JD Vance, Marco Rubio Say Trump Isn't Beholden to Project 2025
JD Vance, Marco Rubio say Trump isn't beholden to sweeping conservative plan known as Project 2025, USA Today, Update July 8, '24.
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WASHINGTON - Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Sunday they haven't been asked to be former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate, but both tried to defend the former president against Democratic allegations about a far-reaching effort know as "Project 2025."
Vance and Rubio said Trump is not beholden to the agenda of Project 2025, a program created by the conservative Heritage Foundation that calls for slashing social programs and making the government more partisan.
The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, as it is otherwise known, attacks several policies that former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden instituted, including student loan forgiveness and Obamacare. It simultaneously calls for expanded executive power for the commander-in-chief while criticizing what Project 2025 members perceive as overreaches by the Biden administration.
The 2025 project also urges the Food and Drug Administration to reverse the approval of abortion pills and would further empower Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport undocumented immigrants. Both Vance and Rubio echoed Trump's claim that Project 2025 and its agenda do not speak for him. Trump said in a post on Truth Social last week that "I have nothing to do with them....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/07/jd-vance-marco-rubio-donald-trump-project-2025/74321218007/
DemMedic
(285 posts)no_hypocrisy
(49,535 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,621 posts)Not.
appalachiablue
(43,275 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,621 posts)But I'm sure they're working on it.
appalachiablue
(43,275 posts)dalton99a
(85,265 posts)"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
appalachiablue
(43,275 posts)2naSalit
(94,246 posts)Of course he knows about it, it's tailored to his wildest wet dreams and EVERYBODY knows it.
appalachiablue
(43,275 posts)GoodRaisin
(9,699 posts)What more can be said?
appalachiablue
(43,275 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(117,372 posts)valleyrogue
(1,301 posts)and there is NO going back.
lees1975
(6,182 posts)And I do not believe for one minute that the Heritage Foundation came up with this without first consulting Trump and trading off their support for his endorsement of it.