What major policy proposals in Project 2025 have been adopted, rejected, or altered by state and federal officials since 2023?

1. Project 2025’s scope: a full‑spectrum blueprint for a conservative administration

Project 2025 is presented as a multi‑part transition playbook — a policy guide, a personnel database, training and a playbook — produced with input from over 100 conservative organizations and released as part of the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series ^{[2] [5]}. Its agenda covers personnel rules (increasing political appointees), education (school choice and bans on “critical race theory”), regulatory rollbacks, immigration, climate and foreign‑policy turns, and broad downsizing of federal programs ^{[6] [7] [2]}.

2. What trackers and watchdogs say has been adopted or commenced

Multiple monitoring efforts and watchdogs report that a sizeable portion of the Project 2025 domestic regulatory agenda has been initiated or implemented after 2023. Newsweek’s summary of a public tracker stated the White House had enacted “almost half” (48%) of Project 2025 items as of its reporting, and conservative and progressive trackers similarly put implementation or initiation figures near the mid‑40s percent range ^{[3] [4]}. The Center for Progressive Reform noted the administration had “initiate[d] or fulfill[ed] more than 47 percent” of domestic actions before an October 2025 shutdown, and cited examples where the administration used Congressional Review Act tactics or rulemaking changes to advance priorities such as fossil‑fuel development on public lands ^[4].

3. Examples of adopted, contested, or altered policies

Reporting and trackers highlight concrete patterns rather than a one‑to‑one adoption of every Project 2025 recommendation: administration moves include budget cuts, deregulatory actions, and personnel changes aligning with the project’s emphasis on reshaping the executive branch; specific measures are described as being pursued or altered (for example, seeking to rescind Resource Management Plan protections via Congress rather than standard rulemaking) ^{[3] [4]}. However, the exact mapping of each Project 2025 item to an enacted policy is uneven in the available coverage; trackers note many objectives advanced through a mix of executive action, regulatory rollback, or Congressional steps rather than exact verbatim adoption ^{[3] [4]}.

4. Where Project 2025 has been rejected, stalled, or disputed

The public debate and reporting show resistance, legal challenges, and political pushback have slowed or altered some recommendations. Media coverage and fact‑checks documented pushback during the 2024 campaign and after, with Democrats actively campaigning to block or highlight the plan’s more controversial proposals and with Trump at times publicly distancing himself from the document even as his administration later embraced parts of it ^{[1] [7]}. News outlets and advocates also report that implementation pace slowed at times — from dozens of objectives per month early on to a much lower rate since August in one tracker — indicating stalled adoption for many items ^[3].

5. Competing frames: Heritage vs. critics

The Heritage Foundation frames Project 2025 as a pragmatic “Mandate for Leadership” and transition resource intended to guide a conservative administration’s personnel and policy priorities ^[2]. Civil‑liberties and progressive groups frame it as a radical restructuring that threatens rights, public programs, and democratic norms; the ACLU described it as a blueprint for restructuring the executive branch with negative consequences for reproductive, LGBTQ, immigrant and racial‑equity rights ^[8]. Journalistic coverage (BBC, Guardian) emphasizes both the scope of the proposal and the contentious political reaction that elevated its profile in 2024 ^{[1] [9]}.

6. Limits of available reporting and what’s not yet clear

Available sources do not provide a definitive item‑by‑item map of every Project 2025 recommendation to a specific state or federal action; they rely on trackers, watchdog tallies and thematic examples rather than a universally accepted ledger ^{[3] [4]}. Where a source explicitly ties an administration action to Project 2025, I cite it; where sources are silent on a specific claim, it is not asserted here ^{[3] [4] [6]}.

7. Bottom line: substantial influence, but not literal wholesale adoption

Reporting and independent trackers converge on this practical conclusion: Project 2025 has exerted substantial influence on policy direction and personnel priorities since 2023, with watchdog tallies putting implementation or initiation of many items in the mid‑40s percent range — but adoption has been partial, tactical, and in some cases altered to fit legal or political constraints rather than implemented exactly as written ^{[3] [4] [6]}.