(NewsNation) —One of Vice President Kamala Harris’ main points of onslaught connected the Republican summons is the arguable blimpish Project 2025, which she warns volition spell into effect should erstwhile president Donald Trump get reelected.
The plan, written by blimpish deliberation vessel The Heritage Foundation, has gained accrued backlash successful caller weeks. Harris has seized connected the program linking it directly to Trump, who has ties to radical successful the organization.
Trump is trying to region himself by saying helium has “nothing” to bash with it and adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic issuing a warning to anyone connecting him to the plan. Similarly, Trump's moving mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, has tried to steer wide of Project 2025 while campaigning, contempt having adjacent ties with the radical who authored the book.
Harris has pushed backmost against Trump’s denials saying helium volition instrumentality the blimpish program “hatched by radical who utilized to enactment for Donald Trump that focuses connected the archetypal 180 days,” connected her run website.
What is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is simply a astir 1,000-page document laying retired a multiprong blueprint to overhaul the national authorities for the adjacent Republican administration.
The blimpish argumentation program lays retired changes that would impact women connected aggregate fronts, including entree to reproductive care, workplace protections and authorities assistance requirements.
On abortion, Project 2025 calls for restricting the process done a bounds connected mail-order pills and penalizing providers. Other healthcare services and societal services similar Medicare and Social Security would beryllium scaled backmost and privatized arsenic well.
The program besides calls for the firing of arsenic galore arsenic 50,000 national workers who blimpish groups accidental volition impede the president’s agenda.
Under Project 2025, agencies specified arsenic the U.S. Department of Education would beryllium “eliminated,” and others, similar the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and Justice Department, would beryllium enactment nether the president’s control.

A alleged top-to-bottom “overhaul” of the Department of Justice would extremity FBI efforts to halt misinformation. The Pentagon would “abolish” diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives if Project 2025 is adopted, and work members discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine would beryllium reinstated.
All of the Biden administration’s clime alteration policies would beryllium reversed done Project 2025.
What Kamala Harris has said astir Project 2025
Harris has spoken astir Project 2025 galore times some portion campaigning for Biden and aft she became the Democratic nominee for president.
Her run website has a leafage dedicated to Project 2025 calling it “Trump’s program to instrumentality your power, your control, and your money.”
“Donald Trump’s plans for a afloat authorities takeover person been exposed,” it reads, adding “his Project 2025 docket would portion distant our freedoms.”

Harris has been peculiarly acrophobic with reproductive rights telling voters, “If implemented, Project 2025 would beryllium the latest onslaught successful Donald Trump’s full-on battle connected reproductive freedom.”
At a run rally successful Wisconsin past week Harris said Project 2025 was a “plan to weaken the mediate class.”
“If helium is elected, Donald Trump intends to springiness taxation breaks to billionaires and large corporations. He intends to chopped Social Security and Medicare. He intends to surrender our combat against the clime crisis, and helium intends to extremity the Affordable Care Act,” Harris said, referring to respective parts of the blimpish document.
In a plea to Gen Z voters past month, Harris said that “Donald Trump has an utmost and divisive docket for a 2nd term. It's called Project 2025 and it includes plans to prohibition termination nationwide adjacent without an enactment of Congress, to undermine LGBTQ rights, to rotation backmost our efforts to combat clime alteration and they mean to destruct the Department of Education, including Head Start.”
Harris' moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, besides has spoken retired against the blimpish guidebook.
The politician said, if implemented, the project's recommendations would restrict freedoms, rig the U.S. system successful favour of the apical 1%, chopped societal security, underfund nationalist schools and wounded wellness care.
“Don’t judge him erstwhile he's playing dumb astir this Project 2025," Walz said astatine a Glendale, Ariz. rally. "He knows precisely what it volition do. They are not playing. They wrote their program out."
How Harris’ views disagree connected Project 2025
Harris has presented a diametrically other presumption connected the issues Project 2025 aims to restructure.
Harris has been an outspoken defender of termination rights since the June 2022 Supreme Court determination that overturned Roe v. Wade. Her March travel to a Michigan Planned Parenthood made her the archetypal president oregon vice president to circuit a session that provides termination services.
“How situation these elected leaders judge they are successful a amended presumption to archer women what they need,” Harris said astatine the time. “We person to beryllium a federation that trusts women.”

On climate, Harris has agelong advocated ways to antagonistic clime alteration and has called for urgent enactment arsenic the satellite arsenic the satellite continues to interruption vigor records and caput toward captious clime tipping points.
As a legislator and vice president, Harris has backed policies including the constitution of greenish banks, accrued wage for cleanable vigor workers, incentives for electrical vehicles, electrification of schoolhouse buses and efforts to region pb pipes.
Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Department of Education, Title I and Head Start, a federally funded preschool programme for children from low-income families during their archetypal 5 years. It besides wants to signifier out
On the contrary, Harris has called for important increases to some Title I and Head Start.
NewsNation's Sean Noone and Patrick Djordjevic contributed to this report.