- Project 2025 is a road map for the next Republican president.
- The Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank, authored the plan.
- Among other surprising things, it provides for the abolition of the Ministry of Education.
Long before the disastrous presidential debate in which President Joe Biden could have handed the keys to the White House to former President Donald Trump, conservative thinkers were developing a plan of action.
In January 2023, the Heritage Foundation began promoting Project 2025, a 922-page “playbook” drawn from input from dozens of other conservative organizations to guide the next Republican administration.
“Time is running out and conservatives need a plan,” the right-wing presidential transition plan’s website reads. “The plan will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new administration to bring rapid relief to Americans suffering from the left’s devastating policies.”
Some of the priorities of Project 2025 include:
- Cut federal government jobs and stifle “woke propaganda at all levels of government”
- Eliminate the Department of Education and its “woke-dominated public school system”
- Ban the FBI from combating misinformation and disinformation
- End the ‘War on Fossil Fuels’ and Allow More Development on Native American Lands
- Terminate ongoing FBI investigations that are “contrary to the national interest”
The plan is so extreme that even Trump has distanced himself from it, writing on Truth Social this week that he knows “nothing about Project 2025.”
“I have no idea who is behind this. I disagree with some of the things they say and some of the things they say are absolutely ridiculous and appalling. Whatever they do, I wish them well, but I have nothing to do with them,” Trump wrote.
A spokesperson for Project 2025 told Business Insider that the playbook “does not speak for any candidate or campaign.”
“We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating for policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president. But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement,” the spokesperson said.
