How Trump's policies and Project 2025 proposals match up after first 100 days

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : One of Mr. Trump's first actions as president was to establish the White House's Department of Government Efficiency -- DOGE -- run by Elon Musk, to slash regulations and spending, and restructure federal agencies.
60% : As part of a series of executive orders addressing the education system, Mr. Trump issued a directive on April 23 that directs the education secretary to enforce a provision of the Higher Education Act that requires higher education institutions that receive federal dollars to disclose any gifts of contracts from a foreign source valued at $250,000 or more in a calendar year.
57% : "OMB can then direct on behalf of a president the amount, duration, and purpose of any apportioned funding to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse and ensure consistency with the president's agenda and applicable laws.
57% : His latest order directed the secretary of state to inform the secretary-general of the United States and World Health Organization leadership of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the group.
56% : Republicans have long called for the Department of Education to be dismantled, and that recommendation was also made in Project 2025, which declared that "federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.
52% : " Carr authored the section of Project 2025's policy book that deals with the FCC, but another portion of the blueprint urges Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to NPR and PBS.
50% : Project 2025's chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services calls for its Office of Civil Rights to "remove all guidance issued under the Biden administration concerning sexual orientation and gender identity," including the March 2022 document.
50% : The move is also part of Project 2025, which calls on the next administration to enforce that statute, investigate higher education institutions that do not honor the obligations laid out in the law and make "appropriate referrals" to the Justice Department.
49% : Currently, for Public Assistance, which provides financial and direct assistance to state and local governments for disaster response and recovery work, FEMA covers a minimum of 75% of costs, and the president can increase the federal cost-share at his discretion, according to a 2023 report from the Congressional Research Service.
49% : " "The federal government's obligation to shift national security-essential screening and vetting resources to the forged border crisis will necessitate an indefinite curtailment of the number of USRAP refugee admissions," its chapter on the State Department reads.
48% : According to Project 2025, "stripping public funding would, of course, mean that NPR, PBS, Pacifica Radio, and the other leftist broadcasters would be shorn of the presumption that they act in the public interest and receive the privileges that often accompany so acting."
48% : To address this "crisis," Project 2025 calls for "rightsizing refugee admissions.
47% : " "This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas," the policy book read.
46% : President Biden repealed that ban, but Mr. Trump has issued an order that effectively bars transgender people from serving in the armed forces and withdraws his predecessor's order.
45% : Health officials in the U.S. and around the world have warned the move will leave people at greater risk of dangerous outbreaks and give China a more dominant role at the World Health Organization.
40% : Universities and the NIH said the cuts will have a "dire impact" on lifesaving research, including clinical trials for cancer and Alzheimer's patients.
36% : Critics say the change would enable the administration to fire government employees for no cause and replace them with Trump loyalists.
31% : "The manifest failure and corruption of the World Health Organization (WHO) during the COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the danger that international organizations pose to U.S. citizens and interests," its book states.
30% : Project 2025, too, criticized the World Health Organization for its handling of the pandemic.
26% : " Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in 2020 due to what his first administration said was a mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
22% : Washington -- President Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, saying he had "nothing to do with" the initiative spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, had not read it and didn't have any plans to.

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