On Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, the United States of America elected Donald Trump as the 47th president. This year's election results have caused a whirlwind of high emotions on both sides. 

Although there has been large speculation about Trump’s involvement with Project 2025, it can be used as a direct outline of the plans that this presidency has in store. 

Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” is a 900-page blueprint of what comes in store for the United States during the next four years. It outlines five main sections: the government, the common defense, the general welfare, the economy and independent regulatory agencies. 

Project 2025 directly states that the “Trump Administration withdrew from, or terminated funding for, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and the WHO.” 

The United Nations Human Rights Council is a United Nations body whose main mission is to ensure the protection of human rights around the world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is also the U.N. body in charge of creating a culture of peace, dissolving poverty, empowering education, and the sciences, culture and communication. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is a U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees. Lastly, the World Health Organization (WHO) is the U.N. agency responsible for global public health. 

The project outlines support for the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Human Rights, a commission created in 2019 by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in order to reexamine the U.S. human rights policy.

Its final report presented an emphasis on certain human rights such as the right to private property or religious beliefs, while dismissing sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights and non-discrimination rights. Claiming these human rights as “divisive social and political controversies.” 

Moreover, Project 2025 supports the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Protection of the Family, which heavily emphasized “protecting life at all stages” and “defend(ing) the family as foundational to any healthy society.” This document was initiated by Pompeo, during Trump’s last presidency. 

Project 2025 stated that “the U.S. government should not and cannot promote or fund abortion in international programs or multilateral organizations. Technically, the United States can prevent its international funding from going toward abortions, but the U.S. will have a greater impact by including like-minded nations and building on the coalition launched through the Geneva Consensus Declaration.” 

The document also states that the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health and reproductive rights be deleted from every federal rule and legislation that exists. 

Moreover, Project 2025 states that pornography must be outlawed and that any person who distributes and produces it must be imprisoned, as well as telecommunication companies that “facilitate its spread should be shuttered.” 

According to Project 2025, “the noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country. These theories poison our children, who are being taught on the one hand to affirm that the color of their skin fundamentally determines their identity and even their moral status while on the other they are taught to deny the very creatureliness that inheres in being human and consists in accepting the givenness of our nature as men or women”. (page 5)

Along with Project 2025 plans for education, it plans to prioritize national security. By claiming that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must end its deference to education institutions. It also requires the Department of State to eliminate and significantly reduce the number of visas issued to foreign students. 

This plan also states that ICE must be responsible for enforcing immigration regulations, thus promoting the arrest, detention and removal of immigration violators without a warrant. Additionally, it states that ICE must be combined with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Overall requesting a higher budget for ICE and its services. 

Project 2025 states that Title I Part A, which provides federal funding for lower-income school districts, must be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services. States will receive no-string-attached block grants with no regulations or oversight. This would tighten education budgets that already experience extreme strains and affect 2.8 million of the U.S. students. 

Furthermore, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers to low-income children living in the nation’s capital, would be transferred into the Department of Health and Human Services. All other programs at the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) will be block-granted or eliminated.

Project 2025 has an extensive list of radical changes to current project plans, budget funding and policy changes. Now whether or not all of these proposed ideas will actually be taken into effect is unknown. However, with Republicans taking a majority in the House, Senate and the presidency, there is limited blockage to what they can do. 

Project 2025: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf