Project 2025 is a blueprint - written by Trump's allies - for an extremist takeover of our government, which would give unprecedented new powers to the office of president, gutting checks and balances and threatening our personal freedoms.

Project 2025's architects have close ties to Trump and their plan is to implement the proposals in Project 2025 under a Trump Administration.

• The plan was authored by 140 former Trump staffers. 

• 81% of Project 2025’s creators held formal roles in Trump’s presidency.

• Trump's campaign press secretary was featured in a recruitment video for Project 2025. 

• Trump's top aide, John McEntee, is a senior advisor for Project 2025. 

• McEntee said Project 2025 will “integrate a lot of our work with [the Trump campaign].”

Project 2025 includes these proposals*:

*Page numbers reference the Project 2025 source document and are noted below. 

CONSTRUCTION 

• Repeal Davis Bacon prevailing wages - lowering the wages of all construction workers on federal projects. (p.604)

• Repeal the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act - both of which are restoring our nation's infrastructure - and creating hundreds of thousands of good union jobs. (p.365) 

• Ban the use of Project Labor Agreements on federal projects - making it more difficult for union members to get work. (p.604)

• Reinstate Industry Registered Apprenticeships (IRAPs) - which are company-run sham apprenticeships that undermine union apprenticeships and allow irresponsible employers to lower pay and benefits for construction workers. (p.594)

• Eliminate or severely cut the Dept. of Transportation Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program, which funds new and expanded rapid rail, commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit, and ferries. (p.635)

• Make it easier for employers to get rid of workers’ unions in the middle of contracts. (p.603)
  

• Allow states to obtain waivers from federal labor law that protect workers’ paychecks, eliminate overtime protections, and choose not to follow the federal minimum wage. (p.605)
  

• Make it easier for corporations to discipline or even fire workers for engaging in collective action and organizing. (p.605)
  

• Ban pre-hire agreements and card check: Project 2025 wants to mandate that the secret ballot be used exclusively as the basis of union recognition, which would eliminate pre-hire agreements, as well as eliminate card check or voluntary recognition—preventing LIUNA from signing with a contractor to organize workers. (p.603)

• Allow employers to stop paying overtime by letting employers compensate overtime with paid time off instead of overtime pay. (p.620)
  

• Project 2025 also suggests employers should be able to combine weeks to avoid paying overtime. (p.624)
  

• Restrict Unemployment Insurance by making it more difficult for those in need to access essential benefits. (p.598)
  

• Eliminate the child labor rules that protect children from working in mines, meatpacking plants and other dangerous workplaces. (p.595)

• Calls for Congress to consider eliminating union rights for federal workers. (p.82)
  

• Cut federal transit workers’ paychecks. (p.635)
  

• Proposes cuts to retirement benefits for federal workers because they are too “generous.” (p.77)

• Cut Medicaid benefits and stop the government from negotiating Medicare Part D drug prices, making prescriptions more expensive. (p.696)
  

• Tax workers’ employer-paid health coverage and take dependents off health plans at age 23 rather than age 26. (p.697)

• Make it illegal for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination laws, to collect data on workplace discrimination, making civil rights discrimination lawsuits impossible to prove. (p.583)
  

• Make it easier for employers and federal contractors to discriminate based on people’s race or gender. (p.583)