Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, recently made a false claim about Project 2025. He stated that the plan would require tracking all pregnancies and force people to register with a federal agency once they get pregnant. However, the conservative playbook doesn’t call for such measures.
Walz, also the governor of Minnesota, spoke about this at a rally in Superior, Wisconsin, on Sept. 14. “They’ve got a national pregnancy coordinator that tracks all pregnancies,” he said. He claimed that under Project 2025, every pregnancy would need to be reported to the government.
He went on to emphasize, “You’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant? This is personal, people.”
Just a few days later, Walz repeated this at another rally in Asheville, North Carolina. He said, “Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their abortion ban.”
However, fact-checkers like PolitiFact have pointed out that this isn’t true. The 887-page book of Project 2025 doesn’t mention tracking all pregnancies or creating such an agency.
What the plan does propose is expanding the CDC's abortion data collection. Currently, reporting is voluntary for states, but the proposal wants to make it mandatory.
Project 2025 is funded by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. While some involved have ties to Trump, his campaign has distanced itself, stating the plan isn’t officially connected to him.