Project 2025’s hidden agenda: training videos reveal tactics for the next conservative administration
Project 2025’s training videos reveal how a future conservative administration plans to reshape the federal government by avoiding oversight and dismantling progressive policies, including on climate change.
Andy Kroll reports for ProPublica and Nick Surgey reports for Documented.
In short:
- Project 2025’s videos train political appointees on bypassing government bureaucracy and avoiding Freedom of Information Act disclosures.
- The videos emphasize eradicating climate change policies, altering gender equity initiatives and expanding certain federal agencies to control regulations.
- Trump’s connections to Project 2025 are downplayed in public, but the video content closely aligns with his previous administration's goals.
Key quote:
“The discovery that the vast majority of speakers in Project 2025 training videos are alumni of the Trump administration or have other close ties to Trump’s political operation is unsurprising further evidence of the close connection there.”
— Noah Bookbinder, president of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Why this matters:
If this plan gets the green light, it could roll back decades of environmental progress, putting the health of our planet—and everyone on it—at serious risk. Read more: Supreme Court undoing 50 years’ worth of environmental progress.
