President Biden is set to call the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 the “biggest attack” on the United States’s system of government during remarks Friday in Michigan.
“Folks, Project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and on our personal freedom that has ever been proposed in the history of this country,” Biden will say, according to prepared remarks.
Biden’s remarks in Michigan come as he is defending his candidacy and decision to stay in the race amid growing calls from Democratic lawmakers to drop out of the 2024 race.
Biden’s reelection campaign has attacked former President Trump over Project 2025, labeling it as “Trump’s Project 2025.”
“We’ve never seen anything like it. This is not a joke. It’s time for us to stop treating politics like it’s entertainment or a reality TV show. Another four years of Donald Trump is deadly serious. Project 2025 is deadly serious,” Biden will say.
While Trump has tried to distance himself from the initiative, Biden will aim to tie him to it, arguing that it is run and paid for by his allies. At least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration are associated with the initiative, CNN found, including Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and top aide Stephen Miller.
“His top policy people, his campaign’s press secretary, his personal bag man in the White House, Trump’s biggest funders and more,” Biden plans to say. “It was a project built for Trump.”
The president on Thursday, in a high-stakes press conference in Washington, made the case that he is in a position to beat Trump again.