What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda and blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that opposes abortion and reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial equity. Project 2025’s largest publication, “Mandate For Leadership,” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the entire federal government agency by agency to serve a conservative agenda.
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Project 2025 includes a long list of extreme policy recommendations touching on nearly every aspect of American life, from immigration and abortion rights, to free speech and racial justice. A number of its recommendations rely on support from the executive branch and from Congress. Many other initiatives are outright unconstitutional.
What Are Some Plans/Proposals Included in Project 2025?
Project 2025 calls for hundreds of individual policy changes that will impact our constitutional freedoms, and every aspect of our lives. Among them are:
GUTTING ABORTION ACCESS
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
What you can do with us today:
Restore Our Rights: Reproductive Freedom NOW
As politicians continue to attack our bodily autonomy nationwide, tell Congress to act.
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
MASS DEPORTATIONS
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
What you can do with us today:
Shut Down the ICE Detention Machine
Immigrant detention is inhumane, arbitrary, and rife with abuse. Urge the Biden administration to close ICE detention facilities across the country.
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ABUSING WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with warrantless surveillance of our data.
Learn more:
How Trump’s Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms
Congress can fight back against egregious violations of our privacy by the government. Tell them to take action now.
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UNLEASHING UNDUE FORCE ON PROTESTORS
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
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How Trump’s Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms
A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and undermine…
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
SEVERELY LIMITING VOTING ACCESS
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
What you can do with us today:
Actions Archive
If re-elected in November, he and his allies have promised to take actions that would disenfranchise millions, suppress the right to vote, and…
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
CENSORING CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS IN CLASSROOMS
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
What you can do with us today:
Defend Your Right to Learn: Join In The Fight Against Classroom Censorship
In 2023, more than 100 classroom censorship bills aimed at restricting students and teachers from discussing race, gender, or sexual orientation…
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
ROLLING BACK TRANS RIGHTS
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
What you can do with us today:
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
Source: American Civil Liberties Union
What Are Donald Trump’s Connections to Project 2025?
Project 2025 was published by The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank with direct ties to former President Trump’s administration. Though Trump has falsely claimed he is not connected to Project 2025, a recent report from CNN found at least 140 people who worked on Project 2025 previously worked in the Trump administration. The Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts also previously worked on President Trump’s transition team in 2016, and has described his organization’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.”
Roberts was also one of the principle advocates for overturning the 2020 election to keep Donald Trump in office after he lost the election. Heritage Foundation executive Mike Howell recently called the 2024 election illegitimate before voting even began, claiming without evidence that any result other than a Trump victory will have been the result of fraud.
How is the ACLU Fighting Back?
In a series of 13 memos, the ACLU details the civil liberties and civil rights challenges presented by a potential Donald Trump or Kamala Harris presidency, and provides a roadmap for how we will fight to preserve and expand the freedom of all people. This includes:
- Going to court to preserve and advance the rights of immigrants, LGBTQ rights, abortion access, nondiscrimination laws, voting rights, and the free speech of all people.
- Working with Congress members to enact policy solutions to many of the most extreme proposals in Project 2025 and using Congress’s constitutional powers to provide oversight, investigate wrongdoing, and defund executive branch policies which restrict our fundamental freedoms.
- Working with state lawmakers around the country to enact proactive laws that protect people from federal interference.
- Organizing in communities to educate the public about their rights, the harms of Project 2025, and what they can do to preserve and advance our freedoms.
The Trump and Harris Memos
Our democracy hangs in the balance because of initiatives like Project 2025. Read our memos outlining what each presidential candidate means for…
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For more info, watch the video below or visit aclu.org/memos to learn how the ACLU–and you–can fight back against any effort to deny us liberty. You can also share how Project 2025 might impact your personal freedoms and rights here.
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