Vote Harris, Kaine, and Suhas

Dear Editor:

If readers are (somehow) still on the fence regarding the 2024 elections, they should consider the potential impact of Project 2025 on Loudoun County.

It’s not pretty. The only thing preventing one-in-four county residents from facing unemployment, loss of essential health insurance, elimination of basic childhood nutrition and/or vaccinations, is the election of the Harris-Kaine-Suhas ticket. 

A very small sample of what Project 2025—the MAGA blueprint for a second Trump term— proposes: 

Employment: Approximately 10% of Loudoun’s workforce, approximately 25,000 people, are federal employees, according to the 2020 U.S. census, all of whose jobs could be in jeopardy if Trump returns to power. One aspect of Project 2025 that Trump has publicly endorsed would eliminate civil service, dismissing thousands of workers whose loyalty to Trump is questionable, raising the specter of dismissing anyone not registered as a Republican. 

Children’s Health and Wellbeing:

Vaccines eliminated: More than 41,000 doses of federally funded vaccines were provided to Loudoun students during the 2023-2024 school year, according to the Virginia Office of Epidemiology, all of which would be eliminated.

Nutrition ended: Project 2025 proposes phasing out the $18 billion school lunch program for low-income children, which provided nearly 25 million lunches and 1.8 million breakfasts in Loudoun during the past school year, according to Loudoun County Public Schools.

Medicare, “Obamacare:” Roughly 30,000 Loudoun retirees receiving Medicare would see benefits slashed; key aspects of Medicare would be privatized, further reducing benefits. The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), serving 45 million, would be eliminated.

It’s difficult to believe Trump and Vance when they disavow Project 2025, produced by key Trump advisors—working for the Heritage Foundation, which vetted top Trump White House officials. Are they lying? Do a Google search for: Key Project 2025 leader Russ Vought. Or check out Vance’s Sept. 15, CNN interview with Dana Bash in which he proclaimed their willingness to lie, intentionally spreading any vile disinformation to garner public attention.

Electing Kamala Harris as president, returning Sen. Tim Kaine to the U.S. Senate and placing Suhas Subramanyam in Congress assures that we have ethical, honest leaders caring for all residents of Loudoun and the USA.

Michael Zuckerman

Round Hill