Trump implements half of Project 2025 agenda

By Dec. 22, 2025, crowd-sourced trackers reported Trump implemented 50% of Project 2025's 319 objectives—126 completed, 67 in progress. The Heritage Foundation published this 920-page blueprint in Apr. 2023 to reshape federal government by consolidating executive power in favor of conservative policies.

Project 2025's key architects occupy major positions: Russell Vought heads OMB and calls it the "nerve center" for presidential influence across agencies. Peter Navarro authored the trade section and serves as Trump's trade adviser. Brendan Carr wrote the FCC section and now chairs the agency. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts views his role as "institutionalizing Trumpism."

Vice President JVJD Vance wrote the foreword to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts's book, signaling administration alignment with the organization's agenda. The Heritage Foundation spent $22 million preparing staffing recommendations for a 2025 conservative government.

Implementation focused heavily on restricting transgender Americans' rights, eliminating the X gender marker option on passports and reversing federal recognition of non-binary identities. The administration removed protections for gender identity across multiple agencies.

On reproductive health, Trump rescinded Biden guidance requiring emergency abortion care under EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act) and revoked the White House Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access. About 40% of Project 2025's reproductive restrictions were implemented by Nov. 2025.

Project 2025 calls for replacing federal civil service workers with loyalists to "the next conservative president." Trump reinstated Schedule F, which reclassifies tens of thousands of career federal employees as at-will positions subject to political removal.

Analysis by Time magazine found nearly two-thirds of Trump's first-term executive actions "mirror or partially mirror" Project 2025 proposals. The Center for Progressive Reform tracked 47% of domestic policy recommendations as initiated or fulfilled by Oct. 15, 2025—251 of 532 actions.