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Congress is considering a resolution condemning the policies of Project 2025 as an assault on Americans' fundamental rights and freedoms. Demand Representative David Schweikert support H.Res. 1386 to stand against the dangerous policies of Project 2025.
Project 2025 is an undemocratic assault on fundamental American rights and freedoms. It calls for policies that would devastate working families, slash essential entitlement programs, criminalize abortion, and erode our system of checks and balances. Your constituents are calling on you to stand against this dangerous agenda by supporting H.Res. 1386 and joining your colleagues in Congress in opposition of the policies of Project 2025.
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Project 2025 is an unprecedented and dangerous takeover by MAGA Republicans and wealthy billionaire donors that rolls back Americans’ rights and freedoms, threatens our democracy, and hurts the middle class. Many of Project 2025 policies have already been embraced by Representative Schweikert.
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Project 2025
Rep. Schweikert's Record
Removing insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions
Project 2025 would separate the subsidized Affordable Care Act exchange from the non-subsidized insurance marketplace, and in doing so give “the non-subsidized market regulatory relief from the costly ACA regulatory mandates” – which likely includes prohibitions on charging more to insure individuals with pre-existing conditions. (Page 470)
Raising the cost of prescription medication
Project 2025 proposes the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act, which caps monthly out-of-pocket insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries at $35 per month, and specifically calls to stop Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices. (Page 465)
Rep. Schweikert is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget proposal would end Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices and lift the caps on monthly insulin costs and out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries. Rep. Schweikert also voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.
Banning abortion medication and putting IVF at risk nationwide
Rep. Schweikert is a six–time co-sponsor of the Life at Conception Act and a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget endorses the Life at Conception Act, which would outlaw abortion from the moment of conception and puts IVF at risk.
Rep. Schweikert voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022, which would have codified Roe V. Wade into law and protected Americans’ right to access abortion.
Rep. Schweikert voted for legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Rep. Schweikert voted for the FY24 Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Bill, which repealed an FDA measure allowing abortion medication to be sent to patients by mail.
Putting corporate interests over consumers
Weakening labor unions
Project 2025 would gut The National Labor Relations Board, which would help anti-union employers undermine unionization efforts and make it easier for businesses to illegally fire workers. (Page 591)
Rep. Schweikert is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget proposes eliminating the National Labor Relations Board.
Rep. Schweikert voted to roll back National Labor Relations Board protections for workers with joint employers. According to a letter to Congress signed by the SEIU, CWA, and other labor groups, Schweikert voted to overturn a rule that helps safeguard “the labor rights of millions of workers in subcontracted employment, ensuring that corporations cannot skirt the law simply by outsourcing responsibility for their workers.”
Allowing the wealthy and corporations to more easily cheat on their taxes
Project 2025 would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided funding for the IRS to take action against wealthy and corporate tax cheats. The IRS has already collected $1 billion of unpaid taxes from the wealthy due to this funding. (Page 365; Page 699)
Rep. Schweikert voted several times this Congress to rescind funding for the IRS to go after wealthy and corporate tax cheats to make them pay what they owe.
Rep. Schweikert voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.
Making it harder for low-income households to afford nutritious food
Privatizing Medicare, worsening health outcomes
Project 2025 would make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option and push people towards private Medicare plans that worsen health outcomes. (Page 465)
Rep. Schweikert is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget would transition Medicare to a “Premium Support Model” subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans. Rep. Schweikert also has voted several times for Republican Study Committee budgets, which would transition Medicare to a “Premium Support Model.”
Allowing oil and gas drilling on public lands
Project 2025 would push the Department of the Interior to allow oil and natural gas lease sales “to the maximum extent permitted,” which would allow fossil fuel companies to drill on more public lands and waters, undoing progress made by the current administration to decrease this harmful practice. (Page 523)
Rep. Schweikert voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act, which would require the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly auctions for oil and gas leases.
Rep. Schweikert voted for the Default on America Act, which would require the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly auctions for oil and gas leases.
Rep. Schweikert voted for H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act, which would limit presidential authority to utilize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve unless the government allows oil and gas companies to drill more on federal lands and waterways.
Schweikert said a Project 2025 author from the Heritage Foundation was “as dystopian on some stuff as I am.”
Cutting Medicaid benefits
Project 2025 says CMS should “add work requirements” to Medicaid and tell states they “have the ability to adopt work incentives for able-bodied individuals” for Medicaid. (Page 468)
Rep. Schweikert voted for the Default on America Act, which included harsh new work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries.
Giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations
Project 2025 proposes implementing just two income tax brackets, which would raise taxes on Americans in the current lower brackets and lower taxes on Americans in the upper brackets. Project 2025 would repeal the corporate minimum tax and lower the corporate tax rate from 21% to 18% – resulting in a $500 billion tax cut for corporations and the lowest corporate tax rate in 80 years. (Page 696)
Rep. Schweikert voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations and “helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”
Rep. Schweikert also supports legislation to make the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. He co-sponsored the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, which would extend tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and would give tax breaks to big corporations.
Rep. Schweikert voted against establishing a 15% minimum tax on corporations and is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget endorses repealing that corporate minimum tax.
Raising home energy costs
Project 2025 would eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances, which would raise costs for consumers, businesses, and renters and hurt American manufacturing. (Page 378)
Discriminating against LGBTQ+ people
Project 2025 calls on the DOJ to defend people who discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. (Page 560)
Rep. Schweikert approved 11 FY24 appropriations bills which contained extreme policy riders which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.
Rep. Schweikert approved six FY25 appropriations bills which contain extreme policy riders which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.
Discriminating against LGBTQ+ students
Project 2025 endorses the “Parents Bill of Rights Act” and would forbid schools and teachers from using a student’s chosen name or pronouns without permission from that student’s parents. Project 2025 would even provide a license to school employees to refuse to use a student’s correct pronouns even with their parents’ support. (Page 345–346)
Project 2025 also criticizes the Biden administration for allowing transgender children to participate in sports that match their gender identity. (Page 333)
Rep. Schweikert voted for H.R. 5, the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would require schools to contact parents about any accommodations for transgender students, including using their preferred names and pronouns. It also requires schools to notify parents if their policy allows transgender students to participate in sports or use bathrooms that do not correspond with the gender on their birth certificate.
Cuts To Education For Low Income Students
Project 2025 would phase out Title I, Part A education grants, which provide funding for lower income school districts within ten years. (Page 350) Phasing out Title I grants would risk 180,000 teacher positions, nearly 6% of the national teacher workforce, and negatively impact 2.8 million students.
Project 2025 would also eventually eliminate the Department of Education. (Page 319)
Rep. Schweikert voted for the FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, which would have cut $14.7 billion from Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies, nearly 80% of the program’s 2023 funding. On the whole, the appropriations bill would have cut the Department of Education’s budget by 28% below FY23 levels.
Rolling back Inflation Reduction Act clean energy investments
Project 2025 would repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and the Inflation Reduction Act, and rescind funds for renewable energy development. (Page 365)
Rep. Schweikert voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act and for the Default on America Act, both of which would have repealed the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, which cut home energy costs, reduce emissions, and boost energy efficiency. These bills would increase the cost of energy efficiency upgrades for families and endanger thousands of clean energy jobs.
Rep. Schweikert supported the Build It in America Act, which would repeal clean electricity production and investment credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Rep. Schweikert is also a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget proposal would “repeal the green giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act and he voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.
Since 2023, House Republicans have voted 51 times to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, either in whole or in part, including through the Lower Energy Costs Act and the Default on America Act.
Blocking efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion
Project 2025 would reverse diversity, equity, and inclusion advancements across the federal government. (Page 4-5)
Rep. Schweikert voted for 10 FY24 appropriations bills that contained extreme policy riders, which would block President Biden’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion or prohibit the use of funds for Critical Race Theory.
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Sign the Petition Today
Congress is considering a resolution condemning the policies of Project 2025 as an assault on Americans' fundamental rights and freedoms. Demand Representative David Schweikert support H.Res. 1386 to stand against the dangerous policies of Project 2025.
Project 2025 is an undemocratic assault on fundamental American rights and freedoms. It calls for policies that would devastate working families, slash essential entitlement programs, criminalize abortion, and erode our system of checks and balances. Your constituents are calling on you to stand against this dangerous agenda by supporting H.Res. 1386 and joining your colleagues in Congress in opposition of the policies of Project 2025.