If you want to understand the moment you are living through, stop watching the melodrama and start reading the paperwork. America is not being remade through mystery or improvisation. It is being remade through a 920 page governing blueprint called Project 2025, a document that outlines, in clinical specificity, how to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a loyalty based apparatus.
Think of it as a dystopian kitchen remodel where the contractor keeps knocking down load bearing walls while insisting that everything is going according to plan. Because that is what Project 2025 is. It is a plan. A literal plan. And the only adult thing we can do now is hold it in one hand and compare it line by line to what the administration is already doing.
So this piece builds the crosswalk.
Column A: what is already happening.
Column B: what is on the to do list.
Column C: what they tried and failed.
Column D: the checkpoints ahead.
No vibes. No suspense. Just receipts.
Part One: What the Administration Has Already Done
Project 2025’s entire premise is governance through personnel, loyalty, and structural demolition. A presidency that acts not as the head of a branch of government but as the government itself. And a shockingly large portion of this plan has already materialized.
1. Schedule F, the Reanimation
Project 2025 calls for purging tens of thousands of civil servants by reclassifying them into a new category that strips job protections and turns career staff into political servants. This is not speculation. The first term piloted it. The current movement is actively preparing to revive it. The personnel databases exist, the transition playbooks are written, the staffing spreadsheets are circulating.
Schedule F is not a possibility. It is an inevitability waiting for a signature.
2. The Unitary Executive Revival
Project 2025 prioritizes absolute presidential control over every agency, including those designed to be independent. That means DOJ, FBI, FTC, FCC, SEC, and any institution that relies on political independence.
We are already hearing speeches that treat the president as the sole constitutional authority, the conductor of every agency, the supervisor of every investigation, and the final word on law. This is not legal theory. It is administrative doctrine in active deployment.
3. Immigration Enforcement as Domestic Military Theater
Project 2025 explicitly calls for mass arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants. Not new. But the scale and method are new. Think data driven sweeps into cities. Surveillance networks. Massive detention build outs. Public messaging that treats communities as potential invasion zones.
These signals already appear in enforcement speeches, trial balloons about federal policing powers, and the expansion of surveillance tools under immigration pretexts.
4. Climate Deregulation and Fossil Fuel Prioritization
Project 2025 wants environmental policy returned to fossil fuel dominance. Roll back climate mandates. Abolish or weaken environmental agencies. Freeze climate data initiatives. Strip enforcement.
You can already see the early moves. Regulatory pauses. Executive rhetoric favoring extraction. Renewed permitting enthusiasm for oil and gas.
Nobody is hiding this. They are bragging.
5. Culture War Governance
Project 2025 offers a buffet of culture war policy: erasing DEI, eliminating protections for LGBTQ people, criminalizing pornography, redirecting scientific research away from anything conservatives dislike, and converting public life into a morality pageant.
Already we see executive messaging focused on DEI as an enemy, agency guidance hinting at reinterpretation of existing protections, and coordinated attacks on anything viewed as culturally impure.
This is not improvisation. It is a soft rollout.
Part Two: What Project 2025 Still Plans To Do
Now we shift to the items that remain “pending,” meaning they are on the blueprint but not yet fully executed. Think of them as the unchecked boxes on the transformation checklist.
1. Shutter or Hollow Out the Department of Education
Project 2025 wants to either eliminate the federal Department of Education or reduce it to a clerk’s desk. The vision: vouchers everywhere, federal standards nowhere, and parental rights encoded as a political doctrine.
This has not fully happened yet. But the rhetoric and legislative drafts already exist. When the next window opens, this is one of the first doors on the demolition list.
2. Rebuild DHS Into an Immigration Ministry
The blueprint reimagines DHS as a hard line enforcement super-agency focused almost entirely on immigration control, surveillance, and removal.
Not completed yet. But the appetite shown in enforcement operations suggests it is on the near runway.
3. National Restrictions on Abortion Pills and Contraception
Project 2025 details how to use the FDA, USPS, HHS, and other agencies to restrict or deny the distribution of abortion medication and birth control, even without congressional action.
This is not operational yet. But the levers are identified, the memos are drafted, and the legal theories are circulating like carrier pigeons with bad news.
4. Expanded Presidential Control of Independent Commissions
FCC, FTC, NLRB, SEC: all targeted for executive capture through personnel reshaping, structure manipulation, and legal reinterpretation.
Some groundwork is visible, but the full takeover remains in the to do section.
5. Shrink or Redirect NIH Research
Project 2025 wants NIH research redirected toward conservative approved topics while defunding anything related to gender, sexuality, climate science, and other areas disliked by the base.
This is not yet fully implemented. But early rhetorical targeting is a warning.
6. Flatten Taxes, Cut Social Insurance
The blueprint dreams of a flat tax, consumption taxes, and significant reductions to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits.
This is still aspirational, but you can already hear the sound of drafting pens sharpening.
7. Curtail Federal Reserve Independence
Project 2025 entertains the idea of limiting the Fed’s autonomy and nudging the nation toward commodity backed money. Think gold standard nostalgia packaged as monetary policy.
Not yet done. Not yet dead.
8. Domestic Use of Military Force
The blueprint discusses widening the use of the military inside the United States under public order pretexts.
Right now it is conceptual. But conceptual plans have a way of becoming press briefings.
Part Three: What They Tried and Failed (For Now)
Failures matter. They tell us which pressure points held, and which will be targeted again.
1. Schedule F 1.0
The first version died when time ran out. Not because the courts struck it down. Project 2025 has spent years perfecting Version 2.0.
2. Attempts to Strong Arm DOJ
Some moves were blocked by internal pushback and limited norms still functional. But the desire for total executive control remains central to Project 2025, and the blueprint provides a roadmap for future attempts.
3. Certain Immigration Sweeps
Some raids or enforcement expansions faced judicial limits or logistical failure. But again, the blueprint outlines the next iteration.
4. Attempts to Muzzle Independent Commissions Quickly
Some efforts to immediately seize FCC or FTC control faced legal delays. But the legal theories remain and the personnel lists are waiting.
5. Abortion Pill Restrictions
Attempts have run into courts. But the blueprint suggests additional strategies through agencies not yet deployed.
Failure in this context is not final. It simply shifts the tactic.
Part Four: The Crosswalk Timeline
Here is the simplest truth: Project 2025 is not an abstract forecast. It is a governing document already in partial implementation. The overlap between contributors and current officials is significant. The rhetoric matches the blueprint’s tone. The early moves match its first chapters. The personnel recommendations match transition decisions.
This is not conspiracy. It is public documentation.
It is a blueprint with dates, names, chapter titles, and policy trees.
It is not secret.
It is not subtle.
It is not hidden.
It is merely ignored by people who prefer suspense to reality.
Part Five: What To Watch in the Next 48 to 96 Hours
Here are the real indicators of whether Project 2025 moves from “in progress” to “fully operational.”
• New Schedule F reclassifications posted in the Federal Register
• DOJ independence guardrails quietly removed
• Leaked restructuring drafts for Education or DHS
• Shifts in FDA or USPS guidance on abortion pills
• FCC or FTC independence eroded by executive order
• Personnel shifts that consolidate loyalty appointments
• Sudden climate enforcement pullbacks
• New immigration memos escalating surveillance
• Restructuring of scientific research funding
Each of these is a red flare.
Each of these is a receipt.
Each of these is entirely predictable because the blueprint literally spells them out.
Closing Section: Read the List Before It Happens To You
This is not a political thriller. It is a to do list. And it is being checked off in public view.
The municipal and national institutions that were built over a century do not collapse by accident. They collapse when people with a blueprint walk into them with an Allen wrench and a camera crew.
The dismantling of the administrative state is not an idea. It is an ongoing project.
The question now is whether the country will keep treating Project 2025 as a plot twist or finally recognize it for what it is: an operations manual for a government that intends to stop being a system and become a weapon.
The blueprint exists.
The implementation has begun.
The remaining steps are published.
There is nothing mysterious left to decode.
Only a checklist to track.