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A new column in the New York Times today details how House Republicans’ Project 2025 agenda would be devastating for the American public, including banning medication abortion, raising taxes for working families, cutting health care, and raising prices on prescription drugs.
House Republicans have already pushed similar or identical policies over the past two years, pushing restrictions on mifepristone in annual funding legislation, promising to cut taxes for the ultra wealthy, cutting Medicare, and repealing price caps on life-saving prescription drugs.
Their embrace of Project 2025 is a reminder that they will not stop their attacks on Americans’ rights and freedoms were they to win in November.
Read more about House Republicans’ agenda below:
New York Times: How Project 2025 Would Change the Country
By Steven Rattner | Sept. 9, 2024
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Project 2025 proposes to “simplify” the tax code by collapsing the complex system into two tax brackets — 15 percent and 30 percent — while eliminating most deductions, credits and exclusions. Sound good? The plan would also raise taxes for American families making under $170,000 a year — nearly tripling them for a family earning $75,000 — while cutting them substantially for those with higher incomes.
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Project 2025 would slash Medicaid by imposing a lifetime cap on the length of time Americans can be enrolled in the program. The consequence could be the loss of Medicaid eligibility for as many as 20 percent of Americans currently enrolled. And for those who remain eligible, work requirements would be imposed.
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Also on the chopping block: the government’s power to negotiate drug price reductions, which has already lowered the cost of insulin and other much-used pharmaceuticals.
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Project 2025 also wants to repeal the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which, after years of wrangling, is finally having an impact on our crumbling roads, aging airports and so much more.
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Notwithstanding a Supreme Court decision last spring, Project 2025 wants the Food and Drug Administration to ban the drug mifepristone, which blocks a hormone needed for pregnancy development.
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