Project 2025 clarifies its policy proposals in ‘myths vs. facts’ rebuttal

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 issued a rare, detailed rebuke of its critics, clarifying its policy suggestions.

Project 2025 has taken on an almost mythic position in the eyes of Democrats, with fears over its policy suggestions becoming a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. The severity of attacks on the Heritage Foundation’s project led to former President Donald Trump publicly disavowing it last week. While the project has been mostly silent regarding its critics, its X account issued a public rebuttal of a slew of accusations that were shared by liberal actor Mark Hamill.

Hamill shared a list of the supposed agenda of Project 2025, including a complete abortion ban, banning contraceptives, ending no-fault divorce, eliminating labor protections, raising taxes on the working class, cutting Social Security and Medicare, condemning single mothers, banning gay marriage, raising prescription drug prices, ban books and curriculum about slavery, and ending civil rights protections in government.

“With fear for our Democracy, I dissent,” Hamill said about the list.

Of the 31 items listed, Project 2025 said only five were true or partially true — eliminating the Department of Education, using taxpayer money for religious schools, increasing Arctic drilling, deregulating big businesses and big oil, and expediting capital punishment. The rest of the items were labeled false, mostly false, or misleading.

While many items on the list were found to be mischaracterizations, others were completely made up with no mentions from Project 2025, including ending no-fault divorce, banning contraceptives, a Muslim ban, and banning gay marriage.

Other items on the list were mentioned in policy proposals, but the opposite of them was suggested, such as raising taxes on the working class. Project 2025 said it advocates lower taxes on all people.

Project 2025 also clarified that it was not affiliated with Trump.

Despite Trump’s disavowal, Democrats have only intensified their efforts to link Trump with the project.

“Trump is so desperate to distance himself from Project 2025 as the American people are grappling with the terrifying truth about his second term agenda that he and his team overhauled the Republican platform process to keep the public and the press in the dark, all caps-ed 20 bullet points behind closed doors, and blasted it out to divert attention from his real plans: a national abortion ban, handouts for his billionaire donors on the backs of middle-class Americans, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and to be a dictator on ‘day one,’” DNC National press secretary Emilia Rowland said in a Monday statement.

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Trump first commented on the project last week, saying he knew nothing about it but thought some aspects were “ridiculous and abysmal.”

“Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them,” he said.