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The 2024 Presidential Election : Project 2025

This research guide covers the 2024 Presidential Election in the United States.

Project 2025 Private Training Video: Conserving America

ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration's political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy guide created by the Heritage Foundation for a future conservative presidential administration, has lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has tried to distance itself from the effort. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy remains on track.

Project 2025

Project 2025 is a strategic plan developed by the Heritage Foundation and a coalition of conservative organizations in the United States. It is designed as a roadmap to prepare the next conservative administration to implement its policies and transform the federal government if it takes power in 2025, following the next presidential election. The initiative focuses on recruiting and training personnel, creating policy blueprints, and providing a detailed governance strategy to ensure that a conservative president can swiftly and effectively implement a broad range of conservative policies.

Key aspects of Project 2025 include:

  1. Personnel and Training: The project aims to identify and train thousands of conservatives to fill key positions in the federal government. This includes preparing a pool of candidates who are aligned with conservative values and ready to assume leadership roles in federal agencies.

  2. Policy Blueprints: The initiative provides detailed policy recommendations across various sectors, including the economy, healthcare, immigration, and education, aligning with conservative principles. These blueprints are meant to guide the incoming administration in enacting conservative policies quickly.

  3. Government Reorganization: Project 2025 proposes structural changes to the federal government to reduce its size, increase efficiency, and ensure it operates according to conservative ideals. This could involve downsizing certain agencies, cutting regulations, and shifting power from the federal government to the states.

  4. Executive Orders and Legislative Strategies: The project outlines specific executive actions and legislative strategies that a conservative president could take immediately upon taking office. This includes reversing policies from previous administrations and setting the agenda for the new administration's first 100 days.

Project 2025 reflects a proactive approach by the conservative movement to prepare for the possibility of winning the presidency in 2025, with the goal of fundamentally reshaping the federal government and advancing a conservative policy agenda.