By Christopher Rhodes
Blavity
https://blavity.com/
Project 2025, the extremely conservative agenda that was created as a roadmap to transform the United States, has achieved almost half of its goals, according to a website that follows policy implementation.
Despite Trump pretending to be unfamiliar with the project while he campaigned, his administration has wasted no time in achieving most of its agenda, with more set to come soon.
Project 2025 is on its way to achieving most of its goals
Project 2025 has achieved 47% of its stated goals at the time of publishing, according to the Project 2025 Tracker, a website that presents itself as “a comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025’s policy proposals.” The website is currently tracking 317 distinct objectives of Project 2025 across 34 government agencies.
Of the 317 objectives, the tracker lists 116 of them as “completed,” which represents just under 37% of the total. Another 63 objectives, just under 20% of the total, are listed as “in progress.” The tracker appears to add the number of completed objectives to half of the “in progress” objectives in order to achieve an estimate of 47% for the “overall progress” of Project 2025.
Dismantling government agencies, punishing ‘woke’ viewpoints and more
Among the objectives that are documented as completed is the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Other completed objectives include implementing a ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military and a massive expansion of immigration detention beds. Various efforts to scale back civil rights enforcement have also been completed by the administration.
The objectives listed as still in progress include eliminating the Department of Education and cutting off federal funding to a number of programs, agencies and other entities that disagree with aspects of Trump’s agenda; one objective details that the White House is in the process of “cut[ting] off government contracts to entities that enforce a ‘woke agenda.’” Objectives listed by the tracker as “not started” include everything from using the Department of Agriculture to “weaken regulations on baby formula” to “requir[ing] all schools that receive federal funding to give students the military entrance test.”
After claiming ignorance, Trump has embraced Project 2025 authors
Project 2025 debuted during the most recent presidential campaign as a massive policy proposal written on behalf of the conservative Heritage Foundation, filled with ultraconservative recommendations to be implemented should Trump return to the White House in 2025. Although Trump claimed not to be familiar with the plan or its authors while running for office, he has placed many of the document’s authors in top positions within his administration. These individuals include Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, border czar Tom Homan and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, among others. Vice President JD Vance wrote the foreword to a recent book by Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the main architect of Project 2025.
With so many authors and supporters of Project 2025 in key positions throughout the Trump administration, it is little surprise that so much of its agenda has already been implemented. With Republicans dominating all three branches of government, it looks as though the Project 2025 agenda will continue to become reality as the Trump administration pushes through these policies.
