Project 2025, a far-right blueprint President Trump once claimed he had no connection to, is already reshaping the federal government. By the end of 2025, trackers from advocacy groups and labor unions estimate that roughly half of its proposals have been implemented through executive orders, agency restructuring, and key personnel appointments.
The 900-page plan seeks to narrow how the federal government defines gender, sexuality, race, and equity. It calls for eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, ending data collection used to track inequality, and removing references to abortion, reproductive rights, and gender identity from federal policy. Several architects of Project 2025 now hold influential roles within the administration, accelerating its rollout.
On reproductive rights, an estimated 40% of Project 2025’s abortion restrictions are already in place. The administration has rescinded emergency abortion-care guidance, dismantled federal reproductive access efforts, cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, and delayed the release of national abortion data—limiting public insight in the post-Dobbs era.
LGBTQ+ protections have also been rolled back. Federal agencies removed LGBTQ+ data and references following executive orders targeting “gender ideology,” reduced funding 0and insurance access for gender-affirming care, and narrowed civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ students and workers under federal law. Clinics providing trans health care are closing nationwide, despite some court intervention.
Together, these actions signal a major shift in federal governance. While Trump publicly distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign, its priorities are now firmly embedded in policy—reshaping civil rights, health care, and the reach of presidential power.
The above summarizes the Dec. 24, 2025 PBS News article, “Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year,” by Amanda Becker, Orion Rummler, and Mariel Padilla, originally published by The 19th(19thnews.org).
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Bonus points if you caught the summary title reference as a nod to the 1970s song by Zager & Evans “In the Year 2525.”