What specific Project 2025 executive orders have been issued or proposed and where can they be tracked?
Executive summary
Project 2025 is a Heritage Foundation–led blueprint that proposed dozens of executive actions; many of those proposals have either been translated into formal executive orders (EOs) by the Trump administration or mirrored in early administration directives—examples include orders on abortion funding, foreign-aid freezes, rollbacks of DEI measures, military service rules for transgender people, and college disclosure requirements—while the authoritative place to find the text of issued EOs is the Federal Register and govinfo, and several policy groups and legal organizations maintain live “Project 2025” trackers that catalogue proposed and enacted actions [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
1. What “Project 2025 executive orders” means in practice
“Project 2025 executive orders” refers to two related things: specific EOs the administration has signed that match recommendations in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, and the list of EO-style proposals contained inside the 900‑page Project 2025 plan itself that the Heritage authors recommended a future conservative president implement—many of which the administration says it will pursue or has used as the basis for policy [1] [8].
2. Concrete EOs already issued that track to Project 2025 proposals
Reportedly implemented EOs that align with Project 2025 proposals include a White House order restricting federal funds for abortion (cited as following Project 2025 language) [2], a January EO freezing new foreign aid for 90 days and later stop-work notices for existing aid that Project 2025 advocated [1], orders dismantling DEI and demanding agencies purge “gender ideology” from materials [3], an EO listing gender dysphoria as disqualifying for military service [3], and education-sector orders such as directing enforcement of a Higher Education Act disclosure provision for foreign gifts ($250,000 threshold) [4]. Analysts also noted that a large share of the administration’s first-day EOs resembled Project 2025 recommendations [8].
3. Proposal-level EOs inside the Project 2025 blueprint
Project 2025’s published agenda contains many specific executive-action recommendations—ranging from abolishing or shrinking the Department of Education, reinstating a Schedule F personnel classification to make civil servants easier to remove, banning federal funding for abortion-related care, restricting gender-affirming care, restructuring or subordinating independent agencies under a unitary-executive framework, and tighter rules on foreign influence at universities—some labeled as requiring Congress or courts but many framed for immediate executive implementation [1] [9] [8].
4. Where to track the official text of issued executive orders
Every signed presidential EO is published in the Federal Register (and linked to PDF copies on govinfo); the Federal Register’s 2025 EO page catalogs the administration’s EOs (including numeric ranges and downloadable CSV/JSON) and is the legal/public record for final text [5]. Law‑firm charts and state‑federal trackers (for example Holland & Knight’s EO chart and NCSL’s State‑Federal tracker) provide annotated, searchable summaries that are useful for practitioners and state officials [10] [11].
5. Where to track Project 2025 proposals and the admin’s alignment in near‑real time
Multiple watchdog and advocacy groups maintain Project 2025 trackers that map proposed items to actual administration actions: the Center for Progressive Reform’s executive‑action tracker catalogs proposed Project 2025 policies across agencies, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund documents litigation and specific orders it says implement Project 2025 priorities, and civil‑liberties groups such as the ACLU provide issue‑focused explainers highlighting proposed and carried‑out steps [6] [7] [12]. Major news outlets and policy shops (PBS, CBS, Axios, Forbes) have compiled comparative lists showing which EOs have parallels in the Project 2025 playbook [3] [4] [13] [9].
6. Caveats, legal fights, and how to interpret the mapping
Mapping Project 2025 proposals to signed EOs is straightforward in some cases and conjectural in others: some EOs directly mirror specific Project 2025 text, others overlap with broader Republican platform priorities and administration campaign promises; several EOs have prompted immediate litigation (documented by NAACP LDF and reporting about court orders reinstating agency pages or blocking parts of policies), so tracking must pair the Federal Register text with state and federal court dockets and litigation trackers maintained by advocacy groups and news organizations [7] [3].