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About


THE TRUTH ABOUT PROJECT 2025

The Left has spent millions fearmongering about Project 2025, because they’re
terrified of losing their elitist power. And they should be. Project 2025 offers
a menu of solutions to the border crisis, inflation, a stagnant economy, and
rampant crime. It shows how we can take on China, fix our schools, and support
families. But most importantly, it dismantles the unaccountable Deep State,
taking power away from Leftist elites and giving it back to the American people
and duly-elected President.

Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected
organizations from across the conservative movement, to abolish the Deep State
and return government to the people. It was stood up in 2022, before any major
candidate announced a campaign, to assist the next conservative president.  

Project 2025 is not partisan, nor is it secret. Project 2025 does not speak for
any candidate or campaign, in any capacity. We are an open book, with our
materials available online. 

Project 2025 builds on a long tradition of preparation for the work of
governing. The Heritage Foundation has published its Mandate for Leadership
since the 1980s and has advocated for conservative policies for decades. The
Left has also been doing transition work for decades. Just one example: the
far-left group Center for American Progress prepared policy recommendations for
liberal presidents, including Obama in 2008. 

Our aim is to restore American democracy to “of, by, and for the people,” not
the elites who currently control Washington.  


THE REAL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS


SECURE THE BORDER

Project 2025’s policy reforms would end America’s decades-long border crisis
by: 

 * Thoroughly enforcing existing immigration laws.  

 * Aggressively constructing a wall on our southern border.  

 * Efficiently identifying and rejecting fraudulent asylum claims.   

 * Restoring the “remain in Mexico” policy for people awaiting asylum claims.   

 * Arresting, detaining, and removing of immigration violators anywhere in the
   United States. 


UNLEASH AMERICAN ENERGY

Project 2025’s policy reforms would secure abundant access to energy for the
American people by:

 * Ensuring access to abundant, reliable, and affordable energy. 

 * Removing efforts to push sustainable-development schemes connected to food
   production. 

 * Stopping collaboration with and funding of progressive foundations,
   corporations, international institutions, and NGOs that advocate for climate
   fanaticism. 

 * Ending the Biden administration’s war on fossil fuels in the developing world
   and supporting the responsible management of oil and gas reserves as the
   quickest way to end wrenching poverty and the need for open-ended foreign
   aid. 

 * Ensuring that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission facilitates rather than
   hampers private-sector nuclear energy innovation and deployment. 


DE-WEAPONIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND DISMANTLE THE DEEP STATE 

Project 2025’s policy reforms would restore self-governance to the American
people by:  

 * Firing supposedly “un-fireable” federal bureaucrats. 

 * Closing wasteful and corrupt bureaus and offices. 

 * Eliminating woke propaganda at every level of government. 

 * Restoring the American people’s Constitutional authority over the
   administrative state. 

 * Returning governing power to the Congress and President instead of unelected
   bureaucrats. 


IMPROVE EDUCATION 

Project 2025’s policy reforms would strengthen our education system by: 

 * Expanding school choice, so all children have the option of a great
   education, regardless of zip code. 

 * Promoting parents’ rights in public education so American schools serve
   parents, not the other way around. 

 * Removing critical race theory and gender ideology curricula in every public
   school in the country.  

 * Returning education control to state and local governments.  

 * Shifting some functions of the Department to other departments including
   Labor, Justice, and Commerce. 

Want to know more? Read it for yourself. 


DEBUNKING THE LIES


GOVERNMENT

TERMINATE THE CONSTITUTION: FALSE

Project 2025 actually represents an attempt to restore Constitutional
governance, not terminate it. Bringing the administrative state more firmly
under the control of the president, whose authority traces directly from the
Constitution, could not be further from terminating this quintessential founding
document. 

GIVE THE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER OVER YOUR DAILY LIFE: FALSE

Project 2025 aims to weaken the bureaucracy that churns out tens of thousands of
pages of rules every year. A more restrained administrative state translates
into less control over Americans’ daily lives, not more. 

GUT DEMOCRATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES ON PRESIDENTIAL POWER: FALSE

Project 2025 would not undermine Congress’s authority—to pass bills, override
vetoes of them, or impeach a president—nor the people’s authority to choose the
electors who select a president. Those democratic checks on a president’s power
remain, and Project 2025 supports them. Project 2025 aims to make the
administrative state more democratic, more receptive to the people’s will
expressed in a presidential election. 


CIVIL RIGHTS

BAN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND GENDER STUDIES IN ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not mention African American studies
or gender studies. 

BAN BOOKS AND CURRICULUM ABOUT SLAVERY: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate for banning books or
curriculum about slavery.

CONTINUE TO PACK THE SUPREME COURT AND LOWER COURTS WITH RIGHT-WING JUDGES:
FALSE

The only people calling for packing the judiciary are those on the Left, who do
it every time the Supreme Court or a lower court makes decisions they don’t
like.

END CIVIL RIGHTS: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for respecting the civil rights of
all Americans, including those who have been censored by the government or had
it weaponized against them. Mandate advocates for the end of divisive,
race-based, anti-American propaganda in the federal workforce.

END DEI PROTECTIONS IN GOVERNMENT: TRUE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates for the end of divisive,
race-based, anti-American propaganda like DEI in the federal workforce.

PROMOTE AND EXPEDITE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: TRUE

The appropriateness of capital punishment divides Americans, and conservatives,
of good will. Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the enforcement of
the federal death penalty where appropriate and applicable, and recommends a
future presidential administration pursue the death penalty for the most heinous
crimes, including those involving violence and the sexual abuse of children,
unless Congress says otherwise through legislation.


MILITARY & VETERANS

CUT MILITARY BENEFITS FOR VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS INCLUDING HOUSING,
TRICARE, RETIREMENT, AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership makes no cuts to any veteran benefits. It
does propose reforms to the VA to deliver improved care in a more efficient and
timely fashion to America’s veterans. The VA has long been mismanaged and has
not served our nation’s veterans for some time now. Project 2025 demands that
the VA improves and modernizes.

The VA needs more aggressive recruitment of doctors, mental health
professionals, and other staff to meet urgent needs at overburdened care
centers. VHA centers should be required to see more patients per day. All VA
medical centers should consider extending weekday hours and adding Saturday
hours to meet excess capacity or delay in care for veterans. The VA should
improve the timeliness of claim adjudication and benefits delivery to deliver
benefits without frustrating delays. Most importantly, the VA should develop a
new pilot “Express 30” commitment to complete a veteran’s first disability claim
in 30 days


MARRIAGE & FAMILY

END NO-FAULT DIVORCE: FALSE

Divorce is not mentioned in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

END “MARRIAGE EQUALITY”: FALSE

The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is not discussed in Project 2025’s
Mandate for Leadership. Mandate calls for the protection of faith-based grant
recipients who maintain support for the traditional definition of marriage.
Mandate also supports conscience protections for those who do not wish to
participate in same-sex marriages.  

COMPLETE BAN ON ABORTIONS WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the government to comply with
laws that prevent federal funding of abortion. It also calls for federal support
for alternatives to abortion, including adoption.

BAN CONTRACEPTIVES: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership says nothing about banning or restricting
contraception.

BAN IVF: FALSE

IVF is not mentioned anywhere in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

CONDEMN SINGLE MOTHERS WHILE PROMOTING ONLY “TRADITIONAL FAMILIES”: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership suggests that a future HHS Secretary
replace the policies of the Biden administration that prioritize LGBTQ+
equality, subsidize single motherhood, disincentivize work, and penalize
marriage with policies that instead encourage marriage, work, motherhood,
fatherhood, and nuclear families. 

OUTLAW PORNOGRAPHY: TRUE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the criminalization of
pornography production, distribution, and consumption. Pornography has no claim
to First Amendment protection and its purveyors are child predators and
misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit
drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.


HEALTH CARE

END THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership offers policy suggestions to curb the
abuses of the Affordable Care Act.

RAISE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership offers proposals to lower drug prices
through competition and innovation.


EDUCATION

TEACH CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates for all educational
opportunities, and for parental rights in education.

END FREE AND DISCOUNTED SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership advocates that the Food and Nutrition
Service be moved from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Health
and Human Services. Mandate condemns the Biden administration’s decision to
threaten schools that do not comply with radical transgender policies by taking
away their funding for school meals for needy students. Additionally, Mandate
supports prioritizing school meal programs for those students who are truly
needy by reforming or eliminating the often-misused Community Eligibility
Program, which creates an entitlement for many students regardless of family
income levels. 

USE PUBLIC, TAXPAYER MONEY FOR PRIVATE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS: TRUE

Americans are able to use taxpayer money to choose where they shop for
groceries, attain housing, and obtain higher education. Religious schools often
outperform public schools, and families should have the choice to send their
children to these schools.

SHUT DOWN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: TRUE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership calls for the end of the Department of
Education. Since the Department was created, educational outcomes have not
improved, and the American school system has increasingly fallen behind other
countries. Giving more control back to state and local governments, and
expanding school choice, would improve education outcomes for all Americans,
especially underprivileged communities. Some functions of the Department would
be moved to other departments including Labor, Justice, and Commerce.


ECONOMY & WORKERS

ELIMINATE UNIONS AND WORKER PROTECTIONS: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership presents different ideas about a
conservative labor policy. It calls for combatting the excesses of the Deep
State’s bloated federal employee unions, which have ensured that federal
employees keep their jobs even if they engage in illegal behavior or perform
their jobs poorly.

RAISE THE RETIREMENT AGE: FALSE

Raising the retirement age is nowhere advocated in Project 2025’s Mandate for
Leadership.

CUT SOCIAL SECURITY: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Social Security.

CUT MEDICARE: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Medicare.


ECONOMY & WORKERS

END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: FALSE

There is no mention of ending birthright citizenship in Project 2025’s Mandate
for Leadership. 

BAN MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THE COUNTRY: FALSE

There is no mention of banning Muslims from entering the United States in
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

USE THE MILITARY TO BREAK UP DOMESTIC PROTESTS: FALSE

Nothing in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership mentions or advocates for the
use of the military on civilian protestors. The only “protests” referenced in
Mandate for Leadership are protests in Iran against its anti-American
leadership; and protests of parents at school board meetings in opposition to
critical race theory and Covid mandates. Both protests are referenced
positively. Mandate also protests the FBI’s harassment of protesting parents and
condemns the arrest by armed FBI agents of a man who had protested at an
abortion clinic a year earlier. 

DEFUND THE FBI AND HOMELAND SECURITY: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership supports de-weaponizing the federal
government, including the FBI. Mandate’s chapter on the Department of Homeland
Security advocates the legislative creation of a standalone Cabinet-level agency
with a focus on the border and immigration, including U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CPB), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the
Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), and the Office of Immigration
Litigation (OIL). It also recommends that legislation be pursued to move other
component parts of DHS to other agencies, including the Department of
Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Treasury, and
the FBI.

MASS DEPORTATION OF IMMIGRANTS AND INCARCERATION IN “CAMPS”: MISLEADING

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership supports an orderly and lawful immigration
system. It advocates that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of
Removal Operations be primarily responsible for enforcing civil immigration
regulations, including the removal of those who have violated our immigration
laws. It also calls for additional resources to put an end to Joe Biden’s border
crisis and enforce immigration laws. 


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

ELIMINATE FEDERAL AGENCIES LIKE THE FDA, EPA, NOAA, AND MORE: FALSE

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership would not eliminate the FDA or the EPA,
and NOAA’s functions would be transferred to other agencies, the private sector,
and states and territories.  

DEREGULATE BIG BUSINESS AND THE OIL INDUSTRY: MOSTLY TRUE

America needs energy that is plentiful and affordable. Project 2025’s Mandate
for Leadership calls for an all-of-the-above energy policy that would promote
the development of our domestic energy supply, and for fewer burdensome
regulations for ALL businesses.  

INCREASE ARCTIC DRILLING: TRUE

The Arctic is of immense strategic importance to America. Project 2025’s Mandate
for Leadership advocates a strong pursuit of American interests in the region,
through economic freedom; through ensuring free and open shipping lanes; and
through the development of the vast energy resources of the Arctic.

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective
conservative Administration based on four pillars: a policy agenda, Presidential
Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and playbook for the
first 180 days of the next Administration.

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