When Trump was pushed to say whether or not he would repeal the Affordable Care Act during his disastrous debate performance Tuesday night, he stammered and stumbled — claiming to have “concepts of a plan” in the latest of  Trump’s cop-outs, lies, and deflections in an attempt to distract the American people from the dark reality of his second term agenda.

In response, DNC National Press Secretary Emilia Rowland released the following statement:

“Trump responded to a question about his record of vowing to tear away health care from millions of Americans with the level of seriousness you’d expect if he’d been asked about his holiday weekend plans because he knows that his failing campaign can’t afford for any more Americans to hear the truth: VP Harris has a plan to help YOU, but the only ‘concept of a plan’ Trump has is his Project 2025 agenda, which would give him unprecedented power to control our lives, from monitoring pregnancies, to gutting health care protections for millions, to gifting tax cuts to his billionaire buddies while raising taxes on middle-class Americans.”

Trump’s only “concept of a plan” on health care is his Project 2025 agenda, which includes rolling back cost-saving measures on health care and prescription drugs from millions of Americans. 

Question: “You have long vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare… Do you have a plan and can you tell us what it is?”

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Trump: “I have concepts of a plan.”

Trump’s Real Project 2025 Plan: Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would accelerate efforts to privatize Medicare and raise prescription drug prices including by getting rid of the $35/month insulin price cap for seniors established thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris’ historic Inflation Reduction Act.

Trump’s only “concepts of a plan” on reproductive health care are his Project 2025 plans to ban abortion nationwide, threaten access to IVF and contraception, and even monitor women’s pregnancies.

Question: “Would you veto a national abortion ban?”

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Trump: “Look, we don’t have to discuss it.”

Trump’s Real Project 2025 Plan: “Republicans will, unequivocally seek to ban all abortion and make abortion inaccessible nationwide; in addition to attempting to misuse the antiquated Comstock Act to ban medication abortion, a second Trump administration could attempt to misuse the dormant statute to criminalize materials used to provide basic abortion care.” (Office of U.S. Senator Murray, Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, p. 458, 459, 562)

The Nation: “And by declaring that life begins at conception, his [Project 2025] manifesto appears to commit HHS to finding ways to outlaw IVF, which relies on generating multiple embryos, most of which are not implanted.”

Reproductive Freedom for All: “The extensive mandate calls to gut reproductive freedom, including effectively banning medication abortion, ending access to emergency abortion care, attacking contraception, deploying fetal personhood, and undermining IVF in federal policy…

“Project 2025 includes personhood language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception—which could have devastating impacts should it be put into law. This so-called “personhood” language could ban not only abortion but also some forms of birth control and assisted fertility treatments like IVF.”

Project 2025 would also give Trump unprecedented power to monitor pregnancies.

Trump’s only “concepts of plan” on the economy is his Project 2025 agenda to line the pockets of his billionaire buddies with tax giveaways at the expense of  middle class families.  

Trump, in response to his plans for the economy: “Everybody knows what I’m going to do. Cut taxes.”

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Harris: “Donald Trump has no plan for you. And when you look at his economic plan, it’s all about tax breaks for the richest people.”

Trump’s Real Project 2025 Plan: Trump’s Project 2025 tax plan would increase taxes on the middle class while giving handouts to greedy corporations and America’s wealthiest.

And on border security, Trump can’t defend his actions to tank bipartisan border security legislation for his own political gain.

Question: “Let me just ask, though, why did you try to kill that bill and successfully so? That would have put thousands of additional agents and officers on the border.”

Trump: *Talks about crowd size at rallies*

Trump’s Real Project 2025 Plan: The Trump-Vance ticket will continue to prioritize political gains over policy priorities like he did when he killed the bipartisan border deal. They will work to instead implement a cruel agenda to round up people into detention camps and use the military to carry out mass deportations.