Jonathan Berry — Project 2025 DOL Chapter Author — Confirmed Solicitor of Labor

Jonathan Berry, sole author of Project 2025’s Chapter 18 (Department of Labor), is confirmed as Solicitor of Labor — the department’s chief legal officer — in October 2025 as part of a Senate package of 100+ Trump nominees. Berry’s DOL chapter called for weakening the federal minimum wage, limiting overtime eligibility, and undermining union organizing through mandatory secret-ballot elections.

Berry’s nomination is one of the clearest chapter-author-to-role matches in the Project 2025 pipeline: he authored the department’s policy blueprint and is confirmed to its chief legal role, positioning him to initiate the worker-rights rollbacks his chapter designed. Berry distanced himself from Project 2025 during his confirmation hearings but is documented as the chapter’s sole author. His confirmation completes the Reformed-evangelical/CRA-stream’s dominance of the executive-power and federal-workforce-adjacent chapters: Vought (OMB), Hamilton (DOJ Counsel), Berry (DOL Solicitor) all have direct chapter-author-to-executive-role placements within the same stream-domain cluster.