Former President Donald Trump said Project 2025 goes “way too far” on abortion.
“They have a strong view of abortion. Well, from what I’ve heard — it’s way too far. They’ve gone really too far,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner that aired Monday.
Project 2025, a list of conservative policy recommendations published by the Heritage Foundation, calls for the next president “to lead the nation in restoring a culture of life in America again.”
It does not call for a national abortion ban, but it advocates reversing the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, requiring states to report abortions to the federal government, and replacing the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force with “a pro-life task force to ensure that all of the department’s divisions seek to use their authority to promote the life and health of women and their unborn children.”
Trump has said he won’t sign a national abortion ban if elected to a second term. The new GOP platform dropped language advocating federal abortion limits earlier this month.
“I did a great job at getting rid of Roe v. Wade,” the former president said in the interview. “I was able to get it back to the states, and now I’ve given it back to the people. The people are voting. And frankly, the people are voting, in many cases, quite liberally.”
“They can vote the way they want. It’s not a federal issue. It’ll never be a federal issue again,” he added.
Trump has repeatedly disavowed Project 2025 in the face of Democratic attacks while at the same time saying he has “no idea” what it is.
“A group of extremely conservative people got together and wrote up a wish list of things, many of which I disagree with entirely,” he said.
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The interview was recorded Saturday before a man attempted to assassinate the former president at a Pennsylvania rally later that afternoon.
Trump is set to accept his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention this week.
