{"id":2292686,"date":"2024-07-11T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-continue-lying-about-the-contents-of-project-2025\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:26:41","slug":"democrats-continue-lying-about-the-contents-of-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-continue-lying-about-the-contents-of-project-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Continue Lying About The Contents Of Project 2025"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdemocrats-continue-lying-about-the-contents-of-project-2025%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=2292686&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>Democratic officials have\u200c launched a disinformation campaign about the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, misattributing policies that \u200dare not part of the project\u2062 and falsely linking them to former President Donald Trump. The project, a policy roadmap for a future Republican administration created by the conservative think\u2062 tank, outlines long-held conservative priorities in a nearly 1,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-pfizer-be-charged-for-mislabeling-vaccine-side-effects\/\" title=\"Will Pfizer Be Charged for Mislabeling Vaccine Side Effects?\">000-page document<\/a>. Despite claims \u200dfrom the left\u200d that the project includes extreme policies \u2063like stopping overtime pay and enacting 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>, the actual outline includes policies focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-signed-40-executive-orders-and-actions-since-taking-office\/\" title=\"Biden has signed 40 executive orders and actions since taking office\">giving workers<\/a> more flexibility \u2063and supporting alternatives to abortion. The \u2063Biden campaign has doubled down on efforts to attribute the project to\u200c Trump, \u2064despite his distancing from the think \u2064tank&#8217;s policies. Other Democrats and celebrities have also participated in spreading misinformation about 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\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrat officials have launched a disinformation campaign about the Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project2025.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project 2025<\/a>, misattributing policies nowhere to be found in the project and falsely linking them to former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a policy roadmap for a future Republican administration created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and outlined in a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,000-page document<\/a> highlighting long-held conservative priorities. The left\u2019s fearmongering campaign comes amidst panic in the Democratic Party, which has fractured over Biden\u2019s cognitive decline and abysmal election polling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Project 2025] is a dangerous takeover by Trump and his allies to pass his extreme MAGA agenda,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1811400315880562862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently said on X<\/a>, including a video that claims the project \u201cwould allow employers to stop paying overtime for millions\u201d and \u201cenact a national abortion ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claims are massive distortions of the project\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-debunking-climate-change-hysteria\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Debunking Climate Change Hysteria\">actual policies<\/a>. The outline, in reality, suggests \u201ccalculat[ing] the overtime period over a long number of weeks\u201d with the goal of giving workers greater flexibility in their schedule.<\/p>\n<p>A national abortion ban is nowhere to be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/static.project2025.org\/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy outline<\/a>, which insists conservatives should \u201crecogn[ize] the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project encourages \u201ccomplying with statutory bans on the federal funding of abortion\u201d and notes that \u201calternative options to abortion, especially adoption, should receive federal and state support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign has doubled down on efforts to attribute the project to Trump, even creating <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/project2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a webpage<\/a> that calls the policy plan \u201cTrump\u2019s Project 2025.\u201d Trump has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-slams-heritage-foundation-transition-plan-claims-parts-ridiculous-abysmal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distanced himself<\/a> from the think tank\u2019s policies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disagree with some of the things they\u2019re saying and some of the things they\u2019re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112734594514167050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social. \u201cAnything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website, nevertheless, insists that Trump plans on \u201creinstating and expanding [the] racist Muslim ban,\u201d \u201carming teachers,\u201d and \u201craising the retirement age.\u201d It also claims Project 2025 will put \u201cfamilies\u2019 access to\u00a0 IVF treatments \u2026 in jeopardy\u201d and \u201ccut Social Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/article\/viral-claims-about-project-2025-are-mostly-false\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Not one<\/a> of these policies is contained anywhere in Project 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats have participated in the fearmongering. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going after IVF,\u201d Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/alex-wagner-tonight\/watch\/-this-was-intentional-aoc-calls-out-republicans-trying-to-hide-from-reproductive-rights-backlash-204846661740\">claimed<\/a> on MSNBC in February. \u201cThey also want to control \u2026 what they call recreational sex. \u2026 This is so clearly a patriarchal theocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 makes no mention of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or \u201crecreational sex.\u201d Mentions of \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cChristian\u201d are limited to religious freedom, tax exemptions, work as \u201cservice to God,\u201d and \u201cGod-given individual rights to live freely,\u201d contrary to AOC\u2019s claims of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/08\/i-read-the-project-2025-playbook-and-i-couldnt-find-a-single-white-christian-nationalist-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities on the left have joined in the misinformation campaign as well. <\/p>\n<p>Hollywood actor Mark Hamill, a longtime Democrat fundraiser and Biden supporter, spoke out against Project 2025 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkHamill\/status\/1809639846937579781\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent post<\/a>, writing, \u201cWith fear for our Democracy, I dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor included a graphic of Trump with a laundry list of goals supposedly outlined in the project, including ending no-fault divorce, banning African American studies, banning contraception, banning Muslim immigration, cutting social security, raising the retirement age, and court packing. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Project 2025 responded with an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Prjct2025\/status\/1810735701308195326\">enumerated list<\/a> of 30 \u201cmyths vs. facts,\u201d clarifying Hamill\u2019s more misleading claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mandate for Leadership<\/em> calls for <strong>LOWER taxes for ALL Americans<\/strong>. Individuals spend their money in more productive ways than the government does,\u201d the post noted, debunking the assertion that Project 2025 calls for higher taxes for working-class people. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025<\/p>\n<p>We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-2025-clarifies-its-policy-proposals-in-myths-vs-facts-rebuttal-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Project 2025 clarifies its policy proposals in \u2018myths vs. facts\u2019 rebuttal - Washington Examiner\">110 conservative groups advocating policy<\/a> 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<\/div>\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><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201c<em>Mandate for Leadership\u2019s<\/em> plan would <strong>not eliminate<\/strong> the FDA or the EPA, and NOAA\u2019s functions would be transferred to other agencies, the private sector, and states and territories,\u201d the post clarified about misleading claims on government agency policy. <\/p>\n<p>But regardless of the facts about the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Project 2025, Democrats and their supporters will continue to lie about the policy plan\u2019s substance and inaccurately link the plan to Trump in an attempt to derail his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Monroe Harless is a summer intern at The Federalist. She is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in journalism and political science.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic officials have started spreading false information about the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, wrongly attributing policies to former President Donald Trump that are not actually in the project. The project is a conservative policy roadmap for a future Republican administration, but Democrats are spreading fearmongering lies about it due to internal party issues. Despite the actual policies outlined in Project 2025, Democrats are continuing to spread misinformation and falsely connect the project to Trump in an effort to harm his presidential campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3175,"featured_media":2292687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-32.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,5117,5894,33997],"class_list":["post-2292686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-lies","tag-politics","tag-project-2025"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-32.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292686","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\/3175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}