Donald Trump’s Project 2025 Leaves More Americans Sick And Uninsured, Democrats Continue To Lower Health Care Costs For American Families
Donald Trump’s Project 2025 repeals the life-saving provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), raises health care and drug costs on American families, and risks their access to critical health care coverage. It reinforces a legacy of Republican plans, including the 2025 House Republican Budget and the 2025 Republican Study Committee Budget, that have threatened to repeal historic health care improvements in the IRA and gutted critical health care programs.
The Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats have a dramatically different vision for Americans’ access to health care. We are committed to making quality, affordable health care a right for all Americans and lowering their drug costs. The 2025 Biden-Harris Budget builds on the progress of Democrats’ investments in the IRA to lower costs for families and continues to put the health of the American people over Big Pharma’s profits.
| Donald Trump’s Project 2025 | 2025 Biden-Harris Budget |
Repeals Medicare’s drug price negotiation authority enacted in the IRA, allowing for Big Pharma’s exorbitant price gouging of seniors. | Empowers Medicare to negotiate lower prices for more drugs sooner, extending the life of Medicare, lowering seniors’ drug costs by billions of dollars, and ending exorbitant price gouging by Big Pharma. |
Repeals prescription drug provisions in the IRA, including the $35 per month insulin cap and the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for Medicare beneficiaries, increasing costs for as many as 18.5 million seniors and others with Medicare. | Expands the $35 per month insulin cap and the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap to commercial plans, providing these protections to all Americans who purchase their own health insurance or get coverage through an employer. |
Guts Medicaid by converting federal funding to block grants or per capita caps and eliminates existing federal Medicaid protections and requirements. | Closes the Medicaid coverage gap by permanently extending coverage to low-income individuals in states that have not expanded Medicaid, providing health coverage to over 2 million uninsured adults. |
Risks seniors’ access to doctors and services under Medicare by making privately-run Medicare Advantage plans, instead of traditional Medicare, the default option for all seniors. | Strengthens Medicare by extending the solvency of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund indefinitely by making sure high-income individuals pay their fair share. |
Rejects abortion as health care, reverses the FDA’s approval of abortion pills, requires states to report abortions to the federal government, and redirects Title X family planning funding towards education about the importance of marriage. | Calls on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law, removes a longstanding ban on federal funding for most abortions (Hyde Amendment), and supports $390 million for Title X, a 36 percent increase above last year. |
Commits to finding ways to outlaw IVF by revising the mission statement of HHS to declare that life begins at conception. | Commits to safeguarding nationwide access to IVF and women’s freedom to make personal health care decisions through executive action. |