Trump No Longer Distancing Himself from Project 2025 as He Uses Shutdown to Further Pursue Its Goals
President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign ...
"I have no idea what Project 2025 is." - Trump, October 31, 2024
-- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) Oct 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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@#9 ... Trump lied? ...
Well, yeah. What else does he have beside his lies?
GOP blames government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That's false
www.npr.org
... The White House and congressional Republicans say that Democratic lawmakers caused the federal government shutdown as part of an effort to extend health care benefits to undocumented immigrants. However, as several independent experts interviewed by NPR note, that claim is false.
At the center of the standoff is the Trump administration's Working Families Tax Cut Act, also known as President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," signed into law in July.
Democrats say it amounts to tax breaks for billionaires and pays for them with deep Medicaid cuts. The White House insists the law protects taxpayers by preventing undocumented immigrants from getting government health benefits -- but such individuals were already barred from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, exchanges.
"It's a complete distortion," says Leighton Ku, the director of George Washington University's Center for Health Policy Research. It is "simply wrong in the details," he says. ...
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