Trump’s team swears he disavows Project 2025, and has nothing to do with it. He swears Agenda 47 is different.
Here’s how they directly overlap. For a closer look, review Agenda 47 is Project 2025.
1. Federal Workforce and Executive Power
- Agenda 47: Trump’s Agenda 47 focuses heavily on restructuring the federal workforce through Schedule F, which would make it easier to dismiss federal employees and replace them with loyalists. This reclassification focuses on increasing executive power and ensuring loyalty within the federal government.
- Project 2025: Similarly, Project 2025 advocates for significant reforms to the civil service, proposing a sweeping reclassification to increase executive control and make it easier to replace career bureaucrats with loyal personnel.
- Similarity: Both plans seek to consolidate executive power by reshaping the federal workforce and ensuring that bureaucrats are aligned with the administration’s goals.
2. Immigration and Deportations
- Agenda 47: Trump’s agenda prioritizes securing the southern border, carrying out mass deportations, and tightening immigration laws, including the construction of a border wall.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 proposes the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, the completion of the border wall, and enhanced border security measures.
- Similarity: Both plans advocate for stringent immigration enforcement, mass deportations, and border security as key policy priorities.
3. Education
- Agenda 47: Trump’s plan proposes the abolition of the Department of Education, shifting control over education to states, and emphasizes school choice through vouchers.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 similarly advocates for reducing federal control over education, promoting school choice, and prioritizing parental rights in education.
- Similarity: Both plans aim to limit federal influence over education, promoting school choice and returning control to state and local governments.
4. Energy and Deregulation
- Agenda 47: Trump promotes energy independence by rolling back regulations on the fossil fuel industry, reducing environmental protections, and encouraging domestic oil production.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 also advocates for deregulation of environmental policies, boosting fossil fuel production, and dismantling regulations that limit energy production.
- Similarity: Both agendas emphasize energy dominance and seek to scale back environmental regulations in favor of fossil fuel industries.
5. Law Enforcement and Justice
- Agenda 47: Trump focuses on increasing funding for law enforcement and reforming federal agencies like the FBI to align with executive priorities.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 suggests restructuring the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal agencies to ensure alignment with conservative priorities and executive objectives.
- Similarity: Both aim to restructure law enforcement agencies to align more closely with the executive branch’s policy goals, with a focus on restoring “law and order.”
6. Civil Rights and Social Policies
- Agenda 47: Trump’s agenda includes rolling back LGBTQ+ rights and limiting gender-affirming care, alongside efforts to protect religious freedoms.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 includes similar policies, aiming to reduce protections for LGBTQ+ individuals and prohibit gender-affirming medical care, while expanding religious liberties.
- Similarity: Both plans focus on conservative social policies, seeking to curtail LGBTQ+ rights and promote religious freedom.
7. Healthcare and Privatization
- Agenda 47: Trump advocates for expanding private healthcare options while reducing government intervention in healthcare.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 similarly promotes privatization of healthcare, aiming to reduce reliance on government-provided health services.
- Similarity: Both plans prioritize the privatization of healthcare, reducing the role of government in healthcare provision.
8. Abortion and Reproductive Rights
- Agenda 47: Trump’s policies include further restrictions on abortion and contraceptives, aligning with the broader anti-abortion stance of his administration.
- Project 2025: Project 2025 supports federal laws to restrict access to abortion and contraception, pushing for stricter reproductive health policies.
- Similarity: Both agendas emphasize limiting reproductive rights, particularly regarding abortion and contraceptive access.
9. Trade and Economic Policy
- Agenda 47: Trump proposes protective tariffs and renegotiating trade deals to benefit American industries, emphasizing “America First” policies.
- Project 2025: Similarly, Project 2025 seeks to implement protectionist trade policies, focusing on shielding U.S. industries from foreign competition through tariffs and trade reform.
- Similarity: Both plans favor protectionist trade policies, with a focus on defending U.S. industries from foreign competition.
In summary, Agenda 47 and Project 2025 share numerous similarities across key policy areas, including executive power, immigration, education, energy, law enforcement, social policies, healthcare, reproductive rights, and economic strategies.
Both agendas aim to centralize executive control, reduce federal oversight in various domains, and push for conservative reforms across the political, social, and economic spectrum.