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Project 2025: The Plan, the Power, and the Pressure Points
What exactly is Project 2025? It’s not a law, a campaign slogan, or a conspiracy—it’s a master plan for how a future conservative administration could govern from day one. Designed by the Heritage Foundation and a coalition of right-leaning policy groups, Project 2025 sketches out how to reshape Washington by concentrating decision-making inside the executive branch, replacing key personnel, and rewriting how federal agencies function.
Since President Trump’s return to office, several early moves have mirrored that playbook—reviving Schedule F, freezing hiring, and issuing sweeping executive orders that tighten White House control over the bureaucracy. Whether one sees this as overdue accountability or alarming centralization, it marks a moment of profound constitutional testing.
These three companion pieces explore the story from every angle:
“Inside the Blueprint” traces how the plan began and what it aims to do.
“After the Switch Is Flipped” looks at what comes next—and who stands behind it.
“Constitutional Stress Test” examines the legality, the balance of power, and how the nation’s founding framework may bend or hold under pressure.
Together, they offer a clear, grounded look at one of the most consequential re-imaginations of American governance in a generation—what it could change, and what it might cost.
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