Book · 2024 · Political Science
What is Project 2025?
The Easy to Understand Guide
Why people recommend it
What is Project 2025? is a policy document and transition blueprint prepared by conservative organizations to outline a comprehensive framework for reshaping the federal government during a future presidential administration. Emily Jashinsky discussed the document on Breaking Points, characterizing it as the underlying blueprint and long-standing priority guiding the aggressive cuts and plans to dismantle agencies like the Department of Education and USAID. Jashinsky contrasted the organized approach of Trump's second term with his first term, noting that while Donald Trump may not have held the physical book in front of him, the administration's early actions aligned closely with pre-drafted conservative goals. James Billow also mentioned the document on Breaking Points, noting that Steve Bannon expressed strong support for the text, save for its proposals regarding entitlement programs. Meanwhile, on Pod Save America, Darla Lind referenced Project 2025 while discussing pre-drafted memos, immigration policies, and executive actions pursued by the administration. Commentators across various political podcasts frequently invoked the document to analyze the strategic planning and systemic policy changes driving modern conservative governance and federal restructuring.
Who recommended it
- Emily Jashinsky Discussed
- James Billow Discussed
- Darla Lind Discussed
Emily Jashinsky — 3 mentions
“but those are three areas where the like Russ vote project 2025 conservative movement yeah where they had a plan to dismantle them”
“they're just sort of running rampant on this like chaos train and the things that are really aggressively moving are things that were sort of lined up through project 2025 and where there was a an existing long-standing conservative priority and plan”
“that's the difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is you have four years of uh and I I say this seriously project 2025 I don't think Donald Trump is like he doesn't have the book uh in front front of him”
James Billow — 1 mention
“he's a big fan of project 2025 he said he loved the document the only thing he didn't like were the to entitlements and stuff like that”
Darla Lind — 1 mention
“the now again head of om who was running project 2025 he said that you know there were a lot of things that they were working on that were very close hold that weren't put putting in Project 2025 a lot of memos and policy guidance that they were pre-drafted and so we just don't know what the volume of”