In early February 2025, social media users began spreading a screenshot allegedly showing a "plan for women" outlined in Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping American government and society that aligns with many of U.S. President Donald Trump's policies.
The image claims page 432 of the roughly 900-page document published by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, describes a "'Financial and Social Order Framework' whose objective is 'to restore traditional family structures by reinforcing financial and economic policies that align with conservative values.'" It then goes on to detail Project 2025's purported proposals to curtail women's rights on a number of issues, including personal finance, employment and health care.
Posts that spread the screenshot appeared on Facebook, Reddit and X, among other online platforms. Snopes readers also asked about the image in our official tips Facebook group and in emails.
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Page 432 of Project 2025 concerns policy proposals for the Environmental Protection Agency, not any of the policies listed in the image. Furthermore, there is no "Financial and Social Order Framework" section in the actual document, and many of the ideas the image claims the playbook contains do not appear in its pages. While most of the claims in the image are far from reality, a few of the policies listed in the screenshot somewhat reflect authentic proposals from the project's authors — specifically those focused on reproductive health care. Thus, we rate this claim mostly false.
Snopes has previously fact-checked many claims about Project 2025, including that it wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and FEMA, the federal government's primary natural disaster agency. More information about Project 2025 can be found here.
Page 432
Page 432 of Project 2025 focuses on making the Environmental Protection Agency more efficient; most of page 432 is about the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery within the EPA and efforts to "streamline waste management." The other two sections on page 432 reference cleaning up abandoned mines and privatizing the government's laboratories. The full document is available here.
The entirety of page 432 from Project 2025 (left) and close-up excerpts of page 432 (right). (Project 2025/Snopes Illustration)
Furthermore, a search for the words "Financial and Social Order Framework" within the file returned no results, as did a search for "restore traditional family structures." Thus, the quotations included in the image are not in the real playbook. However, the image's emphasis on "traditional family structures" does, to some extent, reflect language used in the actual document. Project 2025's "Promise #1," for example, is to "restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children."
Specific policies listed in the image and whether they relate to Project 2025's proposals are detailed below.
'Section 1: Gender-Based Financial Governance'
The first section of the image, "Gender-Based Financial Governance," includes three claims: 1) "All financial accounts will be restructured to prioritize the head of household (traditionally male) as the primary account holder," 2) "Women's financial assets will be transferred to their legal male guardian (husband, father, or next of kin) to reinforce familial stability," and 3) "Independent access to credit, loans, and property ownership for unmarried women will be gradually phased out to encourage traditional family roles."
None of these policies is in the document. However, the project's authors did write that policymakers should "use government power, including through the tax code, to restore the American family" (page 4). The document also emphasizes incentivizing traditional marriage through financial policies, such as by increasing the limit for married couples to contribute to retirement savings accounts like a 401(k) to "double the limit for individuals, regardless of the allocation of work between the couple" (page 588).
'Section 2: Workforce Participation Regulations'
The second section of the screenshot, "Workforce Participation Regulations," also has three claims: 1) "Workplace protections for women, such as maternity leave and pay equity laws, will be reevaluated to ensure they do not unfairly disadvantage male breadwinners," 2) "hiring practices will be adjusted to prioritize family stability, encouraging married women to focus on domestic responsibilities," and 3) "women's eligibility for unemployment benefits and financial aid will be contingent on
None of these proposals, either, appear in the document.
In fact, some of the policies listed in Project 2025 appear aimed at encouraging women's participation in the workforce, not the other way around; many of these policies focus on encouraging working women to have children. This includes incentivizing childcare at work sites, calling on the Department of Labor to conduct an "honest study of the challenges for women in the world of professional work" and requiring employers who provide abortion benefits to provide "equal or greater" benefits for pregnancy, childbirth, maternity and adoption (pages 587-588).
'Section 3: Workforce Participation Regulations'
The image's third section includes two alleged proposals, that 1) "Federal assistance programs, including childcare subsidies and food assistance, will be redesigned to encourage traditional family structures, limiting access for single mothers," and that 2) "Reproductive healthcare funding will be significantly reduced, reinforcing the sanctity of life and discouraging nontraditional family planning."
Some truth to these claims exists, particularly regarding reproductive health care.
While there is no specific mention of limiting single mothers' access to child care and food assistance, the project's authors wrote that the federal government should require states to measure certain goals as they administer Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grants, which includes monthly cash assistance. These goals include marriage, family formation and delaying sex (page 476).
Project 2025 also seeks to limit funding for certain types of reproductive health care, particularly abortion, while expanding coverage for fertility services. For example, the document calls for a stricter interpretation of the Hyde Amendment — which bans use of federal funds for abortions except in
It also proposes a number of prohibitions to prevent federal funding from going to abortions, even indirectly, including (but not limited to) withdrawing federal funds for states that require abortion coverage in private health insurance plans and redirecting federal funds from Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to organizations that "provide real health care for women" (pages 471-474).
'Section 4: Financial Oversight and Enforcement'
The screenshot's final section has two ideas: 1) "Government monitoring of women's financial transactions will be expanded to ensure alignment with traditional family values," and that 2) "Restrictions will be placed on the purchase of contraceptives, travel without spousal approval, and independent business ownership for women outside of family enterprises."
No mention of the first claim exists in Project 2025, nor is there mention of restricting travel and business ownership. However, there are some attempts to discourage contraception coverage, thus possibly making contraceptives prohibitively expensive for some Americans. For example, the plan calls for making changes to the contraceptive coverage mandate — a provision under the Affordable Care Act requiring most private health insurance plans to cover birth control methods — such as by eliminating required coverage of prescription emergency contraception (page 485).