Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s latest vision for a potential second Donald Trump presidency, has been under the microscope since the Republican National Convention commenced this week in Milwaukee. The 922-page policy document outlines a series of policy proposals that would fundamentally transform the nature of the federal government, Northeastern experts say. Such objectives call for dismantling the “administrative state” through, among other things, the elimination of whole departments; the reclassification of civil servants into political appointees (known as the Schedule F plan), thus stripping them of protections; and a “mass deportation” plan that the Heritage Foundation proposes as the largest in the nation’s history, the document reads.
Is Project 2025 really a “government in waiting”? Many of the ideas contained in the blueprint reflect the Republican Party platform as it stands, from immigration to government and regulatory overhaul and education reform. But the sprawling ideological document could contain the means with which to execute on many of those party objectives, testing the viability of more radical policies at a moment when Republicans control the judiciary, experts say.
