Conceived by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 reimagines federal power for a permanent one‑party rule.
Below are the plan’s key provisions, its timeline, and who’s driving it.
Disloyal federal employees
Civil‑service protections
The Department of Education
All DEI programs
Executive power
The southern border
The plan directs new loyalty oaths, ideological vetting, and mass removals of any career civil‑servant deemed insufficiently “patriotic.”
Abolishes merit‑based hiring and tenure safeguards, leaving federal employees vulnerable to arbitrary, politically motivated firings.
Eliminates the cabinet‑level agency, shifting K–12 oversight entirely to states and dismantling federal equity, accountability, and support programs.
Terminates every diversity, equity, and inclusion office, training, and grant across federal agencies, banning efforts to address systemic bias.
Expands presidential control by bypassing normal rule‑making processes and curtailing judicial and legislative checks on executive actions.
Deploys active‑duty troops for immigration enforcement, expands detention centers, and fortifies physical barriers to deter and criminalize unauthorized crossings.