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On Tuesday during the vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and JD Vance, JD Vance tried to spin Trump’s dangerous, anti-reproductive freedom agenda and deny his support for a national abortion ban. He failed miserably. 

A reminder: in 2022, Vance said he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to a national ban to stop women from traveling across states to get necessary reproductive health care. 

Meanwhile, Governor Tim Walz spoke passionately about tragedies like the story of Amber Thurman, whose death under Georgia’s Trump Abortion Ban was determined by medical experts to be preventable. All of this is a sad reminder that after Trump’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, his extreme abortion bans are putting lives at risk and undermining critical health care access: overall infant mortality rates and maternal mortality have spiked in states with abortion bans. With Trump abortion bans now in effect in 20 states, millions of women are being denied access to critical reproductive care, with doctors facing up to life in prison in some cases. This reality is only possible because of Donald Trump.

Now, if Trump and Vance have their way, their Project 2025 agenda would go even further – banning abortion nationwide and denying women life-saving reproductive care. 

DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement: 

“As Trump and Vance try to obscure their record of ripping reproductive freedom away from women across the country, women are already dying.  Researchers and health experts are frantically raising the alarm as infant and maternal mortality rates have spiked in states that have implemented extreme Trump abortion bans. If Trump and Vance reach the White House, they’ll take these extreme attacks on reproductive freedom nationwide through their extreme Project 2025 agenda – from banning abortion nationwide to threatening health care providers with jail time just for doing their jobs. This is a crisis. To protect our fundamental freedoms, we must defeat Trump in November.”

Trump’s abortion bans threaten the lives of women in states across the country.

NBC News: A Dramatic Rise in Pregnant Women Dying in Texas After Abortion Ban

By Erika Edwards, Zinhle Essamuah, and Jason Kane

Key Point: “Texas law now prohibits all abortion except to save the life of the mother… The SB 8 effect, Cohen’s team found, was swift and stark. Within a year, maternal mortality rose in all racial groups studied. Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022. Rates among white women nearly doubled — from 20 per 100,000 to 39.1. And Black women, who historically have higher chances of dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after, saw their rates go from 31.6 to 43.6 per 100,000 live births. While maternal mortality spiked overall during the pandemic, women dying while pregnant or during childbirth rose consistently in Texas following the state’s ban on abortion, according to the Gender Equity Policy Institute.”

ProPublica: Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

By Kavitha Surana

Key Point: “The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official state committee recently concluded. Tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers ‘preventable’ and said the hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure had a ‘large’ impact on her fatal outcome. Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.”

ProPublica: Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died

By Kavitha Surana

Key Point: “They came to that conclusion after weighing the entire chain of events, from Miller’s underlying health conditions, to her decision to manage her abortion alone, to her reticence to seek medical care. ‘The fact that she felt that she had to make these decisions, that she didn’t have adequate choices here in Georgia, we felt that definitely influenced her case,’ one committee member told ProPublica. ‘She’s absolutely responding to this legislation.’ This is the second preventable death related to abortion bans that ProPublica is reporting this week.”

Rolling Stone: Florida Doctors Describe Dystopic Horrors as DeSantis Tries to Tank Abortion Measure

By Tessa Stuart

Key Point: “A new report, released on Tuesday by the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, confirms what Daniels is seeing for herself: that many doctors are delaying or refusing to provide necessary care out of fear of losing their medical licenses or going to jail; and that those doctors inclined to continue to providing necessary care have found navigating Florida’s exceptions is a Kafkaesque nightmare.”

Axios: Louisiana doctors prepare for nation’s first law reclassifying abortion drugs as controlled substances

By Chelsea Brasted

Key Point: “Louisiana will become the first state to classify misoprostol and mifepristone as controlled substances as abortion rights become a flashpoint in the presidential election. The drugs are also used for ulcer prevention and as treatments for constipation and postpartum hemorrhages. Before it became law, hundreds of doctors signed a letter opposing the bill, Jezebel reported.”

Washington Post: Louisiana hospitals and pharmacists prep for new abortion pill rules

By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux

Key Point: “Staff in some Louisiana hospitals are doing timed drills, sprinting from patient rooms and through halls to the locked medicine closets where the drugs used for abortions, incomplete miscarriages and postpartum hemorrhaging will have to be kept — as newly categorized controlled substances — starting Oct. 1.

That’s hardly the only preparation taking place across the state as a law targeting mifepristone and misoprostol, the first of its kind in the country, goes into effect in two weeks.”

Infant mortality rates have spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion bans went into effect, showcasing the danger of Trump abortion bans across the country. 

Washington Post: Infant death rate spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion law, study finds

By Victoria Bisset

Key Point:  “Infant deaths from fetal abnormalities, the leading cause of death for babies under a year of age, rose by 22.9 percent in Texas in 2022 but fell by 3.1 percent for the rest of the country, the study found. Infant deaths from unintentional injuries also increased by 20.7 percent in Texas in the same period, compared to 1.1 percent nationally.”

CNN: Link found in Texas between rising infant mortality and state’s abortion restrictions

By Rob Kuznia and Isabelle Chapman

Key Point: “This study provides some of the first empirical evidence on the association of restrictive abortion policies with infant deaths by using population-based data and a rigorous causal inference technique,’ the authors wrote. ‘Although replication and further analyses are needed to understand the mechanisms behind these findings, our results indicate that restrictive abortion policies may have important unintended consequences in terms of trauma to families and medical cost.’”

NBC News: Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths

By Kaitlin Sullivan and Jason Kane

Key Point: “Lawmakers passed Texas Senate Bill 8, or SB8, in September 2021. The state law banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as five weeks. This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. The law did not include exemptions for congenital anomalies, including conditions that will cause a newborn to die soon after birth.” 

Axios: Study links spike in infant deaths to Texas abortion ban

By Adriel Bettelheim

Key Point: “The study authors said their findings are relevant since other states enacted similar strict bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that compel women to continue pregnancies or overcome significant hurdles to obtain abortion care out of state.”

The Guardian: One death is too many’: abortion bans usher in US maternal mortality crisis

By Melody Schreiber

Key Point: “In the year following Texas’s abortion ban, child mortality shot up by 12.9% – compared with a 1.8% increase in the rest of the country, according to a recent study. Congenital anomalies are the leading cause of infant death in the US – but while they went down by 3.1% in the rest of the country, they went up by 22.9% in Texas.”

Vanity Fair: Texas’s “Pro-Life” Abortion Law Has Literally Led to More Infant Deaths

By Bess Levin

Key Point: “Anti-Abortion advocates talk a big game about protecting the “sanctity of life,” but in reality do not care about life at all—not the lives of mothers, whose rights they think nothing of taking away, or the babies they force pregnant people to carry to term. The most recent example of this hypocrisy? A new study showing that infant deaths increased in Texas in the wake of its near-total ban on abortions.”

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Project 2025 Agenda Would Monitor Women’s Pregnancies and Roll Back the Same HHS Privacy Protections that JD Vance Advocated Against in the Senate

In response to JD Vance’s lies about the Trump-Vance ticket’s dangerous anti-choice Project 2025 agenda at last night’s debate, DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement: 

“JD Vance tried to gaslight the entire country last night because he knows that most Americans would be horrified by his and Trump’s Project 2025 plans to ban abortion nationwide, threaten doctors with jail time, threaten access to IVF and contraception, and surveil women’s pregnancies. But if you Google Project 2025 and turn to page 455, you’ll see that Project 2025’s Orwellian plans for pregnancy monitoring call for every abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and incidental pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo to be reported to the federal government – including in states that currently protect reproductive rights– and rolling back the same reproductive privacy protections under HIPAA that Vance also advocated against in the Senate. This November, voters will remind Trump and Vance that politicians have no place in our doctor’s offices.”

Read it for yourself: Project 2025 calls for every abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and incidental pregnancy loss from medical treatments like chemo to be reported to the federal government. The plan even calls for increasing surveillance for women by rolling back privacy protections:

HuffPost: “How A Trump-Vance Presidency Might Allow The Government To Monitor Pregnancies”

“There is evidence that, if elected, Trump and his vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), would permit or even encourage the type of Orwellian surveillance described in Project 2025.”

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 455: “CDC should require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every instance of children being born alive after an abortion.” 

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 455: “Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method. It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category: spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child (such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion.” 

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 497: “OCR should withdraw its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidance on abortion. OCR should withdraw its June 2022 guidance that purports to address patient privacy concerns following the Dobbs decision but is actually a politicized statement in favor of abortion and against Dobbs.” 

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 455 Data Collection: “The CDC’s abortion surveillance and maternal mortality reporting systems are woefully inadequate. CDC abortion data are reported by states on a voluntary basis, and California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not submit abortion data at all.”

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 455, 456: “Comparisons between live births and abortion should be tracked across various demographic indicators to assess whether certain populations are targeted by abortion providers […] The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239 would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act to improve the CDC’s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a condition of federal Medicaid payments for family planning services, to report streamlined variables in a timely manner.”

Both JD Vance and Project 2025 have called on HHS to roll back protections that limit law enforcement access to medical records of people seeking reproductive services. In the Senate, Vance even signed onto a letter opposing an HHS rule to protect reproductive health care privacy. 

Mother Jones: “Add to that [Vance’s] recent support for the use of patients’ medical records by the police to investigate people who travel out of state for abortions.”

Rolling Stone: “Trump and Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women”

“Trump and his vice presidential pick are now both saying abortion should be left up to the states, even though they both previously signaled support for national bans. They have also, alarmingly, both suggested they would be OK with states moving to surveil women’s pregnancies.

“In May, a host at WGAL, an NBC affiliate in Pennsylvania, noted to Trump that there were ads running that suggested he would support certain states with bans monitoring women’s pregnancies. ‘Well, that would be up to the states, again,’ Trump responded…

“Vance, an Ohio senator, has gone further. Last summer, he signed onto a congressional letter calling on the Biden administration to withdraw a draft rule designed to prevent police in states with abortion bans from using personal health information to track and potentially charge people who travel to other states for abortion care.”

HHS Official Melanie Fontes Rainer: “If a person receives reproductive health care, such as a pregnancy test or treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, and that reproductive health care is lawful in the state where the care is received, the information about the care cannot be disclosed or used by the health care provider or health plan for an investigation, or to impose liability by law enforcement on the patient or the provider […] “No one should have to live in fear that their conversations with their doctor or that their medical claims data might be used to target or track them for seeking lawful reproductive health care.”

Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, p. 497: “OCR should withdraw its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidance on abortion. OCR should withdraw its June 2022 guidance that purports to address patient privacy concerns following the Dobbs decision but is actually a politicized statement in favor of abortion and against Dobbs. HIPAA covers patients in the womb, but this guidance treats them as nonpersons contrary to law. The guidance is unnecessary and contributes to ideologically motivated fearmongering about abortion after Dobbs.”

JD Vance and other Republicans’ comments on Proposed Rule: HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy: “We write to express our concern regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule, ‘HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy,’ 88 Fed. Reg. 23506 published on April 17, 2023 (the ‘Proposed Rule’), and to urge you to withdraw it immediately.

“Abortion is not health care—it is a brutal act that destroys the life of an unborn child and hurts women. Congress did not authorize HHS to extend special provisions for abortion such as these under the guise of ‘health care.’ The Proposed Rule unlawfully thwarts the enforcement of compassionate laws protecting unborn children and their mothers, and directs health care providers to defy lawful court orders and search warrants. 

“The Proposed Rule creates special protections for abortion that limit cooperation with law enforcement, undermine the ability to report abuse, restrict the provision of public health information, and erase the humanity of unborn children…

“Sincerely… J.D. Vance United States Senator”

Project 2025’s calls to bulk up abortion surveillance come amid concerns about prosecutors seeking to enforce anti-abortion laws using reproductive health data from mobile apps.

Axios: “Why it matters: Health privacy in the post-Roe digital age is fraught as prosecutors seeking to enforce anti-abortion laws are free to go after reproductive health data in mobile apps, where it is unprotected by federal law.” Companies buy and sell sensitive health data, which is one concern; the unregulated use of personal data to enforce abortion bans is another. As many as one-third of women use digital tools to track their periods. That can be for reasons as simple as monitoring their cycles, planning to avoid a pregnancy or trying to conceive.”

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In celebration of Rosh Hashanah, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement:

“On Rosh Hashanah, our Jewish friends and family gather to reflect on the past and celebrate the year to come. The start of the Jewish New Year marks renewal, forgiveness, and belief in a brighter future. Across the country and around the world, Jewish communities will join together to honor traditions like dipping apples in honey, symbolizing the hope for a sweet new year. 

“As Jewish people look ahead to the upcoming year, we also recognize that this Rosh Hashanah comes as we approach the first anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, and in the midst of escalating violence. Families are recognizing this holiday without their loved ones who were taken hostage or killed at the hands of Hamas. We mourn the lives of those we lost, and promise to carry their memories with us. 

“While this Rosh Hashanah offers a time of reflection, it’s also a reminder of the Jewish community’s resilience. Today marks the 5784th year on the Jewish calendar, underscoring the Jewish people’s unbreakable strength and spirit. Shana Tova and a sweet new year to all who celebrate.”

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The Harris-Walz plan for an Opportunity Economy will champion the middle class

Last night on the debate stage, while Governor Tim Walz laid out a New Way Forward for America, JD Vance spent the evening lying because he knows Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans can’t measure up to Vice President Harris’ strong vision or record. Among his many lies, Vance claimed Donald Trump did more for American workers and industry as president. In reality, Vice President Harris, in partnership with President Biden, spurred hundreds of billions in investments in American manufacturing. Vice President Harris’ Opportunity Economy will build on this historic success, ensuring America—not China or any other country—wins the competition for the 21st century.

To set the record straight on who has delivered manufacturing wins in the states, DNC Spokesperson Maddy Mundy released the following statement: 

“Here’s the truth on American manufacturing under the Biden-Harris administration: A staggering 15.7 million new jobs have been created here at home since President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, with hundreds of billions invested in domestic manufacturing. In stark contrast, offshoring went up and manufacturing jobs went down under Trump’s watch. His Project 2025 agenda would double down on that disastrous record while raising costs for working families. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz’s Opportunity Economy will build on historic progress and ensure American workers reap the gains as American industry leads the world in innovation.” 

In the battlegrounds and states across the nation, the Biden-Harris administration has created millions of jobs, lifting up the middle class.

In Arizona: 361.1k new jobs created and $123 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

In Georgia: 487.6k new jobs created and $41 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

In Michigan: 424.7k new jobs created and $28 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

In Nevada: 287.4k new jobs created and $10 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

In North Carolina: 512k new jobs created and $42 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris. 

In Pennsylvania: 544.2k new jobs created and $4 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

In Wisconsin: 191.3k new jobs created and $5 billion in private, domestic manufacturing and clean energy investments announced under Biden-Harris.

The Guardian: “Swing states in US election are biggest winners in Democrats’ landmark climate bill”

“Since the passage of clean energy incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bill called the ‘most significant climate law in the history of mankind’ by Joe Biden, nearly $150bn has been announced for a flurry of new American facilities producing electric cars, batteries and components for renewable energy.

“Of this, $63bn, or nearly half, will flow to just seven states – Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin – that form the battleground fought over by Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for November’s presidential election, bringing more than 50,000 new manufacturing jobs, according to an analysis carried out for the Guardian by Atlas Public Policy.”

Meanwhile, Trump broke his promises to Americans, including workers in the Midwest.

Detroit News: “History casts doubt on Donald Trump’s auto industry promises”

“Yet, the number of jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing in Michigan declined during Trump’s first term — including before the COVID-19 pandemic hit — according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while there were some additional investments made by the industry in Michigan over his four years in office, there were also auto plants that closed in the state, including the General Motors Co. Warren Transmission plant in 2019.”

Washington Post: “Trump promised this Wisconsin town a manufacturing boom. It never arrived.”

Wall Street Journal: “President Trump’s trade war against China didn’t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports.”

The Biden-Harris administration has created a historic manufacturing boom all across America.

Bloomberg: “US Steel CEO Hails IRA as a ‘Manufacturing Renaissance Act’”

Yahoo News: “Under President Biden, however, a manufacturing boom finally seems to be getting started. Since the beginning of 2022, construction spending on new factories has more than doubled, from an annualized rate of $91 billion in January 2022 to $189 billion in April 2023, the latest data available. That’s the biggest jump, by far, in data going back to 2002.”

The Hill: “A surge in manufacturing construction across the country is grabbing the attention of economists and workers on the ground as legislative efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. industrial base are bearing fruit.”

Axios: “South, Mountain West see manufacturing boom under Biden”

Wall Street Journal: “Shift to EVs Triggers Biggest Auto-Factory Building Boom in Decades”

Washington Post: “Welcome to Silicon Desert: How Biden helped boost an Arizona boomtown”

In contrast, as president, Trump failed American workers and created new incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas. 

Washington Post: “Trump promised ‘America First’ would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.”

Bloomberg: “The Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump’s Watch”

Reuters: “How offshoring rolled along under Trump, who vowed to stop it”

“Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency four years ago, in part, by a promise to Midwest factory workers that he would stop companies like Schneider Electric SE from moving jobs out of the country. He didn’t stop them.”

Under the Biden-Harris administration, manufacturing and construction employment is higher than at any point during the Trump administration.

BLS, August 2024: There were 12,927,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S., more than at any point under Trump.

BLS, August 2024: There were 8,280,000 construction jobs in the U.S., more than at any point under Trump.

As president, Kamala Harris will make sure America—not China or any other country—wins the competition for the 21st century.

NBC News: “Harris outlines $100 billion manufacturing plan, vowing pragmatism over ideology”

Gray DC: “Economic expert says Kamala Harris has better plan to grow jobs in America over Trump”

Quartz: “’I’m a capitalist,’ Kamala Harris says as she reveals $100 billion manufacturing plan”

“‘We have an extraordinary opportunity to make our middle class the engine of America’s prosperity,’ Harris said.”

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As JD Vance brings his anti-democracy MAGA extremism to Michigan today, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“JD Vance may be more loyal to Donald Trump than he is to our democracy, but no matter what he says, over 80 million voters sent Trump packing in 2020. Trump picked Vance for his extreme election denialism and his willingness to do what his last VP wouldn’t – and voters will reject the Trump-Vance ticket and their dangerous anti-democracy agenda this November for the same reasons.”

LAST NIGHT: JD Vance REFUSED to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election while whitewashing January 6 and declining to say if he would challenge this November’s election results…

NBC News: “‘Damning non-answer’: Vance refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election”

“JD Vance refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election during the vice presidential debate Tuesday and downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which injured more than 140 law enforcement officers. He also declined to say whether he would seek to challenge the results of this year’s election.”

ABC News: “JD Vance refuses to say Trump lost in 2020, downplays events of Jan. 6”

Politico: “Vance refuses to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election”

“Vance omitted Trump’s attacks on his then-Vice President Mike Pence while a violent riot raged, as well as his months of fomenting false claims that the election was stolen and urging his supporters to ‘stop the steal.’ … Vance has previously said in interviews that he would have done in 2020 what Pence refused to do: facilitate challenges to the election at the Jan. 6 session of Congress, despite constitutional and legal restraints meant to prevent it.”

NBC News: “When asked if he would challenge this year’s election results, Ohio Sen. JD Vance avoided a direct answer, instead defending Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.”

… and Trump once again refused to commit to accepting this November’s election results.

Washington Post: “Donald Trump continued to stir doubt Tuesday about whether he will accept the outcome of the November presidential election. Asked in Milwaukee whether he trusts the election process, the former president told reporters, ‘I’ll let you know in about 33 days.’

“Trump, who has repeatedly denied his 2020 reelection loss, made the comment after saying in response to a previous question that he wants a ‘fair, honest election.’”

Vance is an extreme election denier who won’t commit to accepting this November’s election results, said he would not have certified the 2020 election, and continues to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.

HuffPost: “[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. … Vance’s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.”

New York Times: “J.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat”

Spectrum News: “Vance again says he wouldn’t have certified 2020 election if he was vice president”

ABC News: “JD Vance says [he] wouldn’t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors”

New York Times: “[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.”

Bloomberg: “[Vance] has asserted that the 2020 presidential race was stolen from Donald Trump.”

Vance: “I think the entire post-2020 thing would have gone a lot better if there had actually been an effort to provide alternative slates of electors, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would’ve been a much better thing for the country. … [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.

“I think it would’ve been extraordinarily disappointing to a whole host of people that I care a lot about if Trump had just taken it [and conceded the 2020 election before January 6].”

Vance: “No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].”

The Hill: “JD Vance says he is ‘skeptical’ Pence’s life was in danger on Jan. 6”

Politico: “[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.”

Vance also has no problem with Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans to use the government to go after his political opponents and replace civil servants with MAGA loyalists.

Kristen Welker, NBC: “Senator, if former President Trump were to win, if you were to be his vice president, would you support him appointing a special prosecutor to go after his political enemies, the Bidens?”

Vance: “Donald Trump is talking about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Joe Biden for wrongdoing. … I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is we ought to investigate the prior administration.”

Vance: “I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, is fire every single civil servant… replace them with our people.”

The Atlantic: “At the top of Vought and Dans’s must-do list for the next president: reissuing an executive order that Trump signed during his final months in office—and which President Joe Biden promptly reversed—that would allow the government to remove civil-service protections from as many as 50,000 federal jobs. The move would create a new class of employees known as Schedule F whom the president could fire at will.”

Associated Press: “Trump-era conservatives want to gut the ‘administrative state’ from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.”

Trump is still pushing baseless lies about his loss by over 7 million votes in the 2020 election.

Associated Press: “[Trump] is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.”

NBC News: “Re-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for [Trump] on the stump. … He regularly refers to the 2020 election as ‘rigged’ on his social media channels.”

Trump continues to praise and promise pardons for the violent insurrectionists he rallied to storm the Capitol on January 6, calling them “hostages” and “patriots.” 

Washington Post: “Trump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected”

Rachel Scott, ABC News: “140 police officers were assaulted [on January 6]. Their injuries included broken bones, at least one officer lost an eye, one had two cracked ribs, two smashed spinal discs, another had a stroke. Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned, ‘patriots’ who deserve pardons?”

[Trump refuses to answer]

Scott: “But sir, my question is on those rioters who assaulted officers. Would you pardon those people?”

Donald Trump: “Oh absolutely I would. If they’re innocent, I would pardon them.”

Scott: “They’ve been convicted.”

Trump: “Those people were treated very harshly… nobody was killed on January 6. But I think that the people of January 6 were treated very unfairly… they were there to complain about an election, and you know it’s very interesting, the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to.”

The Hill: “Trump describes imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as ‘hostages’”

TIME: “Trump has sought to recast the insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. ‘I call them the J-6 patriots,’ Trump tells TIME. When asked whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says: ‘Yes, absolutely.’”

NBC News: “Former President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that if he is elected he will pardon a ‘large portion’ of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

Trump: “January 6, it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. And they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable — and it was a beautiful day.”

Trump has threatened political violence and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November, and he is vowing to be a dictator on “day one” if he wins.

Associated Press: “Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate”

TIME: “Exclusive: Donald Trump Says Political Violence ‘Depends’ on ‘Fairness’ of 2024 Election”

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN: “Many people have lost American presidential elections over the last 230 years – Trump is the only one to say about violence if he loses ‘it depends.’”

The Atlantic: “Trump Says He’ll Be a Dictator on ‘Day One’”

NBC News: “Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election”

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DNC Director of Outreach Communications Tracy King released the following statement: 

“This election is about two drastically different visions for America: the Harris-Walz vision of a new way forward for our country where all Native people have the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead, versus the Trump-Vance plan to drag our country backward. The Biden-Harris administration has fought for Tribal Nations and Tribal communities through historic investments to improve Tribal health care, public safety, language preservation, and education, close the digital divide, expand economic opportunities, and address the impacts of climate change on Tribal communities. On the other hand, Donald Trump and JD Vance have failed Native communities, proposing cuts to critical services, undermining federal Tribal land protections and efforts to address the climate crisis, and spewing hateful rhetoric. The contrast couldn’t be clearer: Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are the only candidates in this race championing the rights of Native communities and taking steps to advance Tribal sovereignty and self-determination.” 

Donald Trump and JD Vance have repeatedly attacked the ACA, which helped expand coverage for and meet the health needs of Native Americans, and a judge found Trump’s administration caused “irreparable harm” by delaying COVID-19 relief funds for Tribes. 

NBC News: “Trump doubles down, saying ‘Obamacare Sucks’ and must be replaced”

NOTUS: “Vance suggested overhauling Obamacare would still be a priority. ‘Well, I think we’re definitely gonna have to fix the health care problem in this country,’ he said.” 

New York Times: “The Trump administration formally declared its opposition to the entire Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, arguing in a federal appeals court filing that the signature Obama-era legislation was unconstitutional and should be struck down. Such a decision could end health insurance for some 21 million Americans and affect many millions more who benefit from the law’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions and required coverage for pregnancy, prescription drugs and mental health.” 

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Despite the assurance of health care, AI/ANs face persistent health disparities, including a high uninsurance rate, barriers to accessing care, and significant physical and mental health needs. Like many other groups, AI/ANs have benefited greatly from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage expansions.”

Kaiser Family Foundation: “Nonelderly AIAN and Hispanic people had the highest uninsured rates at 19.1% and 18.0%, respectively as of 2022…

“For example, between 2010 and 2022, the uninsured rate for AIAN people grew from 2.5 to 2.9 times higher than the uninsured rate for White people, the Hispanic uninsured rate grew from 2.5 to 2.7 times higher than the rate for White people, and Black people remained 1.5 times more likely to be uninsured than White people.”

Kaiser Family Foundation: ​​“Following the ACA’s enactment in 2010 through 2016, coverage increased across all racial and ethnic groups […] Nonelderly Hispanic people had the largest percentage point increase in coverage, with their uninsured rate falling from 32.6% to 19.1%. Nonelderly Black, Asian, and AIAN people also had larger percentage point increases in coverage compared to White people over that period.”

USA Today: “Native Americans, Alaska Natives and a bipartisan group of their allies are worried that repeal of the Affordable Care Act will also eliminate a non-controversial portion of that law that commits federal funding for tribal health care around the country, a move that the National Indian Health Board warns would be ‘catastrophic.’ …

“The law also provides scholarships to Native Americans and Alaska Natives to get medical degrees if they come back and work in their tribes.” 

HuffPost: “Judge Orders Trump Administration To Give Tribes Their COVID-19 Relief Funds.”

“A federal judge on Monday ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to distribute $679 million in emergency COVID-19 relief funds to Native American tribes that should have gotten it months ago, and he chided the agency for causing ‘irreparable harm’ with its delays.”

Trump repeatedly proposed slashing funding for vital programs supporting Native Americans on issues like education and housing.

Associated Press: “Tribes Bash Proposed Trump Budget Cuts To Native American Programs.”

“The proposed budget would slash $64 million in federal Native American funding for education, $21 million for law enforcement and safety, $27 million for natural resources management programs run by tribes plus $23 million from human services, which includes the Indian Child Welfare Act, said Carina Miller, a councilwoman with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, in Oregon. It would also eliminate funding for tribal work on climate change and cut block grant programs that provide housing assistance for Native Americans, she added.”

Las Vegas Sun: “The budget calls for massive cutbacks in staffing — 1,835 National Parks Service employees, 1,209 from the U.S. Geological Survey, 559 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 330 from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.”

Washington Post: “Shrink funding for Adult Employment and Training Activities, which serve veterans, Native Americans and young people who have dropped out of high school, by nearly half, from $810 million in 2017 to $490.3 million in 2019.” 

CNN: “The Budget proposes to eliminate rural business and cooperative programs given findings that the programs have failed to meet the program goals and are improperly managed.” 

Trump has repeatedly shown his willingness to undermine federal Tribal land protections and revoke funding for programs that address climate change despite the significant risk it poses to Tribal communities. 

Associated Press: “Dozens of Native American tribes in six Western states expressed outrage Thursday at President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to American Indian programs, saying they would erase significant progress on child welfare and climate change and gut social services and education on reservations across the U.S… Eliminating $10 million for a program that helps tribes prepare for and deal with rapid environmental change would be particularly harmful, said Fawn Sharp, president of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.”

New York Times: “Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard”

Financial Times: “Donald Trump would gut Joe Biden’s landmark IRA climate law if elected”

“Donald Trump is planning to gut US President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law, increase investment in fossil fuels and roll back regulations aimed at accelerating the transition to electric vehicles if he is elected next year. … The Inflation Reduction Act — the centrepiece of Biden’s economic strategy, with $369bn in tax breaks and subsidies for clean energy — would be in Trump’s crosshairs.”

Washington Post: “In 2016, President Barack Obama created the Bears Ears National Monument […] His proclamation recognized the area’s ‘extraordinary archaeological and cultural record’ and the land’s ‘profoundly sacred’ meaning to many Native American tribes. Eleven months later, in early December of 2017, President Trump reduced Bears Ears by 85 percent…” 

The Hill: “The amount of land placed into trust by Interior shrunk to 75,000 acres during Trump’s four years in office, from 560,000 acres during former President Obama’s two terms.”

Associated Press: “The rule, which takes effect in November, reverses a Trump-era action that limited the ability of states and tribes to review pipelines, dams and other federally regulated projects within their borders.”

Bloomberg: “Trump will discuss the ways he intends to woo foreign manufacturers to the US through a lower corporate tax rate, fewer regulations, cheap energy, strong ports and even government land.”

Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would eliminate the Head Start Program after he tried in his first term to cut millions in scholarship funding meant to help ensure Native families have access to quality education. 

KNAU: “Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating Tribal Scholarships For Third Year In A Row.”

“The administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget would slash nearly $40 million from tribal scholarship and education programs administered by the Bureau of Indian Education… [Navajo Office of Scholarship and Financial Assistance’s] Graham says in 2017 nearly $10 million in federal funding went to partial scholarships for nearly 4,000 Navajo students. The Trump administration’s proposal would eliminate all of it. Just over 4 percent of Navajo tribal members have a bachelor’s degree compared with about a third of the total U.S. population.” 

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 482: “Eliminate the Head Start program.”

REMINDER: Trump and JD Vance have long disrespected Native Americans, from claiming Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a “fake holiday” and mocking Native American history to spewing racially charged rhetoric. 

Trump, Faith and Freedom Conference: “But in history, they say Andrew Jackson was treated the worst president. He was a great general and a very good president.”

Trump: “‘I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations.’”

Washington Post: “In 2000, when New York was considering expanding Native American casinos in the Catskill Mountains, a series of TV, newspaper and radio ads popped up in the state accusing the Mohawk Indian tribe of having long criminal records and ties to the mob…

As far as the public knew, the ads were sponsored by a newly formed group called the Institute for Law and Safety. The group claimed that it was funded by 12,000 ‘grass-roots, pro-family’ donors. But in reality, it was bankrolled by Trump’s casino company… Trump paid more than $1 million for the campaign.”

Washington Post: “One hundred years after U.S. soldiers killed and maimed hundreds of Sioux men, women and children at the Wounded Knee massacre, Congress formally apologized in 1990… President Trump used that same massacre as a punchline in his latest broadside against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the Democratic presidential hopeful whom he regularly calls ‘Pocahontas’ in jeering reference to her claims of American Indian heritage.”

Indianz: “President Trump Disavows Indigenous Peoples Day”

Associated Press: “‘Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus’s legacy,’ Trump said in his proclamation declaring Monday Columbus Day. ‘These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions.’”

U.S. News & World Report: “President Donald Trump’s proclamation of Monday as Columbus Day contains a notable omission: any mention of Native Americans.” 

Washington Post: “November Is Native American Heritage Month. Critics Say Trump Is Subverting It With A New Celebration Of The Founding Fathers.”

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “In Ohio, JD Vance Implied Tribes Were ‘Enemy,’ And Called Indigenous Peoples’ Day ‘Fake’” 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Vance also made comments on social media disparaging the celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day […] He posted on Twitter in October 2021 ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a fake holiday created to sow division.”

Breitbart: “J.D. Vance Criticizes Opponent Matt Dolan For Indians Name Change, Rails Against ‘Weak Republicans’”

“‘And when the woke mob came after the Cleveland Indians, he bent the knee and changed their name,’ Vance added.” 

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In response to new reporting holding Trump accountable for his failed record on Michigan’s auto industry, DNC Spokesperson Stephanie Justice released the following statement:  

“Donald Trump is trying to rewrite his record on the auto industry, but Michigan voters know the truth: as president, he left behind a trail of broken promises. Trump failed on his promise that no plants would close on his watch, created new incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas, and sat back as Michiganders lost their jobs – all while giving handouts to his billionaire buddies and corporations. Trump failed Michigan once, and voters won’t give him the chance to do so again. Michiganders will reject Trump and his Project 2025 agenda in November.”

Detroit News: History casts doubt on Donald Trump’s auto industry promises

[Craig Mauger and Kalea Hall, 9/30/24]

• Former President Donald Trump has been promising Michigan voters this fall that he can revive the state’s auto industry and return it to “greatness,” but the Republican nominee failed to fully deliver on similar guarantees, made eight years ago, before his first term in the White House.

• On Friday night, Trump told a crowd at Macomb Community College in Warren that if he’s elected this fall, he’s going to bring back Michigan’s auto industry “at levels that have never been seen before.” About eight years ago, on Oct. 31, 2016, at the same venue, Trump told another Michigan crowd that he would “bring your jobs back” and, if elected in November 2016, “you won’t lose one plant.”

• Yet, the number of jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing in Michigan declined during Trump’s first term — including before the COVID-19 pandemic hit — according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while there were some additional investments made by the industry in Michigan over his four years in office, there were also auto plants that closed in the state, including the General Motors Co. Warren Transmission plant in 2019. 

• The number of jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing in Michigan was about 175,000 when Trump took office in January 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It dropped to 171,300 in February 2020, a decrease of 2.2%, before the state reported its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020, leading to Michigan auto plants being shuttered for eight weeks under a public health order from Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

• By the end of Trump’s term, there were 166,300 jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing in Michigan, a drop of 5% from when he took office, according to the bureau’s data.

• Trump is making the same guarantees in 2024 about the industry that the Republican failed on during his first term, said Gene Sperling, an economist and adviser to multiple Democratic presidents, including Biden.

• “When he had his chance, he completely broke every single promise that he made to the American automobile manufacturing industry,” Sperling said of Trump.

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In response to tonight’s vice presidential debate, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison released the following statement: 

“Tonight’s debate drew a clear contrast for the American people. The Harris-Walz ticket will move our country forward, while the Trump-Vance ticket will drag us back. Governor Walz won on the issues tonight by talking to the American people about protecting our reproductive freedoms, lowering costs, and working with Vice President Harris to fight on behalf of all Americans. Meanwhile, JD Vance and Donald Trump want to make abortion ‘illegal nationally,’ give handouts to the ultra-wealthy, and pursue an extreme Project 2025 agenda at all costs. The American people see Vance for who he is: the Project 2025 poster boy chosen for the job because he will do and say whatever Trump tells him to, and can’t even admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. That’s why he’s the least popular vice presidential pick in modern history. 

“This November, our country will be presented with a choice. We can join Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and choose a new way forward, or we can follow Trump and Vance down the path of darkness and chaos. With the election only 35 days away, Democrats are ready to put in the work and get out the vote – because we won’t go back.” 

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Reminder: No matter what Vance says, Project 2025 is an “undeniably Trump-driven operation” with deep ties to the Trump-Vance ticket.

JD Vance is an extreme election denier who won’t commit to accepting this November’s election results, said he would not have certified the 2020 election, and continues to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.

HuffPost: “[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. … Vance’s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.”

New York Times: “J.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat”

Spectrum News: “Vance again says he wouldn’t have certified 2020 election if he was vice president”

Jason Calacanis, All-In Podcast: “Would you have certified the [last result of the election]?”

Vance: “Again, I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we have.” 

Calacanis: “You wouldn’t have certified, to be clear?”

Vance: “I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors, that’s what I would have done.”

ABC News: “JD Vance says [he] wouldn’t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors”

Vance: “I think the entire post-2020 thing would have gone a lot better if there had actually been an effort to provide alternative slates of electors, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would’ve been a much better thing for the country. … [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.

“I think it would’ve been extraordinarily disappointing to a whole host of people that I care a lot about if Trump had just taken it [and conceded the 2020 election before January 6].”

New York Times: “[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.”

Vance: “No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].”

The Hill: “JD Vance says he is ‘skeptical’ Pence’s life was in danger on Jan. 6”

Politico: “[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.”

Vance also has no problem with Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans to use the government to go after his political opponents and replace civil servants with MAGA loyalists.

Kristen Welker, NBC: “Senator, if former President Trump were to win, if you were to be his vice president, would you support him appointing a special prosecutor to go after his political enemies, the Bidens?”

Vance: “Donald Trump is talking about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Joe Biden for wrongdoing. … I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is we ought to investigate the prior administration.”

Vance: “I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, is fire every single civil servant… replace them with our people.”

The Atlantic: “At the top of Vought and Dans’s must-do list for the next president: reissuing an executive order that Trump signed during his final months in office—and which President Joe Biden promptly reversed—that would allow the government to remove civil-service protections from as many as 50,000 federal jobs. The move would create a new class of employees known as Schedule F whom the president could fire at will.”

Associated Press: “Trump-era conservatives want to gut the ‘administrative state’ from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing.”

Trump is still pushing baseless lies about his loss by over 7 million votes in the 2020 election.

Associated Press: “[Trump] is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.”

NBC News: “Re-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for [Trump] on the stump. … He regularly refers to the 2020 election as ‘rigged’ on his social media channels.”

Trump continues to praise and promise pardons for the violent insurrectionists he rallied to storm the Capitol on January 6, calling them “hostages” and “patriots.” 

Washington Post: “Trump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected”

Rachel Scott, ABC News: “140 police officers were assaulted [on January 6]. Their injuries included broken bones, at least one officer lost an eye, one had two cracked ribs, two smashed spinal discs, another had a stroke. Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned, ‘patriots’ who deserve pardons?”

[Trump refuses to answer]

Scott: “But sir, my question is on those rioters who assaulted officers. Would you pardon those people?”

Donald Trump: “Oh absolutely I would. If they’re innocent, I would pardon them.”

Scott: “They’ve been convicted.”

Trump: “Those people were treated very harshly… nobody was killed on January 6. But I think that the people of January 6 were treated very unfairly… they were there to complain about an election, and you know it’s very interesting, the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to.”

The Hill: “Trump describes imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as ‘hostages’”

TIME: “Trump has sought to recast the insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. ‘I call them the J-6 patriots,’ Trump tells TIME. When asked whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says: ‘Yes, absolutely.’”

NBC News: “Former President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that if he is elected he will pardon a ‘large portion’ of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

Trump: “January 6, it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to. And they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable — and it was a beautiful day.”

Trump has threatened political violence and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November, and he is vowing to be a dictator on “day one” if he wins.

Associated Press: “Trump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate”

TIME: “Exclusive: Donald Trump Says Political Violence ‘Depends’ on ‘Fairness’ of 2024 Election”

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN: “Many people have lost American presidential elections over the last 230 years – Trump is the only one to say about violence if he loses ‘it depends.’”

The Atlantic: “Trump Says He’ll Be a Dictator on ‘Day One’”

NBC News: “Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election”

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Reminder: No matter what Vance says, Project 2025 is an “undeniably Trump-driven operation” with deep ties to the Trump-Vance ticket.

JD Vance is pushing Donald Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda that would risk supercharging inflation while giving tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations at the expense of America’s middle class.

Vance on Trump’s plan that would raise tariffs and raise costs for hardworking Americans: “This is a fascinating proposal and we could talk for a while about it.”

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There’s some good ideas in there.”

New York Times: “Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, denied in an interview with NBC News on Sunday that tariffs had caused higher costs for Americans, as economists have documented.”

Axios: “Trump’s inflation bomb: How his second-term plans could make it worse”

The Atlantic: “Trump’s Plan to Supercharge Inflation”

Wall Street Journal: “A drumbeat of reports from Wall Street economists have warned that Trump’s plans could substantially slow economic growth while driving up consumer prices.”

CBS News: “Millions of low- and middle-class households would likely face significantly higher taxes under the Project 2025’s proposals.”

CNBC: “Trump budget would spike deficits by nearly 5 times Harris proposal, says Penn Wharton”

Washington Post: “Trump and his advisers have discussed deeper cuts to both individual and corporate tax rates that would build on his controversial 2017 tax law … Further cutting corporate taxes … would primarily benefit large firms.”

Vance supports Trump’s failed economic record that ballooned the deficit, created new incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas, and left him with the worst jobs record in modern American history.

Vance: “The left attacked Donald Trump for those tax cuts and said that they would actually make the deficit worse when in reality we took in more revenue because the government got out of the way on the regulatory side and the tax cuts spurred a lot of growth which means more people working, which meant more economic production which meant the entire economy was healthier … I think that we have a pretty common sense regulatory and tax agenda.”

New York Times: “The 2017 corporate and individual tax cuts signed into law by Mr. Trump have not increased government revenue … In fact, they have had the opposite effect.”

Fortune: “Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover”

Bloomberg: “Trump’s Jobs Record Fell Short of Promises Even Before the Virus”

The Guardian: “Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Washington Post: “One of President Donald Trump’s lesser-known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. … The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration.”

Washington Post: “Trump promised ‘America First’ would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.”

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