As 2025 comes to a close, Project 2025 stands vindicated as the defining policy plan of Donald Trump’s second presidency. A detailed governing blueprint written largely by veterans of his first ...

When the Heritage Foundation published a 920-page compendium of policy suggestions called “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” in April 2023, it did so to little fanfare. By fall 2024, ...

During Donald Trump's second presidential term, his administration not only enacted many policy recommendations that aligned with the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 but it also hired several ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s ...

President Trump once insisted he had "nothing to do with Project 2025," the right-wing policy plan that became a key flashpoint during the presidential campaign. The Democrats tried to turn the ...