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Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-27): This article is part of a series from the Center for American Progress exposing how the sweeping Project 2025 policy agenda would harm all Americans. This new authoritarian playbook, published by the Heritage Foundation, would destroy the 250-year-old system of checks and balances upon which U.S. democracy has relied and give far-right politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives. [...] Despite strong evidence that the program has helped boost educational attainment and fight intergenerational poverty, Project 2025—a far-right authoritarian playbook that would upend the 250-year-old system of checks and balances on which American government is built—proposes eliminating Head Start in its entirety. Enacting Project 2025’s plan to eliminate Head Start would vastly restrict the number of available child care slots, dramatically increase child care costs for families living in poverty, and undermine economic growth and exacerbate inequality. [...] Additionally, eliminating Head Start would upend the progress states and localities have made on universal pre-K. The District of Columbia, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, and West Virginia—top states in pre-K access for 4-year-olds—each have integrated Head Start programs into their state pre-K programs. For instance, in West Virginia, where pre-K is available for all 4-year-olds, 68 percent of the state’s preschool classrooms were in Head Start programs in the 2020 school year. Without Head Start, states would have to take on a larger share of funding to reach universal pre-K access.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-17): Project 2025 Would End Head Start and Hurt Children with Disabilities [...] The 2024 Republican National Convention has highlighted the party’s platform this week, drawing heavily from Project 2025. The conservative policy plan calls for the elimination of Head Start, alarming education advocates who note that doing so would remove access to early learning for over 787,000 children from families with low-incomes across the U.S. Of those children served, over 111,000 (about 14.2%) are children with disabilities, and many more are at risk for developing disabilities. Head Start specializes in providing comprehensive services to young children with disabilities from families with low incomes, who face intertwined challenges from inequitable access to food, health care, housing, and high-quality early learning. If Head Start ends, so will critical services for thousands of children with delays and disabilities living in poverty across the country. [...] Project 2025’s brevity about the elimination of Head Start belies its potentially devastating consequences for some of the U.S.’s most vulnerable children and their families. Cutting Head Start comprises just one paragraph in the project’s 900-plus-page Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. The paragraph includes misleading information about Head Start’s efficacy and no mention of its services for children with disabilities. It does not offer an alternative strategy for providing critical services to set young children up for long-term success.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-10-04): But Project 2025 doesn't stop there. Public education isn’t spared. Project 2025 promises to dismantle the Department of Education, a vow Donald Trump has repeated over and over on the campaign trail (and has been championed by GOP presidential candidates before him.) Betsy DeVos, who has expressed interest in serving in a second Trump administration, called for abolishing the department she once led at a Moms for Liberty summit in July. [...] Since 1965, Title I has provided critical financial help to high-poverty schools and districts. Project 2025 plans to eliminate Title I funding entirely. In its place, states will receive no-strings-attached block grants with zero regulations or oversight. [...] Project 2025 also calls for the end of the Head Start program, which served 833,000 children in fiscal year 2022, and would end universal free school meals that provide food security to millions of children.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-05-14): The document is the "180 Day Playbook" of a group called Project 2025, and it is the plan of attack – emphasis on the word "attack" – that people surrounding Donald Trump (e.g. Stephen Miller, Mark Meadows) have put together for what they hope will be second Trump administration. [...] - Eliminating the Head Start program. [...] Amazingly, however, Project 2025 calls for "phasing" Title I out of existence and turning the responsibility over to the states. North Carolinians familiar with their General Assembly’s cheapskate approach to funding schools will find that notion laughable.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-04): In another section of Project 2025, the authors recommend eliminating the Head Start program, which has fostered educational and social development for children under 5 years of age across the country since 1965. In 2021, the Heritage Foundation wrote that the program negatively affected children and that the federal government should sunset it in 2023. Virginia currently offers 52 Head Start and Early Head Start programs across four regions statewide, according to the Virginia Head Start Association. Butcher said Project 2025 and the foundation have also called for an end to the federal student lending program, stating that it’s not "Washington’s job to be the bank for every college student." Instead, the plan calls for consolidating student loans, moving them to the U.S. Department of Treasury and opening an opportunity for private lenders to offer loans to students. [...] "While a lot of these ideas are not necessarily new, they are really, really concerning in the ways in which Project 2025 spells out with great clarity the efforts to, in essence, destroy public education in the country."
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-12): The Heritage Foundation and the 100+ organizations that make up the Project 2025 Advisory Board have mapped out exactly how they will achieve their extreme ends. They aim to try and carry out many of the most troubling proposals through an anti-democratic president and political loyalists installed in the executive branch, without waiting for congressional action. And, while many of these plans are unlawful, winning in court is not guaranteed given that the same far-right movement that is behind Project 2025 has shaped our current court system. [...] The Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project is a well-funded (eight-figure) effort of the Heritage Foundation and more than 100 organizations to enable a future anti-democratic presidential administration to take swift, far-right action that would cut wages for working people, dismantle social safety net programs, reverse decades of progress for civil rights, redefine the way our society operates, and undermine our economy. [...] Project 2025 is a radical playbook that presents a profound threat to the American people, our freedoms, and our democracy. Join us to expose this effort by far-right extremists and fight back.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-24): Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s rightwing manifesto for a potential incoming Trump administration, lays out how dismantling the federal education department would work, leaving behind, if anything, a husk focused solely as a "statistics-gathering agency that disseminates information to the states", writes Lindsey Burke, the author of the education chapter and leader of Heritage’s education policy center. [...] Project 2025 posits various ways to put states in control of programs the federal government now funds and manages. Instead of directing how funds should be used, it generally says states should be given money with no strings attached to spend on "any lawful education purpose under state law". [...] The Heritage Foundation also wants to eliminate Head Start, a program that funds early childhood education for low-income families, because it is "fraught with scandal and abuse", according to a chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services. The Center for American Progress says in a new report that eliminating Head Start would reduce access and increase costs for childcare, hurting economic stability.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Unlike Facebook comments, Project 2025 has the potential to harm our society at every level, further concentrating power in the hands of the few while stripping rights and protections from the many. It makes you want to stick your head in the sand, but we need to get informed and know what we’re up against in order to build a better future. Published by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 lays out the MAGA world’s plan to dismantle our democratic institutions and enact extreme right-wing social policies if Trump is re-elected. The laundry list of proposals is so weird — from killing wild horses and deregulating baby formula, to ending student loan forgiveness programs and criminalizing porn — that it can be hard to see the broad outlines. I took psychic damage reading the whole thing so you don’t have to. Here are some of the key policies: [...] As a queer person with many loved ones who rely on government programs like Medicaid, Head Start, income-based student loan payment plans, and DACA, Project 2025 represents a lethal attack on my community. I want my friend’s children to grow up in a world where it is safe to love who they love and breathe the air outside. I don’t want to wait around and see if Republicans will actually go through with kicking my sibling off their health insurance for being trans, deporting my undocumented neighbor, or arresting my friend for using birth control.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-21): Project 2025 outlines a radical policy agenda that would dramatically reshape the federal government. The report was spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation and represents the policy aims of a large coalition of conservative activists. While former President Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, many of the report’s authors worked in the previous Trump administration and could return for a second round. Trump, himself, said in 2022, "This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do." [...] Project 2025’s education agenda proposes a drastic overhaul of federal education policy, from early childhood through higher education. Here’s just a sample of the Project 2025 education-related recommendations: [...] If one were to read Project 2025’s appeals to principles such as local control and parental choice, they might think this is a standard conservative agenda for education policy. Republicans, after all, have been calling for the dismantling of ED since the Reagan administration, and every administration since has supported some types of school choice reforms.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-15): I’ll slip into teacher mode to describe some of what’s in the 900-plus page tome. Project 2025 would affect every facet of our lives, starting with healthcare. It eliminates the protections for people with pre-existing conditions—reverting to the bad old days before Obamacare when insurance companies could deny coverage to people with asthma, diabetes, cancer or countless other conditions. It allows the government to monitor pregnancies so they can prosecute people if they miscarry and imprison doctors and nurses who treat patients experiencing pregnancy-related health crises. It would take money out of your pocket—banning Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices and ending prescription drug price caps, increasing costs for as many as 18.5 million seniors. [...] Project 2025 would kick the ladder of opportunity out from under all but the most advantaged children and families—and Trump doesn’t distance himself from these plans. He pretends that abolishing the Department of Education would be a simple bureaucratic maneuver, but it would rob millions of students in public schools in every community in the country of vital resources, programs and protections. And if states and localities wanted to replace the loss of vital federal funds, they would have to increase taxes. Project 2025 would eliminate Title I funding for schools serving low-income children—sending class sizes soaring and stripping individualized attention from students with the greatest needs. It would slash funding to support students with disabilities, rescind protections for LGBTQIA+ students and cut free school lunches. It would harm the youngest and oldest students—scrapping Head Start and reinstate crushing student debt.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-22): Project 2025 would eviscerate federal funds for public schools, eliminate Head Start, cut nutrition assistance programs, and more [...] Nutrition assistance, Head Start, federal funds for education, and even safe baby formula would all be on the chopping block if the architects of the highly controversial Project 2025 have their way. [...] Third, Klam says Project 2025 would eliminate Head Start entirely. Head Start, which has served nearly 40 million children, provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and families.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-24): The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish. [...] Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Office of Head Start, which would lead to the closure of Head Start child care programs that serve about 833,000 low-income children each year. Most Head Start children are served in center-based programs, which have an outsized role in rural areas and prioritize enrolling a certain percentage of young children with disabilities who often struggle to find child care elsewhere. Head Start also provides a critical funding and resource stream to other private child care programs that meet Head Start standards, including home-based programs. – J. M. [...] Project 2025 would end the prospect of student loan forgiveness, which has already been largely blocked by federal courts; the Biden administration, in a sort of game of Whac-a-Mole, has proposed still more forgiveness programs that are being fought by Republican state attorneys general and others. Project 2025 would also dramatically restrict what’s known as "borrower defense to repayment," which forgives loans borrowed to pay for colleges that closed or have been found to use illegal or deceptive marketing. Largely restricting the Education Department to collecting statistics, Project 2025 would shift responsibility for student loans to the Treasury Department. — Jon Marcus
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-08-23): The right-wing proposals in Project 2025 would hurt our country’s public school students, harm children and families who rely on Head Start, and wreck our economy by skewing it toward the wealthy and corporations at the expense of working families. Project 2025, the extremist agenda set forth by former President Donald Trump’s allies, aims to eliminate the Department of Education, directing tax dollars toward private schools that do not meet the same standards as public schools and do not admit or serve all students. The same goes for charter schools, which do not provide the same accountability as public schools. [...] Project 2025 also proposes to eliminate Head Start, a federal early education program that serves more than 833,000 children living in poverty, providing them essential services they need from birth until they turn 5 years old.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-03): House Republican Agendas and Project 2025 Would Increase Poverty and Hardship, Drive Up the Uninsured Rate, and Disinvest From People, Communities, and the Economy [...] [56] Project 2025 proposes providing summer meals to children in low-income families only if they are taking summer-school classes, which would substantially cut the Summer Food Service Program (which provides meals) and could mean eliminating the Summer EBT program (which provides grocery benefits to enable low-income households with children to purchase food). See p. 303 of Project 2025. [...] [72] Project 2025, Chapter 11, "Department of Education," pp. 319-362.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-07-19): Known as "Project 2025," this radical agenda, designed to be set in motion on Day One of a new Trump administration, was written by top Trump advisers. [...] What’s more, Project 2025 would also eviscerate Biden administration programs and policies that AFSCME members overwhelmingly support and fought for: [...] - Project 2025 would put an end to the Head Start program, which serves more than 833,000 children living in poverty across the country; many AFSCME members also work as Head Start educators.
Claim: Project 2025 would “end Head Start.” (Kamala Harris, 2024-07-18)
Evidence (2024-09-10): Commentary: Head Start saved my family. Project 2025 would end it [...] Now, a group of MAGA extremists have put together a radical policy agenda called Project 2025 that would eliminate the lifeline of Head Start entirely. The result would not only be unspeakably cruel for families like mine who have battled poverty, but it would totally annihilate child care slots in communities already plagued by a lack of affordable child care options — particularly rural and Latino communities. [...] The average cost of child care for toddlers is $12,000 in America. Without Head Start, I would never have been able to afford the high-quality, safe and reliable care my children needed so that I could work full time to support them. I would never have been able to start my own cleaning business, which has grown substantially and allowed me to provide for my daughters the way they deserve. And my daughters — who both love school — would never have been able to get the strong educational foundation they have now if it weren’t for Head Start. The health and success of my family despite all odds is living proof of why Project 2025 is so dangerous.
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-07-23): The death announcement included satirical claims about former President Jimmy Carter’s time in office and lewd references to former first ladies. The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization Carter founded, told PolitiFact the letter is a hoax.
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-05-14): Jimmy Carter, now 99, became the oldest living president in history after George H.W. Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94. He has survived metastatic brain cancer, liver cancer and a number of health scares, including brain surgery after a fall in 2019. He entered hospice care in February 2023 after a series of hospital stays and made a rare public appearance to attend his wife’s memorial service back in November. [...] The former president is widely revered for his championing of human rights. His brokering of the Camp David Accords in 1978 with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin remains central to his legacy. A peanut farmer and US Navy lieutenant before going into politics, Carter, a Democrat, served one term as governor of Georgia before serving as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-10-01): The former president has been in hospice at his home in Plains, Georgia, since February 2023. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, entered hospice care a few days before her death on Nov. 19, 2023. She also was diagnosed with dementia earlier that year. [...] Over the past several years, Jimmy Carter has survived cancer and multiple falls, among other illnesses. [...] "After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention," the statement read. "He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers."
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Longest living former US President Jimmy Carter turns 100 [...] Former United States President Jimmy Carter has turned 100, with praise pouring in for the peanut farmer whose post-presidential career resonated far beyond his short time in office. Carter marked his birthday on Tuesday from his birthplace of Plains, Georgia, where he entered hospice care in his modest home last year.
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business. Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Party president, Gerald Ford, in the 1976 presidential election. [...] Carter has made arrangements to be buried in front of his home at 209 Woodland Drive in Plains. In 2006 he said that a funeral in Washington, D.C., with visitation at the Carter Center was also planned.[511] Carter asked President Biden to deliver his eulogy.[512] [...] - Bourne, Peter G. (1997). Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography From Plains to Post-Presidency. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-19543-8. LCCN 96048593. OL 22339703M.
Claim: Former President Jimmy Carter “passed away Tuesday, July 23, at 01:34 am at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 99.” (X posts, 2024-07-23)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100: A look back at his legacy [...] Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 100th birthday on Tuesday, marking another milestone for the former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian. Carter, who served as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981, is the longest-lived former chief executive in the history of the United States.