As a 2024 presidential candidate, Donald Trump sought to distance himself from Project 2025, a blueprint for reshaping the federal government by the conservative nonprofit The Heritage Foundation.

Two credible trackers are following how closely the administration is moving toward the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint. The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact say 251 ...

On a special episode (first released on May 15, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: For over 40 years, the conservative Washington think tank Heritage Foundation has issued a “Mandate for Leadership” to ...

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written ...

The proposed 2027 budget released by the Office of Management and Budget is filled with ideas that appear to be copied and pasted from Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership. Russ Vought, the head of ...

White House budget director Russ Vought has been key to implementing the Trump agenda. But before joining the administration, he was a central figure in drafting Project 2025, the controversial policy ...

The foreword of Project 2025 is titled “A Promise to America.” In it, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts listed four promises – the first being a promise to “restore the family as the ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Last year, ...

Nearly half of the initiatives laid out in Project 2025 — which is considered by many to be a blueprint for the second Trump administration — have already been implemented by the president, a rolling ...

This story was originally published by The 19th. In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second ...

When the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page compendium of policy suggestions called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” in April 2023, it did so to little fanfare. By fall 2024, ...

President Donald Trump acknowledged the influence of Project 2025 in his presidency yesterday, despite having denied any knowledge of or connection to the project repeatedly throughout the election.