Increasing timber production

• From the budget: “The Budget provides funding to implement the President’s vision for improved forest management and increased domestic timber production as laid out in Executive Order (E.O.) 14225, ‘Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.'" [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Increasing timber sales could also play an important role in the effort to change the behavior of wildfire because there would be less biomass." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Economic Development Administration

• From the budget: “The Budget saves the taxpayer nearly half a billion dollars by cancelling EDA programs that are not only wasteful, but also operate as spending earmarks for political pet projects and subsidies for leftist ideologues who promote ‘racial equity' and the Green New Scam.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Economic Development Administration’s grant programs, which are among a broad set of duplicative and overlapping federal economic development grant programs, should be consolidated with other programs and/or eliminated." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• From the budget: “The Budget terminates a variety of Green New Scam programs at NOAA." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

International Trade Association (ITA)

• From the budget: “The Budget reins in a sprawling and ineffective trade bureaucracy that has put America last." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Conduct a regulatory capture audit [of the ITA] and put guardrails in place to address improper exercise of bureaucratic prerogative." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA) permitting

• From the budget: “The Budget consolidates and streamlines the regulatory oversight of these two permitting programs into a single program at DOI, ensuring a consistent approach to the management of protected species. This important change would allow NOAA to refocus on management of commercial and recreational fisheries." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Modify Regulations Implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. These acts are currently being abused at a cost to fisheries and Native American subsistence activities around the U.S." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)

• From the budget: “The Budget eliminates MBDA." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “A conservative Administration is best served by approaching MBDA as a tool to be leveraged in the fight to deliver economic opportunity to all Americans and to produce an economy centered on equal opportunity, free markets, innovation, and growth." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• From the budget: “The Budget slashes wasteful spending at NIST that has long funded awards for the development of curricula that advance a radical climate agenda." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “An incoming Administration should evaluate the federal government’s civilian research footprint and consolidate those functions while ensuring that any research conducted with taxpayer dollars serves the national interest in a concrete way in line with conservative principles." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

• From the budget: “The Budget proposes to cancel funding for NTIA’s Digital Equity program that the statute requires, and the Biden Administration planned to, unconstitutionally award based on race." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “For decades, NTIA has suffered from organizational malaise and will require strong and energetic leadership by political appointees to implement conservative policies. … Reevaluate broadband grant programs and, when possible, establish Administration priorities in how each grant is structured." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Nuclear weapons

• From the Budget: “To maintain deterrence against America’s adversaries, the Budget increases funding for DOW’s nuclear enterprise.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Implement nuclear modernization and expansion. The United States manifestly needs to modernize, adapt, and expand its nuclear arsenal.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

• From the budget: “The Budget continues to eliminate millions of wasteful and egregious spending related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and other 'woke' policies, sustaining the more than $1.6 billion in reductions that the Administration has already identified.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Eliminate Marxist indoctrination and divisive critical race theory programs and abolish newly established diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and staff.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Department of Education

• From the budget: “The Budget puts the Department of Education (ED), which has failed the Nation’s children, teachers, and families, on a path to elimination." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

State control 

• From the budget: “This amount maintains full support for Title I, which directs virtually all of its flexible funding to States and school districts for K-12 education and empowers them to make spending decisions based on the needs of the 26 million students they serve." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Restoring state and local control over education funding. As Washington begins to downsize its intervention in education, existing funding should be sent to states as grants over which they have full control, enabling states to put federal funding toward any lawful education purpose under state law." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

School choice

• From the budget: “Parents should be empowered to choose the school setting that is best for their children. The WFTC [Working Families Tax Cut Act] established a new tax credit that States can use to expand educational options for millions of children nationwide." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “All families should be able to take their children’s taxpayer-funded education dollars to the education providers of their choosing— whether it be a public school or a private school." [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)

• From the budget: “The Budget reproposes the cancellation of $15.2 billion in IIJA funding originally provided to deploy unreliable intermittent energy infrastructure, remove carbon dioxide from the air, and buy other costly technologies burdensome to ratepayers and consumers." [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Support repeal of massive spending bills like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which established new programs and are providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy developers, their investors, and special interests, and support the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Critical minerals

• From the budget: “The Budget supports targeted spending to develop a domestic supply of critical minerals using America’s abundant natural resources. This includes critical minerals production and processing pilot scale demonstrations that, when commercialized, would work to secure supply chains that are vulnerable to coercion by foreign adversaries.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Pursue the processing of critical minerals. Development of domestic critical material sources is important for national security, as the vast majority of critical materials are mined or processed (or both) in Russia and China.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

• From the budget: “The Budget supports infill readiness activities (e.g., pump and brine systems needed for oil intake) in furtherance of the President’s policy to refill the SPR, which was needlessly drained by the Biden Administration for political purposes as part of its radical rush to Green New Scam energy policies.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Regardless of where the responsibility lies, the new DESAS [Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science] should ensure that the SPR is maintained for national strategic purposes and not misused for political gain.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

• From the budget: “DOE abolished the EERE office in 2026, which was responsible for many Green New Scam efforts like research on wind energy and a slew of unpopular regulations harmful to Americans in their day-to-day lives, such as banning gas stoves and incandescent light bulbs.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Eliminate EERE. The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all of DOE’s applied energy programs, including those in EERE (with the possible exception of those that are related to basic science for new energy technology).” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

• From the budget: “The Budget would no longer fund Green New Scam priorities and realigns ARPA-E to focus on high-risk, high-reward research aligned with Administration priorities such as AI, critical materials, and fusion fuels.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Eliminate ARPA-E. The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate ARPA–E. The agency is unnecessary, risks taxpayer dollars, and interferes with risk-benefit decisions that should be made by the private sector.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Office of Science (SC)

• From the budget: “Office of Science. (-$1.1 billion). The Budget eliminates funding for climate change and Green New Scam research while maintaining U.S. competitiveness in priority areas such as high-performance computing, AI, quantum information science, fusion, and critical mineral research.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Office of Science should: Return to its primary mission: nonpartisan and basic science. SC’s mission should be international leadership in basic and early applied science and provision of world-leading facilities for this work. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act mark the major reorientation of DOE primarily from defense applications in the NNSA and basic and early applied science across SC and the applied offices to a massive federal research, development, demonstration, and commercialization body. Distraction from SC’s basic science mission should be prevented.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Environmental Management (EM)

• From the budget: “Environmental Management (-$386 million). The Budget provides $8.2 billion to address legacy waste and contamination in communities that housed nuclear weapons production during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, including $3 billion to continue cleanup progress at the Hanford site in Washington. The reduction in funding reflects a strategic focus on near-term, critical path cleanup milestones.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “EM needs to move to an expeditious program with targets for cleanup of sites. The Hanford site in Washington State is a particular challenge.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

• From the budget: “For the sixth time, the Budget proposes to end this program and instead support low-income individuals through lower energy prices and an America First economic platform. LIHEAP is unnecessary because States have policies preventing utility disconnection for low-income households, effectively making LIHEAP a passthrough benefiting utility companies, particularly in the Northeast.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. … The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its ‘countable’ income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction. In order to make households eligible for the higher deduction, and thus for greater food stamp benefits, states have distributed LIHEAP checks for amounts as small as $1 to food stamp recipients.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Refugee Resettlement 

• From the budget: “The Administration has taken active steps to overhaul the refugee resettlement program so that it serves America’s interests and does not threaten the security or welfare of America’s citizens. … The Budget eliminates cash handouts and free healthcare used to welcome millions of illegal immigrants into the United States to the detriment of American citizens.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Office of Refugee Resettlement should be moved to the Department of Homeland Security. Having health and welfare functions managed by HHS and border security functions managed by DHS has created intolerable failures in both. HHS and ORR have forgotten their original refugee-resettlement mission and instead have provided a panoply of free programs that incentivize people to come to the U.S. illegally.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

 Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program

• From the budget: “The Budget eliminates the Sexual Risk Avoidance Program and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program, which serve less than one percent of teens in the United States.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) and Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP). … In addition, certain provisions should be employed so that these programs do not serve as advocacy tools to promote sex, promote prostitution, or provide a funnel effect for abortion facilities and school field trips to clinics, or for similar purposes.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• From the budget: “NIH broke the trust of the American people with wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health. At the program level, the Budget requests $41 billion for NIH research and proposes reforms to NIH, including the elimination of the following Institutes or Centers (IC): National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which is replete with DEI expenditures, such as research studying how ‘structural racism’ impacts social connectedness among ‘gender minority people of color’ and comparing sexually transmitted infections in ‘transgender women.’ … Additional egregious examples of wasteful and radical NIH IC spending that would be eliminated through reforms include: … National Library of Medicine funding a program for nurses to learn about ‘transgender and gender diverse’ patient care in accordance with the “‘World Professional Association of Transgender Health’ standards of care and to combat laws that ‘restrict the rights of [the LGBTQ] population’ in America.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “NIH has been at the forefront in pushing junk gender science. Instead, it should fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions, including ‘affirmation,’ puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and the likelihood of desistence if young people are given counseling that does not include medical or social interventions.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

General funding

• From the budget: The proposed budget asks for $18.5 billion for Customs and Border Protection, $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and claims “reconciliation funding in 2027 will enable DHS to fully implement the President’s mass deportation campaign, finish construction of the border wall on the Southwest border, [and] procure advanced border security technology.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Prioritizing border security and immigration enforcement, including detention and deportation, is critical if we are to regain control of the border, repair the historic damage done by the Biden Administration, return to a lawful and orderly immigration system, and protect the homeland from terrorism and public safety threats.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

FEMA Non-Disaster Grant Programs 

• From the budget: “FEMA Non-Disaster Grant Programs (–$1.3 billion). The Budget reduces wasteful FEMA grant programs, refocusing the agency on sound emergency management while encouraging States and communities to build resilience and use their unique local knowledge and resources in disaster response.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Secretary should direct FEMA to ensure that all FEMA-issued grant funding for states, localities, and private organizations is going to recipients who are lawful actors, can demonstrate that they are in compliance with federal law, and can show that their mission and actions support the broader homeland security mission.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

TSA privatization 

• From the budget: “TSA Privatization (–$52 million). The Budget begins the privatization of TSA’s airport screeners by requiring small airports to enroll in the Screening Partnership Program, under which TSA pays for private screeners at designated airports.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The U.S. should look to the Canadian and European private models of providing aviation screening manpower to lower TSA costs while maintaining security. Until it is privatized, TSA should be treated as a national security provider, and its workforce should be deunionized immediately.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

CISA reform

• From the budget: “The Budget eliminates programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda as well as external engagement offices such as council management, stakeholder engagement, and international affairs.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinformation efforts.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

General funding

• From the budget: “Overall, the Budget rightsizes the Federal role and eliminates the majority of HUD formula and competitive programs, which have proven ineffective and have funded woke and leftist organizations.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Reset HUD. This effort should specifically include a broad reversal of the Biden Administration’s persistent implementation of corrosive progressive ideologies across the department’s programs.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Bureau of Reclamation

• From the budget: “Focuses Reclamation on its mission of managing water in the western United States and ends its foray into woke projects like lining water canals with solar panels at the taxpayers’ expense.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/2/26]
• From Project 2025: “DOI’s Bureau of Reclamation must take the following actions: Develop additional storage capacity across the arid west. … Reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies by consolidating federal water working groups.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Federal Land energy resources

• From the budget: “‘Green New Scam’ Programs. The Budget eliminates subsidies for programs that proliferate climate radicalism and ineffective technologies that harm the American consumer, preventing further misuse of taxpayer money. The Budget saves taxpayers $45 million by eliminating DOI’s ‘renewable energy’ programs, which facilitate unreliable energy to the detriment of American consumers, businesses, and communities. … The Budget refocuses the Department on critical minerals development and fulfilling the President’s energy dominance agenda by opening up more Federal lands and waters for oil, gas, and clean coal development.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “DOI is abusing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) processes, the Antiquities Act, and bureaucratic procedures to advance a radical climate agenda, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for which DOI has no statutory responsibility or authority. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OSCLA), General Mining Law, and other congressional acts clearly set forth multiple-use principles and processes that include production of coal, oil, natural gas, and other minerals, as legitimate activities consistent with the welfare of all Americans and of environmental stewardship.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

• From the budget: “The Budget provides a total of $899 million for EOIR, which includes funding to support the immigration judge corps and expand courtroom space to conduct deportation hearings. The Budget also provides $63 million in increased spending to the Civil Division to defend the Nation’s immigration laws and critical Federal programs from legal challenges advanced by radical left interest groups.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The next conservative Administration must make every effort to obtain the resources to support a vast expansion of the number of appointees in every office and component across the department—especially in the Civil Rights Division, the FBI, and the EOIR.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

“Woke” programming

• From the budget: “The Budget maintains the elimination of the Community Relations Service (CRS) and Office of Access to Justice (ATJ)—each is a woke enterprises that fails to serve the core function of the Department to fight crime and protect American communities.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Biden Administration— through the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and other federal entities—has enshrined affirmative discrimination in all aspects of its operations under the guise of 'equity.' Federal agencies and their components have established so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices that have become the vehicles for this unlawful discrimination, and all departments and agencies have created 'equity' plans to carry out these invidious schemes.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Registered Apprenticeships and the Make America Skilled Again (MASA) program

• From the budget: The MASA program (a 2025 Department of Labor initiative by the Trump administration) “would expand Registered Apprenticeship, a proven model that trains workers while they earn a paycheck, supporting the President’s bold goal of one million active apprentices under Executive Order (E.O.) 14278, 'Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future.'" [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26; U.S. Department of Labor, YouTube, 5/27/25]
• From Project 2025: “The next Administration should return to prior policy and implement an industry-recognized apprenticeship program separate from the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) and explore how best to modernize, streamline, and eliminate duplication in the RAP.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

• From the budget: “The Budget reorients ILAB to vigorously advance the President’s America First trade agenda and defend American workers from unfair competitive practices abroad, such as forced and child labor.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The next Administration should focus ILAB investigations on foreign labor violations that do the most to damage American workers’ earning power, specifically regimes that engage in child and forced labor, fail to protect workers’ organizing rights, and permit hazardous or otherwise exploitative working conditions.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

The United Nations (UN)

• From the budget: “The UN has taken advantage of American generosity for too many years, while these organizations continued to promote dangerous ideologies and Green New Scam agendas, funneling money to U.S. adversaries while impinging on U.S. sovereignty.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “International organizations should not be used to promote radical social policies as if they were human rights priorities. Doing so undermines actual human rights and weakens U.S. credibility abroad.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

International organizations

• From the Budget: “The Budget includes $292 million to support security-related international organizations (IOs) that do work directly impacting the safety of Americans or the promotion of American interests. The Budget cuts funding to various bloated IOs, including the UN Regular Budget and UN Peacekeeping, among others.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The next Administration must end blind support for international organizations. If an international organization is effective and advances American interests, the United States should support it. If an international organization is ineffective or does not support American interests, the United States should not support it.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Essential Air Service (EAS)

• From the budget: “The EAS program funnels taxpayer dollars to airlines to subsidize half-empty flights from airports that are within easy commuting distance from each other, while also failing to effectively provide assistance to most rural air travelers. … The Budget reins in EAS subsidies by proposing a mix of reforms to adjust eligibility and subsidy rates to help rural communities’ air transportation needs in a more sustainable manner, while maintaining the program.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Essential Air Service (EAS) program subsidizes flights to 200 small airports that are not otherwise commercially viable. … Finally ending the program would free hundreds of pilots to serve larger markets with more passengers. A new Administration could reform regulations to encourage airports in lower-served areas of the nation.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

• From the budget: “Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (–$1.4 billion). The IRS has grown massively in recent years—in fact, from 2018 to 2024, the size of the IRS workforce increased by over 23 percent to 90,000 Full Time Equivalents. The bureaucratic morass at this bloated agency has been weaponized against the American people, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. … The Budget proposes to streamline IRS operations utilizing technology improvements to help focus the IRS on providing high-quality customer service while ensuring the tax laws are fairly administered.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “The Inflation Reduction Act contains a radical $80 billion expansion of the IRS—enough to double the size of its workforce. Unless Congress reverses this policy, the IRS will become much more intrusive and impose still greater costs on the American people. … The operating budget of the IRS should be held constant in real terms. The resources allocated to the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate should be increased by at least 20 percent (about $44 million). The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion should be closed.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

• From the budget: “Defund and Eliminate Divisive and Wasteful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Additionally, the current VA leadership is focusing very publicly on 'social equity and inclusion' within departmental policy discussions toward ends that will affect only a small minority of the veterans who use the VA. For the first time, the VA is allowing access to abortion services, a medical procedure unrelated to military service that the VA lacks the legal authority and clinical proficiency to perform. In addition to continuing the grotesque culture of violence against the child in the womb, these sociopolitical initiatives and ideological indoctrinations distract from the department’s core missions.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

General efficiency

• From the budget: “Over the next two years, VA will implement the VHA [Veterans Health Administration] Restructure for Impact and Sustainability Effort (RISE). RISE would streamline VHA’s organization to improve healthcare for veterans, empower local hospital directors, and eliminate duplicative layers of bureaucracy.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Conduct an independent audit of the VA similar to the 2018 Department of Defense (DOD) audit to identify IT, management, financial, contracting, and other deficiencies.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Drinking water

• From the budget: “The Budget includes $122 million in funding for the critical drinking water mission at EPA, protecting Americans, and especially children, from unsafe or contaminated water.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “While the overall goal is certainly to reduce government spending, there is one very targeted area where increased spending would be in the nation’s interest. The Clean Water Act needs survey is the entire basis for how congressionally appropriated funds directed to state revolving funds—standard annual appropriations that are the true underpinning of all infrastructure funding for drinking water and clean water—are distributed by EPA across the country.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Research and development 

• From the budget: “The Budget puts an end to unrestrained research grants, woke environmental justice work, radical climate research, and skewed, overly-precautionary modeling that influences regulations—none of which are authorized by law.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Notify Congress that EPA will not conduct any ongoing or planned science activity for which there is not clear and current congressional authorization. This priority should be underscored in the President’s first budget request.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Environmental justice

• From the budget: “The Budget continues the full elimination of EPA’s radical diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and instead restores civil rights protections for all Americans. This elimination puts an end to taxpayer funded programs that promote divisive racial discrimination and so-called 'environmental justice' grants to organizations that advance discriminatory and radical ideological projects.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Returning the environmental justice function to the AO [Office of the Administrator], eliminating the stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.” … “As a threshold matter, there is an opportunity to redefine EJ as a tool for the agency to prioritize environmental protection efforts and assistance to communities in proximity to pollution or with the greatest need for additional protection. Allocations of agency resources, increased EPA enforcement, and/or agency distribution of grants should be based on neutral constitutional principles.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Diversity, equity, and inclusion 

• From the budget: “The Budget eliminates the Service Corps of Retired Executives, known as SCORE, which in 2023 posted 'Six Ways to Support LGBTQIA-Owned Businesses' and provided resources based on race. The Budget eliminates the Community Navigator Pilot Program, a $100 million grant program for 'trusted, culturally knowledgeable' organizations, which provide resources based on race and gender.” [Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, 4/3/26]
• From Project 2025: “Today, initiatives aimed at 'inclusivity' are in fact creating exclusivity and stringent selectivity in deciding what types of small businesses and entities can use SBA programs.” [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]