Here’s how many of Project 2025’s media proposals were implemented in 2025

When the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page compendium of policy suggestions called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” in April 2023, it did so to little fanfare.

By fall 2024, however, Democrats were doing everything they could to tie then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the document, more commonly known as Project 2025. Inside were sweeping recommendations to reshape entire sections of the federal government and consolidate power under a conservative president.

Trump denied any knowledge of Project 2025. But on his first day in office, he signed several executive orders implementing proposals from the policy blueprint. As of mid-December 2025, trackers run by various progressive groups suggest he’s achieved roughly half of Project 2025’s goals.