Fighting Against Project 2025
Senator Hughes is partnering with non-partisan experts to answer constituent questions about how the Trump Administration is implementing Project 2025 and right-wing plans to make healthcare, education, and daily life more expensive.
Check out the conversations he’s been having and subscribe to our e-newsletter to find out about future online and in-person conversations Senator Hughes will host.
Stay Informed and Stay Engaged
One of the best ways to push back against harmful policies implemented by any administration is to pay attention and reach out to lawmakers. Follow the links below to find out which lawmakers represent you and how you can contact them.
Online Town Halls
Public Education
Update on the Attack on Public Education
February 18, 2025
Protecting Students from Project 2025’s Attack on Public Education
December 17, 2024
Worker Rights
Protecting Unions and Worker Rights from Project 2025
January 9, 2025
Social Security and Your Money
Preparing for Project 2025: Taxes, Tariffs, and Cuts to Social Security
December 10, 2024
Medicare and Healthcare
Protecting healthcare as we confront potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
November 26, 2024
Healthcare Under Project 2025
WHAT TO EXPECT:
CUTS to MEDICARE and
MEDICAID
a slow and steady dismantling
Medicare
- Cut funding to SCALE BACK PROGRAM
- PUSH FAMILIES TOWARDS PRIVATE PLANS WITH worse coverage
- ADD WORK REQUIREMENTS TO MAKE less people eligible
- ELIMINATE OR OVERHAUL WAIVER PROCESS
Medicaid
- REPEAL out of pocket cost cap at $2,000
- REPEAL INSULIN COST CAP of $35 a month
- REPEAL FREE VACCINES
NEW RESTRICTIONS to REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE
a lack of privacy and access
- WITHHOLD FEDERAL MEDICAID PAYMENT from states that fail to report extensive data on abortions
- ROLL BACK HIPAA GUIDELINES that has protected the privacy of people who receive reproductive health care
- BAN or SEVERELY RESTRICT ACCESS TO MIFEPRISTONE, the safe and effective abortion drug
REMOVAL of AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PROTECTIONS
for pre-existing conditions
- MAKE THE AFFORDABLE (ACA) MORE COSTLY for people
- REMOVE ACA PROTECTIONS FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
- REPEAL government’s ability to NEGOTIATE DRUG PRICES
- Many plans to WEAKEN KEY REFORMS to make the program so bad PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD TO USE IT and HAVE DIFFICULTY ACCESSSING IT