Vice President Kamala Harris in a rally on Tuesday claimed Project 2025 would cut Social Security and Medicare, end the Affordable Care Act and give tax breaks to billionaires, among other things. 

Verdict: Misleading

Harris’ claims are misleading. Project 2025 does not intend to cut Social Security nor end the Affordable Care Act.

Fact Check: 

A new poll finds former President Donald Trump only one point ahead of Harris, closing the lead he had on President Joe Biden in a previous poll, according to The New York Times. Another survey shows that all of its Black participants supported Harris or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Newsweek reported.

Harris made several claims regarding Project 2025 at the rally. Harris urged people to read the 900-page document for Project 2025. She then said, around the 41:00 timestamp of the video from The Hill, “When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill. They intend to end the Affordable Care Act. And take us back, then, to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions.”

Harris’ claims about Project 2025 were misleading, however. Project 2025 made a post addressing various claims around the project.  The post stated that it does “not advocate for cutting Social Security” or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), specifying that it wants to instead “curb the abuses.” 

Project 2025 would not end ACA, but instead make cuts to Medicaid and reform Medicare, according to Forbes. Harris’ claim about pre-existing conditions is baseless, as there is no mention of pre-existing conditions in the Project 2025 document.

The Project 2025 post adds that the project is not affiliated with former President Donald Trump, contrary to the language Harris used to imply that Trump intends to carry out the project in full. Trump has attempted to distance himself from the project, saying that he knows nothing about it, according to CNN.

“I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he posted to Truth Social. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

Project 2025’s X post also says that that it advocated for “additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%” is misleading and that it calls for lower taxes for all Americans. It is true, however, that Project 2025 would reduce tax for capital gains and qualified dividends for higher earners, with the top rate going from 20 percent to 15 percent, according to CNBC.  (RELATED: Was Kamala Harris Ranked The Most Liberal Senator By Govtrack?)

A Harris campaign official told CNN that they “made a deliberate decision to brand all of Trump’s policies” as part of Project 2025 since they believe “it has stuck with voters.”

Check Your Fact reached out to spokespeople for Project 2025 and Harris for comment.