The Heritage Foundation is firing back at critics who have been up in arms over a framework to build a “better country for all Americans,” rolling out dozens of fact-checks to shut down detractors.
Despite the Heritage Foundation having released similar frameworks in election years over the last decades, the latest, called Project 2025, has sparked criticism on both sides of the aisle, particularly on the left. Democrats have repeatedly hammered former President Donald Trump and other Republicans for the plan, fear-mongering Americans about the coming takeover by the GOP.
However, Trump has repeatedly denied any connection to the framework and has never used the plan as his platform. Project 2025, also known as the “Presidential Transition Project,” reiterated that Trump has no affiliation.
MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025
We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.
1. End no fault divorce: FALSE
Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook,… https://t.co/syj1HnCxhP
— Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) July 9, 2024
The project took aim at several criticisms from the left that falsely connected Trump to the undertaking and that mischaracterized some of the more than 900 proposals in the framework.
Kamala Harris and the mainstream media fearmonger relentlessly about Project 2025, making false claim after false claim.
They most likely do so because it represents the greatest threat to the power of their undemocratic administrative state. pic.twitter.com/gUqnnj4UPD
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) July 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that Trump “intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
But Project 2025 proposes “no changes to Social Security,” according to Heritage Foundation spokesperson Mary Vought who added that Harris should “follow her own advice and read the book, instead of promoting lies and disinformation.”
REPORT: Kamala HQ X account has falsely connected Project 2025 to Donald Trump 21 times in the past week.
The development comes as the left is threatening to take legal action against Elon Musk for sharing a parody video.
Trump has completely disavowed Project 2025 yet the… pic.twitter.com/ntXL9eUXNn
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 29, 2024
Because vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) has written a foreword to an upcoming book by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, he is being linked as a partner with the project.
Project 2025 is this year’s “Trump is a Russian Agent” hoax. https://t.co/AqaCyc3iJ7
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) July 28, 2024
Roberts slammed Harris for claims that are “breathtaking in [their] dishonesty” when addressing alleged restrictions on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and contraception that are supposedly included in the manual.
“It’s so blatant that even corporate media outlets like CNN are calling out her lies. She has no policy record to run on, except her shambolic tenure as border czar,” he said, according to Fox News.
If she’d read it, she would know that Project 2025
1. Protects Social Security and Medicare.
2. Recommends tax cuts for ALL Americans, especially those burdened by Harris-Biden inflation.
3. Recommends curbing the abuses of the Affordable Care Act such as its restrictions… https://t.co/a4HJ6EzK8n
— Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) July 23, 2024
Roberts told Fox News that Project 2025 is being attacked by “two sets of lies. First, that Project 2025 is connected with the Trump campaign. It’s not.”
“Second, that Project 2025 proposes all manner of wild, extreme policies. It doesn’t. Dozens of independent fact-checks prove that [Harris] is lying, along with an army of paid influencers online. But the truth will win out in the end,” he said.
It would be a shame if everyone reposted this and every American learned that Kamala Harris is deliberately lying about Project 2025 to manipulate voters pic.twitter.com/t35b7DtmgM
— Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) July 25, 2024
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