News: House Democratic leadership will hear from Americans regarding their fears about Project 2025 in a special public presentation later today.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and leaders of the Steering and Policy Committee, co-chaired by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), will all participate.
The presentation will be broken down into three different panels focused on abortion and health care, workers’ rights and Social Security. It’s the latest effort by Democrats to message against the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as part of a campaign strategy we wrote about last week.
Witnesses include:
– Health care: Gracie Ladd, a Wisconsin resident who left the state to receive an abortion for medical reasons. Suki O., an ultrasound tech who works at an abortion clinic in Georgia; and Vicki Gonzalez, a nurse and SEIU local president in Miami who will discuss the impact of the Affordable Care Act on her patients.
– Workers’ rights: J.J. Jewell, an autoworker for the Ford Motor Company in Michigan; Rodney Fresh, a Detroit teacher who will talk about the policy proposals’ impact on high-poverty students.
– Genevieve Grinkley, a retiree in Stafford County, Va., whose sole income is Social Security.
In other news: Sens. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) are unveiling their bill to force social media platforms to display warning labels about mental health today.
Under the “Stop the Scroll Act,” popup labels would be developed by the surgeon general and Federal Trade Commission. Users would need to dismiss these labels each time they log on.
The surgeon general has previously called for such a label, and earlier this month, 42 state and territorial attorneys general pushed Congress to make them happen.
— Mica Soellner and Ben Brody
