More Than Half of Project 2025 Is Already Underway. Here Is the Full Scorecard.

The Number

283 out of 532 tracked domestic policy recommendations from Project 2025 have been initiated or completed as of February 2026. That is 53 percent of the Heritage Foundation’s administrative playbook, put into motion within the first 12 months of the administration.

The pace is accelerating. In April 2025, 28 percent of the agenda was underway. By October 2025, that hit 47 percent. By January 2026, roughly half.

The trajectory is clear. Every month that passes without congressional pushback, more items move from “proposed” to “done.”

This is not a list of campaign promises. Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” is a 900-page manual for reorganizing the federal government agency by agency, published by the Heritage Foundation with former Trump administration officials. Russell Vought, one of its key architects, now runs the Office of Management and Budget. The manual is being executed by the people who wrote it.

“Project 2025 is both a radical conservative policy to-do list and blueprint for defusing or co-opting any governing institutions that might stand in the way. The fact that the administration has made so much progress speaks to how successful they have been in transforming our executive branch into a tool of authoritarianism.”

— James Goodwin, Interim Co-Executive Director, Center for Progressive Reform

The Scorecard

This table covers major policy areas. Status reflects the most significant action taken as of May 2026; the consumer protection and labor rows were updated October 15, 2026.

Policy Area	Proposal	Status	What Happened
Federal workforce	Revive Schedule F to strip civil service protections from policy-related jobs	ENACTED	Executive order signed Jan 2025. OPM finalized the rule in Feb 2026. ~50,000 positions affected.
Federal workforce	Mass layoffs and agency downsizing via DOGE	ENACTED	Tens of thousands fired across agencies. DOGE went beyond Project 2025 recommendations.
Education	Eliminate the Department of Education	IN PROGRESS	Executive order issued March 2025. Staff cut ~50%. House bill targets full elimination by end of 2026. Supreme Court has allowed proceedings.
Immigration	End birthright citizenship	BLOCKED BY COURTS	Day-one executive order blocked by lower courts. Supreme Court took the case; ruling expected summer 2026.
Immigration	Expand interior enforcement, deputize state officials	ENACTED	ICE rescinded 2013 data-sharing limits. CMS now shares Medicaid enrollment data with DHS for enforcement purposes.
Military	Ban transgender service members	ENACTED	Supreme Court lifted the injunction in May 2025, allowing the ban to take effect.
Healthcare	Impose Medicaid work requirements	IN PROGRESS	The reconciliation bill requires states to verify 80 hours/month of work activity for expansion enrollees by Jan 2027.
Healthcare	Restructure HHS, consolidate divisions	ENACTED	HHS fired 10,000 employees, consolidated 28 divisions into 15, and eliminated five of ten regional offices by April 2026.
DOJ	Redirect Civil Rights Division to target DEI programs	ENACTED	AG Bondi directed the division to investigate and penalize DEI policies in private sector and federally funded institutions on her first day.
Environment	Defund and dismantle NOAA	IN PROGRESS	Some 880 NOAA employees were laid off in February 2025. Proposed 2026 budget cuts NOAA funding by $1.5 billion (25%+).
Environment	Roll back EPA environmental justice office	ENACTED	EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights eliminated. Enforcement staff reduced.
Consumer protection	Gut the CFPB	BLOCKED BY COURTS	The 2025 reconciliation law cut the bureau’s funding cap from 12 to 6.5 percent. On September 25, 2026, a federal court in Oregon held that the acting director must request funding from the Federal Reserve, according to California’s attorney general.
Civil rights	Redefine sex under Title IX to exclude gender identity	IN PROGRESS	Biden-era Title IX protections reversed. Cases on transgender athlete bans before the Supreme Court; rulings expected by July 2026.
Labor	Strip collective bargaining rights from federal workers	ENACTED	Executive Order 14251 (March 27, 2025) removed listed agencies from federal collective bargaining law on national security grounds. A district court blocked it in June 2025, and the Ninth Circuit vacated that injunction on February 26, 2026 (amended June 17).
Energy	Block clean energy projects, end climate programs	PARTIALLY BLOCKED	Stop-work orders on offshore wind and solar overturned by federal courts. 57 GW of capacity at risk was partially restored.
Reproductive rights	Restrict access to mifepristone and contraception funding	IN PROGRESS	About 40% of reproductive policy goals implemented as of Nov 2025. Title X funding restrictions underway.

What the Numbers Show

Of the 16 major policy areas above:

8 fully enacted through executive orders, agency rules, or personnel actions
5 in progress through legislation, rulemaking, or court proceedings
3 blocked or partially blocked by federal courts

Courts are the primary brake. The AG lawsuit results shows state attorneys general winning 82% of resolved cases. But court wins are temporary holds.

The administration refiles and rewrites rules. The CFPB and birthright citizenship fights are both in second or third rounds of litigation.

Congress is barely a factor. The reconciliation bill moved Medicaid work requirements forward. No legislation has blocked a single Project 2025 priority.

What Is Still Coming

The tracker maintained by the Center for Progressive Reform identifies 249 recommendations that have not yet been acted on. Some of the largest remaining items include privatizing parts of Medicare and expanding political appointment power deeper into career civil service positions.

The Supreme Court’s summer 2026 docket includes birthright citizenship and transgender rights cases that could unlock several more Project 2025 priorities in a single term.

What You Can Do

Write your representatives. Use Resist Bot to send a letter opposing specific Project 2025 priorities. Name the policy. Name the agency. Generic opposition gets filed and forgotten.
Track what your state AG is doing. Check the AG lawsuit results and contact your AG’s office to support continued litigation.
Read the Rule of Law hub for the full picture of how executive overreach and inspector general firings connect to the Project 2025 playbook.
Follow the data. The Center for Progressive Reform and NAACP LDF update regularly.

This scorecard will be updated as court rulings land and the remaining 47% of the agenda moves forward.

Correction, October 14, 2026: An earlier version of this brief described Project 2025 as a 920-page manual written by more than 100 conservative organizations, with executive orders drafted before Inauguration Day. The Mandate for Leadership is a roughly 900-page manual published by the Heritage Foundation with former Trump administration officials (ACLU); the executive order claim was removed. It also said NOAA’s External Affairs staff were entirely laid off. Some 880 NOAA employees were laid off in February 2025 (CBS News).

Update and correction, October 15, 2026: The collective bargaining row said a court blocked the executive order in May 2025. A district court blocked Executive Order 14251 in June 2025, and the Ninth Circuit vacated that injunction on February 26, 2026, amended June 17, so the order is in effect (Ninth Circuit).

The CFPB row cited a March 2025 reinstatement order. It now reports the 2025 law that cut the bureau’s funding cap (Public Law 119-21, sec. 30001) and a September 25, 2026 ruling that the bureau must request funding (California Attorney General).

The summary counts also did not match the table; they now read 8 enacted, 5 in progress and 3 blocked or partially blocked.