What is Project 2025? Everything we know about the ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term

A 900-page plan drawn up by former Donald Trump aides and endorsed by a powerful right-wing think tank is giving the former presidenta roadmap for his second administration.

Project 2025 — a blueprint for Trump’s presidency spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and more than a dozen former Trump administration officials — is essentially a wishlist for his administration with plans to expand his executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, crush abortion rights and impose an anti-immigrant agenda, among other policies.

Following President Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would be stepping aside to let Vice President Kamala Harris mount her own bid for the Oval Office, Harris posted on X and took direct aim at the right-wing agenda.

“I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” she said. “If you’re with me, add a donation right now.”

Meanwhile, the former president is desperately trying to distance himself from the plan, claiming that he knows “nothing” about it or “who is behind it,” despite its authors coming from Trump’s White House and the GOP’s close ties to the group that launched it.

At a rally in Michigan on Saturday, just one week after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at a Trump event in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and injuring two others while only slightly injuring the candidate’s right ear, Trump told the crowd, “Some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, I don’t even know, some of them I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative. They’re sort of the opposite of the radical left.”

“You have the radical left and