Over half of Project 2025 is already law, and this week the people who wrote it admitted it in writing. Fifty-three percent. Fifty-three percent. That's the figure the Heritage Foundation mailed its donors this week, claiming credit by name for the year you've been living through.

USAID gutted, diversity protections stripped out of the federal government, civil service shields pulled off thousands of workers, federal unions broken, one agency after another bent to heel.

"That is a big deal," they wrote, before asking supporters to fund the other half.

Remember the pitch from 2024. The 900-page plan polled so badly that everyone attached to it sprinted for the exits. Trump told the country he'd never heard of it.

Heritage's own project director resigned under the heat. The whole operation swore it was a left-wing smear, a fever dream, a document no serious person would ever own.

It is now the only governing plan in Washington, and Heritage is the one bragging about it.

The man turning the blueprint into policy is Russ Vought, who helped write it and now runs the Office of Management and Budget, the desk that decides which agencies get cut and which federal workers lose their paychecks.

The plan that was too radioactive to admit to is being carried out by one of its own authors from inside the building.

An outside watchdog ran the math from the opposite direction and got the same answer. The Center for Progressive Reform counted 283 of the 532 action items already in motion. Heritage's brag and the watchdog's audit are describing the identical machine, and they agree on how far it has gotten.

A leak you could dismiss. A theory you could wave off. This is the architects themselves, in writing, on letterhead, tallying up the wreckage as an accomplishment and charging admission for the sequel.

They are not nervous about any of it. They signed off promising supporters "another 250 years of American greatness," as if the half of the government they have already rewired were a warm-up act.

They spent the campaign swearing none of this was real. Now it's signed, dated, and half finished.

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