In the wake of the US government's shutdown, attention has turned to a controversial plan known as Project 2025. Once dismissed by Donald Trump, it is now being closely tied to his agenda. The ...

U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be warming to “Project 2025,” the blueprint for governance developed by American conservative thinkers that he distanced himself from during the election.

Donald Trump disavowed any knowledge of Project 2025 throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. He may have been afraid that the detailed plan for his second term, commissioned by the right-wing ...

President Trump is embracing the government shutdown, which complicates Republican efforts to blame Democrats. The president is using the shutdown to advance goals of Project 2025, such as firing ...

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written ...

Social media users have claimed that the fall 2025 disruption to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food assistance payments was part of Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint linked ...

President Donald Trump has enacted nearly half of Project 2025 during his first nine months in office, according to a tracker.

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 ...