{"id":2291423,"date":"2024-07-09T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-2025-clarifies-its-policy-proposals-in-myths-vs-facts-rebuttal-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:41:00","slug":"project-2025-clarifies-its-policy-proposals-in-myths-vs-facts-rebuttal-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-2025-clarifies-its-policy-proposals-in-myths-vs-facts-rebuttal-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2025 clarifies its policy proposals in \u2018myths vs. facts\u2019 rebuttal &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fproject-2025-clarifies-its-policy-proposals-in-myths-vs-facts-rebuttal-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2291423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Project 2025, with fears\u200d over its policy suggestions becoming a cornerstone of President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2024 campaign. In response to accusations made \u200bby liberal actor Mark Hamill, Project 2025 issued a detailed rebuttal clarifying that\u200c only five out of 31 items\u200b listed were true or partially true. \u2062The rest were labeled false, mostly false, or misleading. Project \u20622025 also clarified that it was not affiliated with former President Trump. Despite Trump&#8217;s disavowal, Democrats have continued\u200d to try \u200bto link him with Project 2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Project 2025 clarifies its policy proposals in \u2018myths vs. facts\u2019 rebuttal<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/brady-knox\/\">Brady Knox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-09T18:20:24-04:00\">July 9, 2024 6:20 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1696084\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3071030\/trump-knows-nothing-project-2025-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Project 2025\">Project 2025<\/a> issued a rare, detailed rebuke of its critics, clarifying its policy suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 has taken on an almost mythic position in the eyes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democrats\">Democrats<\/a>, with fears over its policy suggestions becoming a cornerstone of President Joe Biden\u2019s 2024 campaign. The severity of attacks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/heritage-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Heritage Foundation\u2019s<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Hamill shared a list of the supposed agenda of Project 2025, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-supreme-court-says-state-constitution-does-not-protect-abortion-rights\/\" title=\"Iowa Supreme Court Says State Constitution Does Not Protect Abortion Rights\">complete abortion ban<\/a>, banning contraceptives, ending no-fault divorce, eliminating labor protections, raising taxes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-football-analogy-to-explain-democrats-election-cheating\/\" title=\"A Football Analogy to Explain Democrats&#039; Election Cheating\">working class<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith fear for our Democracy, I dissent,\u201d Hamill said about the list.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 31 items listed, Project 2025 said only five were true or partially true \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025<\/p>\n<p>We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>1. End no fault divorce: FALSE<\/p>\n<p>Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/syj1HnCxhP\">https:\/\/t.co\/syj1HnCxhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Prjct2025\/status\/1810735701308195326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 also clarified that it was not affiliated with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s disavowal, Democrats have only intensified their efforts to link Trump with the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-claims-a-national-abortion-ban-is-possible-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\/\" title=\"McConnell Claims A National Abortion Ban Is \u2018Possible\u2019 If Roe V. Wade Is Overturned\">national abortion ban<\/a>, handouts for his billionaire donors on the backs of middle-class Americans, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and to be a dictator on \u2018day one,\u2019\u201d DNC National press secretary Emilia Rowland <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-project-2025-platform-is-the-most-extreme-in-gop-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump first commented on the project last week, saying he knew nothing about it but thought some aspects were \u201cridiculous and abysmal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1696084\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1696084\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation responded to criticisms by clarifying its policy proposals in a &#8220;myths vs. facts&#8221; rebuttal. The project, which has been a target of attacks from Democrats, addressed accusations made by actor Mark Hamill, stating that only five out of 31 items listed were true or partially true. Despite efforts to link the project with former President Trump, Project 2025 clarified that it is not affiliated with him. Trump himself distanced himself from the project, calling some aspects &#8220;ridiculous and abysmal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2291424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24153004599163.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34428,34427,33997,10099],"class_list":["post-2291423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-myths-vs-facts","tag-policy-proposals","tag-project-2025","tag-rebuttal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24153004599163.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}