Vice President Kamala Harris this week compared her and President Biden's policies with those of Donald Trump and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, a far-right proposed plan for a second Trump term. The previous weekend, Trump had once again denied involvement with the "extreme" Project 2025 at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and claimed "he took a bullet for democracy."
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00So, Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past.
00:08Donald Trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back to failed, trickle-down
00:15economic policies, back to union busting, back to tax breaks for billionaires.
00:29Donald Trump and his allies want to cut Medicare and Social Security, to stop student loan
00:37forgiveness for teachers and other public servants, and I say to AFT, they even want
00:45to eliminate the Department of Education and end Head Start, which of course would take
00:55away preschool from hundreds of thousands of our children.
01:00He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families
01:05foot the bill.
01:07And he intends to end the Affordable Care Act.
01:10You know, America has tried these failed economic policies before.
01:16But we are not going back.
01:18We are not going back.
01:22And they come up with this, I don't know what the hell it is, it's Project 25.
01:26He's involved in Project, and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme.
01:31I mean, they're seriously extreme.
01:33But I don't know anything about it.
01:35I don't want to know anything about it.
01:37But what they do is misinformation and disinformation, and they keep saying, he's a threat to democracy.
01:43I'm saying, what the hell did I do for democracy?
01:46Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.
01:48What did I do against democracy?