Schweikert’s Record Shows He Has Voted for Some of Project 2025's Worst Ideas

PHOENIX — Congressman David Schweikert has voted for many of the ideas outlined in Project 2025, a series of policy proposals by the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation.

Among its goals under a Republican-led Congress, Project 2025 would raise taxes on middle class and lower income Arizonans and provide tax giveaways for the wealthy and corporations. Congressman Schweikert has already voted  to cut Medicare and to lower taxes for those at the top. He also voted against the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that empowered the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats and make them pay their fair share, while also giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices.

“Project 2025 isn’t just a future problem—it contains policies that David Schweikert and House Republicans have been voting for already. If this platform became law, Arizona working families would be worse off while the wealthiest of the wealthy would get another tax break,” said Andrea Moreno, executive director of Honest Arizona. “Congressman Schweikert needs to stop voting for extreme tax giveaways for those at the top and start voting to help Arizona families get ahead.”

According to the Center for American Progress, Project 2025 would:

  • Allow employers to stop paying workers for overtime work.

  • Put a new tax on health insurance for millions of people covered through their employer.

  • Increase taxes for the middle class and working families.

  • Ban Medicare from negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices.

  • Make it more expensive to buy a home by increasing mortgage insurance premiums on Federal Housing Administration loans.

  • Cut corporate taxes by $500 billion, from 21 percent to 18 percent—the lowest in more than 80 years—and cut taxes for the wealthy

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