Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Dr. Tami Gouveia, director of the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health at BU School of Social Work, recently appeared on WBUR’s On Point to discuss the ways President Donald Trump and Congress have been using the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and the America First Policy Institute’s America First Agenda to inform executive orders and policy.
Despite President Trump’s assurances that he had nothing to do with Project 2025 during his campaign, analysis reveals that the vast majority of the president’s executive orders so far were also proposed in either Project 2025 or the First Agenda.
Excerpt from “How closely is Trump following the Project 2025 blueprint?” by Paige Sutherland and Meghna Chakrabarti:
“When we [the Beyond 2025 team] did our deep dive, we really looked at both Project 2025 and the America First Agenda to really have a comprehensive look at what’s happening with the Trump administration and also with our new Republican led Congress as well, because they’ve taken up a number of the issues that are in both of these policy roadmaps. So that’s why we wanted to do a deep dive into both of them.
We estimate that a large majority of the executive orders really tie closely to what’s in our database and what comes out of Project 2025 and America First.”