ICYMI: New Reporting Spells Out Harmful Effects of Trump-Vance’s Project 2025 Agenda in the States

A new report from the Center for American Progress lays out the stakes in the states if the Trump-Vance ticket prevails in November and puts their extreme Project 2025 agenda into action. These state-by-state fact sheets highlight the dangers Americans could face, from increased taxes on working families, to bans on lifesaving health care, to attacks on the checks and balances that keep our democracy functioning, Project 2025 is a dire threat to the American people. 

DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman released the following statement: 

“The election in November will be won as it always is – on the ground, at the doors, in the states. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would have dire consequences for families living in every state and Democrats are making the contrast clear. Vice President Harris’ bright vision is in stark opposition to the dark future Donald Trump has in store – Donald Trump wants to ban abortion nationwide and his Project 2025 economic plans will raise costs on working people to benefit the ultra-wealthy. State by state, the answer is the same: Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans would hurt working people and reverse the gains made under the Biden-Harris administration. In the battlegrounds, we can’t afford Trump’s plans to spike inflation, raise taxes and costs on the middle class, and undermine benefits for seniors. Everything is on the line in November and across the states, Americans will vote like it.”

**Read the report here**

Find highlights from the fact sheets below: 

In Arizona

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Arizona would see a tax increase of $2,720 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the Department of Justice to take legal action against local officials who refuse to bring cases against women and doctors who violate state abortion bans, such as Arizona’s abortion ban.”

In Florida:

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Florida would see a tax increase of $2,587 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “Project 2025 eliminates some emergency contraception medications from free preventive care requirements, meaning 2,990,000 women in Florida would lose guaranteed access to free emergency contraception.”
  • “The plan instructs the Department of Justice to take legal action against local officials who refuse to bring cases against women and doctors who violate state abortion bans, such as Florida’s strict six-week abortion ban.”

In Georgia:

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Georgia would see a tax increase of $2,810 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the Department of Justice to take legal action against local officials who refuse to bring cases against women and doctors who violate state abortion bans, such as Georgia’s severe six-week abortion ban.”

In Michigan

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Michigan would see a tax increase of $2,797 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “Project 2025 proposes imposing ‘limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits.’ In Michigan, 429,800 Medicaid enrollees would be at risk of losing coverage because they are low income and lack access to alternative, affordable coverage.”
  • “The plan instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act, a pair of laws from 1873 and 1909, to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion. Doing so would result in an effective abortion ban nationwide, even in states where abortion is legal.”

In Nevada

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Nevada would see a tax increase of $2,562 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act, a pair of laws from 1873 and 1909, to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion. Doing so would result in an effective abortion ban nationwide, even in states where abortion is legal.”

In North Carolina

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in North Carolina would see a tax increase of $2,713 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the Department of Justice to take legal action against local officials who refuse to bring cases against women and doctors who violate state abortion bans, such as North Carolina’s abortion ban.”

In Pennsylvania

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Pennsylvania would see a tax increase of $3,167 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act, a pair of laws from 1873 and 1909, to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion. Doing so would result in an effective abortion ban nationwide, even in states where abortion is legal.”

In Wisconsin

  • “Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy onto the middle class. Under the plan, the typical family of four in Wisconsin would see a tax increase of $3,110 per year, while 45,000 households in America reporting more than $10 million in income would each see an average annual tax cut of $1.5 million.”
  • “The plan instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to misapply the Comstock Act, a pair of laws from 1873 and 1909, to criminalize the mailing of medication abortion. Doing so would result in an effective abortion ban nationwide, even in states where abortion is legal.”