Reveal How Project 2025 Is Reshaping Our Country
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Feb 11, 2026 
David A. Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of The Project, breaks down Project 2025 and its real-world rollout. He outlines mass deportations, replacing federal workers with loyalists, and cuts to agencies and safety net programs. He also explores the plan’s court strategy, centralized executive power, and what might come next in policy and personnel.
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Seizing The Executive Branch
- The most significant implemented element is seizing control of the executive branch and weakening the administrative state.
- This includes politicizing the Justice Department, firing civil servants, and limiting independent regulators.
Courts And A New Embrace Of Power
- Project 2025 assumes a compliant judiciary and was built with long-term court strategy in mind.
- The movement shifted from distrust of state power to embracing coercive executive authority to enforce its goals.
Ideology Behind Agency Cuts
- Cuts to agencies like CDC, HHS, and USAID are driven by ideological anger over pandemic measures and 'wokeness.'
- Authors view public-health and climate work as ideological threats and seek to shrink or privatize those functions.
