The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
by David A. Graham
View on GoodreadsAtlantic staff writer David Graham's 2025 walkthrough of Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation's 900-page blueprint for the Trump second term — chapter by chapter, mapping which sections have been implemented, which are in process, and which remain on the to-do list.
Core ideas
- The document's specificity is the book's central revelation — Project 2025 isn't aspirational; it's a personnel-and-procedure manual with named positions, specific Schedule F replacements, and policy-by-policy executive-order text.
- The implementation pace through 2025 has matched the document's sequencing remarkably closely — the personnel piece first (mostly done), the regulatory piece in process, the structural-constitutional piece (Schedule F at scale, agency dismantlement) running ahead of public attention.
- The pre-election public denial by Trump and his campaign of any connection to Project 2025 is reconstructed against the post-election personnel record, which shows the denial was a campaign management move, not a policy distinction.
Published2025
Pages138
ISBN9798217153725
ReadJan 2026
