“Some Good” Ideas In Project 2025? Rep. Juan Ciscomani and House Republicans Agree.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Project 2025 took center stage at the presidential debate, as former President Donald Trump embraced many of the Project 2025 priorities. Rep. Ciscomani and House Republicans have been governing from the Project 2025 playbook, advancing a budget and legislation that mimic the extreme Project 2025 policies.
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)
Rep. Ciscomani is a member of the Republican Study Committee, whose budget proposal would “weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions, replacing many of the ACA’s provisions with a pool of funds states can use for that purpose.”
Banning abortion medication and putting IVF at risk nationwide
Project 2025 would declare that life begins at “the moment of conception,” which puts abortion and IVF at risk. Project 2025 also proposes using the Comstock Act to make the delivery of abortion medication by mail illegal. (Page 450, Page 562)
Rep. Ciscomani is 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.
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. (Page 696)
Rep. Ciscomani supports legislation to make the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. Rep. Ciscomani co-sponsored the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, which would extend tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and give tax breaks to big corporations. Rep. Ciscomani also co-sponsored the Death Tax Repeal Act, which would fully repeal the federal estate tax.
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