Information about H. Res. 1386 and Project 2025
This summer, my colleague Rep. Lauren Underwood introduced H. Res. 1386, an important resolution condemning Project 2025.
Are you aware of Project 2025? If not, you should be.
Project 2025 is a 900-page playbook for a complete takeover by any future president, corporations, and the courts. Project 2025 could erode our freedoms, lead to lost benefits and lower pay for workers, and raise taxes and costs for Ohio families. It even raises the retirement age. Project 2025 is designed so that working people in Ohio pay more, earn less, work longer, and have less freedom – with no ability to stop it.
I don't want this to happen, and I'm working with colleagues to combat the policies and legislative agenda in Project 2025.
Those policies include:
- Increasing taxes for middle class families.
- Enacting a national abortion ban and restricting access to IVF and birth control.
- Allowing employers to stop paying overtime.
- Cutting Medicare and raising prescription drug costs
- Raising the retirement age and cutting Social Security benefits.
- Eliminating the Department of Education and Head Start.
- Making it easier for landlords to discriminate.
What makes Project 2025 different is that it's an attempt to consolidate power within the presidency and take away checks and balances. The policies above are the goal, but the plan to get there is to completely reshape our federal agencies and even weaken the ability of Congress to change these policies once enacted. It's a takeover.
People in Ohio would pay the price for Project 2025. According to this analysis, the policies in Project 2025, a typical family of four in Ohio could see their taxes increase by over $2,800 a year, Social Security benefits for Ohio seniors could drop by $4,000 a year, and 687,430 people in Ohio would be at risk of losing their health care coverage.
Project 2025 is already shaping legislation in Congress, including in the critical appropriations process and government funding negotiations now taking place. As your representative, I will continue to work for the best interests of Northeast Ohio. That means protecting our rights, expanding opportunity to all, and making sure that we do not undo the progress that we have made with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and more.
I will continue to oppose the policies in Project 2025 and do everything I can to prevent them from becoming law. As always, if you have questions about federal policy or need help with your federal benefits or a federal program, please contact my office.