The Trump Administration Has Already Accomplished Vast Portions of Project 2025

"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 administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government. As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document's 920 pages."

"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. government's efforts to achieve equity, including the collection of data that could be used to track such outcomes across the public and private sectors. It suggested eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. It also recommended removing out of every rule and regulation terms like sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender equity and gender awareness, along with abortion, reproductive health and reproductive rights."

"The blueprint also suggested transforming the FBI into a politically motivated entity, abolishing the Department of Education and dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). The White House has made progress on all these fronts - through a series of executive orders and also politically motivated hirings, firings and restructurings that have fundamentally expanded the president's influence and power across all branches of government."

President Trump publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 before the election, yet implementation trackers show his administration has enacted roughly half of the blueprint's proposals. Project 2025 centers on imposing narrower definitions of gender, sexuality and race and ending most federal equity efforts, including data collection that tracks outcomes. The plan calls for eliminating DEI programs and removing terms like sexual orientation, gender identity and reproductive rights from rules. It also proposes transforming the FBI, abolishing the Department of Education and dismantling NOAA. The White House has advanced these aims through executive orders, targeted hires, firings and restructurings that expand presidential power.

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