Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Las Vegas on Tuesday for being connected to Project 2025, a plan made by a right-wing think tank to greatly increase the president’s power and change the way the federal government works.
The 922-page document was written by several former Trump administration officials. It includes a 180-day presidential transition plan to get rid of several federal agencies, replace thousands of government workers with Trump supporters, ban abortion across the country, and undo many progressive policies.
“Trump’s advisors have written a 900-page plan called ‘Project 2025’ that lays out everything else they want to do in a second term,” Harris told a room full of people standing Tuesday at Resorts World. “This includes a plan to cut Social Security, lift the $35 price cap on insulin, get rid of the Department of Education, and end programs like Head Start.”
Trump has tried to stay away from the controversial Heritage Foundation project. Last week, he said on social media that he knows “nothing about Project 2025.”
Harris told voters that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision saying that presidents can’t be charged with a crime for actions they take as president could give Trump more power as president during a second term, as planned in Project 2025.
Democrats and their allies have said that the Supreme Court’s ruling is bad for democracy because it puts the president above the law. Harris agreed with those worries on Tuesday.
Trump’s Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past:
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 2, 2024
–Failed trickle-down economic policies
–Union busting
–Tax breaks for billionaires
–Blocking student loan forgiveness
Can you believe they put that in writing?
“If he wins again, Donald Trump has said very clearly that he will be a dictator from the start,” Harris said. Donald Trump wants to turn our democracy into a dictatorship, and the Supreme Court pretty much told him he can do it.
The campaign is focusing on Project 2025 because Biden did so badly in the debate last month, which led to strong Democratic criticism and calls for him to drop out of the race. Rep. Susie Lee was one of those Democrats. In her speech on Tuesday, Harris referred to these complaints.
“The last few days have shown me once again how hard it is to run for president of the United States.” “But one thing we know for sure about our president Joe Biden is that he is a fighter. He’s the first to say that when you fall down, you get back up,” Harris said.
During her speech, Harris stressed how important the November election was for reproductive rights, which is a topic that has been shown to get people to the polls. Harris informed people that Trump chose the three conservative Supreme Court justices who helped get rid of Roe v. Wade’s protections for abortion.
Harris said, “Project 2025 lays out a plan to make it harder to get birth control and to ban abortions across the country, with or without a lack of conference.”
“Trump has neither denied nor shown regret for what he did.” Instead, he is happy to say that he overturned Roe. Don’t get it wrong. “If Trump gets the chance, he will sign the national abortion ban, which means that all 50 states will not allow it,” she said.
The Biden-Harris administration hopes that the event on Tuesday will kick off a national organizing and participation program that will get Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander voters ready to vote in November.
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As part of the campaign, Nevada for Biden-Harris bought ads in the Asian Journal, the Philippine Times of Southern Nevada, the Korean Las Vegas Times, the Las Vegas Japan Times, and the Chinese Daily News.
Harris talked a lot about how the Biden administration helped boost the number and size of Small Business Administration loans to Asian Americans by more than one-third. This led to the highest job rate for Asian Americans since 2008 for this group.
Harris also talked about how the Biden administration signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act into law, which made it easier for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander groups to report hate crimes. This showed that the Biden administration was serious about reducing hate and violence against Asians in the U.S.
“On the other hand, the former president always stirs up hate,” Harris said. “Without the seal of the president of the United States and a microphone, no one should ever again be able to say anything that hurts immigrants or stirs up hatred.”
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