Two credible trackers are following how closely the administration is moving toward the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint. The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact say 251 of 532 domestic executive action items have been initiated or completed, which they calculate as just over 47 percent, based on their most recent update on October 15, 2025.
A separate community tracker, Project2025.observer, maps 318 objectives across 34 agencies and logs specific actions with public source links, including completed items, partial progress, and blocks in court. It provides example entries and a timeline of completions across agencies.
Why the numbers differ, the trackers use different denominators and criteria. CPR and GFI focus on the domestic regulatory and executive agenda called for in the blueprint. Project2025.observer aggregates a broader mix of agency objectives and tags items by status with sourced updates.
Below is a plain-English digest that stitches together what is done, what is moving, and what to expect next, with examples you can verify.
What’s Completed
These examples are documented with public sources linked by the trackers.
- Medicaid work requirements imposed by CMS. The observer timeline lists work requirements as completed on July 4, 2025, with KFF cited for policy context. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- Ending HUD’s PAVE fair-appraisal initiatives. The observer timeline shows HUD ending PAVE programs on July 10, 2025, with HUD as source. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- Defunding CPB for NPR and PBS. The observer timeline records a stop to federal funding on July 18, 2025, with NPR coverage as source. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- State Department freezes on aid and personnel. Timeline lists a foreign aid and hiring freeze September 26, 2025, and notes subsequent court limits. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- Treasury action reversing the IRS expansion from the Inflation Reduction Act. Logged September 16, 2025. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- Interior green-lights the Ambler Road mining access project. Logged October 6, 2025, with White House posting cited. (Project 2025 Tracker)
- Homeland Security hardening on immigration. The observer shows multiple DHS items, including increased USCIS fees with a fee for asylum applications and expanded local law enforcement participation with ICE, logged as completed with sources. It also lists terminations or curtailment of selected TPS designations. (Project 2025 Tracker)
CPR and GFI’s analysis supports that nearly half of the domestic action list has been initiated or fulfilled, not just immigration or media funding changes. Their write-up details direct actions by named agencies and indirect paths when Congress or another agency achieves the same outcome as the blueprint.
What’s In Progress
Trackers flag several policies that are moving through rulemaking, guidance changes, contracting, or litigation. Specific entries and labels vary, but here are representative areas you can expect to see continue.
- Regulatory rollbacks using agency guidance and OMB review. CPR and GFI emphasize an ongoing pattern, using executive action and guidance documents to weaken protections in environmental, labor, and consumer safety rules. Expect more OMB-driven review changes that align with the blueprint’s “shrink the administrative state” theme.
- Contracting to discourage corporate DEI initiatives. The observer timeline shows a July 23, 2025 White House entry using federal contracts to push back on what it calls “woke policies.” Additional procurement memos and model clauses are typically staged in waves, which suggests more follow-ons are in motion.
- Public health and family policy pivots. CDC promotional emphasis on fertility awareness methods is logged July 18, 2025. Watch for coordinated HHS and education policy moves that narrow contraception and sexual health access, a recurring theme in the blueprint.
- Foreign aid rescissions and freezes. State’s freeze drew court scrutiny. Trackers note partial blocks, which indicates continuing litigation and revised mechanisms to reach similar ends. Expect iterative attempts rather than a single action.
What’s Likely Next
Project 2025 is explicit about priorities, and the trackers show the playbook being used repeatedly, often via executive orders, agency guidance, internal reorganization, and rescissions.
- Further centralization of executive power. CPR and GFI highlight moves that concentrate decisions in the White House and limit independent agency discretion. Expect more personnel reshuffles and directive memos to align with unitary-executive goals.
- Additional social policy enforcement through health, labor, and education levers. The observer’s entries and the Project 2025 document suggest pressure on reproductive health access, LGBTQ protections, and school policy via grant conditions, guidance, and enforcement changes.
- Expanded immigration enforcement architecture. With fees, local law enforcement partnerships, detention capacity, and TPS changes already logged, the next phase often involves new enforcement priorities, faster removals, and rulemaking to narrow humanitarian pathways.
- Energy and environment shifts. CPR and GFI flag an ongoing push to loosen climate and environmental safeguards. Expect further changes to cost-benefit analysis baselines, permitting, and program guidance that tilt toward fossil fuel development.
How To Read The Trackers
- CPR and GFI tracker. This is a policy-analyst view that counts how many Project 2025 domestic actions have been initiated or fulfilled. Latest post says 251 of 532, just over 47 percent, with graphics that break actions into direct versus indirect. It also links to an embedded spreadsheet of environment, climate, and public safety actions by agency. (Center for Progressive Reform)
- Project2025.observer. This is a living website that lets you filter by agency or topic and shows an itemized feed of completed, in-progress, and blocked actions, each with a source. Its timeline view is useful for seeing the cadence of changes month by month. (Project 2025 Tracker)
The blueprint is not theoretical. Multiple independent sources show significant progress already, particularly through executive actions and agency guidance. CPR and GFI put initiated or fulfilled domestic actions a little above 47 percent. The community tracker catalogs concrete examples across agencies that match the spirit or the letter of the plan. Expect continued movement through regulatory shortcuts, contracting terms, guidance changes, and personnel moves, with courtroom fights shaping the pace.
