What The Hell America!

A new community-based tracker reveals how quickly the Trump administration is advancing policies that erode civil rights, healthcare access and worker protections.

A new community-based resource, the Project 2025 Tracker is closely following the Trump administration’s work to accomplish the 312 objectives of Project 2025. As of Monday, April 28:

• One-third of Project 2025’s objectives have been achieved (97 of 312).
• One-fifth are in progress (62).
• Work on just under half (153) has not yet started.

The tracker can be searched by agency, subject and completion status, and includes notes on how objectives have been achieved. 

In Trump’s first 100 days in office, he has achieved over one-quarter of Project 2025 policy recommendations eroding reproductive health and rights and is working on another 17 percent of these objectives.

In the area of LGBTQIA rights, Trump has achieved over half of the Project 2025 policy objectives and is actively working to achieve another 20 percent.

Items accomplished in just these two areas—reproductive rights/health and LGBTQI rights—comprise close to one-quarter of all that Trump has done so far to accomplish the Project 2025 agenda.

Reproductive Rights

Of the 29 objectives in the area of reproductive health and rights, Trump has achieved seven (24 percent), and five (17 percent) are in progress. Objectives achieved include:

• DOJ should withdraw from lawsuits seeking to uphold EMTALA abortion requirements.
• Prohibit USAID from funding “sexual reproductive health and reproductive rights” and “gender equality” programs.
• Prohibit abortion travel funding for the Department of Defense.
• Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on pregnancy (to cover abortion).
• Enforce the Hyde Amendment (banning any federal funds from being used for abortions, abortion counseling, etc.).
• Avoid “politically motivated prosecutions” like of people who violate the FACE Act. (Note: DOJ has directed federal prosecutors to limit enforcement of the FACE Act.)
• Reinstate the Mexico City policy banning aid to groups that even communicate about abortion services.

In process reproductive health and rights objectives include:

• Promote fertility awareness–based methods (as opposed to contraception) for “family planning.”
• Rescind guidance that requires hospitals to perform an abortion to save a woman’s life under EMTALA.
• Withdraw Biden-era guidance that retail pharmacies must dispense abortion medication and contraception. (Note: The administration is deleting this information from HHS websites.)
• Withdraw Biden-era guidance that strengthened HIPAA protections for reproductive healthcare. (Note: The administration is deleting this information from HHS websites.)

Not yet started reproductive health and rights objectives include:

• Rescind policy of Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide abortion access for pregnant unaccompanied immigrant youth.
• Restore Trump-era religious and moral exemptions to ACA’s contraception requirement.
• Eliminate ACA’s requirement to cover the morning after pill.
• Eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force.
• Prohibit family planning grants from going to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions.
• Enforce the Comstock Act.
• Clarify that no employer is required to provide accommodations for abortion (e.g. under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act).
• Issue an executive order “protecting religious employers and employees,” clarify they may make employment decisions based on religion.
• Do not promote or fund abortion in international programs or multilateral organizations.
• Prevent the VA from covering abortion services.
• Reverse FDA approval of mifepristone (abortion pill) or ban telehealth prescriptions and mailing of mifepristone (enforce Comstock Act).
• End or limit fetal stem cell research/use.

LGBTQ+ Rights

Of the 18 Project 2025 LGBTQ+ objectives, Trump has completed over half (10) and has four in progress. The completed objectives include:

• End data collection on gender identity.
• Prohibit any funding for treatment for gender dysphoria for military members.
• Rescind Biden-era Title IX rules that strengthened the ability to prosecute sexual assault and discrimination cases.
• Remove the words “sexual orientation and gender identity,” “diversity, equity and inclusion,” “abortion,” “reproductive health,” and “gender equality” from every federal rule.
• Reverse prohibitions on healthcare discrimination based on gender identity.
• Rescind Biden-era guidance that added a “non-binary” option in civil rights data collected from schools.
• Abandon the redefinition of “sex” to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX.
• Issue rules and guidance that that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact.
• Cut off government contracts to entities that enforce a “woke agenda”.
• Revoke Executive Order 14020, which established the Gender Policy Council.

LGBTQIA objectives in progress include:

• Expel transgender people who are currently serving in the military.
• Ban “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from public school curriculum.
• Prioritize traditional (heterosexual) marriage in its messaging, health, and welfare policies.
• Revoke guidance that prohibited adoption/foster agencies from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

LGBTQIA objectives not yet started include:

• Rescind Medicare coverage for gender reassignment surgery.
• “Classify educators and public librarians” who discuss “transgender ideology” with minors as “sex offenders.”
• Issue an executive order “protecting religious employers and employees,” clarify they may make employment decisions based on religion.
• Prohibit employee retirement plans from investing based on ESG (environmental, social and governance) factors.

Access to Childcare

Of the three Project 2025 childcare objectives, two are in progress and one is not yet started.

In progress objectives are:

• Eliminate the Head Start program. (Note: Reportedly still experiencing shut downs after the OMB memo freezing all federal funding.)
• Revoke guidance that prohibited adoption/foster agencies from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity. (Note: Trump established the White House Faith Office to, in part, “promote foster care and adoption programs in partnership with faith-based entities.”)

The not yet started childcare objective is:

• Fund in-home childcare instead of universal daycare.

Gutting the Department of Education

Of the 24 Education Department objectives, Trump has completed six, with six more in progress. Completed objectives include:

• Rescind Biden-era Title IX rules that strengthened the ability to prosecute sexual assault and discrimination cases.
• Rescind Biden-era guidance that added a “non-binary” option in civil rights data collected from schools.
• Abandon the redefinition of “sex” to “sexual orientation and gender identity” in Title IX.
• Issue rules and guidance that that “sex” is properly understood as a fixed biological fact.

In progress objectives include:

• Cut off federal funds to states, cities, counties, schools board, principals and teachers who disagree with “parental rights.” (Note: Trump’s executive order allows the Education Department to rescind funds from schools that affirm transgender and nonbinary students.)
• Ban “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” from public school curriculum. (Note: Trump issued an executive order directing the Education Department o eliminate federal funding for schools promoting “indoctrination” based on “gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology.”)

Destroying Workers’ Rights

In the Department of Labor, completed objectives include:

• Rescind Executive Order 11246, Equal Opportunity Employment (originally signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors not discriminate against employees or applicants based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or national origin).
• Return to Trump-era overtime exemption threshold.
• Appoint new EEOC and NLRB general counsels.

In progress DOL objectives include:

• Eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
• Eliminate DEIA programs in Labor policy.

DOL objectives not yet started include:

• Clarify that no employer is required to provide accommodations for abortion (e.g. under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act).
• Issue an executive order “protecting religious employers and employees,” clarify they may make employment decisions based on religion.
• Lessen child labor regulations to allow “teenage workers” to work “inherently dangerous jobs.”
• Undermine union protections by allowing employer “councils” and favoring right-to-work laws.
• Outsource the administration of unemployment programs to “non-public organizations.”
• Prohibit employee retirement plans from investing based on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) factors.
• Let companies stop paying overtime and allow states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws.

Project 2025 at the White House

The Project 2025 Tracker shows that Trump has achieved 10 of 12 objectives for the White House, including:

• Remove the words “sexual orientation and gender identity,” “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” “abortion,” “reproductive health,” and “gender equality” from every federal rule.
• Cut off government contracts to entities that enforce a “woke agenda.”
• Issue an executive order abolishing the Office of Domestic Climate Policy.
• Revoke Executive Order 14020, which established the Gender Policy Council.

The website allows visitors to view objectives on a timeline organized by completion date and explore objective data through interactive charts. Interesting, a timeline of objectives achieved reveals a marked slowing down of items accomplished, from 60 in January, 20 in February, 13 in March, and four so far in April.

The Project 2025 Tracker is regularly updated. At the top of the Project 2025 Tracker webpage, there is a clock measuring time until end of term—down to the second.