The right-wing policy roadmap called 'Project 2025' has been hugely influential. Created by the Heritage Foundation before the 2024 election, its goals have informed a significant number of Donald Trump's priorities. In fact, as of December 2025,
around half of all the goals listed in the 920-page document had been achieved.
And now, the Heritage Foundation is introducing some new visions it wants Trump's team to prioritize. This includes - and this is actually true -
government-run "marriage bootcamps" to reeducate unmarried Americans into choosing matrimony.Sign the petition to demand the Heritage Foundation apologize for and rescind this harmful proposal!The new Heritage Foundation
report is entitled, "Saving America by Saving the Family." It includes many suggestions for how to boost pregnancy and birth rates, and focuses on
promoting a world in which the government would provide special benefits to 'traditional' heterosexual married couples with a male breadwinner.Its suggestions include: making divorce much more difficult, restricting the amounts paid for alimony, discouraging in-vitro fertilization (IVF) as well as online dating, and of course, the creation of marriage bootcamps.
Under the Heritage Foundation's vision, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would run the bootcamps. At the end of the programming,
the federal government would hold a mass, "communal wedding" for all the couples in the camps. The report itself states: "Successful completion of the program would mean that couples are ready to walk down the aisle at a communal wedding by the end of the bootcamp."
If you think all of this is too far-fetched and too unrealistic,
remember how successful the Heritage Foundation has been so far at getting its anti-immigrant, transphobic, misogynistic policies enacted.But the public has also been successful, too. The Heritage Foundation has backed down from other outrageous proposals in the past - and with enough public outrage, we can get them to retreat on this one, too.
We don't need the federal government involving itself in our personal, private, intimate lives. Sign the petition to demand the Heritage Foundation retract its shameful 'marriage bootcamps' and 'mass weddings' proposal!