What is Project 2025 and Why Does it Matter?

Project 2025 is a "900-page policy "wish list" for the next Republican president, a proposal that would expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative social vision" [1].

"Under the leadership of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Project 2025 is indeed a real, all-encompassing initiative to transform the American bureaucracy if, or when, a conservative president takes over the White House. Project leaders are hoping to put it into motion as early as November 2024 if voters elect former President Donald Trump.

Politico once described the policy initiative as an effort to make a "MAGA" conservative government by reshaping how federal employees work, and the creators themselves have framed it as a push to institutionalize "Trumpism" — that is, Trump's political agenda — at every level of federal government. On Truth Social, a Trump-owned social media platform, users have described it as a return to "constitutional" values." [2]

[1] BBC.com -- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

[2] Snopes.com -- https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/07/11/project-2025-explained/