With the second Trump administration and the 119th Congress now in power, the Center for Progressive Reform is defending our safeguards and standing up for our democracy. We’re also driving, supporting, and showcasing progress and positive developments on climate justice, environmental justice, a just energy transition, and more when and where they occur in the states.
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump repeatedly denied any knowledge of or full support for the Project 2025 agenda. As president, however, Trump and his team are now warmly embracing its recommendations and including them in early executive orders.
Trump has also nominated several Project 2025 contributors to key positions in his administration, including key architect Russell Vought. Vought leads the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a role he played during Trump 1.0.
We’ve coordinated with Governing for Impact to track the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025 recommendations. Visit our tracker page to explore the databases we’ve compiled.
We’ve also offered a constructive alternative to Project 2025, and while we don’t expect the second Trump administration to take it up, it can serve as an outline for future administrations focused on the public interest.
The Center for Progressive Reform is tracking numerous Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, the threats they pose to our public protections, and the benefits that would be lost if they pass. Learn more about this dangerous anti-regulatory law and the special interests behind the resolutions in the 119th Congress.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the questionable leadership of Elon Musk, has quickly become the signature initiative of the second Trump administration. Personnel associated with DOGE have fanned out across the executive branch, dismantling them from within by hacking their IT infrastructure, firing staff, and attempting to shut down entire agencies.
DOGE’s actions epitomize the administration’s hostile attitude toward the law and the U.S. Constitution. Despite assertions that it would act with complete transparency, instead DOG has done so covertly, with little to no checks from the executive or legislative branches.
To help congressional leaders, policymakers, and citizens understand the ways that DOGE’s actions may be unlawful, the Center has established the Unmasking DOGE tool that catalogues the numerous legal infirmities that underlie both DOGE as an institution and the specific actions it is carrying out. The tool also assembles background resources and materials related to legal challenges, and it outlines a variety of legal and advocacy strategies for responding to DOGE. You can explore the embedded tracker below, or you can click to open a full-size version in a new tab.
We plan to update this tool on a regular basis by cataloging ongoing developments in lawsuits, academic think pieces, and information and analyses from other reputable sources.
Contributing to this project are Center for Progressive Reform Board Member and Member Scholar Alejandro Camacho and volunteer law students Serapia Kim, Semmie Lee, Maggie Maser, Rachel Sondkar, and Derek Yeghiazarian.
While the Trump administration thinks it has a “mandate” to tear down environmental, climate, and energy justice policies, that’s not the reality on the state and local level. One case in point: ongoing coalition and organizing efforts to build out clean energy and decarbonize the economy in North Carolina in a just, equitable way. This work is happening through the Campaign for Energy Justice, various partnerships and coalitions on the ground, and convenings like a December gathering of residents, experts, and policymakers in rural North Carolina.
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