Conservative Heavyweights Unite for Project 2025: A Blueprint for a Potential Second Trump Presidency
Heavyweight conservatives are banding together to create a roadmap for a potential second Trump presidency, with the goal of dismantling and disrupting the US government as we know it. Project 2025, led by the rightwing Heritage Foundation, outlines a vision for a federal government that cracks down on immigration, vanquishes LGBTQ+ and abortion rights, diminishes environmental protections, overhauls financial policy, and takes aggressive action against China.
The project, detailed across more than 900 pages, lays out a plan to rid the federal ranks of many appointed roles and replace them with political appointees aligned with Trump’s policy prescriptions. It also includes a database of potential personnel for an incoming conservative administration, as well as a training program called the “Presidential Administration Academy” to educate them on how the government should work. Additionally, there will be a presidential transition playbook to help the next president hit the ground running.
While the project doesn’t explicitly state it’s intended for Trump, many of the themes align closely with his policy aims. The Heritage Foundation, which spearheads the project, has a history of influencing conservative administrations, with their first Mandate for Leadership heavily influencing Ronald Reagan’s administration in 1981.
Despite pushback from the Trump campaign, which has its own policy agenda called Agenda47, Heritage claims credit for a significant portion of Trump’s policy proposals during his first term. The group asserts that 64% of its policy recommendations were implemented or proposed by Trump in some way.
With the support of about 100 conservative organizations, Project 2025 represents a unified effort within the conservative movement to shape the future of the US government. Whether or not Trump would actually follow the recommendations laid out in the project remains to be seen, but the influence of Heritage and other conservative groups cannot be underestimated.
