Democrats’ Sham ‘Hearing’ Aims to Smear Project 2025

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign publicly admitted two months ago that it was deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025. Now, House Democrats will join the chorus in feigning outrage.

Led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the party’s Steering and Policy Committee—which isn’t an official House committee—plans to hold a fake “hearing” Tuesday about Project 2025.

You can expect Democrats to invoke Donald Trump’s name repeatedly and associate it with Project 2025—even though the former president isn’t involved with the effort and has called it “merely disinformation put out by the Radical Left Democrat Thugs.”

“Do not believe them!” Trump added.

That won’t stop the Democrats who show up for Tuesday’s stunt, starting with their ringleader, Jeffries.

“It’s Project 2025 week because at the end of the day, my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues are determined to jam Trump’s Project 2025 down the throats of the American people,” Jeffries said—incorrectly—from the House floor last week.

Launched by The Heritage Foundation more than two years ago, Project 2025 has grown to a coalition of more than 110 conservative organizations that developed a transition plan for the next presidential administration. Its work is nonpartisan and available to whomever occupies the White House next year.

Many of its policy recommendations—such as securing the U.S.-Mexico border and unleashing American energy production—are overwhelmingly popular. But its recommendations for reining in the administrative state have triggered the Left to a near meltdown.

For months, The Daily Signal has documented the Left’s lies about Project 2025 and will continue to do so, including for today’s hearing. (You can prepare by reading Evan Maguire’s excellent commentary on the top five falsehoods about the initiative.)

But we are hardly alone. In total, news organizations spanning the globe have done more than 60 stories documenting the Democrats’ deceit.

Since replacing Joe Biden by entering the presidential race in July, Harris and her campaign have falsely attacked Project 2025 and the policies outlined in Heritage’s latest “Mandate for Leadership” effort on nearly a daily basis. Project 2025 featured prominently at the Democratic National Convention last month in Chicago and was a talking point for Harris at the Sept. 10 presidential debate with Trump.

Next up, House Democrats will take their turn to mislead and distort.

They have offered few details about Tuesday’s event, other than promoting it to The Washington Post as a multimedia extravaganza that will feature some of the same elements as the bogus committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.

Some of the same staff and outside consultants from the J6 committee—including a filmmaker—are working with Democrats on the fake Project 2025 “hearing,” according to the Post.

The event will take place at 2:15 p.m. in the Capitol. Jeffries plans to stream it live.

Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., co-founder of the partisan Stop Project 2025 Task Force, touted the event as “showing people what’s actually in Trump’s Project 2025”—falsely repeating one of the Democrats’ favorite lines about Trump.

As for showing what’s in it, Americans don’t need Huffman’s help. They can already do that by visiting Project2025.org. The complete volume of “Mandate for Leadership” is available for anyone to read for free.

With more than 4 million downloads since its April 2023 release, the book easily surpasses some of the other titles released last year. By comparison, “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover was the top-selling novel at 1.2 million copies.

Whether any Democrat has bothered to read Project 2025 is another question entirely.

And based on Democrats’ latest line of attack this week—that Project 2025 “could effectively ban IVF”—it appears the answer is a definitive “no.”

There’s not a single mention of IVF—an abbreviation for in vitro fertilization—on any of the 922 pages.

Yet that didn’t stop Harris from releasing an ad suggesting otherwise.

Lies like this will continue unabated until Election Day.

Without a policy agenda of her own, Harris has resorted to running against Project 2025. When pressed to take a position, she’s offered ideas that are radical departures from her past positions—from aiding illegal aliens to banning fracking.

The theatrics of Tuesday’s mock “hearing” might be entertaining to those who traffic in lies. For the rest of us, we’ll help make sure Americans understand fact from fiction.

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