What Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Have Said About Project 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris this week compared her and President Biden's policies with those of Donald Trump and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a far-right proposed plan for a second Trump term. The previous weekend, Trump had once again denied involvement with the "extreme" Project 2025 at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and claimed "he took a bullet for democracy."
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00:00So, Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past.
00:08Donald Trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back to failed, trickle-down
00:15economic policies, back to union busting, back to tax breaks for billionaires.
00:29Donald Trump and his allies want to cut Medicare and Social Security, to stop student loan
00:37forgiveness for teachers and other public servants, and I say to AFT, they even want
00:45to eliminate the Department of Education and end Head Start, which of course would take
00:55away preschool from hundreds of thousands of our children.
01:00He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families
01:05foot the bill.
01:07And he intends to end the Affordable Care Act.
01:10You know, America has tried these failed economic policies before.
01:16But we are not going back.
01:18We are not going back.
01:22And they come up with this, I don't know what the hell it is, it's Project 25.
01:26He's involved in Project, and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme.
01:31I mean, they're seriously extreme.
01:33But I don't know anything about it.
01:35I don't want to know anything about it.
01:37But what they do is misinformation and disinformation, and they keep saying, he's a threat to democracy.
01:43I'm saying, what the hell did I do for democracy?
01:46Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.
01:48What did I do against democracy?