House Democrats Hold Hearing Highlighting Underwood Resolution Condemning Project 2025
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, House Democrats held a hearing on Project 2025’s impacts on American families, highlighting House Resolution 1386, Rep. Lauren Underwood’s (IL-14) resolution to officially condemn Project 2025 and the sweeping harm that it would do to our democracy.
Project 2025, otherwise known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a 900+ page “playbook” for the first 180 days of an incoming Trump administration. It is a step-by-step guide for dismantling critical agencies that serve Americans, restructuring the executive branch, and installing Trump loyalists and operatives at nearly every level of government.
If enacted, Project 2025 will radically alter the lives of every American.
The blueprint would strip away fundamental freedoms, destroy checks and balances on presidential powers, and lead to rising costs on health care, child care, housing, groceries, and gas.
Project 2025 would:
- End Social Security and Medicare as we know it, forcing hardworking Americans to work longer for less.
- Devastate working families across America, raising costs, lowering wages, destroying our environment, and dismantling access to health care.
- Remove protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, raise prescription drug prices, ban Medicare from negotiating lower drug costs, and put a new tax on health insurance for people who get coverage at work.
- Criminalize abortion nationwide, restrict access to birth control, and even ban fertility services like IVF.
- Allow government agents to monitor pregnancies to potentially prosecute parents if they miscarry.
- Cut school meals for kids, end Head Start for preschoolers, slash public school funding, and fire teachers across the country.
- Raise costs and slash investments for working families to give huge new tax breaks to billionaires, CEOs, and the biggest corporations.
- Threaten America’s national security and our ability to compete across the globe.
- Destroy fundamental checks and balances on Presidential powers.
At the hearing, Underwood said, “As one of the only nurses in Congress, to me, Project 2025’s direct attacks on our health care are some of the most alarming parts of this 920+ page document.
This plan is extreme in the truest sense of the word. It calls to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions like myself, proposes new taxes on people who get their health coverage from work, and would cause the cost of prescription drugs to skyrocket.
To put it simply: Donald Trump’s Project 2025 will make more Americans sick and leave them without the coverage they need to take care of themselves and their families.
Few people understand these threats better than our providers, and I am so pleased to be joined today by a fellow Registered Nurse, Vicki Gonzalez. Vicki has been an RN since 1986. For the past 20 years, she has worked as a wound and ostomy nurse at one of our nation’s largest hospitals, Jackson Memorial in Miami. Vicki has seen firsthand how the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid have brought high quality, affordable care to so many people who previously couldn’t afford to go to the doctor, and instead ended up deathly sick in the emergency room. And Vicki knows how dire it would be for these people to once again have to choose between putting food on the table and getting the care they need.”
To view Underwood’s full remarks visit this link. Full text of House Resolution 1386 can be found here.
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