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The Number
283 out of 532 tracked domestic policy recommendations from Project 2025 have been initiated or completed as of February 2026. That is 53 percent of the Heritage Foundation’s administrative playbook, put into motion within the first 12 months of the administration.
The pace is accelerating. In April 2025, 28 percent of the agenda was underway. By October 2025, that hit 47 percent. By January 2026, roughly half. The trajectory is clear. Every month that passes without congressional pushback, more items move from “proposed” to “done.”
This is not a list of campaign promises. Project 2025 is a 920-page operational manual written by more than 100 conservative organizations, with specific executive orders drafted before inauguration day. Russell Vought, one of its key architects, now runs the Office of Management and Budget. The manual is being executed by the people who wrote it.
“Project 2025 is both a radical conservative policy to-do list and blueprint for defusing or co-opting any governing institutions that might stand in the way. The fact that the administration has made so much progress speaks to how successful they have been in transforming our executive branch into a tool of authoritarianism.”
— James Goodwin, Interim Co-Executive Director, Center for Progressive Reform
The Scorecard
This table covers major policy areas. Status reflects the most significant action taken as of May 2026.
| Policy Area | Proposal | Status | What Happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal workforce | Revive Schedule F to strip civil service protections from policy-related jobs | ENACTED | Executive order signed Jan 2025. OPM finalized the rule in Feb 2026. ~50,000 positions affected. |
| Federal workforce | Mass layoffs and agency downsizing via DOGE | ENACTED | Tens of thousands fired across agencies. DOGE went beyond Project 2025 recommendations. |
| Education | Eliminate the Department of Education | IN PROGRESS | Executive order issued March 2025. Staff cut ~50%. House bill targets full elimination by end of 2026. Supreme Court has allowed proceedings. |
| Immigration | End birthright citizenship | BLOCKED BY COURTS | Day-one executive order blocked by lower courts. Supreme Court took the case; ruling expected summer 2026. |
| Immigration | Expand interior enforcement, deputize state officials | ENACTED | ICE rescinded 2013 data-sharing limits. CMS now shares Medicaid enrollment data with DHS for enforcement purposes. |
| Military | Ban transgender service members | ENACTED | Supreme Court lifted the injunction in May 2025, allowing the ban to take effect. |
| Healthcare | Impose Medicaid work requirements | IN PROGRESS | The reconciliation bill requires states to verify 80 hours/month of work activity for expansion enrollees by Jan 2027. |
| Healthcare | Restructure HHS, consolidate divisions | ENACTED | HHS fired 10,000 employees, consolidated 28 divisions into 15, and eliminated five of ten regional offices as of April 2026. |
| DOJ | Redirect Civil Rights Division to target DEI programs | ENACTED | AG Bondi directed the division to investigate and penalize DEI policies in private sector and federally funded institutions on her first day. |
| Environment | Defund and dismantle NOAA | IN PROGRESS | External Affairs staff entirely laid off. Proposed 2026 budget cuts NOAA funding by $1.5 billion (25%+). |
| Environment | Roll back EPA environmental justice office | ENACTED | EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights eliminated. Enforcement staff reduced. |
| Consumer protection | Gut the CFPB | BLOCKED BY COURTS | DOGE attempted to dismantle the bureau. A federal judge ordered reinstatement of terminated employees in March 2025. |
| Civil rights | Redefine sex under Title IX to exclude gender identity | IN PROGRESS | Biden-era Title IX protections reversed. Cases on transgender athlete bans before the Supreme Court; rulings expected by July 2026. |
| Labor | Strip collective bargaining rights from federal workers | BLOCKED BY COURTS | Executive order covered 18 departments. A court blocked enforcement in May 2025. |
| Energy | Block clean energy projects, end climate programs | PARTIALLY BLOCKED | Stop-work orders on offshore wind and solar overturned by federal courts. 57 GW of capacity at risk was partially restored. |
| Reproductive rights | Restrict access to mifepristone and contraception funding | IN PROGRESS | About 40% of reproductive policy goals implemented as of Nov 2025. Title X funding restrictions underway. |
What the Scoreboard Shows
Of the 16 major policy areas above:
- 6 fully enacted through executive orders, agency rules, or personnel actions
- 5 in progress through legislation, rulemaking, or court proceedings
- 4 blocked or partially blocked by federal courts
- 1 not yet started (full DOE elimination awaits legislation)
Courts are the primary brake. The AG lawsuit scoreboard shows state attorneys general winning 82% of resolved cases. But court wins are temporary holds. The administration refiles, rewrites rules, and tries again. The CFPB, collective bargaining, and birthright citizenship fights are all in second or third rounds of litigation.
Congress is barely a factor. The reconciliation bill moved Medicaid work requirements forward. No legislation has blocked a single Project 2025 priority.
What Is Still Coming
The tracker maintained by the Center for Progressive Reform identifies 249 recommendations that have not yet been acted on. Some of the largest remaining items include privatizing parts of Medicare, further consolidating executive authority over independent agencies, and expanding political appointment power deeper into career civil service positions.
The Supreme Court’s summer 2026 docket includes birthright citizenship and transgender rights cases that could unlock several more Project 2025 priorities in a single term.
What You Can Do
- Write your representatives. Use Resist Bot to send a letter opposing specific Project 2025 priorities. Name the policy. Name the agency. Generic opposition gets filed and forgotten.
- Track what your state AG is doing. Check the AG lawsuit scoreboard and contact your AG’s office to support continued litigation.
- Read the Rule of Law hub for the full picture of how executive overreach, DOJ politicization, and inspector general firings connect to the Project 2025 playbook.
- Follow the trackers. The Center for Progressive Reform, NAACP LDF, and Project 2025 Observer update regularly.
This scorecard will be updated as court rulings land, new rules are finalized, and the remaining 47% of the agenda moves forward.