This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/keep_track by /u/rusticgorilla on 2025-07-16 11:03:11+00:00.
I created a place for these posts to live off of reddit, as a backup: https://keeptrack.ghost.io/. In the near future (next few weeks), I will shut down KeepTrack’s Substack and only use the Ghost site. You can subscribe for free, nothing will ever be paywalled. I also have a patreon for KeepTrack posts.
On Independence Day, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) into law, stripping healthcare and food assistance from millions of Americans to fund massive tax breaks for the wealthy and the largest immigration enforcement budget in U.S. history. Many of the bill’s provisions mirror the authoritarian roadmap laid out in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s far-right blueprint for Trump’s second term.
In total, the OBBB accomplished 16 previously uncompleted goals of Project 2025 and advanced progress on four more. As of today, 46% of Project 2025 has been enacted: see the Tracker (note that the total can change as courts block and unblock certain policies).
- Some of the policies enacted by the OBBB do not take effect immediately. Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, for example, are not scheduled to be implemented until December 2026 for most states.
Completed goals
Impose Medicaid work requirements:
Project 2025 (p. 467-468): “Personal responsibility and consumer choice for Medicaid recipients must go together as standard components of the safety net, especially for able-bodied recipients…[CMS should] clarify that states have the ability to adopt work incentives for able-bodied individuals (similar to what is required in other welfare programs)…”
OBBB: Requires states to condition Medicaid eligibility for individuals ages 19-64 applying for coverage or enrolled through the ACA expansion group (or a waiver) on working for at least 80 hours per month.
Reduce federal incentives for states to expand Medicaid coverage
Project 2025 (p. 466-467): Replace enhanced federal matching funds with a “more rational match rate.”
OBBB: Eliminates the financial incentive, enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), for states to implement the Medicaid expansion. Requires states to impose cost sharing of up to $35 per service on expansion adults with incomes 100-138% of the federal poverty level. Limits federal matching payments for hospitals that provide emergency care to immigrants who would qualify for expansion coverage if they had a different immigration status.
Impose stricter work requirements on SNAP
Project 2025 (p. 299): “Re-implement work requirements” for “work-capable individuals” on SNAP.
OBBB: Expands work requirements to apply to parents with children as young as 14 years old and adults aged 55-64 (both categories were previously exempt).
Roll back the Thrifty Food Plan update used to calculate SNAP benefits
Project 2025 (p. 300): “In a dramatic overreach, the Biden Administration unilaterally increased food stamp benefits by at least 23 percent in October 2021. Through an update to the Thrifty Food Plan, in which the USDA analyzes a basket of foods intended to provide a nutritious diet, the USDA increased food stamp outlays by between $250 billion and $300 billion over 10 years…every previous Thrifty Food Plan has been always cost-neutral ( just an inflation update)…”
OBBB: The Thrifty Food Plan can now only be re-evaluated once every five years and must remain cost-neutral. This means future updates cannot result in increased benefit levels, even if food prices rise significantly.
Restrict the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Project 2025 (p. 301): “Eliminate the heat-and-eat loophole. States can artificially boost a household’s food stamp benefit by using the heat-and-eat loophole. The amount of food stamps a household receives is based on its ‘countable’ income (income minus certain deductions). Households that receive benefits from the Low-Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) are eligible for a larger utility deduction.”
OBBB: Receiving a LIHEAP fuel assistance payment no longer automatically qualifies a household for a higher Standard Utility Allowance, unless the household includes an older adult or a person with disability. This change excludes many low-wage families from utility-related deductions in the SNAP formula, even if they face high energy costs.
Lessen protections for marine life
Project 2025 (p. 676): “Under the auspices of [the National Ocean Service, a part of NOAA], marine sanctuaries (including no-fishing zones) are being established country-wide, often conflicting with the goals of the Magnuson–Stevens Act fisheries management authorities”; executive actions are “being used to advance an agenda to close vast areas of the ocean to commercial activities, including fishing”; “Allow a NEPA exemption for fisheries actions.”
OBBB: The bill rescinds NOAA funds that were provided for the conservation, restoration, and protection of coastal and marine habitats, as well as for national marine sanctuaries. The bill also undermines NEPA by creating a process that allows companies to pay a fee for expedited environmental reviews, potentially leading to the approval of projects that may negatively impact ocean health.
Expand school choice
Project 2025 (p. 350): “Congress could consider school choice legislation…[to] create a federal scholarship tax credit that would incentivize donors to contribute to nonprofit scholarship granting organizations.”
OBBB: The bill creates an “unprecedented, dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit designed to support private and religious K-12 schools.” It will fully reimburse donors for the first $1,700 they donate to groups that distribute tuition vouchers to attend private schools.
Roll back student loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans
Project 2025 (p.337): “The Secretary should phase out all existing IDR [income-driven repayment] plans…and should implement a new IDR plan.”
OBBB: The bill eliminates current income-driven repayment plans, including the Saving on A Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) plan, and Pay As You Earn (PAYE) plan. It additionally requires all future borrowers to choose between either a standard repayment plan or a Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) which costs more than almost every income-driven repayment plan previously created.
Limit subsidized renewables
Project 2025 (p. 400): “There is a growing problem with the electric grid’s reliability because of the increasing growth of subsidized intermittent renewable generation (like wind and solar)…Pressure to use 100 percent renewables or non–carbon emitting resources threatens the electric grid’s reliability.”
OBBB: The bill phases out wind and solar energy tax credits in 2027.
Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act
Project 2025 (p. 365): “Support repeal of massive spending bills like the…Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which established new programs and are providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy developers, their investors, and special interests, and support the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs.”
OBBB: The bill rescinds unobligated funds that were provided by the Inflation Reduction Act for various energy programs, such as State-Based Home Energy Efficiency Contractor Training Grants, the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, and the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program, as well as agricultural programs, conservation programs, and clean energy tax credits.
End taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood
Project 2025 (p. 471): “Prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.”
OBBB: The bill prohibits federal Medicaid payment for one year to nonprofit family planning healthcare providers if the nonprofit also offers abortions. (Planned Parenthood won a temporary restraining order blocking the OBBB provision from taking effect while litigation plays out.)
Increase ICE funding for 100,000 detention beds
Project 2025 (p. 143): “ICE should be funded for a significant …
Content cut off. Read original on https://old.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/1m19mzw/the_gop_reconciliation_bill_completed_16_of/