Former President Trump says Project 2025’s recommendations on abortion policy go “way too far,” his latest attempt to distance himself from the plan crafted by many former members of his administration.
In an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner that aired Monday as the Republican National Convention starts in MilwaukeeTrump said Project 2025 was written by a “group of extremely conservative people” with whom he disagrees.
“From what I’ve heard, it’s not too far, it’s way too far,” he said. “They’ve really gone too far.”
Project 2025 is the conservative movement’s detailed plan for how the next Republican president should wield power. It was written by the Heritage Foundation with input from more than 100 different conservative groups independent of the Trump campaign.
It is an agenda of very specific policy recommendations that the next president can implement through his executive power alone. It was drafted by people who already held top positions in the previous administration and who could return to those positions if Trump wins the election in November.
Trump card has distanced himself of Project 2025 and claims he knows nothing about it because the Democrats Try to make it a burden.
He is also aware of the political vulnerability of abortion and tries to find a middle ground: he takes a more moderate stance on this issue, but at the same time appeals to the right-wing base.
Trump continues to maintain that abortion policy is a matter for the states, but he still claims to have overturned the Roe v. Wade decision and abolished the constitutional right to abortion.
“I did a great job of repealing Roe v. Wade,” the former president said in the interview. “I was able to bring it back to the States.”
The Project 2025 plan for the Department of Health and Human Services was written by Roger Severino, who served as director of the department’s Office of Civil Rights under the Trump administration, and calls for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which is used in more than half of all abortions nationwide.
“Abortion pills pose the greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe world,” the document states.
The plan says the FDA could also impose restrictions on the pills by reinstating a requirement that patients receive them in person rather than through the mail. It also proposes using a 19th-century law, the Comstock Act, to prosecute people who send abortion pills or other abortion-inducing instruments through the mail.
