Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On President Trump Following The Project 2025 Playbook

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on President Trump spending his first week in office enacting policies straight from the Project 2025 playbook. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Does anyone here remember when Donald Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025?

Remember last year, Donald Trump seemed to go out of his way to distance himself from the wildly unpopular Project 2025?

Now, one week into Donald Trump’s presidency, that has all gone out the right-wing window!

Under Donald Trump, it’s the dawn of a Golden Age for Project 2025. And this should infuriate working people from one end of America to the other.

Here is a Bloomberg News headline from yesterday:

“Trump’s Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 Plan He Once Dismissed.”

In fact, according to Bloomberg more than thirty of the forty-seven initial executive actions announced by the Administration come directly from Project 2025.

Let me repeat: more than thirty of the forty-seven initial executive actions announced by the Administration come directly from Project 2025.

Project 2025 is officially Donald Trump’s policy playbook.

Less than a week into his term, President Trump has gone after Medicare savings for drug costs and the cap on out-of-pocket spending for medications.

You can find those ideas straight out of the Project 2025 playbook.

President Trump has also signed Executive orders that would eliminate good-paying jobs in clean energy and open the floodgates for Big Oil companies. Where do you find that? The Project 2025 playbook.

And even though President Trump said he wanted to leave reproductive care to the states, his actions tell us he was not telling the truth. He’s pushed policies barring doctors from sharing information with patients about health care, including abortion, and is pushing anti-choice beliefs into the doctor patient relationship here in the US and across the globe. 

So when Donald Trump rolls back cost savings for prescription drugs, or threatens jobs, he is making life easier for the big corporations and more expensive for average people.

And where do these ideas come from? These—and many, many more—come from to the 900-or-so pages of Project 2025.

So no matter how much Donald Trump tried to convince people he had nothing to do with Project 2025, the truth has now come out: Project 2025 is the Trump Agenda, and unfortunately, it seems very likely we’re going to see more of these awful proposals in the weeks to come, from Project 2025 right into the Trump Administration.

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