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The plan explicitly seeks to “dismantle the administrative state,” explaining: “The solution… is not to tinker with this or that government program, to replace this or that bureaucrat. These are problems not of technocratic efficiency but of national sovereignty and constitutional governance. We solve them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves but by ripping out the trees—root and branch.”

Former Trump Cabinet member Russ Vought, who was key in developing Project 2025, said, “The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state.” Trump strategist Steve Bannon has said, “We’re going to rip and shred the federal government apart.”