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Directed by the Heritage Foundation, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (or Project 2025) rests on "four pillars": a policy guide, a "conservative LinkedIn", a "Presidential Administration Academy",[1] and a "playbook".[2] The policy guide has been published in April 2024[3] as a volume of the Mandate for Leadership series, under the name The Conservative Promise. Edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves, the more than 900-page volume features 30 chapters written by 40 primary authors.[4]

More than 100 organizations, spanning from conservative to far-right,[5] have helped produce the Conservative Promise, and Project 2025 more generally.[6] The policy reforms promoted in guide and its digest has gained traction during the 2024 US presidential election.[7] Many collaborators of Donald Trump have been tied to the project.[8][9][10]

Background

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Trump attended an event for Heritage in Amelia Island, Florida, on April 21, 2022, and praised its forthcoming Project 2025, saying:[11]

[T]hey're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America and that's coming. That's coming. Because nobody can stand what's happening right now. Only a fool, only a fool or somebody that hates our country can like what's happening right now. Never been in this position before and already we know a very big part of our agenda.

After Heritage training videos have been leaked,[12] Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025,[13][14][15][16][17][18] Dans resigned from Project 2025 after it published its deliverables, including a database of 10,000 conservative job candidates.[19] Dans later criticized senior advisors Suzie Wiles and Chris LaCivita for 'historic campaign malpractice'.[20]

The Heritage Foundation stated that Trump has previously embraced many of the policy recommendations put forward by that organization. Several contributors to the project have held positions one of his Trump's political campaign(s) or his administration(s).[21]

Advisory board

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The Conservative Promise has an "Advisory board" section in its front matter.[22] Organizations with collaborators are marked with a dagger (†) in the tables below. Those featured in the Conservative promise with no collaborator are:

Heritage maintained a website from April 2023 to March, 2025.[24] The organizations it listed kept changing. The number Heritage touted in their press releases varied from 21 in June 2022 to more than 100 in February 2024; after Trump's disavowal of Project 2025, many advisory board members were scrubbed from the website, including America First Legal, an organization founded by Stephen Miller (advisor).[25]

Authors

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The 30 chapters of the Conservative Promise have been authored by 40 persons. Many have contributed to chapters they have not authored. The Heritage president wrote the foreword, and one of its co-founders wrote the afterword.

Of these authors and editors, the New York Times found that by October 2024, 18 have served in the first Trump administration.[10] The Revolving Door Project counted that 25 of the 30 chapters have been written by former Trump officials.[26] Since then other ties have been found.

Organizations marked with a dagger (†) are listed in the "Advisory board" section of the Conservative Promise.

Other contributors

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The editors of Conservative Promise thank their 280 contributors in an "Acknowledgements" section, and lists them as "contributors". Other contributors have earned a special mention in the author's notes at the end of their chapters. Some contributors (like Atkins) have been thanked for having written portions of the chapters, but are not listed as author. Those who have not contributed to any specific chapter are identified as appearing in the "Contributors" section.

The New York Times has traced back 307 authors and contributors to Project 2025; 182 of them are tied to Trump.[10]

Organizations marked with a dagger (†) are listed in the "Advisory board" section of the Conservative Promise.

See also

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Notes

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References

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