The Platform

Project 2029

A transition plan for the next administration, organized to mirror the executive branch: by agency, then by policy. Each policy page includes the underlying research and the jurisdictions where similar measures are already in effect.

Section 01

Returning Government to the People

The executive branch is the largest concentration of governing authority in the United States, and its operating norms determine how the law applies in practice. For most of the last forty years those norms have favored donors, lobbyists, and industry groups with early access to incoming administrations.

This section covers the structural reforms that change that pattern: default transparency for executive-branch meetings, statutory protection for career civil servants, ethics rules with attached enforcement, and chain-of-command directives oriented to the public the agencies serve.

Section 02

Peace and Diplomacy

The departments and agencies in this section — Defense, Homeland Security, State, the intelligence community, public broadcasting, and the U.S. Agency for International Development — set the terms on which the United States projects power and admits people across its borders.

This section catalogs the statutes, executive orders, and appropriations that govern military spending, immigration enforcement, foreign aid, intelligence oversight, and public-interest media. The policies are concrete and enumerated. Each one names the vehicle that would enact it.

Administers civil immigration enforcement under codified detention standards, conducts criminal investigations into transnational crime through a separate component, and operates without contractual reliance on for-profit detention operators.

  1. Abolish ICE and Establish a Humane Immigration Enforcement System Statutory termination of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and transfer of its functions to successor agencies bound by codified detention, medical-care, and use-of-force standards.

Section 03

Promoting the General Welfare

The Constitution names the general welfare as a purpose of the federal government. The cabinet departments under this section — Agriculture, Education, Energy, EPA, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs — are the operational layer of that purpose.

This section catalogs the statutes, appropriations, and regulations that determine whether residents can see a doctor, finish a degree, breathe clean air, and live in housing they can afford. The policies are concrete and enumerated. Each one names the vehicle that would enact it.

Administers federal education funding under Title I, the Higher Education Act, and the IDEA; oversees the federal student loan portfolio; enforces civil rights statutes in educational institutions that receive federal funds.

  1. Forgive Federal Student Loans Cancellation of all federally held student loan debt by congressional statute, with conforming regulations issued by the Department of Education.
  2. Universal Pre-K Federally funded, voluntary, full-day public preschool for every three- and four-year-old, delivered through state and local providers.

Section 04

The People's Economy

Corporate governance rules, tax treatment of capital versus labor, antitrust enforcement, and the minimum-wage floor together determine how productive gains are distributed. Since the early 1980s those rules have favored shareholders and executives, producing the wealth concentration and median-wage stagnation documented in CBO and BLS data.

This section catalogs the statutory and regulatory provisions that govern those areas: tax treatment of executive compensation, ownership and control of productive capacity, worker representation inside firms, and public-return requirements on federal subsidies to corporations.

Enforces federal antitrust law under Sections 5 and 13(b) of the FTC Act and shares civil enforcement of the Sherman and Clayton Acts with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The Commission's statutory mandate covers prevention of unfair methods of competition, premerger review under Section 7 of the Clayton Act and the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and protection against unfair or deceptive commercial practices.

  1. Break Up the Tech and Media Monopolies Direction to the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to pursue structural divestiture under Section 2 of the Sherman Act against dominant digital platforms, paired with statutory amendments lowering Hart-Scott-Rodino merger-review thresholds and a Federal Communications Commission rulemaking that reduces the national television audience reach cap and eliminates the UHF discount.

Section 05

Accountability

This section covers reforms to institutions whose function is to hold other parts of government accountable: the federal judiciary, inspectors general, ethics regimes, and statutory oversight bodies. The rules that bind judges, prosecutors, and elected officials determine whether the rest of the policy agenda can be enforced when the people who would block it are themselves in office.

The size, composition, and conduct rules of the Supreme Court are set by statute, not by the Constitution. This section covers the statutory framework governing the number of justices, the rules of judicial conduct, and the procedures for filling vacancies.

  1. Expand the Supreme Court to Thirteen Justices Statutory amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 1 increasing the size of the Supreme Court from nine justices to thirteen, with the additional positions filled through the existing nomination and Senate confirmation process.

Sets the structural rules that govern how members of the legislative branch are elected, how long they serve, and how they conduct themselves in office. The size of the chambers, the apportionment of the House, and the qualifications and tenure of members are subjects of statute and constitutional amendment, not of internal congressional discretion alone.

  1. Set Consecutive-Term Limits for Congress Constitutional amendment limiting consecutive federal legislative service and requiring an interval of state or local government service before reelection to Congress.
  2. Overturn Citizens United Constitutional amendment authorizing Congress and the states to set limits on campaign contributions and expenditures, distinguish corporations from natural persons in election spending, and establish public campaign financing systems.