The topic that seems to be on everyone’s minds as of late, Project 2025, received some scrutiny from former President Donald Trump on Monday as he said its abortion policy recommendations go “way too far.”
Trump has frequently distanced himself from the plan that was crafted by former members of his administration. This resulted in him being criticized by former Vice President Mike Pence, but Trump holds his position nonetheless.
While speaking with Fox News in an interview that aired on Monday, Trump said that he disagrees with the “group of extremely conservative people” who wrote Project 2025.
“From what I’ve heard, it’s not too far. It’s way too far,” Trump said. “They’ve gone, really, too far.”
So, what is Project 2025’s stance on abortion?
The abortion policy put forward in Project 2025 was written by Trump’s former director of the Office of Civil Rights, Roger Severino.
It would see the president revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which is responsible for more than half of all abortions nationwide.
“Abortion pills pose the single greatest threat to unborn children in a post-Roe world,” the document states.
The project is the conservative movement’s plan on how the next Republican president should attack certain policies and laws. The plan was written by the Heritage Foundation with input from more than 100 different conservative groups.
Trump’s campaign was not involved.
The agenda laid out in the plan is to be executed through the president’s executive authority alone.
Trump maintains that he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025, while his adversaries across the aisle claim it makes him a liability.
But while the former president isn’t supporting the measure fully and speaking out against its abortion policy, he has continued to praise himself for the overturning of Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I did a great job getting rid of Roe v. Wade,” the former president said in the interview. “I was able to get it back into the states.”