Social media postings, videos, advertisements, and a website warning of a drastic post election agenda a triumphant Donald Trump may carry out are all part of Biden’s reelection campaign’s online bombardment.
Biden camp raises red flag on project 2025
On July 11, Biden wrote on X, “Every American should be scared of Project 2025.” “It would give Trump limitless power over our daily lives.”Here’s the truth: It’s a dangerous takeover by Trump and his allies to pass his extreme MAGA agenda,” reads a recent ad from Biden. As described by Biden’s campaign, the project is not “Trump’s Project 2025,” even if several of the concepts are extensions of Trump’s 2024 goals. Project 2025 is a presidential transition initiative spearheaded by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, with support from more than 100 conservative groups. Published in 2023, the 900-page handbook outlines specific measures that will be implemented following a Republican victory in November. With a post on Truth Social claiming he “knows nothing” about Project 2025 and “no idea” who is in charge of it, Trump has distanced himself from the initiative. A large portion of the proposal is based on more current culture war concerns as well as long-standing conservative ideas like tax reduction and executive branch overhauls. Project 2025 proposes to abolish several climate regulations, combine more authority with the president, and dissolve the departments of commerce and education. A comprehensive plan for an executive branch run by Republicans is provided by Project 2025. However, in highlighting the proposals and how closely they coincide with Trump’s views, the Biden team has occasionally gone too far.
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Project 2025, according to Biden’s campaign, will “ban abortion nationwide.” The proposal does not include that, but it does include a number of recommendations that would significantly restrict the number of abortions done in the United States. Project 2025 does not align with what is known about Trump’s plan, though. According to Project 2025, the FDA should revoke its 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first medicine administered as part of a two-drug protocol for a medical abortion. In the United States, medication abortion accounts for approximately 63% of all abortions performed in 2023. Project 2025 suggests additional regulations, such as reducing the usage of mifepristone from 10 weeks to seven weeks during pregnancy, if it were to continue to be authorized. Patients would need to get it in person as part of the group’s attempts to restrict mail-order medicine availability. On procedural grounds, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. The manual further demands that the 1873 Comstock Act, which prohibits the mailing of “obscene” items, be enforced on mifepristone by the Justice Department. Supporters of abortion access worry that a rigid interpretation of the rule may even forbid sending surgical tools and other supplies needed for procedure abortions.
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Proposals include depriving states that fail to disclose to the CDC the number of abortions performed inside their boundaries of federal funding and forbidding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from getting Medicaid dollars. Additionally, it demands that the Department of Health and Human Services make sure that abortion is not covered in the education of medical professionals, such as nurses and physicians.
| Claim | Evidence |
| There is no national prohibition on abortion in Project 2025. | The Heritage Foundation paper advises taking the abortion drug mifepristone off the market rather than calling for a national ban on abortion. |
| Project 2025 suggests limiting the rights of abortion. | The statement supports the withdrawal of the abortion medication mifepristone, which would drastically restrict access to abortion services, but it does not advocate for a complete ban on abortion. |
Project 2025: A threat to democracy?
According to the statement, some emergency contraceptive methods should not be covered at no cost, including Ella, a tablet that may be used to prevent pregnancy within five days of unprotected intercourse. Most private health insurers are required by the Affordable Care Act to provide coverage for recommended preventive care, which include a variety of birth control options, including emergency contraception. Trump has declared that he would not obstruct access to contraception and that states should set their own abortion legislation. In the June 27 debate, he declared that even if the Supreme Court had “approved” mifepristone, he would not outlaw it. However, the complaint was dismissed by the court on the grounds of standing rather than merits.
