[ { "affected_area": "Federal civil service", "affected_population": "Career federal employees in policy-influencing positions", "alignment": "direct-textual-match", "chapter": "Central Personnel Agencies", "consequence_record_ids": [], "consequence_summary": "Trump's first-day order created a Policy/Career category for policy-influencing positions and made covered employees easier to remove; the public record does not yet supply a stable, comprehensive count of removals attributable to that order.", "id": "p2025-policy-workforce", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2025-01-20-policy-workforce-order" ], "intent": "explicit-implementation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The textual match establishes a planned personnel-policy choice, not that every later workforce action or individual injury originated in Project 2025.", "measurement_period": "January 20, 2025 through September 7, 2026", "pdf_page": 112, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=112", "printed_page": 80, "recommendation_summary": "The plan calls for reinstating the Schedule F framework so policy-influencing federal employees can be reassigned outside ordinary competitive-service protections.", "response": "The administration describes the framework as improving accountability and responsiveness to presidential direction.", "section": "Schedule F and executive control of policy-influencing employees", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=112" }, { "name": "White House executive order", "published": "2025-01-21", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-policy-workforce" }, { "affected_area": "Military personnel policy", "affected_population": "Transgender service members and applicants", "alignment": "direct-textual-match", "chapter": "Department of Defense", "consequence_record_ids": [ "2026-06-01-transgender-troops-removal-blocked" ], "consequence_summary": "The administration adopted service standards excluding many transgender personnel; a federal court later blocked immediate removal of serving troops while litigation continued.", "id": "p2025-transgender-military-service", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2025-01-27-transgender-military-service-order" ], "intent": "explicit-implementation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The matching policy objective does not establish that Project 2025 was the exclusive source of the order or that every individual personnel outcome is final.", "measurement_period": "January 27, 2025 through June 1, 2026", "pdf_page": 135, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=135", "printed_page": 103, "recommendation_summary": "The plan recommends reversing policies that permit transgender military service and separating people it describes as medically unable to meet deployment requirements.", "response": "The administration framed the policy as a military-readiness and standards measure; opponents challenged it as discriminatory.", "section": "Military personnel and gender dysphoria", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=135" }, { "name": "White House executive order", "published": "2025-01-27", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prioritizing-military-excellence-and-readiness/" }, { "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2026-06-01", "type": "Independent legal reporting; canonical record preserves posture", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/02c27819995ebfbea6aa45d2633028d3" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-transgender-military-service" }, { "affected_area": "Civil-rights enforcement and federal contracting", "affected_population": "Workers and applicants protected by employment-discrimination law, including federal-contractor workforces", "alignment": "direct-textual-match", "chapter": "Department of Labor and Related Agencies", "consequence_record_ids": [ "2026-06-05-eeoc-enforcement-shift" ], "consequence_summary": "Trump revoked the federal-contractor affirmative-action framework, later directed agencies to curtail disparate-impact enforcement, and the EEOC shifted its enforcement plan away from the prior framework.", "id": "p2025-disparate-impact", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2025-01-21-federal-contractor-dei-order", "2025-04-23-disparate-impact-order" ], "intent": "explicit-implementation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The direct policy match does not prove the plan caused every agency enforcement decision or every downstream employment outcome.", "measurement_period": "January 21, 2025 through June 5, 2026", "pdf_page": 615, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=615", "printed_page": 583, "recommendation_summary": "The plan recommends eliminating disparate-impact liability, barring its use by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, eliminating that office and rescinding Executive Order 11246.", "response": "The administration says these actions end unlawful preferences and restore equal treatment; civil-rights groups argue they weaken tools used to identify systemic discrimination.", "section": "Eliminate disparate-impact liability and the OFCCP framework", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=615" }, { "name": "White House order ending federal contracting preferences", "published": "2025-01-21", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/" }, { "name": "White House disparate-impact order", "published": "2025-04-23", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-disparate-impact" }, { "affected_area": "International climate policy", "affected_population": "U.S. residents and international communities affected by climate policy and finance", "alignment": "direct-textual-match", "chapter": "Department of Energy and Related Commissions", "consequence_record_ids": [], "consequence_summary": "Trump ordered another U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and rescinded international climate-finance commitments; longer-term emissions and climate effects are not quantified in this crosswalk.", "id": "p2025-paris-agreement", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2025-01-20-paris-withdrawal" ], "intent": "explicit-implementation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The exact policy match establishes intentional withdrawal, not an intent to cause every projected climate or health consequence.", "measurement_period": "January 20, 2025 through September 7, 2026", "pdf_page": 740, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=740", "printed_page": 710, "recommendation_summary": "The plan recommends withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement and the underlying U.N. climate convention.", "response": "The administration framed withdrawal as protecting the economy and sovereignty; climate-policy advocates dispute those benefits.", "section": "Withdraw from international climate agreements", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=740" }, { "name": "White House executive order", "published": "2025-01-20", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements/" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-paris-agreement" }, { "affected_area": "Food assistance", "affected_population": "Low-income adults and households receiving or seeking SNAP benefits", "alignment": "substantial-match", "chapter": "Department of Agriculture", "consequence_record_ids": [], "consequence_summary": "Expanded statutory work requirements entered staged implementation. CBPP estimated that SNAP participation fell by roughly five million people between July 2025 and May 2026, while acknowledging data anomalies, incomplete implementation and other possible causes.", "id": "p2025-snap-work-requirements", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2026-snap-work-requirements-implementation" ], "intent": "documented-design", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The participation estimate is advocacy-group analysis and does not show that every departure from SNAP was caused by the law or that hardship was the policy's stated purpose.", "measurement_period": "July 2025 through May 2026", "pdf_page": 331, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=331", "printed_page": 299, "recommendation_summary": "The plan recommends reimplementing work requirements, narrowing state waivers and reforming exemptions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.", "response": "Supporters describe work requirements as promoting employment and program integrity; critics argue the rules remove food assistance without increasing stable work.", "section": "Reimplement and expand SNAP work requirements", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=331" }, { "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2026-01-30", "type": "Independent implementation reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/4e9016f6919a603cb7d35b9c9fcb9048" }, { "name": "Center on Budget and Policy Priorities", "published": "2026-08-18", "type": "Advocacy-group data analysis with stated limitations", "url": "https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-participation-is-down-by-millions-as-new-work-requirements-begin" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-snap-work-requirements" }, { "affected_area": "International public-health cooperation", "affected_population": "Public-health agencies and populations served through international disease surveillance and response", "alignment": "partial-match", "chapter": "Department of Health and Human Services", "consequence_record_ids": [], "consequence_summary": "Trump ordered U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, paused future transfers and recalled personnel; the crosswalk does not assign projected global-health effects as measured outcomes.", "id": "p2025-who-withdrawal", "implementation_record_ids": [ "2025-01-20-who-withdrawal" ], "intent": "intent-not-established", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "limitation": "The plan's criticism and funding recommendation are directionally related but do not prove that it directed the specific withdrawal decision.", "measurement_period": "January 20, 2025 through September 7, 2026", "pdf_page": 222, "plan_url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=222", "printed_page": 191, "recommendation_summary": "The plan criticizes the World Health Organization and recommends withholding U.S. support from ineffective or inadequately reformed international health bodies; it does not expressly prescribe the exact withdrawal order Trump issued.", "response": "The administration cited WHO handling of COVID-19, funding disparities and resistance to reform; WHO and public-health advocates disputed the wisdom of withdrawal.", "section": "World Health Organization funding and reform", "sources": [ { "name": "Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership", "published": "2023-04-21", "type": "Policy blueprint", "url": "https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#page=222" }, { "name": "White House executive order", "published": "2025-01-21", "type": "Official implementation record", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/" } ], "translation_key": "p2025-who-withdrawal" } ]