Project 2025 was extreme. Trump’s first 100 days were even more radical.

“I don’t know anything about Project 2025,” President Donald Trump said. I said in a social media post Last summer, he defeated former vice president Kamala Harris and gained victory power.

He mentioned a 900-page document written by the Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has influenced Republican presidential policies since the 1980s, and other conservative groups. At least 140 members of Trump’s own previous administration We addressed a roadmap that stipulates how the second Trump terminology fundamentally changes the role of the federal government in society.

As the public learned about the following radical proposals: Replace thousands of federal workers with conservative loyalists and Commercialization of government weather forecastsProject 2025 has become a political inconvenience for Republicans in the campaign trajectory. Only last fall 13% of Americans They said they supported the plan.

“I don’t know who’s behind it,” Trump tried to distance himself from the controversy in July.

If the notion that Trump had no complete knowledge of the origins and contents of Project 2025 fails to pass the straight face test, it’s now ridiculous.

The Trump administration achieved policies that reflect it in less than four months Approximately one-third of the policy goals over 300 It is outlined in the blueprint, according to a crowdsourced website called Project 2025 Tracker. These include mentions of diversity, equity and inclusion from government documents and agencies. The Ministry of Education is demolished. And freeze federal science across the government. Currently, more than 60 measures recommended in the documentation are ongoing.

“It actually goes far beyond my wildest dreams,” said Paul Dance, former director of Project 2025. I spoke to Politico last month.

Approximately one-fifth of the climate and environmental measures proposed by the architects of Project 2025 have been implemented. Another Project 2025 Tracker It will be implemented jointly by the Policy Think Tank and the Centre for Progressive Reform, governing for impact. These measures include strengthening fossil fuel drilling on public lands, rollback of green program grants, and reforms to climate law.

All of these actions have something in common. They flow directly from the government’s administrative department. Most of them are either ordered by Trump himself or from his Cabinet Secretary.

James Goodwin, who runs the Project 2025 Tracker at the Progressive Reform Center, calls these enforcement measures “are not much needed in the process.” This is in contrast to laws that require negotiations with both chambers of Congress. I have Trump So far, we have signed five lawsthe lowest number since Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1953. He is moving forward with an agenda that effectively ignores Congress, with little concern as to whether his actions are even legal. This means that even if the Trump administration moves forward quickly on the Project 2025 Agenda, the methods the administration has used to achieve those goals are being challenged in court, especially when it seeks to unravel previous legislation.

“In Trump 1.0, they were so procedurally sloppy that they compiled a disastrous and long loss record in court,” said Michael Gerrard, a faculty member at the Savin Climate Change Law Center at Columbia University. “So far, they could be even worse.”

On his first day in the office, Trump said,Unleashing American energySeveral recommendations encompassing the objectives of the Echo Project 2025. Among these were proposals to update the Environmental Protection Agency regulations, known as danger detection. The policy requires the EPA to curb greenhouse gas emissions from electricity plants, vehicles and other sources of pollution under the Clean Air Act. I said He aims to formally rethink the rules and all rules that depend on them, including most major US climate regulations. Legal experts say weakening or reverse the rules is never a cakewalk. The findings are rooted in laws passed by Congress and have already withstanded a barrage of legal challenges.

Project 2025 proposed a freeze grant for green initiatives like Recycling Educational Programs Eliminate EPA Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Bureau. Trump It’s in the process To achieve these goals that fall within the scope of the EPA. Some of these changes, including eliminating funding for the “Green Bank” programme established by Congress; Already suedand the judge I ordered the freeze to be lifted A portion of last week’s funding.

Attacks are ongoing at the Ministry of Home Affairs, or the DOI, inspired by similar project 2025 on climate and environmental regulations. Trump’s “unleashing American energy” orders direct doi to assess and expand opportunities for public land drilling and mining; Expanding energy extraction in Alaska Spoofing an “energy emergency” Independent analysts say there is no.

Last week, DOI was glad to be based on that directive by reducing the time it takes to review the environmental and social impacts of oil and gas projects on public lands (the process required by federal law). Only 14 days to 2 years. The truncated environmental review process is There’s no doubt that you’ll be challenged in courtand the administration’s efforts to encourage excavation on public land, 2024 Rules This balances the use of other public lands, such as energy development and herd grazing, with conservation.

At the Department of Energy, Secretary Chris Wright is Overseeing Trump’s orders It quickly approves new liquefied natural gas exports and freezes funds from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate spending bill in US history. Gerrard said natural gas exports will be sued. He said the same laws the administration is trying to avoid, in order to encourage reviews of oil and gas drilling on public lands, based on whether emissions from these exports violate the National Environmental Policy Act. Efforts to curb funding for the Inflation Reduction Act It is already the subject of many legal challenges.

The Project 2025 text encourages future conservative presidents to use All enforcement power is available at your own pacebut it does not recommend blatantly breaking the law. “Policy experts who worked on the Project 2025 plan might imagine the Trump administration assuming things legally,” said David Willett, senior vice president of Communications Communications, an environmental advocacy group.

The author of Blueprint writes that White House lawyers should do what they can to promote the president’s agenda “within the law.” This is one of many places where the documents reference legal restrictions established by the Congress and the Supreme Court, and encourage future administrations to “look at the legislative sector for decisive action.”

“Their assumption was that the actors on their side were reasonable,” Willett said. “That wasn’t the case.”

Since taking office, Trump has ignored judicial orders and has held a constitutional showdown between the executive branch and the Judicial Branch.

After a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore federal funds, he quickly discovered that the administration was. Not fully compliant With his order. A federal judge ruled the administration this month Violated a court order Hurry to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency and grant funds to the state. There are also famous conflicts I’ll play During the Supreme Court Justice of the District of Columbia, supreme courtand the Trump administration on the deportation of Maryland men to El Salvador.

These battles, rapid Fired, sometimes re-employment The wider federal workers An agenda that appears to rely on the president’s ever-changing whimscreating what Rachel Cletos, senior policy director at the Allied Scientists Association, a nonprofit science advocacy group, calls the “authoritarian regime.”

But the Trump administration’s fierce pace makes it difficult for the federal and states to govern, and could make it even more difficult to achieve his full agenda in the long run, as Trump switched from a change in institutional policy to a change in legislative policy, including the extension of the 2017 tax cuts.

Elaine Karmac, senior policy advisor to former Vice President Algore, began in 1993, said:Better and lower costs. “The Clinton administration did this legally – Congressional statues and legal precedents were ultimately trying to balance the federal budget.

“Everything they’ve done is basically illegal,” Kamarck added. “Chaos has consequences.”