Big-name MAGA social media users have been celebrating the new year with posts online proclaiming "Project 2025 has begun."
Multiple social media accounts posted on X, formerly Twitter, hailing the conservative initiatives recommended by The Heritage Foundation which they want brought to fruition by President-elect Donald Trump once he is inaugurated later this month.
Newsweek has contacted the Trump transition team out of hours via email for comment.
Why It Matters
Project 2025, seen as a blueprint for the next presidency, promoting the dismantling of many aspects of Federal bureaucracy and more controls on women's reproductive rights, was cited as a reason by Democrats for not voting for Trump during the election. Trump distanced himself from the 900-page document, but said parts of it were good. So how much of Project 2025 is adopted by the next administration remains to be seen.
What To Know
After clocks hit midnight last night, the account @libsoftiktok shared a post on X with a GIF of Trump celebrating and the comment, "Project 2025." The account has more than 3.9 million followers on the platform, including conservative political commentator Matt Walsh, who deemed the project as the "agenda" after the November election.
MAGA X user, @jacktronprime, wrote, "Time to start project 2025." The user has more than 14,300 followers.
Political commentator Gunther Eagleman, who has more than 1.1 million followers on the platform also posted on X, "Did Project 2025 just start?"
An assistant news director of Florida Voice News, Eric Daugherty, also wrote on X, "Project 2025 has just begun." Daugherty has more than 286,000 followers on the platform.
The comment was also made by CNN anchor Andy Cohen on the news channel's New Year broadcast, who also said, "Project 2025 has begun."
Project 2025, the initiative developed by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, is a plan to make significant changes to the backbone of the U.S. federal government. If brought into action, the project would bring about significant changes across various parts of American life.
It was designed to be implemented if former President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, although when the project was unveiled Trump distanced himself from it, saying he had "nothing to do" with it.
While Trump has denied any associations with the project on multiple occasions, Democrats pushed back on this, saying many of the President-elect's former aides are leading the project.
More recently, following his victory in the election, Trump has praised parts of the project, and experts told Newsweek they believed he could bring in three of the plan's policies: dismantling federal bureaucracy, sharply restricting immigration, and taking a tougher stance with China.
What People Are Saying
President-elect Donald Trump, in his interview with Time Magazine: "I don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things. I specifically didn't want to read it because it wasn't under my auspices, and I wanted to be able to say that, you know, the only way I can say I have nothing to do with it is if you don't read it. I don't want—I didn't want to read it. I read enough about it. They have some things that are very conservative and very good. They have other things that I don't like."
What's Next
After Trump's inauguration on January 20, when he will officially start his role as the U.S.' 47th President, it could become clearer as to whether he will be implementing some, if any, of the policies in Project 2025.
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