Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of policy proposals to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government at an unprecedented scale in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to the District of Columbia to replace existing federal civil service workers—whom Republicans characterize as part of the "deep state"—and to further the objectives of the next Republican president. Although the project cannot promote a specific presidential candidate, many contributors have close ties to Donald Trump and the his presidential campaign. The plan would perform a swift restructuring of the executive branch under a maximalist interpretation of the unitary executive theory—a challenged legal theory that contends the president has absolute power over the executive branch—upon inauguration.