False Project 2025 claims about Trump become fodder for sham congressional hearing

DETROIT — False claims that Donald Trump supports Project 2025 are common among Michigan Democrats.Even the state’s attorney general repeated the lie on the campaign trail in hopes of convincing voters the former president backs the deeply unpopular policy tome a conservative think tank developed.But the erroneous talking point got even louder last month when Rep.

Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) co-chaired a hearing on “the dangers of Project 2025.”The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing involved only Democrats, who repeatedly claimed Trump has embraced Project 2025 and intends to implement it if elected.This spectacle was not meeting of the House Steering Committee, which can refer legislation to the full House.

It was merely a one-party showcase, carried out on the public’s dime.Despite Democrats’ insistence in the hearing and on the campaign trail across the country, Trump has emphatically distanced himself from Project 2025 more than once, including on the debate stage Sept.

10.“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said that night when Kamala Harris declared he “intends on implementing” it.

He’s called some of it “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”The Project 2025 website links prominently to a USA Today fact check that confirmed it as the work of the Heritage Foundation, not the Trump campaign.Nevertheless, the claims persist.At the hearing, the Democrats heard from a Michigan autoworker and UAW member, J.J.Jewell, who expressed fear his overtime pay would be taken away as a result of Project 2025.

Rep.Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) referred to the project’s “not-so-secret plan to eliminate pay” and called it “a generous gift to corporations and an insult to workers.”“If they’re able to calculate the overtime period over a longer number of weeks, they essentially destroy the standard workweek and my ability to earn what I’m owed for working overtime,” Jewell said.

“It’s not just the loss of inco...