Opinion Trump disavowed Project 2025. But Harris still owns her Project 2019.
“…Unlike Project 2025, which Trump has never embraced, Harris is on record as having supported the following Project 2019 policies:
Banning the sale of gas-powered cars. In April 2019, Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act in the Senate, which would have banned the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2040. Then, during her 2019 campaign, Harris promised to implement an “accelerated model” of the act that would move the target ahead to 2035.
A federal ban on fracking. At CNN’s September 2019 town hall on the climate crisis, Harris declared, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” She pledged to end fossil fuel leases on public lands as well as all offshore drilling, and to weaponize her Justice Department to go after oil and gas companies that have directly impacted global warming, telling the audience she will “take them to court and sue them.”
Ending private health insurance. In 2017, she was the first Democrat to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act, which would have abolished private health insurance and replaced it with a government-run single-payer system. In 2019, she reaffirmed that position. Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper at a January 2019 town hall whether she would “totally eliminate private insurance,” Harris said yes. “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval,” she told Tapper, adding: “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.”
The Green New Deal. In 2019, Harris co-sponsored the radical Green New Deal. As a candidate, she unveiled her own plan to spend $10 trillion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a goal of getting to a carbon-neutral economy by 2045. And she vowed to ram it through the Senate with a simple majority, declaring on CNN, “If they fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.”
Decriminalizing illegal border crossings. In 2019, Harris raised her hand during a Democratic debate when asked if she supported decriminalizing border crossings. In an interview that same year, she declared, “I am in favor of saying that we’re not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals.”
Defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Asked in 2019 if she supported abolishing ICE, Harris replied: “We’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing, and we need to probably think about starting from scratch.” In an ACLU questionnaire, Harris boasted that she “was one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE” and promised that, as president, she would slash ICE detentions by at least 50 percent.
Health care for illegal migrants. During her 2019 campaign, Harris came out in favor of providing taxpayer-funded health care for illegal migrants, telling CNN: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.” And in the ACLU questionnaire, she promised that this coverage would include gender transition surgery for migrants held in federal immigration detention.
Decriminalizing drug possession. Asked by the ACLU, “Will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?,” Harris answered yes.
Bailing out violent criminals, defunding the police and letting felons vote. Harris raised money for a bail fund that helped put violent criminals back on the streets. Asked by CNN’s Don Lemon whether “people who are convicted, in prison like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault,” should be able to vote, Harris replied, “I think we should have that conversation.” She has also praised the “defund the police” movement.
Mandatory gun buybacks. While running for president in 2019, Harris said at a gun safety forum in Las Vegas that she supported forcing owners of millions of so-called assault weapons to give them up, telling MSNBC, “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program.”
Court-packing. In 2019, Harris was asked about the possibility of adding up to four seats to the Supreme Court. She said she was “open to this conversation.” Two months earlier, she had told Politico that “everything is on the table” when it comes to the court.
Proposing $46 trillion in new spending. Manhattan Institute budget expert Brian Riedl went through all of Harris’s 2019 campaign pledges to see how much they cost. He found that she had proposed a mind-boggling $46 trillion in new government spending over a decade…”
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