Project 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT
(I have not yet read...will be sharing as I read this document which is being used for what is now happening under the Trump administration)
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix THE PROJECT 2025 ADVISORY BOARD
xi THE 2025 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT: A NOTE ON “PROJECT 2025”
xiii AUTHORS
xv CONTRIBUTORS
xxv FOREWORD: A PROMISE TO AMERICA
Kevin D. Roberts, PhD
SECTION 1: TAKING THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT ..........................19 1. WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 23 Rick Dearborn
2. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................................................43 Russ Vought
3. CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCIES: MANAGING THE BUREAUCRACY ............................................................................. 69 Donald Devine, Dennis Dean Kirk, and Paul Dans SECTION
2: THE COMMON DEFENSE ..............................................................87
4. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ........................................................................................91 Christopher Miller
5. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY .....................................................133 Ken Cuccinelli
6. DEPARTMENT OF STATE .....................................................................
SECTION 3: THE GENERAL WELFARE .........................................................283
10. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE .........................................................................289 Daren Bakst 11. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ..............................................................................319 Lindsey M. Burke 12. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND RELATED COMMISSIONS .................................................................................363 Bernard L. McNamee 13. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ......................................................417 Mandy M. Gunasekara 14. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ...............................................................................................449 Roger Severino
15. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................................503 Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD
16. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ..........................................................................517 William Perry Pendley 17. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE .......................................................................................545 Gene Hamilton 18. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND RELATED AGENCIES ...........................................................................................581 Jonathan Berry 19. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ..............................................................619 Diana Furchtgott-Roth 20. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ............................................................641 Brooks D. T
SECTION 4: THE ECONOMY .....................................................................................657 21. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ...............................................................................663 Thomas F. Gilman 22. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY .......................................................................691 William L. Walton, Stephen Moore, and David R. Burton
23. EXPORT–IMPORT BANK ...............................................................................................717 THE EXPORT–IMPORT BANK SHOULD BE ABOLISHED ....................717 Veronique de Rugy THE CASE FOR THE EXPORT–IMPORT BANK .........................................724 Jennifer Hazelton
24. FEDERAL RESERVE .........................................................................................................731 Paul Winfree
25. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION .................................................................745 Karen Kerrigan
26. TRADE ......................................................................................................................................765 THE CASE FOR FAIR TRADE ...............................................................................765 Peter Navarro THE CASE FOR FREE TRADE ..............................................................................796 Kent Lassman SECTION 5: IN
SECTION 5: INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES ...............825
27. FINANCIAL REGULATORY AGENCIES ...............................................................829 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND RELATED AGENCIES .....................................................................................829 David R. Burton CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU ...................................837 Robert Bowes
28. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ...............................................845 Brendan Carr
29. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ......................................................................861 Hans A. von Spakovsky 30. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ............................................................................869 Adam Candeub
ONWARD! ...............................................................................................................................883 Edwin J. Feulner
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Acknowledgments
This work, Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise, is a collective effort of hundreds of volunteers who have banded together in the spirit of advancing positive change for America. Our work is by no means the comprehensive compendium of conservative policies, nor is our group the exclusive cadre of conservative thinkers. The ideas expressed in this volume are not necessarily shared by all. What unites us is the drive to make our country better.
First and foremost, we thank the chapter authors and contributors who gave so freely of their time in service of their country. We were particularly grateful to have the help of dedicated members of The Heritage Foundation’s management and policy teams. Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan, Chief of Staff Wesley Coopersmith, Associate Director of Project 2025 Spencer Chretien, and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies Director Paul Ray devoted a significant amount of their valuable time to reviewing and editing the lengthy manuscript and provided expert advice and insight.
The job of transforming the work of dozens of authors and hundreds of contributors into a cohesive manuscript fell upon Heritage’s formidable team of editors led by Director of Research Editors Therese Pennefather, Senior Editor William T. Poole, Marla Hess, Jessica Lowther, Karina Rollins, and Kathleen Scaturro, without whose tireless efforts you would not be reading these words. The talented work of Data Graphics Services Manager John Fleming, Manager of Web Development and Print Projects Jay Simon, Director of Marketing Elizabeth Fender, Senior Graphic Designer Grace Desandro, and Senior Designer Melissa Bluey came together to bring the volume to life. We also thank the dedicated junior staff who provided immeasurable assistance, especially Jordan Embree, Sarah Calvis, and Jonathan Moy.
Most important, we are grateful to the leadership, supporters, and donors of each of the Project 2025 advisory board member organizations and those of The Heritage Foundation, without whom Project 2025 would not be possible. Thank you. Paul Dans & Steven Groves
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The Project 2025 Advisory Board
Alabama Policy Institute Alliance Defending Freedom American Compass The American Conservative America First Legal Foundation American Accountability Foundation American Center for Law and Justice American Cornerstone Institute American Council of Trustees and Alumni American Legislative Exchange Council The American Main Street Initiative American Moment American Principles Project Center for Equal Opportunity Center for Family and Human Rights Center for Immigration Studies Center for Renewing America Claremont Institute Coalition for a Prosperous America Competitive Enterprise Institute Conservative Partnership Institute Concerned Women for America Defense of Freedom Institute Ethics and Public Policy Center Family Policy Alliance Family Research Council First Liberty Institute Forge Leadership Network Foundation for Defense of Democracies Foundation for Government Accountability FreedomWorks The Heritage Foundation Hillsdale College Honest Elections Project — xi —Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise Independent Women’s Forum Institute for the American Worker Institute for Energy Research Institute for Women’s Health Intercollegiate Studies Institute James Madison Institute Keystone Policy The Leadership Institute Liberty University National Association of Scholars National Center for Public Policy Research Pacific Research Institute Patrick Henry College Personnel Policy Operations Recovery for America Now Foundation 1792 Exchange Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Texas Public Policy Foundation Teneo Network Young America’s Foundation (to save space, these are printed continuously rather than on single lines but you should be able to see breaks between groups)
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The 2025 Presidential Transition Project
A NOTE ON “PROJECT 2025”
We want you! The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is the conservative movement’s unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025. Welcome to the mission. By opening this book, you are now a part of it. Indeed, one set of eyes reading these passages will be those of the 47th President of the United States, and we hope every other reader will join in making the incoming Administration a success. History teaches that a President’s power to implement an agenda is at its apex during the Administration’s opening days. To execute requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it. In recent election cycles, presidential candidates normally began transition planning in the late spring of election year or even after the party’s nomination was secured. That is too late. The federal government’s complexity and growth advance at a seemingly logarithmic rate every four years. For conservatives to have a fighting chance to take on the Administrative State and reform our federal government, the work must start now. The entirety of this effort is to support the next conservative President, whoever he or she may be.
In the winter of 1980, the fledging Heritage Foundation handed to President-elect Ronald Reagan the inaugural Mandate for Leadership. This collective work by conservative thought leaders and former government hands—most of whom were not part of Heritage—set out policy prescriptions, agency by agency for the incoming President. The book literally put the conservative movement and Reagan on the same page, and the revolution that followed might never have been, save for this band of committed and volunteer activists. With this volume, we have gone back to the future—and then some. — xiii
It’s not 1980. In 2023, the game has changed. The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before. The task at hand to reverse this tide and restore our Republic to its original moorings is too great for any one conservative policy shop to spearhead. It requires the collective action of our movement. With the quickening approach of January 2025, we have two years and one chance to get it right. Project 2025 is more than 50 (and growing) of the nation’s leading conservative organizations joining forces to prepare and seize the day. The axiom goes “personnel is policy,” and we need a new generation of Americans to answer the call and come to serve. This book is functionally an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.
The project is built on four pillars. l l l l
Pillar I—this volume—puts in one place a consensus view of how major federal agencies must be governed and where disagreement exists brackets out these differences for the next President to choose a path.
Pillar II is a personnel database that allows candidates to build their own professional profiles and our coalition members to review and voice their recommendations. These recommendations will then be collated and shared with the President-elect’s team, greatly streamlining the appointment process.
Pillar III is the Presidential Administration Academy, an online educational system taught by experts from our coalition. For the newcomer, this will explain how the government functions and how to function in government. For the experienced, we will host in-person seminars with advanced training and set the bar for what is expected of senior leadership.
In Pillar IV—the Playbook—we are forming agency teams and drafting transition plans to move out upon the President’s utterance of “so help me God.”
Note: Bold and otherwise markings will be by Me...
Response to this, so far...
It is quite clear that the republican party (conservatives) have no interest in working at a national level to preserve and expand the democracy we have...
It is also quite clear since January of this year, that the personnel hired by this presidency were not trained and/or have been sworn to loyalty to a mandate of conservatism as opposed to the true Mandate for America: The Constitution!
While the campaign took place, Trump did not acknowledge Project 2025 had anything to do with him, yet began to use "we have a mandate from Voters..." My guess is that, including me, nobody had access to this document before the election...
Please note that, even in this document, the writers charged that Marxists were now in charge... Who even knows what a marxist means as used by these writers! What I know is that Joe Biden has already been judged to have done more for America in his one term than any other presidnt in the recent past. Judges by Americams as a whole during that period...not just for conservatives...
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