What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term

A 900-page plan drawn up by former Donald Trump aides and endorsed by a powerful right-wing think tank has long been seens as giving the former president a roadmap for his second administration. House Democrats led by California Rep. Jared Huffman created a Stop Project 2025 Task Force to coordinate with members of Congress, pro-democracy and civil rights groups and impacted communities “to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this right-wing plot to undermine democracy.” “Project 2025 is more than an idea, it’s a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will,” Huffman said in a statement on June 11. “We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it’s too late.” Project 2025 was drafted by dozens of former Trump administration officials and other loyalists, nearly half of which are the recipients of dark money contributions from groups tied to conservative donor Leonard Leo, who helped usher in Trump’s radical restructuring of the federal judiciary. “They’re also planning to restrict funding for birth control and other preventive care and attacking gender-affirming care and sex education.” During the campaign the task force served as a public messaging campaign as interest in Project 2025 surged on social media and it could now function as a key bulwark in Congress against any moves by Trump to pursue such an agenda. “Project 2025 will not be ‘stopped’ by an unserious, mistake-riddled press release or a task force of House Democrats lacking a basic understanding of federal governance,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a statement.