The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America by David A. Graham

The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

by David A. Graham

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Strip away the 900-plus pages and Project 2025 is a coordinated, ideological plan to expand presidential power and remake American government. Graham translates it into plain language in about 160 pages, and his case is that it's a revolutionary movement whose effects will outlast Trump.

Core ideas
  • Four priorities: Traditional family and gender norms, a dismantled civil service, mass deportation and cuts to business and worker regulation, taken one at a time.
  • A personnel machine: Behind the public document sat a database of about 10,000 vetted job candidates and an unreleased 100-day playbook of drafted executive orders.
  • Denied, then staffed: Trump said during the campaign he knew nothing about it, and Russell Vought, one of its key architects, went on to run the budget office.
Published2025
Pages138
ISBN9798217153725
ReadJan 2026

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