4 months in the past I shared a terrific useful resource referred to as “Venture 2025 Tracker,” which tracks the progress of The Heritage Basis’s Venture 2025 — what the Middle for Progressive Reform calls “the conservative motion’s blueprint for weakening our authorities and constructing an authoritarian presidency.” At the moment, on Sunday February 23rd, 36 % of Venture 2025’s plans had been carried out or have been in progress.
With the flurry of occasions which have occurred within the final 4 months (how has it solely been 4 months?! It seems like a decade!) I made a decision it was time to revisit the Tracker, and once I appeared this morning, the proportion of aims specified by Venture 2025 which have been accomplished or are in-progress has risen from 36 to 42.
On the web site you will get a fast overview of all of Venture 2025 objectives which have been efficiently carried out or which are in progress, and you may kind by company, topic, or standing. You can even view the newest modifications carried out, which at the moment incude: (1) the rescindment of steerage that requires hospitals to carry out an abortion to save lots of a lady’s life below the Emergency Medical Therapy and Labor Act (EMTALA) (Division of Well being and Human Providers, 6/3/2025); (2) the repeal of Short-term Protected Standing (TPS) for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (Division of Homeland Safety, 6/12/2025); and (3) the withdrawing of Biden-era steerage that strengthened HIPAA protections for reproductive healthcare (Division of Well being and Human Providers, 6/18/2025). For every motion accomplished or in-progress, the Tracker gives related and correct information sources together with a hyperlink to the web page(s) the place the purpose is talked about in Venture 2025.
To this point, Venture 2025 aims for 2 businesses have been 100% accomplished: Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (1 goal), and USAID (6 aims). The aims for 12 different businesses are at the least midway accomplished: (1) White Home (13 aims, 88%); (2) Dept. of State (10 aims, 75%); (3) U.S. Company for International Media (3 aims, 67%); (4) Dept. of Justice (18 aims, 61%); (5) Environmental Safety Company (14 aims, 57%); (6) Dept. of Protection (13 aims, 54%); (7) Client Monetary Safety Bureau (1 goal, 50%); (8) Company for Public Broadcasting (1 goal, 50%); (9) Dept. of Commerce (10 aims, 50%); (10) Dept. of the Inside (14 aims, 50%); (11) Intelligence Neighborhood (5 aims, 50%); and (12) Personnel (6 aims, 50%). The aims for 13 different businesses are between 10% and 49% full, and work hasn’t but begun on seven remaining businesses, together with the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers (7 aims); Federal Election Fee (2 aims); Federal Reserve (2 aims); Federal Commerce Fee (2 aims); Meals and Drug Administration (1 goal); Nationwide Institutes of Well being (1 goal); and Small Enterprise Administration (2 aims).
There’s at the least somewhat little bit of lag time between Venture 2025 objectives being accomplished and after they arrive on the tracker. For instance, at the moment’s ruling by the Supreme Court docket, which, in accordance to CNN, backs “the president’s effort to curtail decrease courtroom orders which have hampered his agenda for months” — a call that Sonia Sotomayor referred to as “patently unconstitutional” and Ketanji Brown Jackson said creates “an existential risk to the rule of regulation” by way of permitting Trump to “violate the Structure” — is not but listed. I am positive it should seem quickly, and the proportion of Venture 2025 accomplished will rise — maybe much more quickly now that another set of checks and balances on this administration has been eliminated — as soon as once more.
Take a look at the Venture 2025 Tracker right here.
Beforehand:
• This video explains Venture 2025, Schoolhouse Rock-style!
• Mehdi Hasan’s 2-minute abstract of Venture 2025
• Media Issues publishes helpful information to Venture 2025, the intense right-wing agenda that ‘represents a risk to democracy, civil rights, the local weather, and extra’
• Venture 2025 Tracker paperwork fast implementation of authoritarian Christian authorities
