During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on member organizations of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media demonetizing conservative political content, “Fang Fang” Rep. Eric Swalwell attempted to grill Ben Shapiro, and was clearly outmatched.
Even Swalwell seemed to realize as much, never raising his voice with or intensely interrogating Shapiro in the way that’s typical during such hearings, as Congresspeople compete for viral soundbites.
Swalwell attempted (poorly) to corner Shapiro on Project 2025, a set of policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation that the left is desperately attempting to claim is from the Trump administration in an attempt to take attention off Joe Biden.
Anyone active on social media, Twitter/X in particular, has seen Democrat politicians and liberal journalists (also known as “journalists”) band together in an attempt to fearmonger over Project 2025, which contains both the exact kind of policies conservatives have been openly calling for for years in the Trump-era - and a whole bunch of others that exist only in the mind of liberals.
Swalwell proved that early on.
“Ending same-sex marriage, what about that part [from Project 2025]?” Swalwell asked Shapiro of his opinion.
Shapiro answered about he personally supports traditional marriage - but the question was pointless to begin with, not only because an observant conservative Jew obviously opposes same-sex marriage, but because Project 2025 never discusses the legality of same-sex marriage once. It only calls for protecting faith-based grants for recipients who are counter-culture on the same-sex marriage issue.
Swalwell then went on to interrogate Shapiro about his opinions on banning the abortion pill, which Project 2025 calls for “A bare-minimum policy of limiting abortion pills to the
pre-2016 policy of 49 days gestation,” and “bans against books about slavery,” which project 2025 doesn’t call for. Generally speaking, when liberals talk about “banning books” on slavery, they’re simply misrepresenting our stance in being against books that take a biased politically-motivated anti-white or anti-American stance while discussing the issue. Nonetheless, Project 2025 never mentions banning books on slavery.
“Why would I possibly be in favor of bans on books about slavery? That would be absolutely ridiculous. What I am in favor of is the idea that school libraries should be able to make decisions along the lines of what exactly is appropriate for, lets say, a 7th grader and whether they ought to be treated to cartoons and Gender Queer. That’s not exactly the same thing,” Shapiro fired back at Swalwell.
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VP Kamala Harris got the memo as well, and rattled off a number of falsehoods about Project 2025 herself too this week while trying to salvage her sinking ship.
“What’s more, Trump’s advisors have created a 900-page blueprint of their agenda for the second term. They call it Project 2025. It includes a plan to cut social security. To repeal our $35 cap on insulin. To eliminate the Department of Education, and end programs like Head Start. So let us be clear, this represents an outright attack on our children” the cackler claimed.
To go through the list:
- Cutting Social Security: Project 2025 never mentions cutting social security
- Repealing $35 cap on insulin: As anyone can read from this press release in 2020, it was Trump who enacted the $35 on insulin. It seems unlikely that Trump wants to repeal the Trump agenda.
- Eliminating the Department of Education: This is true. Project 2025 states that “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” Why this isn’t viewed as a positive remains a mystery.
- Ending Head Start: Project 2025 does call for this, noting that “With a budget of more than $11 billion, the program should function to protect and educate minors. Sadly, it has done exactly the opposite. In fact, “approximately 1 in 4 grant recipients had incidents in which children were abused, left unsupervised, or released to an unauthorized person between October 2015 and May 2020.”68 Research has demonstrated that federal Head Start centers, which provide preschool care to children from low-income families, have little or no long-term academic value for children."
MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT PROJECT 2025
— Project 2025 (@Prjct2025) July 9, 2024
We are not affiliated with former President Trump. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations.
1. End no fault divorce: FALSE
Divorce is not mentioned in our policy handbook,… https://t.co/syj1HnCxhP
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