Working under the assumption that Donald Trump will return to the White House, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project is recruiting and training the thousands of staffers he will need to change how business is done in Washington.
“It is not enough for conservatives to win elections,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Project. “If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.”
With more than 90% of federal workers part of the civil service system, the number of new employees a president can bring in is limited. These are the staffers charged with implementing the administration’s policies and directives, not an easy undertaking by a disrupter like Trump, considering that the vast majority of the workforce identifies with and donates to the opposing political party.
“Right now, the average person doesn’t have a seat at the table when major decisions are made that dramatically affect their lives,” Dans continued, stressing the need to reform the national bureaucracy. “In Washington, the taxpayers are the meal.”
Still, the president can appoint about 4,000 administration members outright, with dozens more requiring confirmation by the U.S. Senate. These high-level appointees include secretaries and deputies in departments such as defense, homeland security, justice, and transportation. Vowing to “drain the swamp” during his previous term as president, Trump saw many of his appointments “slow-walked,” even though members of his party, the Republicans, held the majority in Congress.
“The 2025 Presidential Transition Project paves the way for an effective conservative administration based on four pillars: a policy agenda, Presidential Personnel Database, Presidential Administration Academy, and playbook for the first 180 days of the next Administration,” Dans pointed out. The project offers a free online tutorial covering Governance, the Administrative State, the Regulatory Process, and other critical areas.
Having served in the Trump Administration as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Dans managed the federal agency in charge of human resources policy for the more than two million federal workers. He also served as OPM’s White House liaison and worked integrally with the White House Office of Presidential Personnel to staff the approximately 4,000 presidential appointees across the federal government. In 2021, President Trump appointed Dans as Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission.
For more information on serving in a potential Trump administration, go to www.project2025.org