{"id":1037512,"date":"2024-07-24T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037512"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:21:34","slug":"reminder-trumps-project-2025-agenda-will-harm-north-carolina-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/reminder-trumps-project-2025-agenda-will-harm-north-carolina-families\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Agenda Will Harm North Carolina Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy<\/em><\/strong> released the following statement: <\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo matter what empty promises North Carolinians hear from Trump today, all they need to know is that Donald Trump will enact his extreme Project 2025 agenda if elected in November. This toxic, 900-page agenda gives voters all the proof they need that Trump isn\u2019t looking out for North Carolinians, he\u2019s looking out for himself and his Mar-a-Lago pals. Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would turn the government into a tool to give him power like no president has ever had over Americans\u2019 daily lives and raise costs for North Carolinians while also restricting our fundamental freedoms and enacting a national abortion ban. Democrats aren\u2019t about to let that happen. We\u2019re empowering voters with the truth about Donald Trump so that Americans can reject the Trump-Vance ticket\u2019s attacks on their rights, wallets, and democracy this November.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After North Carolina Republicans <\/strong>threatened<\/strong><\/a> IVF in their state party platform, Trump and Project 2025 are collaborating on an extreme, anti-choice agenda to ban abortion nationwide, restrict IVF and contraception access, and allow states to monitor women\u2019s pregnancies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe attacks on mifepristone and resurrection of Comstock stand out as particularly harmful proposals, but they are only two of the dozens of ways the Republicans behind Project 2025 envision restricting access to abortion and contraception if they win the White House next year.<\/strong> Elsewhere in the document, there are proposals to eliminate the morning-after pill from the Affordable Care Act\u2019s contraceptive mandate under the rationale that it is a \u2018potential abortifacient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heritage Foundation<\/a>: \u201cConservatives have to lead the way in \u2026 ending<\/strong> \u2026 senseless use of birth control pills.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump: It\u2019s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cOrganizations including Heritage, former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s group Advancing American Freedom, and the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s public advocacy-focused Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission <\/strong>have worked behind the scenes over the last few weeks to distribute talking points, circulate policy recommendations and educate Republican officials and their staff about their ethical concerns with how IVF is commonly practiced in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThis is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cOn Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an \u2018entirely off-the-record, private,\u2019 and \u2018invite-only\u2019 meeting with senior campaign officials, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The sit-down, which the letter describes as a \u2018meeting of the political minds,\u2019 is aimed at discussing \u2018collaborat[ion]\u2019 and \u2018priorities and plans\u2019 for the general election<\/strong>. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy holding the meeting, the Trump operation and the third-party entities could conceivably get on the same page about their plans. Two people familiar with the planning for the event said Heritage Action and Turning Point Action were among the pro-Trump groups invited<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cMany of the authors of the blueprint are former Trump officials, and the Heritage Foundation has spent the past year-plus recruiting people to implement the plans within the administration<\/strong>, Scott said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018So they don\u2019t just have a long, sprawling policy document,\u2019 he said, \u2018they also have a growing list of staff who are being tested to see if they are loyal to Trump and if they are willing to administer this in his potential administration.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRoberts told me that he views Heritage\u2019s role today as \u2018institutionalizing Trumpism.\u2019 <\/strong>This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump\u2019s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that \u2018the Trump administration\u2026 simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s Project 2025 economic plans would give a second handout to the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations on the backs of hardworking Americans, repealing successes of the Inflation Reduction Act, and implementing damaging tariffs that would worsen inflation and raise taxes on middle-class Americans:  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 696<\/a>: \u201cThe corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg Interviewer<\/a>: \u201cIn your recent meeting with CEOs of the Business Roundtable, you pledged to lower the corporate tax rate from 21% to 20%, a drop just a single percentage point, is that because\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: [Interrupts] \u201cIt\u2019s because I like, I like simplicity. I liked 20% better. I like 15% yet better,<\/strong> but I think that would be, you know, that\u2019d be hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe former president\u2019s closest economic advisers are plotting an aggressive new set of tax cuts to push on the campaign trail and from the Oval Office if he wins a second term. Trump and his advisers have discussed deeper cuts to both individual and corporate tax rates that would build on his controversial 2017 tax law <\/strong>\u2026 Trump\u2019s advisers, though, have discussed proposals to make deeper cuts to the overall corporate tax rate, potentially to as low as 15 percent, or to use the revenue from the proposed tariffs to pay a dividend to U.S. households. Further cutting corporate taxes \u2026 would primarily benefit large firms.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 696<\/a>: \u201c[The] tax reform should repeal all tax increases that were passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act<\/strong>, 19 including the book minimum tax, the stock buyback excise tax, the coal excise tax, the reinstated Superfund tax, and excise taxes on drug manufacturers to compel them to comply with Medicare price controls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for American Progress<\/a>: \u201c[Trump\u2019s tariff plans] would raise taxes for middle-income households by $5,100 to $8,300<\/strong> while cutting taxes for the top 0.1 percent by at least $1.5 million annually.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cIn the first year after Trump signed the legislation, just 82 ultrawealthy households collectively walked away with more than $1 billion in total savings, an analysis of confidential tax records shows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s extreme Project 2025 agenda will undermine our democracy by gutting the federal workforce so that Trump can install MAGA loyalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe Heritage Foundation is spearheading Project 2025, a sweeping road map for a new GOP administration that includes plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and ousting thousands of civil servants in favor of Trump loyalists who will carry out a hard-right agenda without complaint.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending. Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the \u2018administrative state\u2019 from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president\u2019s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials <\/strong>more eager to fulfill a new executive\u2019s approach to governing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cAt the top of Vought and Dans\u2019s must-do list for the next president: reissuing an executive order that Trump signed during his final months in office\u2014and which President Joe Biden promptly reversed\u2014that would allow the government to remove civil-service protections from as many as 50,000 federal jobs.<\/strong> The move would create a new class of employees known as Schedule F whom the president could fire at will. It would essentially supersize the number of political appointees in senior positions in the government, currently about 4,000.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement:   \u201cNo matter what empty promises North Carolinians hear from Trump today, all they need to know is that Donald Trump will enact his extreme Project 2025 agenda if elected in November. 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