Trump Executive Orders Follow Project 2025 Instructions

By staff on October 20, 2025

During the presidential campaign, Trump answered questions and posted on his social media that he knew nothing about Project 2025 and didn’t know who was behind it. This despite at least 23 of his first term cabinet and appointees among the 2025 authors. Vice President Vance was also involved by writing the forward to a book on Project 2025 by the plan’s architect Kevin Roberts.

Many of Trump’s current 2nd term cabinet and appointees to head government departments, including Russ Vought, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Karoline Levitt, Brendan Carr, Peter Navarro, Adam Candeub, James Baehr, Brian Cavanaugh, Paul Atkins, Stephen Billy were also involved in creating Project 2025.

Below is a look at how Trumps orders have followed Project 2025 since his election. The Trump/Vance Administration has completed 48% of Project 2025.

•Project 2025 Tracker
(lists Project 2025 plans that match Trump executive orders completed, in progress, and coming up with links:
https://www.project2025.observer/en.

Project 2025 Items 100% Completed

•Dept of Education – Roll back student loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans (pg 337); Cease investigating Title VI disparate impact cases (pg 335); Rescind Biden-era Title IX rules that strengthen ability to prosecute sexual assault & discrimination cases (pg 333); Expand School Choice (public funding for private schools) (pg 350); Issue rules and guidance that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact (pg 334); Rescind Biden-era guidance that added “non-binary” option in civil. Rights data collected from schools (pg 332); Abandon redefinition of “sex” to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX (pg 333)

•Dept of Homeland Security – Allow Secret Service officers to serve as law enforcement in DC (pg 158); Increase ICE funding for 100,000 beds (pg 143); Increase USCIS fees and implement fee for asylum applications (pg 146); Repeal TPS designations (pg 145); Authorize. State and local law enforcement to participate in immigration actions (pg 150); Create a detention standard that includes flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents (pg 140); Eliminate Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (page 164); Eliminate Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (pg 166); Eliminate Office of Immigration and Detention Ombudsman (pg 165); Terminate CISA’s counter-mission/disinformation efforts (pg 155); Increase use of civil search warrants for workplace raids (pg 142); Remove and replace all current members of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee (pg 138); ICE should be required to take custody of all aliens with records of felonnies, DUIs, and any other crime considered a national security or public safety threat (pg 141); Dismiss the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (pg 155); Raise the standard of credible fear of persecution for asylum seekers(pg 148)

•Dept of Justice – Rescind AG Garland’s policy that limited ability to subpoena journalists during leak investigations (pg 214); DOJ should withdraw from lawsuits seeking to uphold EMTALA abortion requirements (pg 474); Take position that Humphrey’s Executor violates separation of powers (pg 560); Avoiddd politically motivated prosecutions (people who violate the FACE Act (pg 558); eliminate existing DOJ consent decrees (pg 558); Issue guidance to all US Attorneys emphasizing importance of prosecuting immigration offenses (pg 567); Pursue death penalty for all applicable crimes (pg 554); Prohibit US government from combating spread of misinformation and disinformation (pg 550); End any policies, investigations, or cases that run contrary to administration policies, including “the brazenly partisan and ideologically driven prosecution…” (pg 557)

•Dept of Energy – Limit subsidized renewables (pg 401); Eliminate Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management or redirect it to increasing fossil fuel use (pg 377); Focus energy policy on critical minerals (pg 376); Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act (pg 365)

•EPA — Environmental Protection Agency – Downsize by terminating newest hires and relocating career employees to other agencies (pg 422); Eliminate Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (pg 421); Stop all grants to advocacy groups (pg 422); Eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon (pg 436)

•Dept of Health & Human Services – Rescind guidance requiring hospitals to perform an abortion to save a woman’s life under EEMTALA (pg 473); Reverse prohibition on healthcare discrimination based on gender identity (pg 475); Withdraw Biden-era guidance that strengthened HIPPA protections for reproductive care (pg 497); Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on pregnancy (to cover abortion) (pg 475); Enforce the Hyde amendment banning any federal funds from being used for abortions, abortion counseling, etc. (pg 471)

•Dept of Transportation – Reduce fuel economy requirements (pg 628); Work to facilitate full integration of automated vehicles into the national transportation system (pg 625)

•Dept of Treasury – Withdraw from the Paris Agreement and UN Framework on Climate Change (pg 709); Reverse support for consideration of environmental, social, and governance principles (pg 709); Reverse the Inflation Reduction Act’s expansion of the IRS (pg 699); Reduce estate and gift tax (pg 697);

•Dept of Labor – Rescind Executive Order 11246 – Equal Opportunity Employment (pg 584); Return to Trump-era overtime exemption threshold (pg 592); Provide robust accommodations for religious employees (prostelizing fellow employees, displaying religious items, and praying together or individually at work) (pg 586); Clarify that no employer is required to provide accommodations for abortion (pg 585); Appoint new EEOC and NLRB general counsels (pg 615)

•Dept of State – Withdraw from the World Health Organization, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and withdraw funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency (pg 191); Freeze allocation of resources, foreign aid disbursements, and hiring and recruiting decisions (pg 174); Indefinitely curtail USRAP refugee admissions (pg 178); Prohibit the flying of “Divisive symbols such as the rainbow flag or the Black Lives Matter flag” at US embassies (pg 89); Reinstate the Mexico City policy banning aid to groups that even communicate about abortion services (pg 261)

•Dept of Interior – Immediately roll back Biden’s executive orders that prioritized addressing climate change (pg 521); Maximize offshore oil and natural gas lease sales (pg 523); Lift the coal leasing moratorium by reinstating SO 3348 (pg 522); End federal mandate and subsidies of electric vehicles (pgs 286 & 537); Vacate Biden-era order protecting 30% of US land and water by 2030 (pg 532); Approve Amber Road Project (211-mile industrial access road. To facilitate development of at least four large-scale mines) (pg 530); Restore exemption of the Roadless Rule on Tongass National Forest (page 531); Reinstate Trump’s Migratory Bird Treaty Act (companies will not be punished for killing birds) (pg 542); Revoke rules regarding predator control and bear baiting (pg 531)

•IC – Intelligence Community – “prioritize security clearance reform” by streamlining the clearance process (pg 207); Revoke security clearance of senior intelligence officials who leak information (Trump revoked 50) (pg 213)

•CPB – Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Stop federal funding of NPR and PBS (pg 246)

•USAGM – US Agency for Global Media – dismantle USAGM’s journalism firewall to align its reporting with the aims of the president (pg 244)

•Housing & Urban Development– End Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) programs, which are a set of guidelines for producing homes appraisals that are free of racial, ethnic, or any other form of bias (pg 508); Repeal the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which requires HUD to actively address historical patterns of segregation (pg 509)

•Personnel – Institute a hiring freeze (pg 78); Rescind Biden Executive order 14003, which revoked Trump’s Schedule F order (pg 73)

•USAID – Cut budget (pg 254); Rescind policies that address climate change (pg 257); Prohibit funding of “sexual reproductive health and reproductive rights and gender equality programs” (pg 259); Prioritize funding for faith based organizations (pg 265); Cut international disaster assistance funding for programs in Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan (page 268); Eliminate Chief Diversity Officer, remove DEI requirements, eliminate funding to partners that promote “discriminatory DEI practices” (pg 258)

•CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission – Reduce regulations on cryptocurrencies (pg 835)

•Securities & Exchange Commission – Rescind the SEC’s climate disclosure rule (pg 832)

•White House — Use government contracts to push back against woke policies in corporate America (pg 48); Require regulatory analysis and OIRA review of historically “independent” agencies (pg 49); Give Office of Personnel Management (White House) responsibility to conduct security clearance investigations (pg 107); Use Congressional Review Act to undo Biden-era final rulemakings (pg 50); Clear out the NNSC, replace all essential detailees with staff aligned to the new President’s priorities (pg 52); Revoke EO 14020, which established the Gender Policy Council (pg 62); Eliminate the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon (pg 61); Give political appointees the power to personally review and authorize appropriated funding (pg 45); Issue an executive order to reshape the US Global Research Program (pg 59); Instruct the CEQ to rewrite regulations implementing NEPA (pg 60); Issue an executive order abolishing the Office of Domestic Climate Policy (pg 61)

•CMS – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Impose. Medicaid work requirements (pg 468); Reduce federal incentives for states to expand Medicaid coverage (pg 467)

•CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Promote fertility awareness-based methods (as opposed to contraception) for family planning (pg 455); End data collection on gender identity (page456)

•Dept of Commerce: Lessen protections for marine life (pg 676); Abolish committees including “Census Scientific Advisory Committee and Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and other populations (pg 682)

•Dept of Defense: Deploy active duty personnel and National Guard to the border (pg 555); Abolish DEI offices in Defense Dept and military, Reinstate service members who were fired due to refusal to comply with Coviid-19 vaccine mandate (pg 103); Prohibit abortion travel funding (pg. 471); Reverse policies allowing transgender individuals to serve in military and end public money for transgender surgery (pg 104);

•Dept of Agriculture: Restrict Low-Income Heat & Energy Assistance Program (pg 301); Roll back updates to Thrifty Food Plan used to calculate SNAP benefits (pg 300); Impose stricter work requirements on SNAP (pg 299); Remove US from association with UN or other efforts to push sustainable food production (pg 293); Reinstate Trump’s executive order to manage wildfires by reducing vegetation and increasing logging (pg 308)