Project 2025 is a comprehensive blueprint for Donald Trump’s potential second presidential term, proposed by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. The plan’s vision features a presidency with more authority and fewer restraints, taking action on several longtime conservative priorities.

What the Candidates Are Saying: Trump has distanced himself from the project, while the Biden campaign has cast it as an “extreme” plan that would give Trump “more power over your daily life.”

Left Ties the Project to Trump: Outlets on the left used sensational language and implied that the plan would likely be implemented if Trump wins the election. CBS (Lean Left bias) labeled it a “sweeping overhaul,” while Washington Post (Lean Left) called the participants “former and likely future leaders of a Trump administration.” New Republic (Left) wrote that “a shocking number” of Trump officials were involved, and said, “Everyone on Donald Trump’s team knows exactly what Project 2025 is.”

Right Rebuts Left: Daily Signal (Right) said Biden’s website contained “totally baseless claims about the initiative,” noting that it “developed independently of Trump’s reelection campaign.” Fox News (Lean Right) portrayed Biden affiliates as obsessed with apocalyptic messaging about the project.

Center Proceeds With Caution: Reuters (Center) avoided characterizing the project as authoritarian and described its contents mostly in a politically neutral tone. The article called Project 2025 “a lightning rod for opponents of…Donald Trump,” acknowledging (without endorsing) Democrats’ allegations of authoritarianism, and noted that Trump disagrees with some of the plan’s provisions.