Project 2025

• 17 Jul 2024

Project 2025 is a transition plan spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank in Washington, DC.

Key Points

The 922 page documentoffers pointers on foreign policy, striking a hawkish tone on China – “the most significant danger to Americans’ security, freedoms, and prosperity” – prioritising nuclear weapons production and curtailing international aid programmes.

• China is the project’s main defence concern.
• Project 2025 wants the US to “modernise, adapt, and expand its nuclear arsenal”. The nuclear production will be bulked up. Among other things, this will involve accelerating the “development and production of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile”.
• It will also involve testing nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site – in defiance of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, of which the US is a signatory.
• The project's primary concerns is to be "gender radicalism" and abortion rights.
• The Project pledges to restore “the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children”.