This category tracks efforts to weaken or dismantle the independent civil service and shift control of federal agencies to the President and his political allies. It includes efforts to reinstate Schedule F, eliminate oversight, and centralize hiring authority.
We created this category after analyzing multiple sections of the Project 2025 document that describe removing traditional guardrails on executive power. While Project 2025 is structured by federal agencies, we observed a repeated pattern: proposals across departments to eliminate independent staff, consolidate hiring, and make loyalty to the President a prerequisite for employment. These efforts aren’t labeled under one section — they are distributed throughout the text. We grouped them under this unifying category to help the public understand what it really means to \"dismantle the administrative state.\"
Authoritarian regimes often begin by purging civil servants who act independently. When agencies lose their experienced, nonpartisan staff and are staffed instead with political loyalists, they cease to serve the people and begin to serve one man. This erosion of democratic infrastructure is a clear and present danger to the rule of law and governmental integrity.
This category tracks efforts to consolidate control of executive agencies under direct presidential authority, often by bypassing traditional oversight mechanisms and restructuring departments to align more closely with political priorities.
This theme appears repeatedly in Project 2025 chapters that propose reorganizing agencies to eliminate independent leadership, create new departments (like the proposed Department of Government Efficiency), and blur the lines between career staff and political appointees. The focus here is structural: redesigning the executive branch to serve the will of the President, not the people.
Independent executive agencies serve as critical checks against executive overreach. Restructuring them to be fully loyal to a single figure removes guardrails that protect against corruption, authoritarianism, and abuse of power.
This category includes efforts to remove independence from the Department of Justice and transform it into a tool for punishing political enemies and shielding allies from accountability.
Across DOJ-specific proposals and related mentions in other departments, Project 2025 outlines a vision where the Attorney General serves the President, not the law. It calls for dismissing internal watchdogs, reassigning investigative power, and eliminating norms that ensure impartial justice. We grouped these objectives to expose the dangerous transformation of justice into a partisan weapon.
Without an independent DOJ, the law no longer serves justice. It becomes a tool for retribution and impunity — a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. This endangers everyone, regardless of party.
This category highlights plans to dramatically expand deportations, end birthright citizenship, and use military power and federal agencies to enforce border control policies on a massive scale.
Project 2025 contains detailed plans for mass deportations, aggressive ICE expansion, and use of military and National Guard forces for domestic immigration enforcement. We created this category to bring together those objectives and make the broader strategy visible: weaponizing immigration to create fear and consolidate power.
These policies threaten constitutional rights, fuel xenophobia, and normalize militarized government activity on U.S. soil. Immigration enforcement becomes a tool for division, not justice.
This category tracks efforts to control education policy and cultural narratives by banning curricula, defunding public schools, promoting censorship, and elevating ideology over fact in both K-12 and higher education.
We observed recurring proposals in Project 2025 to eliminate diversity programs, mandate religious instruction, restrict content about race and gender, and dismantle the Department of Education. The throughline is cultural dominance: shaping how Americans think, what they learn, and who is allowed to be heard.
Education and culture shape future generations. When an authoritarian movement seizes these institutions, it creates a controlled information environment that supports long-term political power and suppresses dissent.
This category includes proposals that use religious belief as a basis for government policy — not to protect freedom of religion, but to enforce a specific theological worldview through law and regulation.
Project 2025 outlines a plan to inject Christian nationalist ideology into all areas of governance — from public health to foreign policy. We created this category to reflect the unifying strategy of using faith as a tool of control rather than a protected liberty.
Religious liberty means freedom of belief for all — not government imposition of one religion's rules. Authoritarian movements often cloak their agendas in religion to silence opposition and justify oppressive policies.
This category covers plans to dismantle environmental regulations, defund climate research, and eliminate protections for air, water, and ecosystems in favor of fossil fuel expansion and deregulation.
Across departments, Project 2025 targets the EPA, Department of Energy, and Interior Department with proposals to eliminate environmental rules, halt climate programs, and open public lands to extraction. We categorized these actions together to show how the plan favors corporate profit over planetary health.
Unchecked environmental destruction is irreversible. Weakening the government's ability to regulate pollution or combat climate change puts future generations at risk and erodes global leadership.
This category includes efforts to weaken consumer protections, deregulate financial and labor markets, and shift public services into private hands to benefit corporations and reduce federal accountability.
We grouped together proposals across Labor, Commerce, Treasury, and Transportation departments that reduce oversight of corporations, eliminate workplace protections, and privatize infrastructure and healthcare. These moves transfer power from the public to the private elite.
Deregulation without accountability leads to abuse, exploitation, and collapse. Privatizing public goods puts profit ahead of people and eliminates democratic control over essential services.
This category exposes efforts to roll back legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals, ban gender-affirming care, restrict reproductive freedom, and impose ideological morality through federal policy.
We traced efforts across HHS, DOJ, and Education to restrict LGBTQ+ rights and access to abortion. These objectives are framed as 'protecting children' or 'restoring values,' but the impact is government intrusion into private life and medical decisions.
These policies deny human dignity and threaten bodily autonomy. When the government decides who gets to live freely, love openly, or make decisions about their body, democracy becomes conditional.
This category documents proposals to restrict voting access, end federal election oversight, and reduce civil liberties under the guise of security and integrity.
Project 2025 targets voting protections by dismantling the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, promoting voter ID mandates, and removing federal oversight of local elections. These proposals are distributed across DOJ, DHS, and state governance sections.
Free and fair elections are the foundation of democracy. When voting becomes harder and rights are conditional, power is no longer derived from the people.
This category tracks efforts to reshape the military and intelligence agencies to serve partisan interests, suppress internal dissent, and redirect national defense toward domestic political control.
Across chapters on Defense, Homeland Security, and Intelligence, Project 2025 advocates for purging 'woke' leadership, ending diversity training, and politicizing command structures. We grouped these proposals under a clear trend: using armed institutions to enforce loyalty.
Militaries in free societies defend all citizens. When weaponized for ideology, they become tools of fear, not safety.
This category includes plans to withdraw from global alliances, prioritize nationalist trade policy, and reshape America’s foreign presence to serve corporate and ideological interests.
Project 2025 calls for pulling back from multilateral treaties, slashing foreign aid, and replacing diplomacy with hardline nationalism. We created this category to group those policies under the broader theme of American isolationism and authoritarian alignment.
Foreign policy sets the tone for international leadership. Isolationist and authoritarian-aligned shifts weaken alliances and enable global repression.
This category addresses efforts to dismantle or defund public health agencies, discredit scientific research, and politicize medical policy decisions based on ideological grounds.
We observed a consistent trend in Project 2025 of undermining public health authority, attacking the credibility of CDC and NIH, and replacing science with religious or partisan doctrine. This category consolidates those threats to fact-based governance.
Science and public health are essential to public safety. When they are corrupted or replaced by ideology, the result is suffering, misinformation, and institutional collapse.