Several policies behind Project 2025 have been discussed by Republicans throughout the years or pushed by Trump himself, including less federal intervention in education and more support for school choice; work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults on food stamps; and a secure border with increased enforcement of immigration laws, mass deportations and construction of a border wall. 

The project also touches on other hot topics in the political landscape, such as abortion, social issues, targeting federal agencies, employees and policies, and immigration.

Regarding abortion, the initiative urges the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its 24-year-old approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Additional proposed actions centering on medication abortion include reinstating stricter rules for mifepristone’s use, which would enable it to be taken up to seven weeks into a pregnancy instead of the current ten weeks, and requiring it to be dispensed in-person instead of through the mail.

Project 2025 also targets longstanding federal agencies, such as calling for the downsizing of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.

The policy book states that NOAA’s six offices, including the National Weather Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, “form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and is harmful to future U.S. prosperity” the policy book states. 

The guidebook for Project 2025 also calls for the dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, either combined with others or moved under the purview of other departments altogether.

The project also targets diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives in higher education at the executive level by removing various DEI-related positions, policies, and programs and calling for the termination of funding for partners that promote DEI practices.

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