Will Dobbs-Allsopp, policy director of Governing for Impact, and James Goodwin, policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform, have publicly tracked the executive actions suggested for 20 different agencies in Project 2025 as Trump has carried some of them out. Of

At least on domestic policy, the administration has in a short period of time made a remarkable amount of progress on implementing the mandate’s recommendations. Of the more than 530 executive actions across 20 agencies that the document advises, 28

“A substantial plurality track very closely with specific recommendations in Project 2025,” Goodwin said, mentioning the executive orders on transgender rights as a particularly striking example. “In some cases, the language is almost lifted verbatim — or, in other cases,

The justifications in Trump’s orders seem to be “pushing on a few doors to get around notice and comment procedures just to see which door, if any, the courts allow to open,” Reed Shaw, an attorney with the left-leaning Governing

The report noted a corresponding push in at least 30 mostly Republican-controlled states to weaken workplace protections for children, and warned the second Trump administration would seek to escalate the rollback.

“I think it’s a question that the administration has tried to dance around,” John Lewis, deputy legal director at policy think tank Governing for Impact, told The Hill. “Thus far, it seems to want to have it both ways.”