Since Day One, the Trump administration has aggressively pursued policy actions that match the recommendations contained in Project 2025. We have been tracking the administration’s actions since February, and our Executive Action Tracker (jointly maintained by the Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact) highlights the speed and effectiveness with which the administration has advanced Project 2025’s goals.
According to our latest analysis, the Trump administration managed to initiate or fulfill more than 47 percent of the Project 2025 domestic regulatory agenda before the current government shutdown. This represents a substantial increase in the administration’s progress since April, when we found that 28 percent of the agenda had been completed.
In all, 251 of the 532 recommended actions identified in the tracker have been fully or partially completed, with the vast majority of them being actions that directly match the letter of Project 2025. The image below shows these numbers, depicting actions that have been initiated or completed (both direct and indirect) and pending actions.
To get a better sense of how these actions are distributed, we grouped them by agency (the 20 agencies within the executive branch explicitly called out in Project 2025) and divided them into direct, indirect, and pending. Direct actions are those that were initiated or completed by the agency listed as the responsible in Project 2025, and indirect actions are those that achieve the same policy goal but that were implemented by other agencies or Congress.
A clear example of an indirect action is the rollback of Resource Management Plans, crafted by the Bureau of Land Management, which is being achieved using Congressional Review Act resolutions. Despite not being rescinded by BLM, like Project 2025 asked for, the ultimate goal is still being fulfilled.
Similarly, Project 2025 called for restoring the Department of Transportation’s primacy on setting auto fuel efficiency, which is technically being pursued by having the Environmental Protection Agency abandon greenhouse emission standards altogether. This case also shows that, in some cases, the administration has gone beyond even Project 2025’s already extreme recommendations.
Moreover, it’s clear that many of the Trump administration’s signature actions arguably fit the spirit of Project 2025 — centralizing power within the White House or weakening civil rights for marginalized populations — though they were not explicitly called for in the plan. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seizure of agency information systems and the attacks on universities would fall into this category, for example.
If there were any doubts about the administration’s position regarding Project 2025, Trump explicitly embraced it by the time the government shut down, making clear that he intends to use this development as an opportunity to advance the Project’s conservative and authoritarian policy agenda.
To better understand the overall impact of these recommendations on the current administration, visit our Executive Action Tracker.
