Fact check: Would Trump slash social security and Medicare?
Al Jazeera
Kamala Harris claims Donald Trump would allow medical insurance companies to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and cut social security.
Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out her closing argument for president in a new TV advertisement that attacks former President Donald Trump on healthcare, entitlement programmes and taxes.
“What would a Trump second term look like? It’s all laid out in his Project 2025 agenda,” the narrator says. “He’d let insurance companies deny coverage for preexisting conditions, cut Social Security and Medicare and give tax cuts to billionaires.”
For months, Harris’s campaign has tied Trump to Project 2025, a 900-page handbook of policy proposals for the next Republican administration created by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.
There is considerable overlap between the people involved in the project and former Trump administration officials. But Project 2025 is not part of Trump’s 2024 agenda, and he has worked to distance himself from it.
With that in mind, the advertisement is a mixed bag of accuracy. It refers to Trump’s previous claims to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), misleads viewers about “cuts” to entitlement programmes that are popular with older Americans and leaves out that Americans with average incomes would also receive some tax breaks under Trump.
