Project 2025 revisited: After 100 days, is Trump running the playbook?

Project 2025 was frequently pointed to by Democrats last year as a playbook for how a second Trump administration would upend the federal government.

Now, nearly 100 days into his presidency, the country is getting a sense of where Trump ’s platform intersects with the controversial document.

Trump has signed 129 executive orders since January , some of which seem to be lifted wholesale from the document.

Project 2025 stressed simplifying the tax code and splitting households into two brackets pegged to the Social Security wage base in 2024 .

Trump proposed extending the expiring individual provisions in 2017 ’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and outright eliminating taxes on some sources of income, including tips and Social Security benefits.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is in fact considering raising the corporate tax rate and income taxes for America 's highest earners in order to pay for his proposed tax cuts.

We’re taking the shackles off the energy infrastructure. No one can deny that, and on top of that, we’re doing something with government efficiency where we’re taking off the burdens of waste, fraud, and abuse. We’re making government more efficient. We’re looking at deregulation every single day.”.