Project 2025 is a plan to alter America's system of checks and balances to enact a far-right agenda. The plan proposes reducing the power of everyday people while increasing control for politicians, judges, and corporations. Specific areas affected include taxes, Social Security, health care, abortion rights, child care, student loans, and public education.
Taxes
Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, a typical family of four would see an annual tax increase of $2,985. Meanwhile, 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each receive an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.
Social Security
The authors of Project 2025 have endorsed plans to cut Social Security by raising the retirement age for roughly 74 percent of Americans—more than 245 million people. These ideas are reflected in recent Republican Study Committee budget proposals that suggest increasing the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 69. This change would reduce benefits by $4,100 to $8,900 after one year depending on when one claims Social Security. A median-wage retiree could lose between $46,000 and $100,000 over ten years.
Health Care
Project 2025 proposes imposing "limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits," putting coverage at risk for 18.5 million Medicaid enrollees who are low-income and lack access to alternative affordable coverage. The plan would also raise prescription drug costs for up to 18.7 million people by eliminating out-of-pocket Medicare drug cost limits and blocking government negotiations for lower drug prices.
Abortion Rights and Contraception
Project 2025 eliminates some emergency contraception medications from free preventive care requirements affecting 47.8 million women in the United States who would lose guaranteed access to free emergency contraception. It instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act to criminalize mailing medication abortion which could result in an effective nationwide abortion ban even in states where it is legal.
Child Care
The plan proposes eliminating Head Start which provides no-cost child care among other services for 783,571 low-income children in the United States. This elimination would significantly impact rural and underserved communities already facing a shortage of child care slots.
Student Loans
Project 2025 replaces income-driven repayment (IDR) plans with a standardized program that increases payments for all borrowers enrolled in existing IDR plans including those under the Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. More than eight million borrowers enrolled in SAVE could pay between $2,700 and $4,100 more annually under Project 2025.
Public Education
The plan seeks to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education including Title I funding which ensures schools serving low-income students have additional resources beyond local property tax revenue support. Ending Title I could lead to losing approximately 180,300 teaching positions affecting more than 2.8 million students across the United States.
