Project 2025 tracker
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Define sex as biological across federal agencies
Project 2025 calls for a biological-sex interpretation of Title IX across departments. Executive Order 14168 established sex definitions for executive-branch policy and directed agencies to rescind conflicting guidance.
Dismantle federal DEI programs and policies
Project 2025 calls for removing DEI and related terms, offices, programs, grant conditions, and contracting requirements across the federal government. Executive Order 14151 directed agencies to terminate DEI/DEIA offices, programs, grants, and performance requirements to the maximum extent allowed by law.
Eliminate Grad PLUS loans
Project 2025 specifically recommends eliminating Grad PLUS loans; its Parent PLUS recommendation is separate from this comparison.
Eliminate Parent PLUS loans
Project 2025 proposes ending new Parent PLUS lending. Public Law 119-21 instead imposes new annual and aggregate Parent PLUS borrowing limits beginning July 1, 2026.
Eliminate the federal Department of Education
Project 2025 calls for ultimately eliminating the federal Department of Education and returning authority to states.
End federal DEI and gender-identity initiatives in K-12 education
Project 2025 calls for federal education civil-rights enforcement to reject gender ideology and critical race theory. Executive Order 14190 directed agencies to eliminate specified federal support for what it calls discriminatory equity ideology and gender ideology in K–12 schools.
End federal-contractor affirmative-action requirements
Project 2025 recommends rescinding Executive Order 11246 and eliminating OFCCP. Executive Order 14173 revoked Executive Order 11246 and directed a contracting transition, but OFCCP's remaining statutory responsibilities are distinct.
End state Medicaid financing loopholes
Project 2025 directs CMS to end state Medicaid financing loopholes. Public Law 119-21 and a CMS final rule restrict provider-tax and state-directed-payment arrangements used to generate federal matching funds.
Establish Medicaid work or community-engagement requirements
Project 2025 recommends Medicaid work requirements or incentives for able-bodied beneficiaries and broader state flexibility.
Expand centralized deregulatory controls
Project 2025 recommends reviving Trump-era regulatory controls, including Executive Order 13771. Executive Order 14192 established a ten-for-one elimination rule and regulatory budget for new regulatory actions.
Expand federal resource development in Alaska
Project 2025 recommends restoring 2020 Alaska oil-and-gas decisions and expanding approvals. Executive Order 14153 directed agencies to reverse specified restrictions and prioritize Alaska resource development.
Expand mandatory immigration detention
Project 2025 proposes changing Title 8 so covered noncitizens must be detained. The Laken Riley Act instead added mandatory detention for specified noncitizens arrested for or charged with listed offenses.
Expand school choice and parent-controlled education options
Project 2025 recommends portability and federal tax incentives for education choice. Executive Order 14191 directed agencies to identify and support education-choice mechanisms but did not itself enact nationwide vouchers or tax credits.
Expand state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement
Project 2025 recommends federal authorization and incentives for state and local immigration cooperation. Executive Order 14159 directed expanded state/local agreements and action against sanctuary jurisdictions, but Congress has not enacted the full proposed authorization.
Increase Medicaid eligibility verification and redeterminations
Project 2025 calls for stronger Medicaid eligibility determinations. Public Law 119-21 and implementing CMS actions added community-engagement and related eligibility-administration requirements, but do not reproduce every listed verification proposal.
Increase presidential control of independent agencies
Project 2025 recommends OIRA review for independent agencies. Executive Order 14215 placed independent regulatory agencies under centralized White House regulatory review and coordination.
Narrow NEPA review and streamline federal permitting
Project 2025 recommends rewriting CEQ's NEPA regulations to restore and extend the 2020 approach. CEQ removed its government-wide NEPA regulations effective April 11, 2025 and issued guidance for agency procedures.
Provide mandatory appropriations for border-wall-system infrastructure
Project 2025 calls for mandatory appropriations for border-wall systems, technology, and personnel.
Reform higher-education accreditation
Project 2025 recommends opening the accreditation market and changing federal recognition. Executive Order 14279 and Education Department actions pursue competition, easier switching, new accreditors, and negotiated rulemaking.
Reimplement and strengthen SNAP work requirements
Project 2025 recommends reimplementing SNAP work requirements and tightening state waiver availability.
Reinstate Schedule F or an equivalent policy-career system
Project 2025 supports reinstating Schedule F or an equivalent system for policy-influencing career positions.
Reinstate the Mexico City Policy
Project 2025 recommends reinstating and expanding Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, commonly called the Mexico City Policy. A January 2025 presidential memorandum reinstated the 2017 policy memorandum.
Remove federal electric-vehicle preferences
Project 2025 recommends reversing federal electric-vehicle preferences and resetting fuel-economy policy. Executive Order 14154 directed elimination of the EV mandate, while Public Law 119-21 ended specified vehicle tax credits.
Repeal Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy subsidies
Project 2025 calls for repealing the IIJA and IRA and rescinding unspent program funds. Public Law 119-21 terminated or narrowed specified clean-energy credits and spending provisions but did not repeal either statute in full.
Restore a biological-sex interpretation of Title IX
Project 2025 recommends restoring the 2020 Title IX rule and a biological-sex interpretation. After a federal court vacated the 2024 rule nationwide, the Education Department announced enforcement based on the 2020 rule.
Restrict asylum, parole, and discretionary immigration pathways
Project 2025 recommends narrow, case-specific parole and an end to categorical parole. Executive Order 14165 directed termination of categorical parole programs and stricter border/asylum policy, subject to statute and implementation.
Restrict federal abortion-access policy and funding
Project 2025 proposes ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Section 71113 of Public Law 119-21 imposed a one-year Medicaid funding restriction on defined prohibited entities.
Restrict federal collective bargaining
Project 2025 recommends reinstating Trump-era executive orders restricting aspects of federal collective bargaining. Executive Order 14251 excluded designated agencies and subdivisions from collective-bargaining requirements on national-security grounds.
Restrict transgender military service
Project 2025 recommends reversing transgender military-service policies. Executive Order 14183 and Defense Department implementation imposed service restrictions based on gender dysphoria and related policy.
Restructure student-loan repayment and forgiveness
Project 2025 proposes a single redesigned federal loan program without interest subsidies or forgiveness and with borrowing limits and institutional risk sharing. Public Law 119-21 and Education Department implementation restructure repayment and borrowing, but do not complete the full proposal.
Restructure USAID and foreign assistance
Project 2025 recommends scaling back and restructuring USAID. Executive Order 14169 paused foreign development assistance for review, and official USAID OIG reporting says most awards and positions were terminated, missions closed, and remaining functions shifted to State or closeout.
Revise Endangered Species Act rules
Project 2025 recommends restoring 2020-era critical-habitat rules. A 2026 final Fish and Wildlife Service rule revises the section 4(b)(2) critical-habitat exclusion process.
Shift disaster preparedness and recovery responsibility toward states
Project 2025 proposes shifting most preparedness and response costs to states and localities. Executive Order 14239 established a policy of greater state/local responsibility and directed a national resilience strategy and federal-policy review.
Strengthen OIRA review to rein in the regulatory state
Project 2025 calls for strong OIRA review to reduce regulatory burdens. Executive Order 14219 later assigned OIRA a central role in a unified agenda to rescind or modify identified regulations.
Suspend or curtail refugee admissions
Project 2025 recommends indefinite curtailment of refugee admissions while vetting resources are redirected. Executive Order 14163 suspended USRAP admissions subject to case-by-case exceptions.
Use federal hiring controls to reduce bureaucracy
Project 2025 recommends a Department of Labor hiring freeze. The January 2025 presidential memorandum imposed a temporary executive-branch hiring freeze and required an OMB workforce plan.
Withdraw from international climate-finance commitments
Project 2025 calls for withdrawing from climate-change agreements it considers contrary to U.S. prosperity. Treasury later withdrew the United States from the Green Climate Fund and its board.
Withdraw from the Paris climate agreement
Project 2025 recommends withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the UN climate convention. The January 2025 executive order directed withdrawal, and the Paris Agreement withdrawal took effect in January 2026.
Withdraw the 30x30 order and America the Beautiful initiative
Project 2025 expressly calls for withdrawing the 30x30 executive order and the associated America the Beautiful initiative. Executive Order 14148 later revoked Executive Order 14008.
Withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization
Project 2025 uses the World Health Organization as an example while recommending that the United States be prepared to withdraw from ineffective international organizations. Executive Order 14155 initiated U.S. withdrawal from WHO.