Project 2025

Different trackers count differently, so headline percentages vary

You will see the implementation of Project 2025 reported as anything from a third to well over half, and the range is mostly a measurement difference rather than a disagreement about facts. Some trackers count any executive action that mirrors a recommendation, including one announced and later withdrawn. Others count only finalised rules and enacted statutes. The same twelve months of government produces very different numbers under those two rules.

What this page does: it does not pick a method or publish a single headline percentage. It shows all three trackers side by side, keeps each row labelled with whose reading it is, and shows each tracker's own status wording next to our four-way status so you can see what was mapped from what. The counts at the top of this page are totals across three overlapping lists and are not a percentage of Project 2025 — the same recommendation can appear in two trackers and be counted twice, and no attempt has been made to match them, because they share no identifier and matching them by wording would mean asserting equivalences nobody has checked.

One consequence worth naming: a tracker's published summary can lag behind its own spreadsheet. Reading the current rows gives 563 actions across all three trackers. The row-by-row count is what this page shows.

Overlap is not proof of causation

Most of what is in the Mandate is not new. Restoring a first-term executive order, repealing a predecessor's rule, moving a program between departments — these are longstanding positions that appear in party platforms, in think tank papers, and in the same administration's first term, often years before this document was written. An administration that had never read it would still have done many of these things.

So this page shows correspondence and nothing more: here is a recommendation, here is a government action that matches it, here is the link to the action. It does not claim the document caused the action, and a row appearing here is not evidence that it did.

Coverage is uneven, and thinnest where it matters most

Nearly all of this tracking covers domestic administrative action — executive orders, agency rules, internal memos — because that is what can be watched from the Federal Register and an agency's own newsroom. Recommendations needing legislation are tracked far more loosely: only two of the 532 rows in the most detailed tracker are even marked as requiring Congress, and no tracker follows a bill through committee.

The foreign policy and defense chapters are the largest gap. None of the three trackers used here covers the State, Defense or intelligence chapters at anything like the resolution they give to the domestic agencies; the Observer carries a handful of rows, and the other two carry none at all. If you filter to State or Defense on this page and find very little, that is a gap in what is being tracked, not a finding that little has happened.

The same caution applies to the education chapter in the other direction: it has its own dedicated tracker with 124 graded rows, so education looks far more thoroughly documented than any other subject. It is not more thoroughly implemented — it is more thoroughly watched.

Where a claim cannot be checked

Every status claim on this page links to whatever the tracker cited. Those citations vary in weight: some are the Federal Register entry for a final rule, some are an agency press release, and some are a news report of an internal memo that was never published. The row shows what the citation actually is, so a press report is not dressed up as a rule.

Of 977 rows, 597 carry at least one link you can open. Rows where a tracker records an action but published no link are marked unverified and shown anyway, because a tracker's own gap is part of what this page is for.

What was read, and when

• Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker · Center for Progressive Reform & Governing for Impact
  532 proposals decomposed from 20 agency chapters of the Mandate, with the page each came from.
  Any executive action mirroring a proposal counts, in three separate columns: completed, attempted, and proposed. Covers executive action; only two of the 532 rows are marked as needing Congress.
  Last updated at source: 11 February 2026 · 532 rows here
• Project 2025 Observer · project2025.observer (community-maintained)
  321 objectives across 34 agencies, each linked to the specific order, rule or statute.
  Completed, in progress or not started, judged per objective. The only one of the three that records whether a court has blocked the action.
  Last updated at source: 11 September 2026 · 321 rows here
• Project 2025 Tracker (education chapter) · EducationCounsel
  124 recommendations from the education chapter only, graded on a five-point scale.
  Fully implemented, partially implemented, started, related action only, or no action yet. "Related action only" means the administration acted nearby without implementing the recommendation.
  Last updated at source: 20 November 2025 · 124 rows here

The recommendation text on every row is our own paraphrase, written for this page. The Mandate is copyrighted by the Heritage Foundation and is linked, not reproduced. Two of the three trackers quote it verbatim in their spreadsheets; those quotations are not republished here.