About half of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint to remake the U.S. government, was actually enacted in 2025. Despite Donald Trump publicly distancing himself from the plan during the 2024 campaign, several of the policy blueprint’s authors now work inside his administration. Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought, a principal author of the plan, and others are advancing efforts to shrink the federal workforce and consolidate executive control — core goals of P