Former President Trump says Project 2025 goes “too far” in its recommendations on abortion policy, his latest attempt to distance himself from the plan drafted by many former members of his administration.
In an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner that aired Monday at the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump said Project 2025 was written by “a group of extremely conservative people” with whom he disagrees.
“From what I hear, it’s not very far, it’s very far,” he said. “They went too far.”
Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s detailed plan for how the next Republican president should exercise his power. It was written by the Heritage Foundation with contributions from more than 100 different conservative groups independent of the Trump campaign.
It is an agenda of very specific policy recommendations that the next president can make only through executive authority, drawn up by people who held top positions in the previous administration and who may be prepared to do so again if Trump wins in November.
Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, claiming he knows nothing about it, while Democrats try to make it a risk.
He is also aware of the political vulnerabilities around abortion and has tried to balance the reality of appearing more moderate on the issue while appealing to the right-wing base.
Trump has established the position that abortion policy is up to the states, although he still receives credit for ending Roe v. Wade. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion.
“I did a great job getting rid of Roe v. Wade. Wade,” said the former president in the interview. “I was able to return it to the states.”
The Project 2025 plan for the Department of Health and Human Services was written by Roger Severino, who served as director of the Department of Civil Rights in the Trump administration. Calls for the revocation of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in more than half of abortions nationwide.
“Abortion pills pose the greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe world,” the document states.
The plan says the FDA could also impose restrictions on the pills, reinstating the requirement that patients get them in person rather than by mail. It also suggests using a 19th century law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who send abortion pills or other abortion tools in the mail.
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