The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025

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Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  1. It’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right.
  2. The policy book Mandate for Leadership represents the work of more than 350 leading conservatives and outlines a vision of conservative success.
  3. The usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them?

With the Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, it’s past time to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right. For decades, as the left has continued its march through America’s institutions, conservatives have been outgunned and outmatched when it comes to the art of government.

One reason is because the Republican establishment never moved on from the 1980s. Beltway conservatives still prioritize supply-side economics and a bellicose foreign policy above all else. Belief in small government, strangely enough, has manifested itself in a belief among some conservatives that we should lead by example and not fill all political appointments. Belief in the primacy of the national security state has caused conservative administrations to defer political decisions to the generals and the intelligence community.

The result has been decades of disappointment.

Fortunately, this situation is changing. The conservative movement increasingly knows what time it is in America. More and more of our politicians are willing to use the government to achieve our vision, because the neutrality of “keeping the government out of it” will lose every time to the left’s vast power. The calls for a “new Church Committee” represent a momentous shift in energy; while conservatives used to lament liberal Sen. Frank Church’s original project as a kooky leftist attack against “The Brave Men And Women of Our Intelligence Community,” we’re now the ones agitating for Congress to go after the three-letter agencies.

This new vigor of the right can be found at Project 2025. Organized by the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has brought together 60 (and counting) right-of-center organizations that are ready to get into the business of restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people. The Project’s foundation is built on four interconnected pillars.

The first pillar, the policy book Mandate for Leadership (PDF Below), represents the work of more than 350 leading conservatives and outlines a vision of conservative success at each federal agency during the next administration. Presidential candidates won’t be able to ignore what the conservative movement demands in this book.

The second is our online personnel database. This Conservative LinkedIn which launched in March and provides an opportunity for rock-solid conservatives to place themselves in contention for roles in the next administration. This pillar will bring Mr. (and Mrs.) Smith to Washington.

The third is our Presidential Administration Academy. When conservatives do finally make it into an administration, they often don’t know what to do or how to seize the gears of power effectively. Through their action, inaction, and their encyclopedic knowledge of volumes of technicalities about the federal workforce, certain career federal employees are masterful in tripping us up. Our interactive, on-demand training sessions will change that. They will turn future conservative political appointees into experts in governmental effectiveness.

The fourth and final pillar of Project 2025 is our Playbook, which will take the policy ideas expressed in Mandate for Leadership and transform them into an implementation plan for each agency to advocate to the incoming administration. What regulations and executive orders must be signed on Day One? Where are the greatest needs for more political appointees? How can we effectively use the mechanisms of government to face our most challenging problems? Our Playbook will put our movement to work answering questions like these.

In November 2016, American conservatives stood on the verge of greatness. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency was a triumph that offered the best chance to reverse the left’s incessant march of progress for its own sake. Many of the best accomplishments, though, happened only in the last year of the Trump administration, after our political appointees had finally figured out the policies and process of different agencies, and after the right personnel were finally in place.

The usual suspects in the permanent political class will be ready for the next conservative administration. Will we be ready for them? That’s where Project 2025 comes in. We have two years, and one chance, to get this right.

By Spencer Chretien, Associate Director, 2025 Presidential Transition Project The Heritage Foundation

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The 60 groups that make up the Advisory Board include: 

Conservative organizations seeking to join Project 2025 may do so by visiting Project2025.org

  1. 1792 Exchange  
  2. Alabama Policy Institute  
  3. Alliance Defending Freedom  
  4. America First Legal  
  5. American Accountability Foundation  
  6. American Center for Law and Justice  
  7. American Compass  
  8. American Cornerstone Institute  
  9. American Council of Trustees and Alumni  
  10. American Family Association 
  11. American Family Project 
  12. American Legislative Exchange Council  
  13. American Juris Link 
  14. American Moment  
  15. American Principles Project  
  16. Center for Equal Opportunity  
  17. Center for Family and Human Rights  
  18. Center for Immigration Studies  
  19. Center for Renewing America  
  20. Claremont Institute  
  21. Coalition for a Prosperous America 
  22. Competitive Enterprise Institute  
  23. Concerned Women for America  
  24. Conservative Partnership Institute  
  25. Defense of Freedom Institute  
  26. Ethics and Public Policy Center  
  27. Family Policy Alliance  
  28. Family Research Council  
  29. First Liberty Institute  
  30. Forge Leadership Network  
  31. Foundation for Defense of Democracies  
  32. Foundation for Government Accountability  
  33. FreedomWorks  
  34. Heritage Foundation  
  35. Hillsdale College  
  36. Honest Elections Project 
  37. Independent Women’s Forum  
  38. Institute for Education Reform 
  39. Institute for Energy Research  
  40. Institute for the American Worker  
  41. Institute for Women’s Health  
  42. Intercollegiate Studies Institute  
  43. James Madison Institute   
  44. Keystone Policy  
  45. Liberty University  
  46. Mississippi Center for Public Policy 
  47. National Association of Scholars  
  48. National Center for Public Policy Research  
  49. Pacific Research Institute  
  50. Patrick Henry College  
  51. Personnel Policy Operations  
  52. Public Interest Legal Foundation 
  53. Recovery for America Now Foundation  
  54. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America  
  55. Teneo Network  
  56. Texas Public Policy Foundation  
  57. The American Conservative  
  58. The American Main Street Initiative   
  59. The Leadership Institute  
  60. Young America’s Foundation  

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Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise

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