The promise tracker · graded on the declassifiedbysean scales
The Project 2025 Wing.
⚠ DRAFT v1 — NOT READY TO PUBLISH. Charged political content: the curator reads and verifies every line against its primary source before this goes live (the strategic pause). Grades are first-pass and contestable. Nothing here is auto-published.
What this is. Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (2023) — ~900 pages, 30 chapters of proposals to restructure the federal government. This wing takes a curated set of its marquee promises, checks each against the actual federal record, and grades it on the scales the declassifiedbysean project uses.
⚖ Overlap is not causation. The administration publicly disavowed Project 2025. This tracker grades only whether the policy Project 2025 proposed was enacted — never why, and never "Trump did it because of Project 2025." Trackers find a large overlap; the motive is a separate, unproven claim, and we don't make it.
The scales (from declassifiedbysean)
Verdict: TRUE proposed policy enacted · FALSE rejected/reversed · MISLEADING done in name, not substance · PENDING too early / needs Congress / unverifiable.
Bogost Citation Scale (evidence): STRONG primary source/official record · CAREFUL expert consensus/major reporting · WEAK contested/secondary · INSUFFICIENT no credible basis.
Benkler composite (institutional severity, 0–4; 4 = CRITICAL).
1. Reclassify policy-influencing civil servants (“Schedule F”) so they can be removed at will.
The record
Reinstated by Executive Order 14171 (Jan 20, 2025), stripping civil-service protections from policy-influencing positions.
TRUE Bogost: STRONG (the EO) · Benkler: 4 (CRITICAL — re-wires the civil service)
2. Eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) offices and programs across the federal government.
The record
Executive orders ordered agencies to close DEI/DEIA and environmental-justice offices and scrub “gender ideology” language (Jan 2025).
TRUE Bogost: STRONG · Benkler: 3
3. Withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement / international climate commitments.
The record
Withdrawal initiated by executive order on day one (Jan 2025).
TRUE Bogost: STRONG · Benkler: 2
Sources: Project 2025 (Wikipedia)
4. Reverse federal recognition of “gender ideology” (define sex as binary; roll back trans protections and funding).
The record
Executive orders adopting a two-sex federal definition and restricting related programs/funding (Jan 2025); implemented where executive authority allows.
TRUE Bogost: STRONG · Benkler: 3
Sources: NAACP LDF tracker · PBS
5. Shrink the federal workforce (hiring freeze; reductions in force).
The record
Government-wide civilian hiring freeze ordered; reductions/restructuring under way across agencies (2025).
TRUE Bogost: STRONG · Benkler: 3
6. Drastically increase immigration enforcement and removals.
The record
Enforcement surge; “Project Homecoming” established to encourage voluntary departure (May 2025). Implementation broad where executive power reaches; contested in courts.
TRUE Bogost: CAREFUL (reporting + agency actions) · Benkler: 3
Sources: CPR tracker · project2025.observer
7. Roll back EPA / climate and environmental regulation.
The record
Rapid regulatory rollbacks initiated; many actions ongoing and several challenged or stayed in court.
PARTIAL → trending TRUE, much still in process/litigation · Bogost: CAREFUL · Benkler: 3
Sources: Wikipedia · CPR tracker
8. Abolish the Department of Education.
The record
Executive steps to wind down and shift functions, plus funding conditions — but full abolition requires Congress and has not happened.
PENDING EO steps STRONG; statutory abolition INSUFFICIENT (not enacted) · Benkler: 3
9. Restrict abortion via existing law (revive the Comstock Act; curb the abortion pill; defund providers).
The record
Some administrative steps on family-planning funding and drug review; Comstock-based enforcement has not been carried out as of this draft. Mixed and contested.
PENDING Bogost: CAREFUL · Benkler: 3 · verify current status before publish
Sources: Reproductive Freedom for All tracker
10. Eliminate or defang “activist” agencies (e.g., the CFPB).
The record
Efforts to gut/de-fund such agencies attempted in 2025; tied up in litigation, outcomes not final.
PENDING Bogost: CAREFUL · Benkler: 3
Sources: Wikipedia · project2025.observer
11. Make it harder for veterans to qualify for disability benefits (reduce qualifying conditions).
The record
Proposed in the Mandate; no verified enacted reduction located for this draft. Treated as unproven until a primary source confirms.
PENDING Bogost: INSUFFICIENT (no confirmed action yet) · Benkler: 2
Sources: Wikipedia (proposal) — outcome unverified.
12. Expand the “unitary executive” — presidential control over spending (impoundment) and independent agencies.
The record
Asserted aggressively via orders and mass restructuring; core legal questions (impoundment, agency independence) are being litigated and not settled.
PENDING Bogost: CAREFUL · Benkler: 4 (CRITICAL if upheld)
Sources: Wikipedia · CPR tracker
Tracker context: independent trackers estimate roughly half of Project 2025's administrative agenda had been initiated or completed within the first year — concentrated where a president can act alone, stalled where Congress is required. (Center for Progressive Reform; NAACP LDF; project2025.observer.)
Where the house stands. This is a promise tracker, graded on the declassifiedbysean scales — facts cited, verdicts contestable, PENDING is honest, not evasive. The one rule: no lying — overlap is not motive, an EO is not a statute, and "too early to know" is a real answer. DRAFT — verify each line before publish. Sister rooms: The News Desk (graded), the Fallacy Wing.