Some of the policies behind Project 2025 have been debated by Republicans for years or pushed by Trump himself, including reducing federal intervention in education and increasing support for school choice, requiring able-bodied food stamp recipients to work, strengthening immigration enforcement, mass deportations, and securing the border by building a border wall.
The project also touches on other hot topics in the political landscape, including abortion, social issues, attacks on federal agencies, employees and policies, and immigration.
Regarding abortion, the initiative calls for the Food and Drug Administration to overturn its 24-year-old approval of the widely used abortion drug mifepristone. Additional proposed measures centered around medication abortion include reinstating stricter rules on the use of mifepristone, allowing it to be taken up to seven weeks into a pregnancy instead of the current 10 weeks, and requiring it to be prescribed in person rather than by mail.
Project 2025 also targets long-standing federal agencies, including calling for the downsizing of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The policy paper states that six NOAA agencies, including the National Weather Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, “have become one of the primary drivers of the climate change alarm industry, forming a behemoth that is harmful to the future prosperity of the United States.”
The Project 2025 guidebook also calls for dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and its related agencies and either merging them with other agencies or placing them under the jurisdiction of another department.
The project targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in higher education at the executive level by removing various DEI-related positions, policies, and programs, and calling for the end of funding for partners that advance DEI practices.
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