List of contributors to Project 2025

Directed by the Heritage Foundation, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (or Project 2025) rests on "four pillars": a policy guide, a "conservative LinkedIn", a "Presidential Administration Academy", ^[1] and a "playbook".^[2] The policy guide has been published in April 2024^[3] as a volume of the Mandate for Leadership series, under the name The Conservative Promise. Edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves, the more than 900-page volume features 30 chapters written by 35 primary authors.^[4]

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More than 100 organizations, spanning from conservative to far-right,^[5] have helped produce the Mandate for Leadership, and Project 2025 more generally.^[6] The policy reforms promoted in guide and its digest has gained traction during the 2024 US presidential election.^[7] Many Trump collaborators to have been tied to the project.^[8][9]

Background

Although Donald Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025,^{[10][11][12][13][14][15]} a number of contributors to the project have held positions one of his Trump's political campaign(s) or his administration(s).^[16] The Heritage Foundation states that Trump has previously embraced many of the policy recommendations put forward by that organization.

Advisory board

The Conservative Promise has a section "Advisory board" in the Conservative promise.^[17] Heritage maintained a website from April 2023 to March, 2025.^[18] The organizations featured on that website kept changing, as the numbers they touted in their press releases.^[19] Affiliated organizations that are listed in that section are marked with a dagger (†). Organizations featured in the Conservative promise with no collaborator are:

• API - Alabama Policy Institute^[20]

Authors

About 35 authors wrote the 30 chapters and the matters of the Mandate.

Some chapter authors have also been thanked in other chapters.

Name	Affiliations	Chapter or matter	Trump ties
Daren Bakst	Competitive Enterprise Institute[21] †	10 – "Department of Agriculture"[22][23]
Jonathan Berry	Heritage, Boyden Gray, Federalist Society	18 – "Department of Labor and Related Agencies"[24][25]	DOJ (2017-2018), DOL (2018-2020)[26][27][28] transition team (2024);[29] DOL (2025-)[30]
Robert Benedict Bowes	None at the time, calls himself an "election investigator" on socials[31]	27 – "Financial Regulatory Agencies / Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"[32]	Campaign director (2016), [33] HUD (2017-2021), OPM, [33] CFTC withdrawn nomination (2020)[34]
Lindsey M. Burke	Heritage; EdChoice[35]	11 – "Department of Education"[36]
David R. Burton	Heritage; Federalist Society[37]	22 – "Department of the Treasury"[38] 27 – "Financial Regulatory Agencies / Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies"[39] 25 – "Small Business Administration" (contributor)
Adam Candeub [40]	Michigan State University, Federalist Society	30 – "Federal Trade Commission"[41]	Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce[42][43] Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Justice Department[44] Role in the second Trump administration – General counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)[45]
Dustin J. Carmack	Heritage (former research fellow)	7 – "Intelligence Community"[46]	Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence [47]
Brendan Carr	Federal Communications Commission (FCC)	28 – "Federal Communications Commission"[48][49]	FCC (2017-2027)[50][51]
Ben Carson	American Cornerstone Institute[52] †	15 – "Department of Housing and Urban Development"[53]	HUD Secretary in the first Trump administration.[54] Vice Chairman of the Religious Liberty Commission in the second Trump administration.[55]
Ken Cuccinelli	Heritage, visiting fellow	5 – "Department of Homeland Security"[56]	"de facto" Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)[57] "de facto" Acting Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security[58] Chief Regulatory Officer for the Department of Homeland Security
Paul Dans	Heritage: director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project until he stepped down[59][60][61]	3 – "Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy" [62] 6 – "Department of State" (contributor)[63]
Rick Dearborn	Cypress Group	1 – "White House Office"[64]	2017-2018 deputy chief of staff [28][65] 2016 transition team executive director[66]
Veronique de Rugy	Mercatus Center, Cato Institute	23 – "Export-Import Bank / The Export-Import Bank Should be Abolished"[67]
Donald J. Devine	The Fund for American Studies	3 – "Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy"[62] 1 – "White House Office" (contributor)[68]
Edwin J. Feulner	Heritage co-founder	Afterword – "Onward!"[69]	2016 transition team[70]
Diana Furchtgott-Roth	Heritage	19 – "Department of Transportation"[71]	Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology[72]
Thomas F. Gilman	American Center for Law & Justice	21 – "Department of Commerce"[73][74][75]	Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce in the first Trump administration[76]
Mike Gonzalez	Heritage	8 – "Media Agencies / Corporation for Public Broadcasting"[77] 21 – "Department of Commerce" (contributor)[78]
Mandy M. Gunasekara	Independent Women's Forum	13 – "Environmental Protection Agency"[79]	EPA chief of staff and Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation[80][81]
Gene Hamilton	America First Legal Foundation †	17 – "Department of Justice"[82]	Counselor to the Attorney General at the Department of Justice[83] Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security[83] Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement[83] Attorney Advisor in the Secretary's Honors Program for Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security[83]
Jennifer L. Hazelton		23 – "Export-Import Bank / The Case for the Export-Import Bank"[84]	Deputy Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs at USAID[85] US State Department public affairs officer[86] Communications Director for the Trump-Pence campaign in Georgia[85]
Karen Kerrigan	Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council[87]	25 – "Small Business Administration"[88]
Dennis Dean Kirk	Mindset[89]	3 – "Central Personnel Agencies – Managing the Bureaucracy"[62]	Associate Director, Employee Services, Office of Personnel Management[90] Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board[91]
Kent Lassman	Competitive Enterprise Institute †	26 – "Trade / The Case for Free Trade"[92]
Bernard L. McNamee	McGuireWoods LLP	12 – "Department of Energy and Related Commissions"[93]	Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner[94]
Christopher C. Miller	Albers Aerosphace, Highpoint Aerotechnologies[95]	4 – "Department of Defense"[96]	Acting Secretary of Defense[97][98] Director of the National Counterterrorism Center[99][98] Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict[97] Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism and Transnational Threats at the National Security Council (NSC)[97]
Stephen Moore	FreedomWorks	22 – "Department of the Treasury"[38]	Member of President Trump's economic task force[100]
Mora Namdar	Namdar Law PLLC[101]	8 – "Media Agencies / U.S. Agency for Global Media"[102]	Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs[103] Vice President of Legal, Compliance, and Risk at the U.S. Agency for Global Media
Peter Navarro	Paul Merage School of Business (gone emeritus)	26 – "Free Trade / The Case for Fair Trade"[104]	Assistant to the President[105][106] Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy[105] Director of the National Trade Council[106]
William Perry Pendley	Federalist Society;[107] Mountain States Legal Foundation	16 – "Department of the Interior"[108]	"de facto" Director of the Bureau of Land Management[109] Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management for Policy and Programs[110]
Max Primorac	Heritage	9 – "Agency for International Development"[111] 6 – "Department of State" (contributor)[63]	Acting chief operating officer for USAID[112]
Kevin D. Roberts	Heritage president[113][114]	Foreword – "A Promise to America"[115]
Roger Severino	Ethics and Public Policy Center	14 – "Department of Health and Human Services"[116]	Director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at Health and Human Services (HHS)[117]
Kiron K. Skinner	Pepperdine University School of Public Policy	6 – "Department of State"[118]	Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State[119]
Brooks D. Tucker		20 – "Department of Veterans Affairs"[120]	Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs[121]
Hans A. von Spakovsky	Heritage	29 – "Federal Election Commission"[122]	Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (2017)
Russell "Russ" Vought	Center for Renewing America (CRA) †	2 – "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[123]	2018-2020 Office of Management and Budget (OMB)[124] Member of the 2024 Republican National Committee Platform Committee[125] Claimed that Trump "blessed" the work of Project 2025[126][127]
William L. Walton	Resolute Protector Foundation	22 – "Department of the Treasury"[38]	2016- Trump advisor[128]
Rachael Wilfong	Heritage	10 – "Department of Agriculture"
Paul Winfree	Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)[129]; Heritage	24 – "Federal Reserve"[130] 2 – "Executive Office of the President of the United States" (contributor)[131]	Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy[132] Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council[132] Director of Budget Policy[132] OMB; Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board[132]

Contributors

The "Mandate" thanks its 280 contributors in "Acknowledgements", and lists them all in "Contributors". Many chapters end with a special mention to some of them in the author's notes. Most of these contributors are affiliated with the organizations mentioned in Project 2025's Advisory Board. Authors mentioned as contributors are omitted. Citations in chapters by contributors could be noted. The "New York Times" has traced back the ties between Project 2025 and the Trump administration. ^[133]

Some contributors (like Atkins) have been thanked for having written portions of the chapters, but are not listed as author.

Conservative Promise Contributors

Name	Affiliation	Contribution	Trump tie
Paige Agostin	Center for Renewing America †	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Mark Albrecht
Chris Anderson			Office of Senator Steve Daines
Jeff Anderson	The American Main Street Initiative
EJ Antoni	Heritage
Michael Anton	Hillsdale College	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications in the first Trump Administration[134][135]
Andrew R. Arthur	Center for Immigration Studies[136] †
Paul S. Atkins	Patomak Global Partners[137]	Chapter 27 (portion): "Financial Regulatory Agencies / Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies"[138]	Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman[139]
Julie Axelrod	Center for Immigration Studies †
James Bacon			McEntee's aide[3]
James Baehr	Pelican Institute;[140] Federalist Society[141]		General counsel for the Department of Veteran Affairs[139]
Stewart Baker	Steptoe and Johnson LLP
Erik Baptist	Alliance Defending Freedom†
Brent Bennett	Texas Public Policy Foundation
John Berlau	Competitive Enterprise Institute
Russell Berman	Hoover Institution	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Served on the U.S. State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights[142] in the first Trump administration
Sanjai Bhagat	University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Billy	Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America		OMB senior adviser [139]
Brad Bishop	American Cornerstone Institute
Willis Bixby	WWBX LLC
Josh Blackman	South Texas College of Law		[143]
Jim Blew	Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies
Robert Bortins	Classical Conversations
Rachel Bovard	Conservative Partnership Institute
Matt Bowman	Alliance Defending Freedom†
Steven G. Bradbury	Heritage	Chapter 19: "Department of Transportation"[144]	Acting Secretary of Transportation;[145] acting Deputy Secretary of Transportation;[145] general Counsel of the United States Department of Transportation[145]
Preston Brashers	Heritage
Andrew Bremberg	Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation[146]	Chapter 1: White House Office	Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. He previously served as Assistant to the President and the director of the Domestic Policy Council for U.S. President Donald Trump.[147]
Jonathan Bronitsky	ATHOS	Chapter 1: White House Office	Former chief speech writer for William P. Barr, the 2016–2020 Trump administration's attorney general[148]
Kyle Brosnan	Heritage
Patrick T. Brown	Ethics and Public Policy Center[149]	Defended Trump with op-eds[150]
Robert Burkett	ACLJ Action	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Michael Burley	American Cornerstone Institute
Jonathan Butcher	Heritage
Mark Buzby	Buzby Maritime Associates, LLC		United States Maritime Administrator[151]
Margaret Byfield	American Stewards of Liberty
David Byrd	Korn Ferry
Sarah Calvis	America Moment[152] †	Chapter 6: "Department of State";[63] Project 2025 coordinator
Anthony P. Campau	Center for Renewing America; EPIC[129]	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Presidential transition team[153]
James Jay Carafano	Heritage	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Primary aide to the U.S. State Department for the first Trump administration's transition team[154]
Frank Carroll	Professional Forest Management
Oren Cass	American Compass†	Chapter 18: "Department of Labor and Related Agencies"[155]
Brian J. Cavanaugh	American Global Strategies		associate director for homeland security at OMB [139]
Spencer Chretien	Heritage: Project 2025 associate director	6 – "Department of State"[63]	2019-2020 EOP; HUD 2025- senior bureau official at PRM [156]
Claire Christensen	American Cornerstone Institute
Jeffrey B. Clark	New Civil Liberties Alliance; Federalist Society[157]	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Victoria Coates	Heritage	8 – "Media Agencies / Corporation for Public Broadcasting"	Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East and North African Affairs
Ellie Cohanim	Independent Women's Forum		Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in the first Trump administration[158]
Ezra Cohen	Union League of Philadelphia		DOD[159]
Elbridge Colby	Marathon Initiative		Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development in the first Trump administration[160]
Earl Comstock	White & Case LLP
Wesley Coopersmith	Heritage Action for America	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Legislative Director for Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)[161]
Lisa Correnti	Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)
Monica Crowley	The Nixon Seminar		Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs in first the Trump administration[162]
Laura Cunliffe	Independent Women's Forum	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Tom Dans	Amberwave Partners
Sohan Dasgupta	Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Brett D. Schaefer	Heritage	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Member on the United Nations committee on contributions[163]
Corey DeAngelis	American Federation for Children
Caroline DeBerry	Paragon Health Institute
Chris De Ruyter	National Center for Urban Operations
Arielle Del Turco	Family Research Council
Irv Dennis	American Cornerstone Institute
David Deptula	Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Sergio de la Peña		Chapter 4: "Department of Defense"[164]	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs in the first Trump Administration[165][166] 2016 presidential campaign[165]
Chuck DeVore	Texas Public Policy Foundation	Chapter 4: "Department of Defense"[164]
Matthew D. Dickerson	EPIC; Heritage; Americans for Prosperity[129]		senior policy advisor for the House Budget Committee
James Di Pane	Heritage
Michael Ding	America First Legal Foundation
David Ditch	Heritage
Natalie Dodson	Ethics and Public Policy Center
Dave Dorey	The Fairness Center
Mike Duffey		Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Senior White House official[167]
Max Eden	American Enterprise Institute
Troy Edgar	IBM Consulting
Joseph Edlow	Heritage
Jen Ehlinger	Booz Allen Hamilton
John Ehrett			Office of Senator Josh Hawley
Kristen Eichamer	Heritage
Robert S. Eitel	Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies
Will Estrada	Parents Rights Foundation
Farnaz Farkish Thompson
Jon Feere	Center for Immigration Studies †
Baruch Feigenbaum	Reason Foundation
Travis Fisher	Heritage
George Fishman	Center for Immigration Studies †
Leslie Ford	Heritage
Aharon Friedman	Federal Policy Group
Bruce Frohnen	Ohio Northern University College of Law
Joel Frushone	Ernst & Young
Finch Fulton
Caleigh Gabel	American Cornerstone Institute
Christopher Gacek	Family Research Council
Alexandra Gaiser	River Financial Inc.
Mario Garza
Patty-Jane Geller	Heritage
Aurelia S. Giacometto		Chapter 16: "Department of the Interior"[168]	United States Fish and Wildlife Service director[169]
Andrew Gillen	Texas Public Policy Foundation
James S. Gilmore III	Gilmore Global Group LLC		served as United States Mission to the United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during the first Trump administration[170]
Vance Ginn	Economic Consulting LLC	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
John G. Malcolm	Heritage
Alma Golden	The Institute for Women's Health
Mike Gonzalez	Heritage
Chadwick R. Gore	Defense Forum Foundation
David Gortler	Ethics and Public Policy Center
Brian Gottstein	Heritage
Dan Greenberg	Competitive Enterprise Institute
Robert "Rob" Greenway	Hudson Institute	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Top adviser on the Middle East who stepped down following January 6[171]
Rachel Greszler	Heritage; EPIC		Senior economist on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress[129]
DJ Gribbin	Madrus Consulting
Garrison Grisedale	American Cornerstone Institute
Joseph Grogan	USC Schaeffer School for Health Policy and Economics		Domestic Policy Council during the first Trump administration[172]
Steven Groves	Heritage, The Conservative Promise co-editor	6 – "Department of State" (contributor)[63]	Ambassador Nikki Haley's Chief of Staff at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Assistant Special Counsel, representing the White House in the Mueller investigation White House Deputy Press Secretary[173]
Andrew Guernsey
Jeffrey Gunter	Republican Jewish Coalition
Joe Guy	Club for Growth
Joseph Guzman
Amalia Halikias	Heritage
Gene Hamilton	America First Legal Foundation
Richard Hanania	Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology
Simon Hankinson	Heritage	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	State Department[174]
David Harlow
Derek Harvey			Office of Congressman Devin Nunes
Jason Hayes	Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Jennifer Hazelton
Aaron Hedlund	America First Policy Institute	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Chief Economist for Domestic Policy at the Council of Economic Advisers. [175]
Lou Heinzer
Edie Heipel	Center for Renewing America	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Troup Hemenway	Personnel Policy Operations
Nathan Hitchen	Equal Rights Institute
Pete Hoekstra			United States Ambassador to the Netherlands during the first Trump administration
Gabriella Hoffman	Independent Women's Forum
Tom Homan	Heritage		Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the first Trump administration; Border Czar in the second Trump administration
Chris Horner
Mike Howell	Heritage
Valerie Huber	The Institute for Women's Health; Ascend	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Health and Human Services[176]
Andrew Hughes	American Cornerstone Institute
Joseph M. Humire	Center for a Secure Free Society	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Integration and Defense Support of Civil Authorities[177]
Christopher Iacovella	American Securities Association
Melanie Israel	Heritage
Ken Ivory	Utah House of Representatives
Roman Jankowski	Heritage
Abby Jones
Art Kleinschmidt	Recovery for America Now Foundation	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	SAMHSA; HHS[178]
Paul J. Larkin	Heritage; Civitas Institute[179]	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Defends various Trump actions: the spending pause,[180] the Congressional Review Act,[181] etc.
Emilie Kao	Alliance Defending Freedom†
Jared M. Kelson	Boyden Gray & Associates
Aaron Kheriaty	Ethics and Public Policy Center
Ali Kilmartin	Alliance Defending Freedom†
Julie Kirchner	Federation for American Immigration Reform
Dan Kish	Institute for Energy Research
Kenneth A. Klukowski	Federalist Society[182]	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Constitutional rights advisor on the transition team; Justice Department staffer[183]
Brian Knight		Chapter 27 (portion): "Financial Regulatory Agencies / Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies"[138]
Adam Korzeniewski	American Principles Project
Bethany Kozma	Keystone Policy
Matthew Kozma
Julius Krein	American Affairs
Stanley Kurtz	Ethics and Public Policy Center
David LaCerte	Baker Botts, LLP
Paul Lawrence	Lawrence Consulting
Nathan Leamer	Targeted Victory
David Legates	University of Delaware (Ret.)	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States";[131] Chapter 21: "Department of Commerce"[78]	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for observation and prediction at the NOAA[184]
Marlo Lewis	Competitive Enterprise Institute
Ben Lieberman	Competitive Enterprise Institute
John Ligon
Evelyn Lim	American Cornerstone Institute
Morgan Lorraine Viña	Jewish Institute for National Security of America
Mario Loyola	Competitive Enterprise Institute	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Joseph Masterman	Cooper & Kirk PLLC
Earl Matthews	The Vandenberg Coalition		held multiple positions in the first Trump administration
Dan Mauler	Heritage Action for America
Brian Vaughan McCormack	Edison Electric Institute[185]	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Among several aides who declined to participate in the 2019 impeachment hearings against Trump; National Security Concil [186]
Drew McCall	American Cornerstone Institute
Trent McCotter	Boyden Gray & Associates
John McEntee	Heritage5[187]	Senior advisor to P25	Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office[188] (fired)[189]
Micah Meadowcroft	The American Conservative†
Edwin Meese III	Heritage[190]	Chapter 1: "White House Office"[68]	Presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump[191]
Jessica Melugin	Competitive Enterprise Institute
Frank Mermoud	Orpheus International
Mark Miller			Office of Governor Kristi Noem
Cleta Mitchell	Conservative Partnership Institute
Milan “Mitch” Nikolich
Mark A. Morgan	Heritage		served multiple roles in the first Trump administration[192][193]
Jessica M. Vaughan	Center for Immigration Studies †
Kevin E. Moley
Caitlin Moon	American Center for Law & Justice †
David Moore	Brigham Young University Law School
Clare Morell	Ethics and Public Policy Center
Mark Morgan	Heritage
Hunter Morgen	American Cornerstone Institute
Rachel Morrison	Ethics and Public Policy Center
Jonathan Moy	Heritage
Casey Mulligan		Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers[194][195] during the first Trump administration
Iain Murray	Competitive Enterprise Institute	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Ryan Nabil	National Taxpayers Union
Andrew N. Vollmer	Mercatus Center
Michael Nasi	Jackson Walker LLP
Lucien Niemeyer	The Niemeyer Group LLC
Nazak Nikakhtar	Wiley Rein LLP
Kathy Nuebel Kovarik	Sagitta Solutions LLC
Matt O'Brien	Immigration Reform Law Institute
Caleb Orr	Boyden Gray & Associates
Ivan Osorio	Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)[196]	Chapter 26 (portion): "Trade / The Case for Free Trade"[197]
Nina Owcharenko Schaefer	Heritage
Scott Pace		Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Executive Secretary of the National Space Council[198][199] during the first Trump administration
Michael Pack	Claremont Institute CEO (2015-2017)	8 – "Media Agencies / Corporation for Public Broadcasting"	USAGM CEO [200]
Leah Pedersen
Michael Pillsbury	Heritage	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Architect of Trump's policy towards China
Patrick Pizzella	Leadership Institute		Deputy and acting Secretary of Labor in the first Trump administration[201][202]
Robert W. Poole, Jr.	Reason Foundation	Chapter 19: "Department of Transportation"[144]
Kevin Preskenis	Allymar Health Solutions
Pam Pryor	National Committee for Religious Freedom
William P. Ruger	American Institute for Economic Research		Trump's Ambassador to Afghanistan[203]
Thomas Pyle	Institute for Energy Research
John Ratcliffe	American Global Strategies		Director of National Intelligence [204] selected for CIA Director in the second Trump administration
Paul J. Ray	Heritage	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs[205][206] in the first Trump administration
Joseph Reddan	Flexilis Forestry	LLC
Jordan Richardson	Heise Suarez Melville	P.A.
Jason Richwine	Center for Immigration Studies †
Shaun Rieley	The American Conservative†
Lora Ries	Heritage
Leo Rios
James R. Lawrence III	Envisage Law
Mark Robeck	Energy Evolution Consulting LLC
James Rockas	ACLJ Action	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Election team[207]
Mark Royce	NOVA-Annandale College
Reed Rubinstein	America First Legal Foundation	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Legal Adviser of the Department of State (May, 2025-)
Austin Ruse	Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)
Brent D. Sadler	Heritage
Alexander William Salter	Texas Tech University
Jon Sanders	John Locke Foundation
Carla Sands	America First Policy Institute		[208][209][210] — served as United States Ambassador to Denmark during the first Trump administration
David Sauve
Matt Schuck	American Cornerstone Institute
Justin Schwab	CGCN Law
Jon Schweppe	American Principles Project
Marc Scribner	Reason Foundation
Darin Selnick	Selnick Consulting
Josh Sewell	Taxpayers for Common Sense
Kathleen Sgamma	Western Energy Alliance
Matt Sharp	Alliance Defending Freedom†
Judy Shelton	Independent Institute	Chapter 24: "Federal Reserve"[211]	Economic advisor to Trump under his first term[212][213]
Molly Sikes	Center for Renewing America	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]
Nathan Simington			served as Commissioner of the FCC in the first Trump administration, and continues to serve in that role in the Biden administration[214]
Jeff Smith		Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]
Loren Smith	Skyline Policy Risk Group
Zack Smith	Heritage
Thomas W. Spoehr	Heritage
Jack Spencer	Heritage
Adrienne Spero	U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
Christopher Stanley	Functional Government Initiative
Paula M. Stannard
Parker Stathatos	Texas Public Policy Foundation
William R. Steiger	Independent consultant	Chapter 9: "Agency for International Development"[215]	USAID chief of staff[216]
Kenny Stein	Institute for Energy Research
Robby Stephany Saunders	Coalition for a Prosperous America
Corey Stewart	Stewart PLLC
Peter St Onge	Heritage
Mari Stull
Brett Swearingen	Miller Johnson
Michael Sweeney
Robert Swope
Aaron Szabo	CGCN Group
Katy Talento	AllBetter Health
Hillary Tanoff		Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]
Tony Tata	Tata Leadership Group LLC		Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the first Trump administration[217]
Todd Thurman	American Cornerstone Institute
Katharine T. Sullivan	1792 Exchange
Brett Tolman	Tolman Group
Kayla M. Tonnessen	Recovery for America Now Foundation	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	Chief of staff of the Office of National Drug Control Policy[218]
Joe Trotter	American Legislative Exchange Council
Tevi Troy	Mercatus Center
Clayton Tufts
Erin Valdez	Texas Public Policy Foundation
Mark Vandroff
John “JV” Venable	Heritage
Andrew N. Vollmer	Mercatus Center	Chapter 27 (portion): "Financial Regulatory Agencies / Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies"[138]
Greg Walcher	Natural Resources Group LLC
C. Wallace DeWitt	Allen & Overy LLP
David M. Walsh	Takota Group
Erin Walsh	Heritage	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Global Markets);[219] Director General of the United States Commercial Service;[219] Member of the Trump's presidential transition team[219][220]
Jacklyn Ward	American Cornerstone Institute
Emma Waters	Heritage
Michael Williams	American Cornerstone Institute
Jay W. Richards	Heritage
Aaron Wolff
Jonathan Wolfson	Cicero Institute	Chapter 2: "Executive Office of the President of the United States"[131]	U.S. Department of Labor in the Trump Administration[221]
Alexei Woltornist	ATHOS
Frank Wuco	Conservative talk radio show in Florida[222]	8 – "Media Agencies / Corporation for Public Broadcasting"	DHS advisor; Department of State; USAGM[223][224][225]
Cesar Ybarra	FreedomWorks
John Zadrozny	America First Legal Foundation	Chapter 6: "Department of State"[63]	USCIS official[226]
Laura Zorc	FreedomWorks

See also

• 2024 Republican Party Platform
• Agenda 47 - Policy platform of the 2024 Donald Trump campaign
• America First Policy Institute - has a transition project which is viewed as a rival to Project 2025
• Political appointments by Donald Trump in his first term
• Political appointments by Donald Trump in his second term