Project 2025 To-Do Checklist

Apr 05, 2025

✅ The Project 2025 To-Do List

A live blueprint of the far-right’s agenda—and how much of it they’ve already checked off.

✅ = Fully implemented
🟡 = In progress / partially implemented
❌ = Not yet started or blocked

✅ Replace top civil servants with political loyalists (Schedule F revival already underway)
✅ Centralize executive power under the President (Purges at DOJ and DHS already happening)
🟡 Eliminate or gut “independent” agencies like the FBI, FTC, and Fed (Drafts in place, messaging increasing)
🟡 Use DOJ to punish political enemies (Trump and allies openly vowing retribution)
🟡 Restructure the Department of Justice to align with executive priorities
🟡 Impose stricter controls on federal law enforcement agencies

✅ Ban Critical Race Theory and DEI initiatives in schools and universities (Red states already passing bans)
🟡 Strip funding from public universities promoting “leftist” ideas (Bills filed in several states)
🟡 Abolish the Department of Education entirely
❌ Enforce school prayer and religious instruction through federal power
🟡 Promote school choice through voucher programs (Widespread in red states)
❌ Eliminate federal student loan programs
🟡 Revise Title IX interpretations (Narrowing scope of sex discrimination protections)

✅ End federal protections for abortion access (Post-Roe state bans already in effect)
🟡 Ban abortion pills nationwide (Major SCOTUS case underway)
✅ Block trans healthcare access for youth (Laws already passed in multiple states)
❌ Defund Planned Parenthood and similar providers
❌ Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
🟡 Introduce block grants for Medicaid (State-level experiments underway)
🟡 Allow interstate sale of health insurance (GOP-aligned policy think tanks pushing it)

✅ Reinstate family separation policies at the border (Planned under Trump 2.0, some renewed use reported)
✅ Deploy military and drones domestically for immigration enforcement
✅ Use executive orders to mass deport undocumented immigrants
❌ End birthright citizenship
❌ Bar immigrants who “don’t share American values”

✅ Roll back environmental regulations (Clean Water, Clean Air, EPA rules)
✅ Suppress union power and worker protections (Targeting the NLRB, threatening strikes)
❌ Privatize Medicare and Social Security
❌ Eliminate the Department of Labor
❌ Shift regulatory oversight to industry-controlled boards
🟡 Implement a flat tax system (Heavily promoted in conservative circles)
❌ Privatize government-sponsored enterprises (e.g., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac)

✅ Redefine “religious freedom” to protect discrimination (Anti-LGBTQ+ bills already cite it)
✅ Elevate Christianity as the dominant national identity (School prayer, Ten Commandments bills)
❌ Use federal funds to support religious schools and churches
❌ Override local laws with “biblical values” tests

✅ Cut funding for federal agencies deemed “unnecessary” (EPA, DOJ Civil Rights Division, etc.)
❌ Create a secretive office to fire 'disloyal' federal employees
❌ Outsource key government functions to private right-wing contractors
🟡 Reclassify federal employees to facilitate easier dismissal (Schedule F revival proposal)

🟡 Restructure the Department of Justice to align with executive priorities (Messaging and planning underway)
🟡 Impose stricter controls on federal law enforcement agencies (Trump loyalists pushing this post-2024)

✅ Reduce the size and scope of the EPA (Already slashed under Trump, more cuts proposed)
❌ Eliminate the Department of Commerce
🟡 Reclassify federal employees to facilitate easier dismissal (Schedule F framework in play)

❌ Withdraw from international climate agreements (Paris Agreement withdrawal likely under Trump)
❌ Reevaluate participation in international organizations (UN, WHO, NATO under threat)

🟡 Reduce federal involvement in affordable housing programs (Budget cuts and deregulatory moves proposed)

❌ Dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
🟡 Repeal elements of the Dodd-Frank Act (Rollbacks already proposed and partially implemented)

🟡 Reduce federal funding for public transportation projects (Budget priorities shifting toward highways)
🟡 Deregulate the telecommunications industry (Net neutrality repealed under Trump; more deregulation planned)

✅ Open public lands for increased resource extraction (Mining, drilling already expanded under GOP states)
🟡 Limit the scope of the Endangered Species Act (Court challenges and rule changes underway)

✅ Increase defense spending (GOP proposals already boosting budget)
❌ Reestablish enhanced interrogation techniques (Some factions calling for revival of waterboarding and more)

❌ Implement term limits for Congress (Requires constitutional amendment—unlikely but floated)
❌ Require a balanced federal budget (GOP budget proposals push this but not enforceable yet)