Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidential election.[2][3] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with those who will be more willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president.[3] It also adopts a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory, an interpretation of Article II of the Constitution of the United States[4][5] which asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch.[2][6] Critics of Project 2025 have characterized it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the United States into an autocracy.[7] Many legal experts have asserted it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state,[8][3] and civil liberties.[9]