Today, President Biden will speak in Detroit about his positive, winning vision for Michigan – a stark contrast to Donald Trump’s dark plan to enact an extreme agenda with the help of his Project 2025 allies. If Trump gets his way, Michiganders’ rights, freedoms, and livelihoods will be put on the chopping block. 

“If Trump’s Project 2025 becomes a reality, the lives of Michigan families will be completely upended. Not only will Trump make his handouts to the ultra-wealthy permanent at the expense of working Michiganders, but he will also try to use every avenue to rip away reproductive freedom and their health care,” said DNC spokesperson Stephanie Justice. “Michiganders recognize that so much is at stake in November and that President Biden is the only real leader running at the top of the ticket. President Biden has bolstered Michigan’s middle class, brought back tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs to the state, and remains dedicated to defending Michiganders’ freedoms. Michigan voters know exactly how much is at stake in November, and they’ll reject Trump and his Project 2025 agenda once again.”

Trump’s tax scam – which he wants to extend if given a second term – gave the richest 1 percent of Michiganders an average of $52,230 in tax cuts while Michiganders in the bottom 20 percent of incomes received $50. 

CBS News: “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind”

The Guardian: “They were billed as a ‘middle-class miracle’ but according to a new book Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Forbes: “Trump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018”

Economic Policy Institute: “The TCJA overwhelmingly benefited the rich and corporations while overlooking working families”

ProPublica: “In the first year after Trump signed the legislation, just 82 ultra-wealthy households collectively walked away with more than $1 billion in total savings, an analysis of confidential tax records shows.”

After failing during his first term, Donald Trump is threatening yet again to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut protections for as many as 4.1 million Michiganders with preexisting conditions.

Associated Press: “Trump says he will renew efforts to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term”

CNN: “Obamacare would be even harder to kill now, but Trump promises to try anyway”

Axios: “Former President Trump revealed that he’s ‘seriously looking at alternatives’ to the Affordable Care Act, calling the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare during his administration ‘a low point for the Republican Party.’”

Trump and Project 2025 are collaborating to push an extreme anti-choice agenda to ban abortion nationwide, restrict contraception access, and allow states to monitor women’s pregnancies – undoing all of the work Michigan Democrats have done to protect abortion access.

Rolling Stone: “Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill”

“The attacks on mifepristone and resurrection of Comstock stand out as particularly harmful proposals, but they are only two of the dozens of ways the Republicans behind Project 2025 envision restricting access to abortion and contraception if they win the White House next year. Elsewhere in the document, there are proposals to eliminate the morning-after pill from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate under the rationale that it is a ‘potential abortifacient.’”

Heritage Foundation: “Conservatives have to lead the way in … ending … senseless use of birth control pills.”

The Hill: “Trump: It’s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions”

Axios: “This is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

Politico: “On Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an ‘entirely off-the-record, private,’ and ‘invite-only’ meeting with senior campaign officials, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The sit-down, which the letter describes as a ‘meeting of the political minds,’ is aimed at discussing ‘collaborat[ion]’ and ‘priorities and plans’ for the general election. […]

“By holding the meeting, the Trump operation and the third-party entities could conceivably get on the same page about their plans. Two people familiar with the planning for the event said Heritage Action and Turning Point Action were among the pro-Trump groups invited.”

Politico: “Many of the authors of the blueprint are former Trump officials, and the Heritage Foundation has spent the past year-plus recruiting people to implement the plans within the administration, Scott said.

“‘So they don’t just have a long, sprawling policy document,’ he said, ‘they also have a growing list of staff who are being tested to see if they are loyal to Trump and if they are willing to administer this in his potential administration.’”

New York Times: “Roberts told me that he views Heritage’s role today as ‘institutionalizing Trumpism.’ This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ‘the Trump administration … simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.’”