Since Day One, the Trump administration has aggressively pursued policy actions that match the recommendations contained in Project 2025.

“In the first term, Trump was basically outsourcing both his judicial appointments and his policy agenda to old school conservatives and Republicans,” Reed Shaw, a policy counsel at the progressive legal nonprofit Governing for Impact, told NOTUS.

The Trump 2.0 approach to deregulation has involved “across-the-board, overarching efforts to kill lots of regulations in one fell swoop,” Richard Revesz, who served as the head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Biden

Since January, Project 2025 has been (to the extent anything is) the Trump White House’s blueprint for policymaking. A Project 2025 tracker maintained jointly by two nonprofits, the Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact, checks off 31 recommendations just at OMB, which

Here at the Center, we were among the first to sound the alarm on precisely these risks that Project 2025 — and especially its nearly 1,000-page policy blueprint called Mandate for Leadership — posed. That’s why we joined our colleagues at Governing for Impact

The Center for Progressive Reform, which compiled a list of all the executive branch policies proposed in the conservative playbook, found the Trump administration has attempted or completed 153 of the 532 policies tracked as of April 15.