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On MSNBC, Sorensen, D-Moline, said Project 2025 would get rid of
the technology and forecasters doing weather modeling work. In a
social media post he urged voters to vote against policies like
Project 2025.
“We as Americans don’t bat an eye for the benefit of [the
National Weather Service]. Just imagine if that were to go
away,” Sorensen said on MSNBC. “What would it mean for people to
not get the warning ahead of time? What would it mean for air
travel if we didn’t have forecasters understanding turbulence?”
Democratic candidates, including Sorensen, have warned of the
“Project 2025” agenda and have said the policy wishlist was
written by Trump’s advisors. Former President Donald Trump
doesn’t claim the conservative presidential transition document
that was authored by The Heritage Foundation.
McGraw, a Republican from Rockford, said Sorensen discussing
Project 2025 is a distraction.
"The federal government has no intention of disassembling any of
the services that are currently available. [Vice President
Kamala Harris] has politicized it and played a phone game with
[Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis]; they've been slow to respond to
North Carolina because that's a red-voter area,” said McGraw.
“Rather than talking about their own failure to intervene, now
they are putting up a straw-man about Project 2025.”
DeSantis is not taking calls from Harris about storm recovery
just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his
state.
Sorensen said the hurricanes are developing faster due to “heat
energy.”
"They’ve got to make plans faster than ever before because these
tropical storms and hurricanes are developing faster because of
that heat energy,” said Sorensen.
McGraw said Sorensen is using the crisis to talk about climate
change policies and pointed out that America has reduced its CO2
emission more than any other country in the world.
“Is there a measurable change in climate? Yes. But what causes
it? Can we affect it? To think that what one country can do as
opposed to the rest of the world like China and India, who
aren’t abiding by any climate change standards, that somehow we,
through our efforts, can somehow affect the weather is dubious
at best,” said McGraw. |
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