Which Project 2025 policy proposals have been implemented by the administration so far and by which agencies?
Executive summary
The administration has put into motion a substantial portion of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, translating elements of the plan into executive orders, agency rules, and budget requests across multiple departments — with watchdogs and trackers reporting anywhere from dozens to roughly half of the document’s recommendations being acted on [1] [2]. Independent trackers and advocacy groups map specific actions to agencies — notably HUD, VA, DHS, and moves affecting public broadcasting and federal webpages — but no single public source enumerates every implementation in a comprehensive, government-authored list [3] [4].
1. HUD and housing policy: removing “housing first” and tightening permanent-housing funding
Project 2025’s housing prescriptions have been implemented in part through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s removal of “housing first” language from its public materials and through a White House executive order that the tracker credits with limiting how communities may spend federal funds on permanent housing programs [3]. Project2025.observer lists HUD actions as completed and cites a January 8, 2026 completion flag for certain objectives, indicating agency-level alignment with Project 2025’s recommendations on homelessness policy [3].
2. Veterans Affairs and reproductive rules: a VA rule restricting abortion services
Advocacy trackers identify a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that would bar the VA from providing abortions even in cases of rape or incest as an implemented change consistent with Project 2025’s reproductive-policy priorities; the Project2025.observer tracker explicitly notes the VA action in its summary of completed items [3]. Civil liberties and reproductive-rights groups have flagged this move as a direct policy translation of Heritage-aligned recommendations [3].
3. Department of Homeland Security: expanding eligibility-verification systems and identity matching
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s tracker and affiliated filings point to a DHS proposal to modify and reissue a System of Records Notice that would broaden the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program into a wider identity-matching apparatus, a change tied to Project 2025’s immigration-and-verification objectives and implemented through DHS rulemaking processes [5]. That proposal, the tracker warns, would pull data across federal and state sources and heighten privacy and error risks — precisely the operational shift Project 2025 advocates [5].
4. Federal media funding and USAGM/CPB: executive pressure and congressional follow-through
Project 2025’s media-policy chapter called for major changes to public broadcasting and the U.S. Agency for Global Media; the administration sought to implement these ideas by asking Congress to rescind appropriated funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a request that was accepted by a Republican-led Congress, resulting in the loss of CPB funding according to reporting at Poynter [1]. Poynter traces the administration’s day-one executive orders and subsequent congressional action as reflecting Project 2025’s media playbook [1].
5. Executive orders, staffing, and the unitary-executive push: Day‑one alignment and personnel choices
Multiple outlets and trackers document that several day-one executive orders and senior nominations mirror Project 2025 proposals, and that the administration has placed authors or proponents of Project 2025 into influential roles — a pattern the ACLU and BBC identify as part of a broader strategy to centralize presidential control and implement the plan via the executive branch [6] [7] [8]. Trackers like the Center for Progressive Reform and community-run sites catalog these personnel and EO parallels across agencies [9] [4].
6. What trackers disagree about and what remains uncertain
Community and advocacy trackers differ on totals and definitions — some count “in motion” items, others count finalized rules — producing estimates that range from “dozens” to “nearly half” of Project 2025 items being implemented within the first year, but these figures vary by methodology and scope [2] [10]. There is no single authoritative federal accounting publicly available in the provided sources that lists every Project 2025 proposal and its implementation status, so attribution in many cases relies on independent trackers, news reporting, and comparison of executive actions to the Project 2025 text [3] [4].
Conclusion: a dispersed, multi-agency execution that watchdogs trace back to Project 2025
The evidence in trackers and contemporary reporting shows concrete implementations tied to Project 2025 at HUD, VA, DHS, and via actions affecting CPB/USAGM and agency webpages, alongside a broader pattern of executive orders and personnel placements aligned with the Heritage blueprint [3] [5] [1] [6]. Multiple monitoring projects (project2025.observer, NAACP LDF, Center for Progressive Reform, Watch2025) continue to document further agency moves, but definitive, complete government confirmation of every implemented proposal is not available in the provided sources [3] [9] [4].