Project 2025

The centerpiece of Project 2025's governance philosophy is Schedule F, which would reclassify career federal employees in policy-related positions as at-will employees. Estimates suggest 50,000 or more positions could be affected.

Currently, most federal civil servants have job protections that shield them from political pressure. Schedule F would strip these protections from employees in policy-influencing roles, making it possible to replace them with political appointees loyal to the president.

Proponents argue this would make government more responsive to elected leadership. Critics, including former government officials from both parties, warn it would destroy institutional expertise, politicize functions that should be nonpartisan (like weather forecasting, food safety, and disease surveillance), and create a spoils system reminiscent of the 19th century.

The Mandate for Leadership proposes sweeping changes to every major department. The Department of Education would be eliminated entirely, with functions redistributed to other agencies or states. The EPA would see dramatic reductions in regulatory authority. The DOJ would be restructured to bring it under closer presidential control, reversing decades of post-Watergate norms.

Climate-related programs across the government would be curtailed. The document proposes withdrawing from international climate agreements, eliminating the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, and reversing regulations on power plant emissions.

The FDA chapter proposes using the Comstock Act to restrict mailing of abortion medications, effectively creating a national restriction without Congressional action. The HHS chapter proposes defining life as beginning at conception across federal policy.