JD Vance, Marco Rubio Say Trump Isn't Beholden to Project 2025 [View all]
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/
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