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BumRushDaShow

(165,324 posts)
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 02:37 PM 11 hrs ago

Trump's inner circle is filled with architects of Project 2025. Here are the policies they have implemented so far

Source: The Independent

Sunday 28 December 2025 07:11 EST


Approximately half of the recommendations in Project 2025 have become official policies, presidential directives or overall goals of the Trump administration in the first 12 months of President Donald Trump’s second term. The nearly 1,000-page ultra-conservative policy blueprint emerged from the Heritage Foundation think tank in 2023 and was widely seen as a possible manifesto for a second Trump turn despite denials by the candidate himself and many of those around him.

Filling the federal workforce with political appointees, phasing out the Department of Education, rolling back major Biden administration-era policies on climate change, axing diversity polices and offices, as well as ramping up immigration deportations, were some of the major policy changes that aligned with the conservative mandate.

It’s an unsurprising finding, given that major Trump administration officials are authors or contributors to Project 2025, including Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, border czar Tom Homan, FCC chairman Brendan Carr, CIA director John Ratcliffe, trade adviser Peter Navarro, SEC chairman Paul Atkins and many more.

Yet, the president appeared to downplay his understanding of it in June 2024 when he declared, “I know nothing about Project 2025” and “I have no idea who is behind it.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/project-2025-policies-trump-administration-b2890180.html

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Trump's inner circle is filled with architects of Project 2025. Here are the policies they have implemented so far (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago OP
"ultra-conservative" means fascism William Seger 11 hrs ago #1
I hope Trump's inner circle liberalgunwilltravel 11 hrs ago #2
If I had money I would invest in cyanide pills. Dave Bowman 11 hrs ago #3
Just wait, here comes Project 2026 C_U_L8R 10 hrs ago #4
"Yet, the president appeared to downplay his understanding of it in June 2024 when he declared, MLWR 10 hrs ago #5
I've been following along on the Project 2025 tracker page OnlinePoker 9 hrs ago #6

MLWR

(756 posts)
5. "Yet, the president appeared to downplay his understanding of it in June 2024 when he declared,
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 03:38 PM
10 hrs ago

"I know nothing about Project 2025."
Just more lies from the biggest LIAR ever to walk this earth.

OnlinePoker

(6,082 posts)
6. I've been following along on the Project 2025 tracker page
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 04:22 PM
9 hrs ago

126 completed and 67 in progress right now out of 313 objectives.

https://www.project2025.observer/en

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