Donald Trump and JD Vance spent their campaign lying to the American people in an attempt to distance themselves from the wildly unpopular Project 2025 — but now, the mask is off. As Vance speaks at the Heritage Foundation today, it’s clearer than ever that the Trump-Vance agenda and Project 2025 are one and the same. 

From stacking his administration with Project 2025 architects, authors, and contributors to instituting key policies from the same toxic blueprint, Trump is making the extreme and out-of-touch Project 2025 agenda the centerpiece of his disastrous presidency.

Over two-thirds of Trump’s executive orders during his first week in office came from Project 2025: 

CNN: “A CNN analysis of the 53 executive orders and actions from Trump’s first week in office found that more than two-thirds – 36 – evoke proposals outlined in ‘Mandate for Leadership,’ Project 2025’s 922-page blueprint for the next Republican president.” 

Trump stacked his administration with Project 2025 leaders (and reinstated a Schedule F rule to stack the federal government with loyalists, just as Project 2025 said to):  

• Project 2025 “chief architect” Russ Vought as Office of Management and Budget director and his partner-in-crime Ed Martin as chief of staff at OMB
• Project 2025 advocate Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary and transition co-chair, where he helped staff the Trump administration with people affiliated with Project 2025
• Project 2025 “architect” Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy 
• Project 2025 author Tom Homan as border czar 
• Project 2025 trade author and inflation proponent Peter Navarro to oversee economic policy
• Project 2025 advisory board member Kash Patel as FBI director
• Project 2025 lawyer Pam Bondi as attorney general, who was working to “implement Project 2025”
• Project 2025 leader Brooke Rollins as agriculture secretary
• Project 2025 instructor Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary 
• Project 2025 lead policymaker and chapter author on communications Brendan Carr as FCC chairman
• Project 2025 author Adam Candeub as general counsel for the FCC 
• Project 2025 contributor John Ratcliffe as CIA director 
• A former lawyer for Project 2025’s coalition partner, John Sauer, as solicitor general 
• Project 2025 alumni Paul Atkins as Securities and Exchange Commission chairman 
• Project 2025 contributor Pete Hoekstra as U.S. ambassador to Canada

Trump moved to fulfill Project 2025’s goal of shutting down critical agencies, including the Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: 

USA Today: “Trump will direct his education secretary, Linda McMahon, to take ‘all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education”

Project 2025, p. 319: “[T]he federal Department of Education should be eliminated.”

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 839: “Congress should abolish the CFPB”

Associated Press: “Consumer watchdog chief tells all staff to cease work”

“‘Employees should not come into the office. Please do not perform any work tasks,’ Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought said in an email to all staff.” 

Trump’s attacks on Planned Parenthood and reproductive health care access come directly from Project 2025: 

Reuters: “Trump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood”

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, pg. 471: “Policymakers should end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and all other abortion providers” 

Politico: “The Trump administration is dropping a yearslong legal battle with Idaho over the right to an abortion in a medical emergency one day ahead of a major hearing — reversing its stance in one of the highest-profile cases it inherited from the Biden administration. …

“Project 2025 … called on President Donald Trump to end all of the Biden administration’s EMTALA investigations into hospitals that have turned pregnant patients away.”

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