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2 weeks ago | 
mediamatters.org | John Knefel |Sophie Lawton
If the Republican Party were a factory, perhaps its only reliably produced widget would be regressive tax legislation. During Trump’s first term, his tax law — the main legislative achievement prior to the COVID-19 pandemic — primarily benefited the wealthy, with the astronomically rich realizing the greatest gains.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | John Knefel |Sophie Lawton |Zachary Pleat
Right-wing media figures have spent the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term urging congressional Republicans to drastically cut spending on Medicaid to offset the huge cost of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the rich.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton |Madeline Peltz |John Knefel
Trump has selected Tom Homan to serve as his “border czar” and run the administration’s border and immigration policy. After his stint as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first administration, Homan joined The Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow and was listed as a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, the effort’s nearly 900-page policy book.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Madeline Peltz |Sophie Lawton
Heather Honey, a Pennsylvania-based election denial activist with connections to the House GOP, has appeared on the conspiracy theory site The Gateway Pundit to promote unfounded claims about noncitizen voting.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton
Activists connected to the Election Integrity Network are advocating for racially profiling voters they believe are noncitizens, following through on a conspiracy theory right-wing media have helped to spread. “Noncitizen voting” has become a central pillar of the right-wing movement’s attempt to sow doubt in the results of the upcoming 2024 election, bolstered by false right-wing media claims.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton
Family Research Council’s blog, The Washington Stand, published an article praising vice presidential nominee JD Vance for discussing the “entirely reasonable, and too-modest, pro-life protection” of a 15-week minimum national ban for abortion and laying the groundwork for a future Republican president to sign such legislation. Family Research Center is on the advisory board of Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led transition plan for the next GOP presidential administration.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Sophie Lawton
Jesse Watters countered that he has “no evidence” but agreed that Adams is being targeted by the Justice Department for speaking out on the migrant crisis: “He was one of the ones that spoke out against Biden. And if you speak out against Biden, you get punished. Menendez spoke out, got punished. Adams spoke out, got punished.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says he is “resolved” to tie the SAVE Act to a continuing resolution required to fund the federal government until the spring. Some Project 2025 leaders and partner organizations have been promoting the legislation and have expressed support for the move by Johnson.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Madeline Peltz |Sophie Lawton
The former head of Project 2025, Paul Dans, bragged about the initiative’s extreme policies and criticized both the Trump campaign and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts in interviews with CNN and The New York Times, his first since resigning from his post. Dans used the opportunity to mislead about the content of Project 2025, in particular the plans to replace scores of federal workers with MAGA acolytes.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Sophie Lawton
With even Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distancing himself from the Project 2025 manifesto, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts doubled down on the controversial blueprint for a Republican presidency on Thursday, saying that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, “we’re going to have a press conference outside the White House announcing Project 2028.” Roberts, appearing at the “Reboot: The New Reality” conference in San Francisco, said his only regret about...
