The Recount

     It did not arrive as an abstraction. It arrived as a job that ended, an aid program that stopped, and a local station that lost the money Congress had already set aside for it. More than 317,000 employees stopped working for the federal government in 2025, according to the Office of Personnel Management as reported by USA Today on December 31, 2025. The majority took voluntary buyouts and early retirements as part of President Donald Trump's downsizing effort, tens of thousands were fired, some were probationary workers, and others lost jobs in the crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs or refused forced relocations, according to USA Today reporting OPM data. The government also hired 68,000 people in 2025, bringing total federal civilian employment to about 2.1 million, according to USA Today reporting OPM data.

    Overseas, the cuts landed faster and harder. On March 10, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 83 percent of the programs at the U.S. Agency for International Development were being cancelled — 5,200 contracts — and that the remaining 18 percent, approximately 1,000 programs, would be administered under the State Department, according to OSV News reporting in the Catholic Review, which noted the two figures added to 101 percent, an apparent rounding error. Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services was bracing for program cuts as high as 50 percent, and its former president and CEO Carolyn Woo had previously told OSV News that cutting USAID funding to CRS could be a life-or-death matter for many of the millions of people served by its relief projects, according to the Catholic Review reporting OSV News. Rubio thanked the Department of Government Efficiency in his announcement post, according to the Catholic Review.

   At home, the pattern reached your radio dial. The Rescissions Act of 2025, signed July 24, 2025, clawed back the $1.1 billion set aside for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and CPB said in August 2025 that it would close, according to the ResistNow tracker citing NPR. Poynter, on December 29, 2025, put the rescinded amount at $1.07 billion already allocated to CPB for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, and reported that by October 2025 CPB — and by extension NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local stations — had lost its federal funding, according to Poynter. A sentence written in 2023. A signature in 2025. Then a worker, a patient, a listener living with what the sentence did. California Attorney General Rob Bonta told NPR the document amounted to "telling us exactly what they were going to do and sending it to us in writing," and said Democratic attorneys general used it to prepare legal responses, according to the ResistNow tracker summarizing NPR reporting. Paul Dans, Project 2025's director, told NPR that each Trump action drawn from it was "an endorsement of our work," according to the same ResistNow summary of NPR reporting.

That document is Project 2025, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project launched by The Heritage Foundation and its partners in April 2022, according to the foreword material in Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. On April 21, 2023, Heritage announced publication of the ninth edition of Mandate for Leadership, calling it the earliest publication of a Mandate ever, according to The Heritage Foundation press release of April 21, 2023. Heritage described it as a 900-page book with 30 chapters, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves, with more than 35 primary authors and hundreds of contributors, according to The Heritage Foundation press release — the ResistNow tracker counts 887 printed pages, a front-matter counting difference readers should know. Heritage itself says the Reagan administration implemented nearly half of the ideas in the first edition by the end of his first year, and that the first Trump administration embraced nearly 64 percent of the 2016 edition's policy solutions after one year, according to The Heritage Foundation press release — Heritage's own self-reported figures, attributed here to Heritage.

This was never just a book. The Mandate states, "The project is built on four pillars," according to Mandate for Leadership, p. xiv: the policy volume itself, a personnel database to streamline appointments for the President-elect's team, a Presidential Administration Academy to train newcomers and senior leaders, and a Playbook of agency transition plans drafted to move out "upon the President's utterance of 'so help me God,'" according to the Mandate, p. xiv. At publication Dans described more than 50 leading conservative organizations joining forces, according to the Mandate, p. xiv, and by July 2024 Heritage President Kevin Roberts described "over 110 leading conservative organizations," according to Voice of America reporting on July 30, 2024. The goal was printed before the election, for anyone willing to read it.

"Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State" Paul Dans, Director of Project 2025, in the Mandate's "Note on Project 2025," pp. xiii–xiv

The same note said the project aimed to be ready for the next conservative Administration "to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025," according to the Mandate, pp. xiii–xiv, and Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in Heritage's April 21, 2023 release that the next president must have "the right policy and personnel necessary to dismantle the administrative state and restore self-governance to the American people," according to The Heritage Foundation. The foreword went further, calling for deleting the terms "sexual orientation and gender identity ('SOGI'), diversity, equity, and inclusion ('DEI'), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists," according to the Mandate foreword as quoted by ResistNow from pp. 4–5. It also said, "The noxious tenets of 'critical race theory' and 'gender ideology' should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country," according to the Mandate foreword, p. 5, as quoted by ResistNow. That is not moderation hiding in footnotes. That is a cultural program, in print.

Candidate Trump ran away from it in public. PBS NewsHour, on April 16, 2026, aired Trump in July 2024 saying, in part: "I don't know what the hell it is. It's Project 25… I read some of the things and they are extreme… I don't know anything about it." The ResistNow tracker, citing NPR, summarized the campaign position as Trump saying he had "nothing to do with Project 2025" and calling its ideas "ridiculous." On July 30, 2024, Dans stepped down, Heritage confirmed, according to Voice of America. Heritage said Dans left voluntarily and was not under pressure from the Trump campaign, while a former Heritage aide granted anonymity told reporters it was almost certain the Trump campaign forced the shakeup, according to VOA — a disputed account this article presents with both sides. Heritage also said the project would continue vetting resumes for its nearly 20,000-person database, and that Roberts would run Project 2025 operations, according to VOA.

Then personnel became policy. At least seven of the Mandate's chapter authors went on to run the agencies they wrote about or offices near them, according to the ResistNow tracker citing Snopes on December 16, 2025. Russell Vought, author of Chapter 2 on the Executive Office of the President, became Director of the Office of Management and Budget, confirmed by the Senate on February 6, 2025 by a party-line vote of 53–47, according to the Associated Press on February 6, 2025. Lindsey M. Burke, who wrote the Education chapter stating the department "should be eliminated," became Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs at the Department of Education, according to the ResistNow tracker citing Snopes. Brendan Carr, who wrote the FCC chapter, became Chairman of the FCC; Jonathan Berry became Solicitor of Labor; Adam Candeub became General Counsel at the FCC; Peter Navarro became White House trade adviser; and Mora Namdar became a senior official in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, according to the ResistNow tracker citing Snopes. PBS NewsHour likewise identified Vought, Navarro, Carr, and border adviser Tom Homan as Project 2025 authors or contributors now in the administration, according to the PBS NewsHour transcript of April 16, 2026. ProPublica's October 17, 2025 investigation reported that Vought chaired the transition portion of Project 2025 and helped draft some 350 executive orders, regulations, and other plans to expand presidential power, as summarized by Kottke.org and NJToday.news reporting on ProPublica — findings attributed here to ProPublica. The White House disputes one part of the pipeline story: a White House spokesperson told Snopes the administration did not use the project's personnel database to hire, according to the ResistNow tracker, and White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told NPR, "President Trump is implementing the agenda he campaigned on and that the American people voted for," according to ResistNow citing NPR.

The signature campaign started on Day One. On January 20, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14171 reinstating the 2020 order creating Schedule F, Executive Order 14151 ending federal DEI programs, and Executive Order 14168 defining sex for federal policy as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female," each matching a Mandate proposal quoted by printed page, according to the ResistNow tracker citing the Federal Register. Schedule F was renamed "Schedule Policy/Career," and the Office of Personnel Management's final rule letting agencies move policy-influencing jobs into it took effect March 9, 2026, according to the ResistNow tracker citing the Federal Register. Executive Order 14251, on March 27, 2025, excluded listed agencies and offices from federal collective bargaining law on national-security grounds, according to the ResistNow tracker. Executive Order 14281, on April 23, 2025, told agencies to "deprioritize enforcement" of laws to the extent they include disparate-impact liability, while Congress has not changed Title VII, according to ResistNow citing the Federal Register. The Mandate had proposed exactly this direction in its own words — "Eliminate disparate impact as a valid theory of discrimination for race and other bases under Title VII and other laws," according to the Mandate, p. 583, as quoted by ResistNow.

How much of it, in total? There is no official government count, and honesty requires saying what the outside counts are and what they are not. The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact counted 283 of 532 recommended domestic administrative actions — 53 percent — initiated or completed in the 12 months following inauguration, across 20 federal agencies, according to the Center for Progressive Reform's February 2026 update, and PBS NewsHour reported the same figure on April 16, 2026. The volunteer-run Project 2025 Observer counted 141 complete and 70 in progress of 321 broader objectives across 34 agencies, as of October 14, 2026, according to ResistNow. Those percentages are not directly comparable, and neither tracker weighs proposals by size, so eliminating a department and renaming an office each count as one, and "in progress" can mean a draft rule or an executive order a court has paused, according to ResistNow. A tracker percentage is not a measure of harm or benefit, according to ResistNow. The honest sentence is this: by two independent counting methods, roughly half of what Project 2025 recommended for executive action had been started or completed within the first year-plus — and the half that moved was overwhelmingly the half that did not need Congress.

The Veracity Project ran a third count, and it was not an estimate. It was an audit. This project took the volunteer tracker's own dataset — the Mandate's 321 objectives, joined by 11 administration actions that go beyond the book, 332 rows in all — and checked every row marked complete against the primary record: the Federal Register, Congress.gov, agency releases, and court dockets. The standard was effect, not announcement. A checkmark earned by a press release did not survive.

101 did. As of November 7, 2026, 101 of the 332 objectives in The Veracity Project's tracker are completed and in effect — 30 percent — with 6 more enacted but not yet effective, 15 in effect with implementation still running, 76 in progress, 109 not started, and 25 blocked or partially blocked in court, according to The Veracity Project's tracker. Thirty-eight times across the audit, a row the source tracker called done was not done. The errors followed a pattern: rows dated by the announcement or the signing ceremony rather than the day anything took effect, five filed under the wrong agency, nine citing the wrong instrument entirely. The repeal of the Roadless Rule is, as of this writing, a proposed rule. The rescission of the SEC's climate-disclosure rule was never finalised. One objective — transferring background investigations to the Office of Personnel Management — never happened at all; the current arrangement is the opposite of what the Mandate asked for.

The courts hold more of the record than the completion column admitted. Twenty-five objectives are blocked or partly blocked, including the Environmental Protection Agency's termination of $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants — terminations an en banc federal appeals court held likely unlawful in August 2026, in a ruling whose payout stay runs through November 9, 2026, according to The Veracity Project's tracker. That is the difference between counting and checking, and it is why this project publishes its rows, its grades, and its corrections where anyone can audit them back.

The execution did not stop with Day One orders. The administration's downsizing vehicle in its first year was the Department of Government Efficiency, then led by Elon Musk, which initiated the mass layoffs and voluntary exits, according to USA Today reporting OPM data. For media, Poynter documented on December 29, 2025 that Trump issued a March executive order to eliminate the U.S. Agency for Global Media's nonstatutory functions "to the maximum extent," that senior adviser Kari Lake placed more than 1,300 Voice of America employees on leave the next day and suspended congressionally approved grants to Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, that those actions were challenged in five lawsuits, and that a federal judge ordered restoration of Voice of America broadcasting and grant disbursement while the administration nonetheless executed multiple rounds of layoffs, according to Poynter. The White House took over the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association in February 2025 after Project 2025 suggested "an alternate coordinating body might be more suitable," according to Poynter quoting the Mandate, and Attorney General Pam Bondi in April rescinded DOJ guidance limiting investigators' ability to obtain journalists' records in leak investigations, as Project 2025 advocated, according to Poynter. In education, Executive Order 14242 on March 20, 2025 told the Secretary of Education to facilitate the Department of Education's closure "to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law," according to the ResistNow tracker, and by March 19, 2026, 10 interagency agreements had moved programs to five other agencies including Labor, HHS and Treasury, with the department keeping statutory responsibility, according to ResistNow citing K-12 Dive. The EPA's rescission of the 2009 greenhouse-gas endangerment finding and its vehicle emission standards took effect April 20, 2026, with petitions for review pending in the D.C. Circuit, according to ResistNow citing the Federal Register. And PBS NewsHour reported the Center for Reproductive Rights' assessment that 85 percent of Trump's reproductive-health actions stemmed from Project 2025 recommendations, including prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds via the budget bill passed in summer 2025, according to the PBS NewsHour transcript of April 16, 2026 — that figure is the Center's assessment as reported by PBS, not a neutral count.

What it means for all of us is the fight underneath the policy fights. The Center for Progressive Reform describes Project 2025 as "the conservative movement's blueprint for weakening our government and building an authoritarian presidency," according to the Center for Progressive Reform tracker page, and CPR interim co-executive director James Goodwin called the plan a "blueprint for defusing or co-opting any governing institutions that might stand in the way," according to ResistNow summarizing CPR and NPR. Presidential historian Tevi Troy, who worked in the George W. Bush White House, offered the other framing to NPR: "Project 2025 was largely standard conservative fare, but with a bit more of a MAGA flavor than previously," according to ResistNow summarizing NPR. Readers can weigh those framings. They cannot weigh away the Mandate's own object, printed on p. xiv: the administrative state itself — the career civil service, the independent agencies, and the rules that insulate them from direct presidential control. If career experts can be reclassified as at-will, if an education department's programs can be scattered to five other agencies without Congress abolishing the department, if public broadcasting can lose funding Congress already appropriated through a rescissions vote, and if 83 percent of an aid agency's programs can be cancelled by announcement, then the question is no longer only what government does. It is whether the institutions that do it survive an election intact.

The other half of the record matters just as much, and The Veracity Project will print it just as plainly. The Mandate's trade chapter asked Congress for new tariff authority, but the administration imposed tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on February 20, 2026 in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that IEEPA "does not authorize the President to impose tariffs," according to the ResistNow tracker citing the Supreme Court and Venable LLP's February 2026 analysis. Congress has not abolished the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to ResistNow, even though the Mandate said "Congress should abolish the CFPB," according to the Mandate, p. 839, as quoted by ResistNow. The FDA reversal the Mandate demanded — "Reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs," according to the Mandate, p. 458, as quoted by ResistNow — has not happened; the FDA says it is conducting a safety study of mifepristone and the approval stands, according to ResistNow citing the FDA. "Eliminate the Head Start program," the Mandate said on p. 482, as quoted by ResistNow — Head Start programs still operate in every state, according to ResistNow citing HHS's Office of Head Start. NOAA "should be dismantled," the Mandate said on p. 664, as quoted by ResistNow — NOAA still exists inside the Commerce Department, according to ResistNow citing NOAA. And Congress has not abolished the Department of Education, according to ResistNow.

Credibility also means refusing the viral version of this fight. A Project 2025 spokesperson told FactCheck.org "there is no call for a national abortion ban in any form," and FactCheck.org concluded that is true as a description of the text, while also documenting that the playbook suggests blocking mailing of abortion pills by enforcing the 1873 Comstock Act, ending mandatory insurance coverage of emergency contraceptive Ella, and ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood and all other abortion providers, according to FactCheck.org in October 2024. The Mandate does propose mandatory state reporting: "HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother's state of residence, and by what method," according to the Mandate, p. 455, as quoted in full by FactCheck.org. But FactCheck.org found then-nominee Tim Walz's claim that Project 2025 would track all pregnancies and require registration with a new federal agency was false, and found no mention in Project 2025 of prosecuting women who had abortions, according to FactCheck.org. The Dispatch checked a viral 31-claim graphic against the Mandate and rated claims about cutting Social Security, raising the retirement age, ending no-fault divorce, banning contraceptives, and banning slavery curriculum each False, according to The Dispatch fact-check by Alex Demas. Those false claims handed Project 2025's defenders an easy rebuttal. The true, page-cited record needs no invention.

So what can stop it? The courts, first — with limits printed in the same record. The ACLU's legal docket comprised 239 legal actions and 139 lawsuits in the administration's first year, and the ACLU reported 64 percent of its cases succeeded in delaying, diluting, or defeating the administration's policies, according to the ACLU's "One Year In" account of January 20, 2026 — a self-reported figure, attributed to the ACLU. The ACLU said it filed suit two hours after the birthright-citizenship executive order, followed by a class action it said protected more than 129,000 children, and pointed to a Supreme Court ruling that individuals must be given due process to challenge removal under the Alien Enemies Act and to Illinois v. Trump among court victories prohibiting National Guard deployments, according to the ACLU. The courts also cut the other way: the Fourth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against the DEI executive orders on February 6, 2026, and the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against the collective-bargaining order on February 26, 2026, according to ResistNow citing those courts. Litigation delays and sometimes defeats this project. It does not reliably stop it.

Congress is the second lever, because Congress is where the remaining agenda lives or dies. "The proposals that stalled needed Congress, like abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," according to ResistNow. Abolishing the Education Department, abolishing the CFPB, eliminating Head Start, and eliminating disparate-impact liability under Title VII all require Congress under the Mandate's own text or the trackers' reading of it, according to the ResistNow proposal table. Congress also proved it can execute Project 2025: CPB defunding succeeded only when Congress passed the Rescissions Act of 2025, according to ResistNow and Poynter. That is why the documented prescription is to watch what Congress does, not only the White House, according to ResistNow. Beyond Washington, agencies must take public comments before a final rule, and readers can search open dockets on Regulations.gov and explain how a rule would affect them, according to ResistNow — the Schedule Policy/Career rule itself went through OPM rulemaking before taking effect, according to ResistNow. And orders signed by one president can be reversed by the next, according to ResistNow. The limit is equally documented: a rescissions law, a rescinded endangerment finding with an effective date, 5,200 cancelled contracts, and 317,000 departed workers do not snap back with a signature.

Stop it, then, the way its opponents in court already fight it: with the book open. Read the proposal before you share a claim about it, use the page numbers to check any quote in the full Mandate text, because a checked quote persuades people that a paraphrase cannot, according to ResistNow. The people who wrote this program published it, dated it, paginated it, staffed it, and began signing it into life at noon on January 20, 2025. They do not get to benefit from our exaggerations, and they will not survive our accuracy. The record is the resistance — name, date, page, order, ruling. Use it.

Sources: Project 2025 Publishes Comprehensive Policy Guide, ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise’ — Primary: Heritage Apr 21 2023 announcement — ninth edition, 30 chapters/authors list, 900 pages, Reagan/Trump implementation claims (Heritage self-reported).; Project 2025 — Primary text: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Heritage, 2023) full PDF — copyright page, contents, Advisory Board pp. xi-xii, Note on Project 2025 / four pillars pp. xiii-xiv read directly.; Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker - Center for Progressive Reform — CPR + Governing for Impact tracker page: Feb 2026 update, 283 of 532 (53%) across 20 agencies. Advocacy tracker — methodology caveat in report.; Project 2025 Tracker: What Has Been Implemented and What Has Not — Proposal-by-proposal check of 14 flagship proposals against Federal Register/courts/Congress, Mandate quotes by printed page, author-to-administration table citing Snopes, tracker comparison, timeline. Published Sep 27 2026.; One Year In: Defending the Constitution Under a Second Trump Administration — ACLU Jan 20 2026 self-report: 239 legal actions, 139 lawsuits, 64% delay/dilute/defeat; birthright citizenship, Alien Enemies Act, Illinois v. Trump examples.; Walz's False Project 2025 Pregnancy Monitoring Claims - FactCheck.org — FactCheck.org Oct 2024: full Mandate p.455 abortion-data passage; no all-pregnancy monitoring/registry; no national abortion ban call per Project spokesperson.; Viral Claims About Project 2025 Are Mostly False — The Dispatch fact-check of viral 31-claim graphic against Mandate text: Social Security, retirement age, no-fault divorce, contraceptives, slavery curriculum, birthright citizenship, etc.; Here’s how many of Project 2025’s media proposals were implemented in 2025 — Poynter Dec 29 2025: CPB defunding ($1.07B), USAGM/VOA dismantling, press pool takeover, leak-investigation policy, Carr/FCC — proposal by proposal.; More than 317,000 federal employees left the government in 2025 — USA Today Dec 31 2025 reporting OPM data: 317,000+ departures, 68,000 hires, ~2.1M civilian workforce, DOGE role.; Supreme Court Invalidates IEEPA Tariffs with Justices Split on Major Questions Doctrine — Venable LLP Feb 2026 analysis of Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 6-3, IEEPA does not authorize tariffs.; How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted? | PBS News Hour — PBS NewsHour transcript Apr 16 2026 (THIRTEEN): Vought/architects in administration, CPR 53% figure, Center for Reproductive Rights 85% assessment, Trump July 2024 disavowal clip.; Senate confirms Russell Vought, Project 2025 architect, to lead OMB — Associated Press Feb 6 2025 via Gainesville Sun/Gator Sports: Vought confirmed 53-47, OMB role and background.; 4 in 5 USAID projects now canceled, with State Department overseeing the rest — OSV News via Catholic Review: Rubio Mar 10 2025 cancelling 83% of USAID programs, 5,200 contracts, ~1,000 remaining to State; CRS impact.; voacorr 2024-07-30 Project 2025 director leaves Heritage Foundation — VOA/AP July 30 2024: Dans stepped down, Roberts statement (110+ organizations), Heritage voluntary-leaving claim vs anonymous aide campaign-pressure claim, ~20,000-person database continues.; Project 2025 Tracker — The Veracity Project — TVP's own dataset (data of record, Google Sheet): row-by-row audit of 332 objectives against the Federal Register, Congress.gov, agency releases, and court dockets; spot-check programme completed Nov 7 2026: 101 completed and in effect, 25 blocked or partially blocked in court, 38 'completed' claims overturned.

Sources: Project 2025 Publishes Comprehensive Policy Guide, ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise’ — Primary: Heritage Apr 21 2023 announcement — ninth edition, 30 chapters/authors list, 900 pages, Reagan/Trump implementation claims (Heritage self-reported).; Project 2025 — Primary text: Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Heritage, 2023) full PDF — copyright page, contents, Advisory Board pp. xi-xii, Note on Project 2025 / four pillars pp. xiii-xiv read directly.; Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker - Center for Progressive Reform — CPR + Governing for Impact tracker page: Feb 2026 update, 283 of 532 (53%) across 20 agencies. Advocacy tracker — methodology caveat in report.; Project 2025 Tracker: What Has Been Implemented and What Has Not — Proposal-by-proposal check of 14 flagship proposals against Federal Register/courts/Congress, Mandate quotes by printed page, author-to-administration table citing Snopes, tracker comparison, timeline. Published Sep 27 2026.; One Year In: Defending the Constitution Under a Second Trump Administration — ACLU Jan 20 2026 self-report: 239 legal actions, 139 lawsuits, 64% delay/dilute/defeat; birthright citizenship, Alien Enemies Act, Illinois v. Trump examples.; Walz's False Project 2025 Pregnancy Monitoring Claims - FactCheck.org — FactCheck.org Oct 2024: full Mandate p.455 abortion-data passage; no all-pregnancy monitoring/registry; no national abortion ban call per Project spokesperson.; Viral Claims About Project 2025 Are Mostly False — The Dispatch fact-check of viral 31-claim graphic against Mandate text: Social Security, retirement age, no-fault divorce, contraceptives, slavery curriculum, birthright citizenship, etc.; Here’s how many of Project 2025’s media proposals were implemented in 2025 — Poynter Dec 29 2025: CPB defunding ($1.07B), USAGM/VOA dismantling, press pool takeover, leak-investigation policy, Carr/FCC — proposal by proposal.; More than 317,000 federal employees left the government in 2025 — USA Today Dec 31 2025 reporting OPM data: 317,000+ departures, 68,000 hires, ~2.1M civilian workforce, DOGE role.; Supreme Court Invalidates IEEPA Tariffs with Justices Split on Major Questions Doctrine — Venable LLP Feb 2026 analysis of Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 6-3, IEEPA does not authorize tariffs.; How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted? | PBS News Hour — PBS NewsHour transcript Apr 16 2026 (THIRTEEN): Vought/architects in administration, CPR 53% figure, Center for Reproductive Rights 85% assessment, Trump July 2024 disavowal clip.; Senate confirms Russell Vought, Project 2025 architect, to lead OMB — Associated Press Feb 6 2025 via Gainesville Sun/Gator Sports: Vought confirmed 53-47, OMB role and background.; 4 in 5 USAID projects now canceled, with State Department overseeing the rest — OSV News via Catholic Review: Rubio Mar 10 2025 cancelling 83% of USAID programs, 5,200 contracts, ~1,000 remaining to State; CRS impact.; voacorr 2024-07-30 Project 2025 director leaves Heritage Foundation — VOA/AP July 30 2024: Dans stepped down, Roberts statement (110+ organizations), Heritage voluntary-leaving claim vs anonymous aide campaign-pressure claim, ~20,000-person database continues.; Project 2025 Tracker — The Veracity Project — TVP's own dataset (data of record): 332 objectives (321 Mandate + 11 Beyond the Mandate), effect-based statuses, every 'completed' claim spot-checked against the Federal Register, Congress.gov, agency releases, and court dockets; spot-check programme completed Nov 7, 2026: 101 completed and in effect, 25 blocked or partially blocked in court, 38 completed-claims overturned..