As 2025 comes to a close, Project 2025 stands vindicated as the defining policy plan of Donald Trump’s second presidency. A detailed governing blueprint written largely by veterans of his first ...

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, ...

The Heritage Foundation formally revealed Project 2025 in 2022, framing it as a possible guide for a future Republican presidential administration. The initiative centers on a roughly 1,000-page ...

This story was originally published by The 19th. Project 2025 is rooted in injecting narrower interpretations of gender, sexuality and race in federal policy. It calls for ending nearly all of the U.S ...

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.

Donald Trump disavowed any knowledge of Project 2025 throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. He may have been afraid that the detailed plan for his second term, commissioned by the right-wing ...

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 ...

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 ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s ...