Project 2025 is a 900-page manifesto and a collection of radical, far-right policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation.
Its purpose is to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power—should the Republican nominee, presumably Donald Trump, be elected president.
Project 2025 asserts that the entire executive branch be placed under the direct control of the president under Article II of the US Constitution and the so-called unitary executive theory. That theory is an echo of Richard Nixon’s “imperial presidency” of fifty years ago, under which Nixon said, “If the president does it, it’s not illegal.”
Autocratic Control Over the Entire Government
The proposal includes reclassifying approximately 50 thousand federal civil service workers as political appointees, in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable the next Republican president’s policies. In doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle “the deep state”—what they view as a vast, unaccountable and mostly liberal government bureaucracy.
Project 2025 seeks to regulate government and society through control by an autocrat. Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian Christian nationalist plan to steer the US toward autocracy. Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to the government, particularly economic and social policies and the roles of the federal government and its agencies.
The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and sharply reducing environmental and climate…
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