{"id":1048024,"date":"2024-09-10T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048024"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:27:11","slug":"donald-trump-has-an-undeniably-trump-driven-project-2025-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/donald-trump-has-an-undeniably-trump-driven-project-2025-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Has An \u201cUndeniably Trump-Driven\u201d Project 2025 Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi all \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight on the debate stage, Donald Trump is going to try to hide from what voters already know: that his extreme and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/americans-dont-project-2025\/story?id=112713286\">wildly unpopular<\/a> Project 2025 agenda is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/11\/13\/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election\">\u201cundeniably a Trump-driven operation\u201d<\/a> \u2013 and if given the chance, he and his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYTnickc\/status\/1812929037636923410\">Project 2025-backed<\/a> VP pick JD Vance will enact their horrifying vision starting on Day One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the facts about Donald Trump\u2019s clear ties to Project 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/11\/politics\/trump-allies-project-2025\/index.html\">140 former Trump administration officials<\/a> are involved in crafting and pushing the Project 2025 agenda.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The leader of the group spearheading the Project 2025 agenda has called their role <a href=\"https:\/\/nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/21\/magazine\/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html\">\u201cinstitutionalizing Trumpism.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump even took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2024\/08\/07\/trump-heritage-project-2025-roberts\/\">private flight<\/a> with the lead architect of Project 2025 and said his organization was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2024\/08\/07\/trump-heritage-project-2025-roberts\/\">\u201cgoing to lay the groundwork and detail plans\u201d<\/a> for his \u201cmovement.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump himself has praised Project 2025 as containing <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%F0%9F%9A%A8-trump-praises-wildly-unpopular-project-2025-as-having-things-in-there-that-everybody-would-like\/\">\u201cthings everybody would like.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After Trump picked Vance as his running mate, the lead author of Project 2025 admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYTnickc\/status\/1812929037636923410\">\u201cprivately\u201d<\/a> they <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYTnickc\/status\/1812929037636923410\">\u201cwere really rooting for [Vance]\u201d<\/a> to be the pick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vance not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/25\/vance-project-2025-book-trump-heritage-foundation\">wrote a glowing book foreword<\/a> praising Project 2025\u2019s top architect, but has claimed there are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HeartlandSignal\/status\/1811494802665394616\">\u201cgood ideas\u201d<\/a> in their radical agenda and explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/361455\/jd-vance-trump-vice-president-rnc-speech\">pushed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/17\/politics\/kfile-jd-vance-abortion-comments\/index.html\">policies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2024\/07\/18\/jd-vance-and-project-2025-want-to-use-this-19th-century-law-to-ban-abortion-without-congress\/\">that<\/a> mirror some of its most extreme provisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s no surprise why Trump is going all-out trying to hide his clear-cut connections to Project 2025. This extreme agenda is full of wildly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/project-2025-increasingly-unpopular-1929107\">out-of-touch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/americans-widely-oppose-project-2025-according-new-umass-amherst-poll\">toxic<\/a> policy proposals that drive away voters, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2024\/07\/18\/jd-vance-and-project-2025-want-to-use-this-19th-century-law-to-ban-abortion-without-congress\/\">Banning<\/a> abortion nationwide with <em>or without<\/em> Congress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Threatening access to <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2024\/07\/16\/the-22-scariest-lines-we-found-in-project-2025s-900-page-mandate-for-leadership\/\">IVF<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/maga-plan-attack-birth-control-surveil-women-ban-abortion-pill-1234934807\/\">contraception<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/project-2025-the-plan-to-seize-power-by-gutting-americas-system-of-checks-and-balances\/\">Gutting<\/a> checks and balances to give Trump unprecedented power over our lives while undermining our democracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tax giveaways to the <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/09\/06\/project-2025-rich-pay-tax-again-universal-savings-account-politics\/\">billionaires<\/a> and tax <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/project-2025s-tax-plan-would-raise-taxes-on-the-middle-class-and-cut-taxes-for-the-wealthy\/\">hikes<\/a> on the middle class.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2024\/08\/24\/if-trump-abolished-the-department-of-education-what-would-happen\/\">Ending<\/a> the Department of Education and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/project-2025-would-dramatically-cut-federal-funds-for-schools-then-what\/2024\/07\">ripping away<\/a> funds from public schools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rolling back student loan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/project-2025-would-increase-costs-block-debt-cancellation-for-student-loan-borrowers\/\">debt relief<\/a> for those who need it most.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bottom Line:<\/strong> No matter what lies Trump tries to tell on stage tonight, there\u2019s no hiding from the fact that his Project 2025 agenda was written for him by his extreme, close allies \u2013 but voters can stop him from ever getting the chance to enact it this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Thanks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alex Floyd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rapid Response Director<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic National Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all \u2013 Tonight on the debate stage, Donald Trump is going to try to hide from what voters already know: that his extreme and wildly unpopular Project 2025 agenda is \u201cundeniably a Trump-driven operation\u201d \u2013 and if given the chance, he and his Project 2025-backed VP pick JD Vance will enact their horrifying vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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