The Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025 has stalled, according to an online tracker.
A website created by two Reddit users says the number of policies outlined in the conservative document that the White House has implemented has decreased in the last few months. The website does not provide the methodology it uses to track Project 2025.
Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Heritage Foundation by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.
Why It Matters
Project 2025 is a 900-page document of policy proposals spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation think tank. It advocates limited government, border security and tough immigration laws, among other conservative measures.
It was a source of debate before the election, with Democrats accusing Trump of planning to implement it if he won. Before the election Trump called parts of it “ridiculous and abysmal.” But after he won, he told Time in an interview that he disagreed with parts of it, but not all of it.
What To Know
According to the tracker, the rate at which the objectives outlined in the document have been implemented is now in decline. As per information provided by the tracker, between January and July, 13 objectives were completed on average per month. But since August, an average of one policy objective per month has been implemented.
Overall, Trump has enacted almost half of Project 2025 (48 percent) including budget cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The tracker said that the document has a total of 318 objectives and that 119 have been completed while 66 are in progress.
Fifty of these objectives were completed in January in the earliest days of Trump’s new administration and the most recently approved plan, on October 5, was approving the Amble Road Project, a proposal for a 211-mile industrial access road to facilitate the development of four mines.
Faith Williams, the director of the effective and accountable government program at nonpartisan independent watchdog the Project On Government Oversight, told Newsweek: “The President has come a long way from saying he has ‘nothing to do with Project 2025’ last year, to referring today to his budget chief, Russ Vought, as ‘”‘of PROJECT 2025 FAME.’ Regardless of how closely past, current, and future policies hew to Project 2025, it’s clear that this administration shows no signs of slowing down in its efforts to shift how the federal government serves the public, including weaponizing the Department of Justice, deploying troops in our cities, and denigrating whistleblowers.”
What People Are Saying
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office wrote on X: “Trump tried to distance himself from Project 2025. But 9 months in, he has already put 48 percent into action. And now, with his shutdown, he’s all in—embracing the plan’s disastrous cuts and divisive policies.”
Adrienne Cobb, one of the tracker’s creators, told The Cut: “I don’t think the absence of progress on these goals can be interpreted as an unwillingness to complete them.”
Trump, on Truth Social this month: “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT”
What Happens Next
On Thursday, Trump met with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought, one of the document’s authors, to decide where to make government cuts.
Regardless of its pace, Project 2025’s influence on federal workforce structure, agency priorities, and the role of presidential power is expected to remain a point of debate in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms and beyond.
