Project 2025, titled the "Presidential Transition Project" is spearheaded by a coalition of conservative organizations including America First Legal, Center for Renewing America, Concerned Women for America, and more "that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025."
The website says, "It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on Day One of the next conservative Administration."
This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.
Joe Biden has made several posts on social media falsely claiming that it is Trump's outline for his next administration.
Project 2025 will destroy America.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 10, 2024
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Project 2025 lately.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 11, 2024
Here’s the truth: It’s a dangerous takeover by Trump and his allies to pass his extreme MAGA agenda.
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However, these accusations are false, as President Trump's real outline is Agenda 47.
President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it. The Radical Left Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever policies are stated or said. It is pure disinformation on their part. By now, after all of these years, everyone knows where I stand on EVERYTHING! DJT".
In a pinned post to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Project 2025's official account has a thread debunking the claims of their mission and of their ties to Trump.
MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025
— Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) July 9, 2024
We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.
1. End no fault divorce: FALSE
Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook,… https://t.co/syj1HnCxhP
The thread reads as follows:
"MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025
We are not affiliated with former President Trump.
We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.
1. End no fault divorce: FALSE Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook, Mandate for Leadership.
2. Complete ban on abortions without exceptions: FALSE 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.
3. Ban contraceptives: FALSE Mandate for Leadership says nothing about banning or restricting contraception.
4. Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%: MISLEADING Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans, to stimulate economic growth and put more money in Americans’ pockets.
5. Higher taxes for the working class: FALSE Mandate for Leadership calls for LOWER taxes for ALL Americans. Individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government does.
6. Elimination of unions and worker protections: FALSE 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.
7. Raise the retirement age: FALSE Raising the retirement age is nowhere advocated in Mandate for Leadership.
8. Cut Social Security: FALSE Mandate for Leadership does not advocate cutting Social Security.
9. End Affordable Care Act: FALSE Mandate for Leadership offers policy suggestions to curb the abuses of the Affordable Care Act.
10. Raise prescription drug prices: FALSE Mandate for Leadership offers proposals to lower drug prices through competition and innovation.
11. Eliminate the Department of Education: TRUE Mandate for Leadership calls for an end to 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.
12. 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.
13. Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools: FALSE Mandate for Leadership advocates for all educational opportunities, and for parental rights in education.
14. End free and discounted school lunch programs: FALSE 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, not creating an entitlement for almost all students regardless of family income levels.
15. End civil rights and DEI protections in government: MOSTLY FALSE 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.
16. Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education: FALSE Mandate for Leadership does not mention African American studies or gender studies.
17. Ban books and curriculum about slavery: FALSE Mandate for Leadership does not advocate for banning books or curriculum about slavery.
18. Ending climate protections: FALSE Mandate for Leadership advocates policies that will produce economic growth through abundant, affordable energy. Famers, hunters, and fishers know how to protect our environment better than D.C. bureaucrats. The Biden administration’s relentless focus on climate has made America less competitive and wasted crucial taxpayer dollars.
19. Increase Arctic drilling: TRUE The Arctic is of immense strategic importance to America. 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.
20. Deregulate big business and the oil industry: MOSTLY TRUE America needs energy that is plentiful and affordable. 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.
21. Promote and expedite capital punishment: TRUE The appropriateness of capital punishment divides Americans, and conservatives, of good will. 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.
22. End marriage equality: FALSE The legal recognition of same-sex marriage is not discussed in 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.
23. Condemn single mothers while promoting only “traditional families”: FALSE Mandate 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.
24. Defund the FBI and Homeland Security: FALSE 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.
25. Use military to break up domestic protests: FALSE The “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.
26. Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in “camps”: MISLEADING Mandate 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 President Biden’s border crisis and enforce immigration laws.
27. End birthright citizenship: FALSE There is no mention of ending birthright citizenship in Mandate for Leadership.
28. Ban Muslims from entering the country: FALSE There is no mention of banning Muslims from entering the United States in Mandate for Leadership.
29. Eliminate federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more: FALSE Mandate for Leadership’s plan 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.
30. 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."
By reading the above, it should be clear as day that Project 2025 has a distinct separation from any roadmap that the Trump campaign or the future administration is establishing.
While Project 2025 has many former Trump administration officials on board, conservatives are permitted to propose solutions to cultural, civil rights, medical, security and defense issues at their will, without being affiliated with the Trump campaign's own proposals.
It is President Trump's decision alone where he will choose to pool his next administrative personnel.
