Project 2025
The playbook was 900 pages. It had a table of contents. 53% of it is already done. The rest is scheduled. This is not chaos. It is a checklist.
Tracking Project 2025's execution in real time. Updated monthly.
This page exists because the playbook was public. Every item below was written down, assigned to an author, and published in 2022. We are simply keeping the record.
Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership is a 900-page operational blueprint authored by the Heritage Foundation and more than 140 former Trump administration officials. As of February 2026, 53% of its recommended actions have been initiated or completed across 20 federal agencies.
This tracker covers what has been executed, what is in motion, and what is coming next. For the full analysis of how we got here and what it means for working people, read the anchor piece: They Followed the Playbook. Did Anyone Read It?
Last updated: March 2026
EXECUTED
Items initiated or completed since January 20, 2025
| Item | Chapter | Status | Cost to Average People |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOGE mass federal layoffs | Executive Office / Personnel | Complete | 350,000+ workers displaced. Social Security, VA, and food safety understaffed. DOGE cuts hit Black workers hardest, severing a historic path to middle-class stability. |
| Schedule F groundwork | Personnel / Civil Service | In motion | Career civil servants convertible to at-will political appointments, making future administrations' agendas harder to reverse. |
| USAID dismantled | State Department | Complete | 83% of programs canceled. A Lancet study projected 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five. American farmers lost $2 billion in annual USAID crop purchases. |
| Federal collective bargaining gutted | Labor / Personnel | Partially blocked in court | Two-thirds of the federal workforce lost the right to negotiate pay, safety, and working conditions overnight. |
| Liberation Day tariffs | Trade | Struck down, reimposed under new authority | $1,230 average household cost in 2026 alone. Bottom income quintile absorbs the largest proportional hit. Penn Wharton projects a $22,000 lifetime loss for a middle-income household. |
| One Big Beautiful Bill | Budget / Immigration | Complete | Cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Stripped clean energy investment. Embedded $75 billion in ICE enforcement, making every DHS negotiation that followed structurally asymmetric. |
| ACA subsidies abandoned | HHS / Budget | No binding protection secured | 20 million+ Americans face premium hikes. The 40-day shutdown leverage that could have protected them was traded for a promise that expired on contact. |
| DHS shutdown resolved without reform | DHS / Immigration | Resolved March 2026 | No mask ban. No warrant requirement. No sensitive location statute. ICE ran on its $75 billion reserve throughout. Schools, hospitals, churches, and polling places have a verbal commitment, not a law. |
| Education DEI funding threats | Education | Active | Schools pressured to eliminate equity programs or lose federal funding. Civil Rights Office sent letters threatening cuts to pre-K through college programs. |
| HHS restructuring and CDC cuts | HHS / Public Health | Active | FDA, CDC, NIH, and CMS all reduced. Abortion data collection suspended. Roughly 10,000 HHS workers issued reduction-in-force notices. |
IN MOTION
Items actively moving through legislative or administrative channels
| Item | Vehicle | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| SAVE America Act: proof of citizenship to vote, photo ID requirement | Reconciliation bundle | April 2026 package, procedurally contested |
| ICE enforcement and removal operations funding | Reconciliation bundle | April 2026 package |
| Medicaid block grants and per capita caps | Reconciliation / Budget | Active in House negotiations |
| Executive control over independent agencies | Supreme Court | Pending rulings, could affect CFPB, FTC, NLRB |
| Schedule F full implementation | Executive order | Ongoing, partially contested in courts |
COMING NEXT
Items named in the playbook not yet initiated
- Medicaid work requirements and lifetime benefit caps
- Department of Education elimination
- Medicare Advantage as default enrollment option
- Elimination of remaining independent agency civil service protections
- Federal elections administration consolidated under executive control
- Repeal of remaining ACA nondiscrimination protections covering gender identity and disability
- Social Security administrative restructuring
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
Everything below is a primary or institutional source. No aggregators, no opinion sites. If it is linked here, it is something you can cite.
Execution Trackers
Who is tracking what has actually been done
Center for Progressive Reform: Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker The most comprehensive institutional tracker. Updated periodically across 20 federal agencies. As of February 2026, confirms 53% of recommended actions initiated or completed.
PBS NewsHour / The 19th: Project 2025 Tracking Year-end accountability reporting focused on impact to women and LGBTQ+ Americans. Useful for specific policy categories.
NAACPLDF Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker Tracks implementation through the lens of civil rights and racial equity. Updated with litigation actions alongside policy actions.
Project2025.wtf Community-built spreadsheet tracker originally developed on Reddit. Granular, objective-by-objective tracking derived directly from the Mandate for Leadership text. Useful for drilling into specific agency chapters.
Legal Challenge Trackers
Who is fighting it in court
ACLU: Project 2025 Explained and Litigation Hub Tracks active ACLU litigation against second-term executive actions, organized by issue area including immigration, civil rights, and reproductive freedom.
Democracy Docket The definitive tracker for election law litigation. Essential for following the SAVE America Act, voting rights cases, and any legal challenge to election administration changes. Updated in near real time.
Protect Democracy Tracks executive overreach and separation of powers litigation. Covers Schedule F, independent agency cases, and DOGE-related lawsuits. Includes Supreme Court case monitoring.
Economic Impact
What it is costing people, in numbers
Tax Policy Center: TPC Tariff Tracker Distributional analysis of tariff costs by income level. Shows clearly that lower-income households absorb the largest proportional burden. Updated as tariff policy changes.
Penn Wharton Budget Model: Economic Effects of Trump Tariffs Projects a $22,000 lifetime loss for a middle-income household under April 2025 tariff levels. The most rigorous independent economic modeling available.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Ongoing analysis of proposed Medicaid block grants, SNAP cuts, and safety net restructuring. Essential for understanding what the April reconciliation package means for low-income families specifically.
Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Medicaid Impact Analysis Tracks proposed Medicaid changes with specific focus on children, families, and low-income households. Translates block grant and per capita cap proposals into concrete coverage loss numbers.
Primary Sources
The actual documents. Read them yourself.
Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise The full 900-page Project 2025 document. Published 2022. Free to download. Has a table of contents organized by agency. If a policy is being discussed, the relevant chapter is in here.
Federal Register: Trump Executive Orders 2025 to Present Every executive order published in the Federal Register, numbered and dated. The authoritative source for what was signed, when, and under what legal authority.
Congress.gov: 119th Congress Legislative Tracker Track the One Big Beautiful Bill, the DHS funding legislation, the SAVE America Act, and the coming reconciliation package in real time. Bill text, vote records, and amendment history all public.
Ballotpedia: Trump Administration Actions 2025 to 2026 Nonpartisan comprehensive timeline of executive actions, cabinet confirmations, and legislative milestones. Useful as a chronological reference.
Civic Action Tools
How to push back, directly and today
5Calls.org Guided scripts for calling your representatives on specific issues. Takes two minutes. Calls are the highest-impact constituent contact a member of Congress receives.
Touch Advocacy Text-based advocacy tool for contacting representatives. Lower barrier than a phone call, higher impact than a form email.
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121 Ask for your senator or representative by name. Staffers keep tally of every call on every issue. Volume matters.
White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 Direct line to the executive office. Leave a comment on any active policy.
USA.gov: Find Your Representatives If you do not know who represents you at the federal, state, and local level, start here.
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