Donald Trump has just assumed the US presidency, and the plans for his second term are about as bleak as one might expect.

In case you somehow missed it, Project 2025 is a 900-page federal policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundationa conservative DC think tank led by a far-right lobbyist and suspected dog murderer Kevin Roberts.

While Trump himself has never publicly endorsed the initiative, it is widely described as one republican On the “wish list” for his second term, at least 18 of the 40 writers and editors were part of his first administration, with nearly 150 of the over 260 contributors having previously worked either under him in the White House or as part of his campaign transition teams.

Vice President Elect JD Vance has too historical ties to the Heritage Foundation after writing the introduction not only to a 2017 collection of right-wing essays published by the organization, but also to a forthcoming book by Roberts.

So what does the document actually tell us about what a second Trump administration might look like?

A supreme leader

The federal bureaucracy – or “Deep state“, as it is known in MAGA World — has long been the target of various disinformation narratives spread by far-right pundits and influencers who believe U.S. officials are systematically conspiring to thwart Trump's previous legislative agenda and return to office.

Project 2025 proposes to end this imagined threat by realigning the entire federal bureaucracy under Trump's direct control and replacing thousands of government employees with political appointees.

It's worth noting that this would also include this Ministry of Justicewhich is currently prosecuting Trump on a range of criminal charges for alleged crimes ranging from the concealment of classified documents to his role in counterterrorism Capitol riot.

Abolition of reproductive rights

In its 900 pages, Project 2025 mentions abortion about 200 times — hardly surprising, considering the issue has been one of the Heritage Foundation's biggest bugbears since the organization's founding in 1973.

The agenda doesn't go so far as to propose an outright ban on abortion at the federal level, something Trump himself has said he won't sign into law, while leaving the door open for further restrictions at the state level.

Still, she calls for increased data collection on abortions and for mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill, to be removed from the market. She also supports reviving an obscure 19th-century law known as the Comstock Act, which bans the shipment of any abortion drugs, medical devices and supplies through the country's postal service.

This is all consistent with the document's broader call for the federal Department of Health and Human Services to “maintain a biblically based, social science-based definition of marriage and family” as part of a broader effort to combat the perceived threat of “” has the “Awakened extremism within the federal bureaucracy.”

Mass deportations

Project 2025 makes the case for completing the U.S.-Mexico border wall — the same one expected to cost more than $22 billion and that previously resulted in a government shutdown and a national state of emergency — and also appeals to Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon charged with mail fraud and money laundering.

Amid the Republican campaign's promises of “the largest deportation program in American history,” other proposals include abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and transferring its staff and resources to other agencies to create a more unified and militant border police force.

Visa categories for some of the most vulnerable migrants, including victims of cross-border crime and human trafficking, would also be eliminated, with an increase in application fees and a premium “fast-track” option for migrants with financial means.

End the “War on Oil and Gas.”

All the money the Biden administration is investing to combat accelerating global warming will be lost.

The Heritage Foundation plans to make sweeping cuts to federal spending on renewable energy investments and research, replacing carbon reduction goals with goals for increased energy production and security.

have experts warned that such initiatives threaten to release 2.7 billion additional tons of additional carbon, roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of Indiawill be released into the atmosphere by 2030, effectively torpedoing the United States' climate promises under the Paris Agreement and meaning the end of more than a million clean energy jobs.

No more porn

Yes, the Heritage Foundation is also eyeing a ban on PornHub, claiming that pornography is “as addictive as any illegal drug and psychologically destructive as any crime” and that purveyors of explicit content are exclusively “child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.” ”

It remains to be seen whether this item will make it onto the Republican legislative agenda, as the new president has come under repeated scrutiny over his relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epsteinhas been accused of sexual harassment by as many as 26 women and found guilty of paying hush money to a porn star to keep details of their alleged affair out of the spotlight before the 2016 election.

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