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, ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Project 2025 stands vindicated as the defining policy plan of Donald Trump’s second presidency. A detailed governing blueprint written largely by veterans of his first ...

Donald Trump disavowed any knowledge of Project 2025 throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. He may have been afraid that the detailed plan for his second term, commissioned by the right-wing ...

During Donald Trump's second presidential term, his administration not only enacted many policy recommendations that aligned with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 but it also hired several ...

President Donald Trump acknowledged the influence of Project 2025 in his presidency yesterday, despite having denied any knowledge of or connection to the project repeatedly throughout the election.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s ...