2024-07-27 01:25:24
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has solidified her position as the Democratic presidential candidate, is taking aim at the right-wing policy proposal, ‘Project 2025’.
At a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 23rd (local time), Vice President Harris targeted the conservative think tank’s policy proposal book, “Project 2025,” and said, “Trump wants to take America back.”
He continued, “He and his extreme Project 2025 will undermine the middle class. Can you believe they wrote that down? Read it. It’s 900 pages long.”
He also obliquely mentioned former US President Donald Trump and Project 2025 during a campaign rally in Indiana on the 24th, saying, “As we work to build a brighter future and advance our country, we must also recognize that there are those who would like to drag us backwards.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also expressed her support for Vice President Harris, saying, “The Vice President will stand against convicted criminal Donald Trump and his Project 2025 plan to take away our freedoms.”
Project 2025 is a policy proposal book created by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation in April of last year in preparation for Trump’s second term. Former President Trump’s side has distanced itself from Project 2025, saying it was “conceived by people who are seriously extreme and far-right,” but it is known that it was written by former Trump administration officials and aides.
Bloomberg reported that “people who contributed to Project 2025 have ties to Trump,” and that “the section on White House reform was written by former White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn, and the section on the intelligence community was written by Dustin Carmack, a former Trump administration official.”
According to a CNN report, at least 140 former Trump administration officials were involved in the creation of Project 2025.
Project 2025 is a broadly deregulatory agenda. It includes reducing union protections and the power of labor agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, shutting down the Department of Energy’s Office of Carbon Neutrality, ending subsidies to environmental groups, shrinking the social safety net, slashing Medicaid funding, eliminating health department programs that promote LGBT equality, and reversing approvals for abortion pill sales.
“Project 2025 undermines the federal government’s ability to address the climate crisis and doubles down on actions that will make the crisis worse,” said Rachel Cletus, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a U.S. nonprofit.
“This plan would have the effect of eroding workers’ power in our economy,” said Carla Walter, a labor policy expert at the Center for American Progress.
(Seoul = News 1)
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