.
For most of the following information, I owe a debt of gratitude to Stop the Coup 2025, which analyzed the Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" (Project 2025). Their remarkable overview is linked below.
For detailed information about the Heritage Foundation, go here.
No one has time for a monster-size document like Project 2025. Nor should anyone have to deal with 920 pages of conservative rhetoric, misrepresentations, lies, and vitriol. And that is what Project 2025 is. It was written by Conservative Nationalists. They carry on like middle school bullies.
As an alternative, Stop the Coup 2025's analysis comes in concise doses, with very little rhetoric thrown in. Most of the documents are only two pages long.
In addition to Stop the Coup 2025, I owe my reluctant thanks to The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 website, which hosts individual chapters of the mandate (as opposed to the single 920-page document linked above.) To access the individual chapters, click on the chapter heads below.
The Center for Progressive Reform's "Tracking Trump 2.0" includes a Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker. This database, compiled by Will Dobbs-Allsopp and James Goodwin, is a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, including the Project 2025 pages on which they appear.
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The collected analysis that follows is organized around Project 2025's table of contents (pp. v-vii).
Project 2025, chapter by chapter
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, p.ix
THE PROJECT 2025 ADVISORY BOARD, p. xi,
THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT: A NOTE ON “PROJECT 2025", p. xiii
AUTHORS, p. xv
CONTRIBUTORS, p. xxv
FOREWORD: A PROMISE TO AMERICA, p. 1
by Kevin D. Roberts, PhD
Introduction & Forward: A Promise to America, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Pt 1. Foreword (Audio), uploaded Jul. 15, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
How does "Project 2025" address pornography, obscene materials, minors, identity verification, age verification, invasion of privacy, and censorship?, a page from the Warning Vote website.(Project 2025 discusses pornography in its forward {"A Promise to America,"}; Chapter 17 {"Department of Justice," p. 557}, and Chapter 29 {"Federal Communications Commission," p.849}.)
SECTION 1: TAKING THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT, p. 19
"This section argues for the president to fill his government with political appointees, arguing that Trump failed to fill enough appointees when he was president. 'Empowering political appointees across the Administration is crucial to a President’s success,' state the authors. So is removal of any persons not loyal to the conservative cause." Source
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Section 1 Overview, an audio version, uploaded Jul. 19, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 1. WHITE HOUSE OFFICE, p23
by Rick Dearborn
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 1: White House Office (Audio), uploaded Jul. 16, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 1. White House Office, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Chapter 2. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, p. 43
by Russ Vought
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 2: Executive Office of the President (Audio), uploaded Jul. 17, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 2. Executive Office of the Vice-President, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 2: U.S. Office of Management and Budget, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 3. CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: MANAGING THE BUREAUCRACY, p. 69
by Donald Devine, Dennis Dean Kirk, and Paul Dans
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 3: Central Personnel Agencies (Audio), an audio version, uploaded Jul. 13, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
CHAPTER 3. CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: MANAGING THE BUREAUCRACY., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 and Dismantling the Federal Bureaucracy, by Jim Calvert and Bob Grover, The Emporia Gazette, Mar. 19, 2024. ("Gone will be many of the current 2.95 million federal workers who keep our country’s government, and therefore our country, functioning within the democratic norms established by our Constitution. This is the bureaucracy, which Trump repeatedly refers to as ‘the Deep State,’ that he feels thwarted his dictatorial efforts to use the government’s power for his personal gain…. [T]o add to the frustration of our democratic governments, changes take time due to the deliberations required to implement them. But this protects our democracy from swinging wildly from one ideal to another. It also protects us from the abuses inherent in dictatorships, even if just for a day.")
Linked in this article: The Government Printing Office's 2020 Plum Book. ("Users can search the publication by agency, position title, location, appointment type, pay plan and level, tenure and term expiration, and vacancy. The data for The Plum Book was composed in XPub, GPO’s new digital technology for XML-based publishing." In other words, the GPO has inadvertently made Project 2025's goals easier to accomplish.)What is Schedule F, and why is Project 2025 so focused on reinstating it?, by Kat C., Jun. 7, 2024.
Taking Stock: Project 2025’s Impact to Date on Federal Employees, by Sally O'Driscoll, Resisting Project 2025, Jun. 03, 2025. (“In the spring of 2024, we posted summaries of how Project 2025 would affect seventeen different groups of people and the issues they’re most concerned about. Now that Project 2025’s Key Proposals are almost 80% implemented, per our recent assessment (see our story ‘How far along are we with Project 2025?’), it’s time to take another look at the fallout.” This article includes a list of “Implemented Executive Orders and Lawsuits that reflect Project 2025’s goals for labor, as of May 2025.”)
SECTION 2: THE COMMON DEFENSE, p87
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Section 2 Overview, an audio version, uploaded Jul. 19, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 4. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, p91
by Christopher Miller
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 4: Department of Defense (Audio), uploaded Jul. 22, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 4. Department of Defense, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
How does 'Project 2025' propose changes to military service eligibility and educational directives affecting students?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
How does Project 2025 aim to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and what are the implications for global nuclear deterrence and stability?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
Chapter 5. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, p.133
by Ken Cuccinelli
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 5: Department of Homeland Security (Audio), uploaded Jul. 23, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 5. Department of Homeland Security, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (6 pages).
What Project 2025 Says About Immigration, by Dara Lind, a page of the Immigration Impact website, Aug. 23, 2024. ("[I]n addition to more sweeping proposals to allow political appointees much more leeway to fire career civil servants who didn’t follow the program (a proposal known as 'Schedule F' when they tried it in 2020) — [Project 2025's proposed changes] would have two essential functions for immigration policy. They would empower more hawkish employees on the ground, who might be more willing to arrest first and seek permission later, or to tell people that they couldn’t ask for asylum anymore. Importantly, unlike regulations, changes like this aren’t easily visible to the public. Without transparency, it’s hard to know when the government is following the law – and what it thinks the law is.")
‘Clear and present danger’: Project 2025’s plan to gut FEMA when it’s most needed, uploaded Oct. 6, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. ("Project 2025 recommends gutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - ending FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and shifting the financial burden of disaster recovery onto state and local governments. 'Every state in the U.S. is at risk from this callously indifferent, ideologically driven desire … to kneecap our federal response,' says Gov. Jay Inslee, who knows well what happens to states when aid is politicized. Together, Project 2025’s proposals to dismantle NOAA, the National Weather Service, the EPA, and FEMA will cause everyone to be less prepared for natural disasters, and our communities will likely get less help to deal with the aftermath. It’s a 'clear and present danger,' says Gov. Inslee.")
‘Explicit’ cruelty: inside Project 2025’s plans ‘to whiten America’, uploaded Aug. 24, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. (MSNBC's Ali Velshi outlines Project 2025's comprehensive plan to weaponize almost every branch of the government in order to remove undocumented workers from the US — and to punish anyone who comes to their aid or even associates with them.)
How does ‘Project 2025’ propose changes to military service eligibility and educational directives affecting students?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
Chapter 6. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, p. 171
by Kiron K. Skinner
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 6: Department of State (Audio), an audio version, uploaded Jul. 24, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 6. Department of State, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Chapter 7. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, p. 201
by Dustin J. Carmack
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 7: Intelligence Community (Audio), an audio version, uploaded Jul. 26, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 7. Intelligence Community, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Chapter 8. MEDIA AGENCIES, p. 235
.....U.S. AGENCY FOR GLOBAL MEDIA, p 235
.....by Mora Namdar
.....CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING , p. 246
.....by Mike Gonzalez
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 8: Media Agencies, an audio version, uploaded Jul. 29, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 8. Media Agencies, US Agency for Global Media, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Yes, Project 2025 does call for defunding NPR and PBS, by Emery Winter, Verify, Jul. 11, 2024.
Project 2025’s plan for turning government funded independent media into a bully pulpit, uploaded Jul. 27, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. (Ali Velshi explains Project 2025's plan to convert Voice of America from an independent news outlet to the Oval Office's state-funded propaganda arm — and why it's vital that we prevent this from happening.)
Chapter 9. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, p. 253
by Max Primorac
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 9: Agency for International Development, an audio version, uploaded Aug. 5, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 9. Agency for International Development., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (6 pages).
SECTION 3: THE GENERAL WELFARE,
p. 283
The introduction to Section 3 "discusses the highlights of myriad proposals that follow in chapters 10 through 20. No author is listed, suggesting the co-editors of The Heritage Foundation are key authors. They highlight needed changes at Health and Human Services, which houses the federal health assistance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, whose large budgets are to blame for the ongoing national debt, conservatives argue." Source
Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership | Section 3 Overview, an audio version, uploaded Aug. 12, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 10. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, p. 289
by Daren Bakst
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership | Chapter 10: Department of Agriculture, an audio version, uploaded Aug. 15, 2024, to the Mind of Lilith channel on YouTube.
Chapter 10. Department of Agriculture., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 10: U.S. Department of Agriculture, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
What to know about Project 2025’s plan for agriculture, and how it could lead to ‘real chaos’, by Saul Elbein, The Hill, Jul. 25, 2024. (In this thorough, sobering examination of what Project 2025 might mean to the Ag Department, the author doesn't specifically mention Schedule F -- but they make it clear that Schedule F would seriously impact the department's ability to function.)
The Section of Project 2025 That No One Is Talking About, uploaded to the NowThisImpact channel on YouTube. (This YouTube short addresses Project 2025's attack on farmers for "abusing" the programs that make it possible for them to continue producing food.)
What Changes Does Project 2025 Propose for Food Assistance Programs?, a page from the Warning Vote website. *("By focusing on fiscal impacts without a corresponding analysis of why more Americans are depending on these benefits, Project 2025 may lead to cuts that disproportionately affect the elderly, the chronically ill, and those in high-cost living areas.)"
Chapter 11. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, p. 319
by Lindsey M. Burke
Chapter 11. Department of Education., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (5 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 11: U.S. Department of Education, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Teresa Kaye Newman describes American education before creation of the Department of Education in "What Schools Looked Like Pre-1980." This short video was uploaded to the NowThisImpact channel on YouTube. ("The Department of Education isn't just a formality — it's the line between opportunity and obstacles.")
Project 2025 Would Increase Costs, Block Debt Cancellation for Student Loan Borrowers by Sara Partridge and Madison Weiss, a page of the Center for American Progress website, Jun. 24, 2024.
‘Only the rich can have those choices’: Project 2025’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education, uploaded Aug. 18, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube, 12 minutes. ("'They want to take the meal programs away from kids. They want to take civil rights away from kids,' says American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. 'How do we help kids go from struggling to thriving if they take this funding away?'")
Project 2025: What It Is and What It Means for K-12 If Trump Wins, by Libby Stanford, EducationWeek, Jul. 8, 2024. (Among Project 2025's proposed changes: "Scaling back the federal government’s ability to enforce civil rights laws like Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination, and Title VI, which prohibits race-based discrimination by moving enforcement of those laws to the Justice Department and requiring that the federal government litigate potential violations in court, rather than through the more common route of negotiating settlements with school districts to change their practices;" and "Scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which would explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.")
What Would Happen to K-12 in a 2nd Trump Term? A Detailed Policy Agenda Offers Clues, by Matthew Stone, EducationWeek, Mar. 25, 2024. ("With its vision of eliminating the Education Department, Project 2025 proposes moving existing education programs to other federal agencies." I've listed some of these proposed changes below.)
"[The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act] would become the purview of the administration for community living within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Title I would transfer to DHHS’ administration for children and families before it’s ultimately phased out. The National Center for Education Statistics—the main data collection arm of the education department—would become part of the U.S. Census Bureau.
"The department’s office for civil rights—which investigates potential civil rights violations in schools—would move to the Justice Department and would only be able to enforce civil rights laws through litigation, ending its common practice of negotiating settlements with school districts to change their practices.
"The office would also have to drop pending investigations under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination, into allegations of discrimination based on students’ or employees’ sexual orientation or gender identity. In addition, the office would stop opening new Title IX investigations based on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.
"The civil rights office would also stop investigating schools for “disparate impact” in school discipline—the idea that school discipline policies that disproportionately affect students in one racial or ethnic group might violate federal law, even if those policies are neutral on their face and applied evenhandedly."
Chapter 12. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND RELATED COMMISSIONS, p. 363
by Bernard L. McNamee
Chapter 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 12: U.S. Department of Energy, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 13. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, p. 417
by Mandy M. Gunasekara
Chapter 13. Environmental Protection Agency., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 13: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Project 2025 Would Make It Easier for Big Corporations To Dump Dangerous Toxins That Poison Americans, by Jill Rosenthal, Marquisha Johns, and Jasia Smith, , a page of the Center for American Progress website, Aug. 7, 2024.
How does Project 2025 intend to shift the EPA’s interactions with state and local governments, and what are the possible local impacts?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
Chapter 14. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, p. 449
by Roger Severino
Chapter 14. Department of Health and Human Services., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 14: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Project 2025 Would Eliminate Head Start, Severely Restricting Access to Child Care in Rural America, by Casey Peeks, Center for American Progress, JUn. 26, 2024. ("If enacted, the elimination of Head Start would undermine economic growth and exacerbate inequalities among families with young children.")
How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, a page of the Guttmacher website, October 2024. (Project 2025's "far-reaching recommendations would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive health care, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally.")
Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill, by Tessa Stewart, Rolling Stone, Dec. 22, 2023. ("Republicans’ Project 2025 blueprint spells out how they’ll leverage virtually every arm, tool and agency of the federal government to attack abortion.")
The Threat of the Comstock Act to Abortion Rights If Kamala Harris Loses, by Rebecca DeWolf, Time, Sept. 12, 2024. ("As we face this historic election, it is important to remember that when the first woman ran for president so many years ago, the opponents of social change launched a full-throttle attack on reproductive autonomy and free speech. And thanks to Project 2025, a remnant of that history, the Comstock Act, remains with us today, and it has the potential to determine access to reproductive healthcare well into our future.")
Rhythm, anyone?, by Kat C., Jun. 18, 2024. (What it's like to practice the rhythm method of birth control, based on my own experience.)
How Does “Project 2025” Promote Traditional Family Structures and What Are the Implications for Non-Conventional Families?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
How does the document address transgender rights?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
How does Project 2025 propose to modify healthcare policies to align with its family-centric agenda, and what could be the repercussions for healthcare accessibility?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
Chapter 15. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, p. 503
by Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD
Chapter 15. Department of Housing and Urban Development, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 15: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
'It furthers a period of segregation': Inside Project 2025’s Housing Policy, part of Ali Velshi's "Inside Project 2025 series, MSNBC, Sept. 1, 2024. ("The plans laid out in Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Housing and Urban Development will only make in harder for low income, already-disadvantaged Americans to achieve stable, safe, affordable housing - and will likely put the American dream of home ownership even further out of reach. Dr. Andre Perry, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and author of ‘Know Your Price,’ says 'Project 2025 really does not offer solutions to our existing housing crisis, and it furthers a period of segregation that we've seen since our founding of the country.'")
Chapter 16. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, p. 517
by William Perry Pendley
Chapter 16. Department of the Interior., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 ( pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 16: U.S. Department of the Interior, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Public Lands For Sale: Outdoor Alliance Map Shows the Extent of Land on the Auction Block, a page of the Outdoor Alliance website, Jun. 17, 2025. (Outdoor Alliance’s GIS Lab produced a map that shows the area that could be opened up for sale. [It] shows recreation assets at risk all across the West, including much of the Teton National Forest and the Absaroka range in Wyoming; Mount Hood’s 44 Trails network; the headwaters of the Little White Salmon; the Sandy Ridge trail system; the South Fork Payette River; the South Salmon and huge swaths of the Sawtooths in Idaho; the Trinity Alps and the Stanislaus National Forest in California; the Juniper Mountains in Arizona; Lunch Loops outside Grand Junction, Colorado; and Hartman Rocks outside Gunnison, Colorado; as well as many more.")
Chapter 17. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, p . 545
by Gene Hamilton
Chapter 17. Department of Justice., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 17: U.S. Department of Justice, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
How the Supreme Court Bolstered Project 2025, by Marc Elias, Jul. 5, 2024. ("Project 2025 seeks to establish a unitary executive branch — where the president reigns supreme. The project claims that presidents can pick and choose which laws they want to enforce and can impose their will over every decision in every agency — from environmental regulation to who should be criminally investigated and prosecuted.")
Chapter 18. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND RELATED AGENCIES, p. 581
by Jonathan Berry
Chapter 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 18: U.S. Department of Labor, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Project 2025 Would Cut Access to Overtime Pay, by Lily Roberts, a page of the Center for American Progress website, Aug. 8, 2024.
Inside Project 2025’s plan to weaken unions and lower workers’ wages, uploaded Aug. 24, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. ("In 36 pages in Chapter 18, we've got teenagers operating heavy machinery, workers' wages in a death spiral, roadblocks to workplace representation, legalized discrimination.... Who does this benefit?" "If the only goal of your society is helping employers make more money ... then this plan makes all the sense in the world.")
Project 2025 Threatens Not Only Workers’ Livelihoods, But Also Their Very Lives, by Rebecca Gordon, Truthout, Apr. 9, 2024. ("[T]he opening salvo of [this] chapter is an attack on federal measures to reduce employment discrimination based on race or sex." ...and from there, it gets worse, and worse, and worse...)
No, Project 2025 doesn’t propose eliminating overtime pay, by Libby Stanford, Verify, Jul. 8, 2024. ("Project 2025 recommends overtime pay adjustments and calls on Congress to amend federal overtime rules, but it doesn’t advocate for the elimination of overtime pay.")
Project 2025 would roll back protections for overtime pay — a longtime right-wing media priority, by John Whitehouse and John Knefel, Media Matters, Jul. 8, 2024. (Yes, this article is in direct opposition to the Verify article cited immediately above. It offers a different interpretation of the proposals outlined in Project 2025.)
Chapter 19. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, p. 619
by Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Chapter 19. Department of Transportation., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 19: U.S. Department of Transportation, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 20. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, p. 641
by Brooks D. Tucker
Chapter 20. Department of Veterans Affairs., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 20: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
SECTION 4: THE ECONOMY, p. 657
According to the Mandate's authors: "For several decades, establishment ‘elites’ have failed the citizenry by refusing to secure the border, outsourcing manufacturing to China and elsewhere, spending recklessly, regulating constantly, and generally controlling the country from the top down rather than letting it flourish from the bottom up.” Source
Chapter 21. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, p. 663
by Thomas F. Gilman
Chapter 21. Department of Commerce., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (7 pages, including the introduction to Section 4).
Project 2025 Chapter 21: U.S. Department of Commerce, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
"[NOAA]’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized. NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality." Project 2025, p. 675
Republicans’ Project 2025 Would End Free Weather Reports, by Matthew Gault, Gizmodo, Jul. 17, 2024. ("Millions of people daily rely on government data to chart the weather. Conservatives have been trying to stop it for decades.")
What does Project 2025 say about the National Weather Service, NOAA and National Hurricane Center?, by Amy Sherman, PoliticFact, Sept. 24, 2024. *("While Project 2025 doesn't call for the elimination of the NWS, it places restrictions on research, climate products, and potentially limiting access to the NWS forecasters and centers such as the National Hurricane Center."
‘This is going to hurt you’: Inside Project 2025’s politicization of the Census, uploaded Sept. 21, 2024 to the MSNBC channel on YouTube. (Although SCOTUS ruled against Trump's effort to include a citizenship question in the decennial census, Project 2025 continues conservative efforts to identify America's non-citizen residents. "The citizenship question, along with a series of other proposals will likely lead to significant undercounts of already vulnerable populations, leading to unequitable congressional representation and inequitable allocation of federal funds. What happens when communities are undercounted in the census? 'That means food stamps, that means Medicaid dollars, that means mental health care dollars were less,' to states and cities that had census undercounts.")
On a personal note, despite the SCOTUS ruling, the Trump administration included a citizenship in a census update. When I received on of these forms, I called a member of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It was clear they were frustrated by Trump's end run. As a matter of principle, I chose not to answer the question.
Chapter 22. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, p. 691
by William L. Walton, Stephen Moore, and David R. Burton
Chapter 22. Department of the Treasury., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (7 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 22: U.S. Department of the Treasury, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 23. EXPORT–IMPORT BANK, p. 717
.....THE EXPORT–IMPORT BANK SHOULD BE ABOLISHED, p. 717
.....by Veronique de Rugy
.....THE CASE FOR THE EXPORT–IMPORT BANK, p. 724
.....by Jennifer Hazelton
Chapter 23. Export Import Bank., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Chapter 24. FEDERAL RESERVE, p. 731
by Paul Winfree
Chapter 24. Federal Reserve., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 24: U.S. Federal Reserve, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 25. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, p. 745
by Karen Kerrigan
Chapter 25. Small Business Administration., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 25: U.S. Small Business Administration, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 26. TRADE, p. 765
.....THE CASE FOR FAIR TRADE, p. 765
.....by Peter Navarro
.....THE CASE FOR FREE TRADE, p. 796
.....by Kent Lassman
Chapter 26. Trade., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (3 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 27: U.S. Financial Regulatory Agencies, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
How does Project 2025 plan to address the complexities of trade policies affecting the manufacturing sector, especially in relation to global competition and domestic job creation?, a page from the Warning Vote website.
SECTION 5: INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES, p. 825
Chapter 27. FINANCIAL REGULATORY AGENCIES, p. 829
.....SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND RELATED AGENCIES, p. 829
.....by David R. Burton
.....CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU, p. 837
.....by Robert Bowes
Chapter 27. Financial Regulatory Agencies., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (4 pages).
Chapter 28. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, p. 845
by Brendan Carr
Chapter 28. Federal Communications Commission., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 ( pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 28: Federal Communications Commission, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 29. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, by 861
by Hans A. von Spakovsky
Chapter 29. Federal Election Commission., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 29: Federal Election Commission, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
Chapter 30. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, p. 869
by Adam Candeub
Chapter 30. Federal Trade Commission., analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 Chapter 30: Federal Trade Commission, a list of proposed executive/congressional actions, from the Center for Progressive Reform's Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker.
ONWARD!, p. 883
by Edwin J. Feulner
Project 2025 Afterword: Onward!, analysis by Stop the Coup 2025, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 pages).
Project 2025 - Afterword, by Kat C.
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For more information — including topic-by-topic overviews — see Project 2025, a list of resources.
For post-election information about resistance and protest, see Trump won. Now what?