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This 2021-2022 guide includes six actual ACT ® tests – all of which contain the optional writing test – that you can use to practice at your own pace. To help you review test subjects and improve your understanding, this guide provides clear explanations for every answer. You’ll also get practical tips for boosting your score on the English, math, reading, and science tests, as well as the optional writing test. Additionally, you can access the six tests online through the access code provided in the guide. The code also provides access to 400 online flashcards to help you prepare for all sections in the ACT ® examination.
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Depending on the year, either the ACT or the SAT is the most popular college admissions test in the United States. About 1.3 million students in the graduating class of 2022 took the ACT or an estimated 36% of all graduates in the US .
According to ACT, the best way to improve your score is simply to take the test more than once, which is why we’ve published this guide of free ACT practice tests. Students who took the ACT test multiple times scored an average of nearly 3 points higher than those who took the ACT only one time .
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However, the free practice test is not always updated each year; the ACT generally recycles the same test for 2-3 years. You can quickly tell if a test is unique or not by looking at the “Form” number, which is found on the bottom-left corner of each page preceded by the year of publication.
The 2023-2024 “Preparing for the ACT Test” is the newest and most current edition of the ACT’s free student prep guide; however the practice test it contains is from 2021, form 2176CPRE.
Note that we have removed the links to download the PDFs below; but you can easily find them by Googling the Form Name. In September of 2022, ACT started sending us and Google nasty-grams about sharing these freely available tests.
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You’ve arrived at the world’s authoritative SAT-ACT conversion tool and information resource. Academically-oriented colleges in the United States require that students submit scores from one of two standardized tests – the SAT and the ACT – in order to be considered for admission. Standardized tests like the SAT and ACT are important to such American colleges and universities because they are standardized – unlike high school grades and extracurricular activities, which will vary greatly from school to school and student to student. While there is much debate these days as to whether or not success on the SAT or ACT is a reliable predictor of how a student will perform during his or her freshman year of college, students can’t get wrapped up in the latest academic debates on the matter. For the foreseeable future colleges that prize academic excellence will continue to judge applicants and their perceived potential based on their scores on the SAT or ACT. If you want to have the most college options, you should plan to take the SAT and/or ACT and do well on at least one of them.
The good news is that all American colleges and universities that require submission of standardized test scores as a part of a student’s application will consider a student’s score on the SAT or ACT. Colleges look at your success on these tests as interchangeable – even though the tests assess your skills and knowledge quite differently. Thus, you need to be strategic about which tests to take and when to take them in order to ultimately submit to colleges your best scores.
Many students, depending on their particular strengths and weaknesses, will perform much better on one test or the other. Consequently, prepared students should study for both tests by purchasing and completing timed practice tests included in the latest editions of The Official SAT Study Guide and The Official ACT Prep Guide . Next, students should sign up for and take the SAT and ACT at least once each in order to gauge which test casts them in the best light.
The SAT assesses students in the areas of Evidence-Based Reading & Writing (EBRW) and Math (M). There is also an optional essay in its own section. The ACT tests students in English (E), Math (M), Reading (R), and Science (S). On the ACT there is also an optional essay.
The ACT’s sections are broken down as follows:
The required sections of the ACT take 2 hours and 55 minutes. If you opt to take the optional Writing (essay) section, you will add an extra 40 minutes to the end of your test. The key concepts tested on each section of the ACT are as follows:
The SAT’s four sections proceed as follows:
The four sections of the SAT take 3 hours to complete. The key concepts tested on each section of the SAT are:
On both the SAT and ACT there is a difference between raw points earned versus scaled points earned. Basically, raw points are earned for correct answers. On both tests no raw points are deducted for multiple choice questions answered incorrectly or left blank.
Yet, the testing agencies responsible for the SAT and ACT hardly make things simple because they don’t report to you your raw score (at least not directly in top-level summaries available on score reports). Instead they put your raw scores in the oven – they cook them! Instead of calling your final scores on these tests your cooked scores, they call them your scaled scores. Receiving cooked scores probably would rub people the wrong way. Go figure. Yet, how the SAT and ACT cook their scores is completely different. The SAT inflates and the ACT deflates.
The lowest score one can earn on each of the three sections of the SAT is 200. To earn a 200 on one section of the SAT would mean that you answered no questions right and a lot of questions wrong. Thus, 200 is a very rare score to get on any section of the SAT. A 200 still sounds better than 0 to the man on the street, so congrats if you get a 200. Thus, the lowest potential combined score one can get on the two main sections of the SAT is a 400.
Alternatively, if you get every SAT question right (or nearly every question on some test administration dates), you can earn as high as 800 points on each section. Thus, the highest combined score one can earn on the SAT is 1600. Now that’s hot stuff!
The average scores for Americans taking the test come in at just above or below 500 per section depending on the year or exact test date of administration.
Meanwhile, the ACT has a scaled score that looks completely different, first because there are more sections, and second because when you go out to lunch with someone you don’t just want to rattle off the sum of your section scores like you would with the SAT. Remember, if somebody earned a 630 Evidence-Based Reading & Writing and 700 Math on the SAT, they would most likely be overheard saying something like, “So, guess what? I just found out that I got a 1330 on the SAT! Can you believe how awesome I am?” When referring colloquially to your greatness as it relates to your ACT score, you speak a bit differently. You share your average score of all the sections that make up the test. This score is referred to as your composite score. The highest composite score one can earn on the ACT is a 36, while the lowest composite score one can theoretically get on the ACT is a 1. So, again, assuming you are out with a friend after checking your scores online, you would say something like, “Oh my gosh! I just logged in and I got a 30!” For the student in this example to get a 30 means that he or she got section scores that averaged out to 30. So, for instance, he or she may have gotten a 29 on the English section a 33 on the Math section, a 28 on the Reading section, and a 31 on the Science section.
29+33+28+31 = 121 / 4 = 30.25
Please note from the example above that ACT will only round up to the next highest round number starting at X.50; therefore, a score of 30.25 is reported as a 30.
Note that in the above example we have not mentioned the student’s ACT Writing score, which on the ACT is synonymous with a test taker’s essay score. This is because a student’s Writing (essay) score does not affect his or her composite score in any way.
The ACT has two readers review your essays, and each reader gives your essay a score between 1 and 6 for four distinct domains: Ideas and Analysis, Development and Support, Organization, and Language Use and Conventions. Thus, your Writing (essay) score on the ACT is the average of these scores. The full ACT essay-scoring rubric is available here .
The scores that matter to most to ALL colleges when comparing how you did on one test versus how you did on the other test are the scores that this site asks you to report and convert above.
First, colleges are comparing your SAT composite (EBRW + M) score to your ACT composite (E + M + R + S) score.
Comparing your SAT and ACT scores is incredibly frustrating if you don’t do it the right way. The above conversion calculators are valuable because they help you see things from the perspective of college admissions officers as they review test scores from students. Your job as a student is to put your best foot forward on your college application. This site helps you do just that by allowing you to gauge which test is your best test.
The number of colleges that don’t require the SAT or ACT is growing as more colleges acknowledge that a student is more than a score and that by removing testing requirements colleges often get a bump in application numbers. During Spring 2020 in particular, many colleges fretted over plunges in future application numbers in response to the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic and the global economic depression that resulted from governments around the world forcibly destroying their economies. Many colleges, looking at their financial situations, wagered that lowering admissions standards would prevent demand from plunging too far too fast. They were right, and in some cases application numbers increased so much that colleges decided to maintain test-optional admissions policies indefinitely.
Yet, remember, just because a college doesn’t require applicants to submit their SAT or ACT score in order to considered for admission does not mean that such a college won’t strongly consider your scores if you do choose to submit them. For instance, you can bet the farm that if you choose to apply Early Decision to University of Pennsylvania in Fall 2021 and as part of your application you submit an ACT score of 35, that 35 will help your chances of getting into Penn.
Always check directly with the colleges on your list before applying to make sure you understand their most up to date admissions policies fully.
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Here at PrepScholar, we understand how important it is to pick the right ACT test date. Choose a date that's too early and you won't have enough time to study. However, choose a date that's too late and you may not be able to retake the exam, if needed, or get your scores to colleges by their deadlines.
To help make choosing the best ACT test date easier, we constantly review data to keep you up-to-date on new ACT testing dates. When you know future ACT registration and exam dates, you can stay organized so you can focus on studying for the test with less stress.
In this article, we go over the confirmed ACT test dates for 2021-2022 and explain the steps to take to pick the best ACT test date for you.
Below is the schedule for the ACT test dates, registration deadlines, and score release dates for the 2021-22 school year. The ACT test dates and deadlines are all confirmed by ACT Inc; the online score release dates are our own estimates.
* The first date is when multiple-choice scores come out, and the second date is when complete scores (including the essay) become available.
**The July exam date isn't offered in New York.
Each of these 2021-2022 ACT test dates, as well as the regular and late deadlines, has been confirmed on the official ACT website. This means that you can be confident that they won't change, especially as the period of exam cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic seems to have passed.
The score release dates are estimated, based on past patterns of multiple-choice results being released about ten days after the exam and essay scores being released about two weeks after that. However, it's completely possible for ACT scores to be delayed a few days; this is a normal occurrence and shouldn't worry you or make you think anything there's something wrong with your scores. If more than a week has passed after these score release dates and you still haven't gotten your scores, you can call ACT, Inc to check the status of your results.
The ACT is typically offered seven times a year. How can you know which date will work best for you? Before you decide to register for one of the above test dates, consider these four factors:
This is the most important consideration. Before you can choose an ACT test date, you need to know when each of the colleges you're applying to requires your scores. If you miss a school's deadline, they likely won't look at your scores, no matter how high they are! Therefore, you always want to choose a test date well before college deadlines. (Even if you're applying to a school that's test-optional , if you decide to send ACT scores, they still must be received by the school's deadline.)
It takes about one to three weeks after your exam date for you to get your ACT scores, and schools typically receive your scores another two weeks after that. Therefore, we recommend choosing an ACT test date at least a month before your applications are due in order to ensure you meet school deadlines.
Common application deadlines are January 1 for students applying regular decision and November 1 or 15 for early action / early decision . If you apply regular decision , the December test in your senior year is likely the last ACT you can take for most colleges. If you apply early action or early decision, the last ACT you can take will likely be the October test date.
Some schools have a specific deadline just for SAT/ACT scores, or they'll list the final exam date they accept scores from. Check the admissions pages of the schools you're applying to so you can get this information; it's very important to know!
In order to get their best score, many students end up taking the ACT two or three times . Even if you feel confident that you'll reach your goal score the first time you take the ACT, it's smart to give yourself time for one or two retakes, just in case you have an off day. Here's a potential schedule that gives you plenty of time to take the ACT three times:
If you don't feel quite ready to take the ACT in the fall of your junior year, you can take the test for the first time in February of your junior year instead. This will still leave you enough time to take it once or twice more with time to study between exam dates.
The study plan you create is another important consideration to take into account before choosing an ACT test date. We generally recommend that students begin studying several months before they take the ACT, but what really counts, more than the number of months, is how many hours you spend studying. You'll want to take a practice ACT first, see how you score on it, and see how far that score is from your goal score . Then you can figure out how much you want to improve and how many hours you should study.
Here are our estimates for the numbers of hours you'll need to study for the ACT, based on how much of a point improvement you want to make:
For example, if you are getting about a 26 on practice ACTs and your goal score is a 30, expect to study about 40-60 hours to reach that goal. If you think you can manage studying about six hours a week, it'll take you about seven to ten weeks to be ready. That means you should choose a test date at least 2.5 months after you begin studying for the ACT to make sure you have plenty of time to prepare. Of course you can reach that goal faster if you can fit in more study hours each week.
Remember though, that these are only estimates, and it's important to take regular practice ACTs so you can see how much progress you're making and which areas you still need to improve in.
The final factor to keep in mind is whether the ACT test date you're considering works with everything else in your schedule. Once you have an exam date in mind, check to see if you have any potential conflicts on or around that date. Don't look at just the test date itself either; make sure that you have plenty of time in your schedule in the weeks/months before the exam date for you to study as much as you need to.
For example, maybe the February date is on the same day as your orchestra concert. Or perhaps you want to avoid the June test date because you'll be focused on preparing for your AP exams. In these cases, you'll want to choose a different exam date to be sure you can be well prepared for the ACT and fully focused on the test come exam day.
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Nsf budget cuts hamstring chips act and community colleges.
U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan joined New America's Future of ... [+] Work & Innovation Economy initiative on June 6, 2024 to discuss the importance of community and technical colleges in the NSF Regional Innovation Engines, a program catalyzed by the CHIPS & Science Act of 2022.
Congress did something invaluable but underappreciated with the passage of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The “science” part of the legislation empowered the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), America's federal agency dedicated to advancing scientific research and STEM education, to expand support for community colleges workforce preparation for emerging technology sectors .
Community colleges are well-known as affordable, accessible, and employer-aligned engines of economic mobility . Scientific and technological innovation spurred by federally funded R&D, CHIPS-specific investments, the AI revolution, and infrastructure investments such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act have compounded America's need for skilled technical talent and community colleges.
Today, community colleges not only educate America’s care workers, welders, plumbers, and electricians and support degree attainment, but they are also training for jobs in emerging fields comprising the future of work .
Through certificates, degree programs, apprenticeships, and customized training, community colleges meet employers' workforce needs for the emerging technology areas Congress emphasized in CHIPS – including artificial intelligence , autonomous vehicles , quantum science and technology , biotechnology , green energy jobs , advanced manufacturing , and beyond.
That’s good news because not only are 2-year institutions best suited to grow the STEM skilled technical workforce, but the community college sector serves a significant portion of working-class Americans, rural communities , and people of color who were left out of the innovation economy during the 20th-century rise of Silicon Valley.
Trump vs. harris 2024 polls: harris leads trump in latest post-dnc surveys, today’s nyt mini crossword clues and answers for wednesday, august 28th, congress “chips away” at the chips act and cuts nsf funding.
Unfortunately, Congress slashed over $800 million from the NSF budget in March instead of following through on CHIPS budget targets. This was a step in the wrong direction . Per Congress' original plan, NSF should have gotten $6 billion more in FY24 than it received.
These cuts threaten to stifle community colleges that are innovating and providing critical education, reskilling, and upskilling training necessary to meet labor market needs for CHIPS technology areas and the STEM workforce overall.
While an election looms over us, it’s essential that Congressional appropriators in the current and future Congress reverse course and fully fund NSF to the levels identified in the CHIPS & Science Act. Doing so would bolster languishing economic competitiveness, create quality jobs, and reliable, affordable pathways to those jobs as was promised in CHIPS.
Business leaders agree. In June, 21 CTOs of major businesses urged Congress to fund NSF at the levels identified in the CHIPS & Science Act. CISCO, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP Software Solutions joined the U.S. Chamber of Congress in a letter asking for Congress to restore NSF funding .
New America’s Future of Work and Innovation Economy initiative studied community colleges' role in emerging technology workforce development, technology-based economic development, and regional innovation ecosystems well before CHIPS was law. The contribution of federal science agencies like NSF in supporting 2-year institutions cannot be understated.
The National Science Foundation and the White House chose to announce the CHIPS-authorized NSF ... [+] Regional Innovation Engine awardees at Forsyth Technical Community College in North Carolina.
In 2022, the CHIPS Act established the first new arm at NSF in over thirty years – the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Directorate. Under the directorate’s leadership , NSF expanded its support for community colleges, specifically for job training around emerging technologies – a critical need for the bill’s successful implementation . A few programs are critical supportive of colleges:
Community colleges are chronically underinvested in and need dedicated support to meet the needs of advanced industries. The division’s new Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) grant funding program is helping to build the capacity of community colleges to meet emerging technology workforce needs.
For example, Harper College, in partnership with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and City Colleges of Chicago, is working to improve employer partnership structures to meet workforce needs in emerging technology fields like quantum science and technology by implementing the Business & Industry Leadership (BILT) model .
In an email statement, Avis Proctor, President of Harper College, told me that the EPIIC grant is positioning the community college sector to strengthen its landscape of employer collaborations, “I encourage Congress to continue recognizing the critical role community colleges play as regional economic engines and restore NSF funding to levels authorized by the forward-thinking CHIPS and Science Act,” she said.
In emerging occupations where labor market needs are less clear, hands-on experience is critical . NSF’s new Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) program is expanding work-based learning partnerships between community colleges, employers, economic development organizations, and other entities focused on advanced industries. For example, MiraCosta College won an ExLENT grant to scale internships and apprenticeships in the biomanufacturing and microelectronics sectors .
“Securing the NSF ExLENT grant is a transformative milestone for MiraCosta College, our students, and sectors important to our state,” Sunita Cooke, President of MiraCosta and Board President of the American Association of Community Colleges, shared with me, “The recent cuts to NSF funding pose a significant threat to programs like ours that are crucial for developing a diverse and skilled workforce. Congress must continue to fund the NSF at the levels authorized in the CHIPS & Science Act.”
Both NSF ExLENT and EPIIC have set the stage for more robust community college engagement in the NSF’s landmark CHIPS-enabled program–the Regional Innovation Engines . NSF Engines represents the broadest investment in science- and technology-based economic development in the modern era and is carrying out Congress' vision to build innovation hubs beyond existing coastal enclaves.
The NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan joined First Lady Jill Biden, a community college professor, to announce the inaugural NSF Engines earlier this year–not at MIT or Stanford, but at Forsyth Tech Community College in North Carolina.
Forsyth Tech President Janet Spriggs emphasized that her institution is "proud to play a pivotal role" in the Piedmont Triad Regenerative Medicine NSF Engine . All the inaugural NSF Engines include community colleges as named partners , which will support workforce needs resulting from applied R&D and technology development.
“Increased NSF funding for community college programs is essential, as it empowers institutions like ours to equip students with the skills necessary to succeed in emerging sectors. This investment in education and training benefits our students while also driving innovation and economic growth," she said.
Speaking at New America , Panchanathan underlined the importance of community colleges in training the skilled technical workforce for Engines, stating, “None of the Regional Innovation Engines will be successful if we don't have the capacity of the skilled technical workforce unleashed at full force and full scale, everywhere.”
While NSF's new technology directorate should be applauded for its creative programs to support community college innovation and partnerships around frontier technologies, the agency's impact on the 2-year sector runs deep.
For example, since 1992, NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program , housed in its STEM education directorate, has invested nearly $1.5 billion in more than five hundred community and technical colleges to prepare the skilled technical workforce across STEM industries.
During the program's 30th anniversary celebration last year, Walter Bumphus, President and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, remarked that among the trade group's relationships, "we don’t have a partnership any more significant than with ATE and NSF ."
“Through NSF’s Advanced Technological Education program, Columbus State has partnered with employers to develop leading-edge programs in information technology, advanced manufacturing, and clean energy,” David Harrison, President of Columbus State Community College, told me. Harrison serves as the community college representative on NSF's STEM education directorate’s advisory committee .
“Increased funding for the National Science Foundation, as called for in the CHIPS Act, would be transformational to support the growth of new industries and empower colleges like ours to support the workforce priorities of their communities," said Harrison.
Congressional appropriators should act and follow through on funding for the NSF at CHIPS Act levels.
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“This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to hear a lot about what is in this 900-page document. Why? Because this is the Republican blueprint for a second Trump term.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has warned Americans about “Trump’s Project 2025” agenda — even though former President Donald Trump doesn’t claim the conservative presidential transition document.
“Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” Harris said July 23 in Milwaukee. “He and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class. Like, we know we got to take this seriously, and can you believe they put that thing in writing?”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, has joined in on the talking point.
“Don’t believe (Trump) when he’s playing dumb about this Project 2025. He knows exactly what it’ll do,” Walz said Aug. 9 in Glendale, Arizona.
Trump’s campaign has worked to build distance from the project, which the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, led with contributions from dozens of conservative groups.
Much of the plan calls for extensive executive-branch overhauls and draws on both long-standing conservative principles, such as tax cuts, and more recent culture war issues. It lays out recommendations for disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, eliminating certain climate protections and consolidating more power to the president.
Project 2025 offers a sweeping vision for a Republican-led executive branch, and some of its policies mirror Trump’s 2024 agenda, But Harris and her presidential campaign have at times gone too far in describing what the project calls for and how closely the plans overlap with Trump’s campaign.
PolitiFact researched Harris’ warnings about how the plan would affect reproductive rights, federal entitlement programs and education, just as we did for President Joe Biden’s Project 2025 rhetoric. Here’s what the project does and doesn’t call for, and how it squares with Trump’s positions.
To distance himself from Project 2025 amid the Democratic attacks, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he “knows nothing” about it and has “no idea” who is in charge of it. (CNN identified at least 140 former advisers from the Trump administration who have been involved.)
The Heritage Foundation sought contributions from more than 100 conservative organizations for its policy vision for the next Republican presidency, which was published in 2023.
Project 2025 is now winding down some of its policy operations, and director Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official, is stepping down, The Washington Post reported July 30. Trump campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita denounced the document.
WATCH: A look at the Project 2025 plan to reshape government and Trump’s links to its authors
However, Project 2025 contributors include a number of high-ranking officials from Trump’s first administration, including former White House adviser Peter Navarro and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
A recently released recording of Russell Vought, a Project 2025 author and the former director of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, showed Vought saying Trump’s “very supportive of what we do.” He said Trump was only distancing himself because Democrats were making a bogeyman out of the document.
The Harris campaign shared a graphic on X that claimed “Trump’s Project 2025 plan for workers” would “go after birth control and ban abortion nationwide.”
The plan doesn’t call to ban abortion nationwide, though its recommendations could curtail some contraceptives and limit abortion access.
What’s known about Trump’s abortion agenda neither lines up with Harris’ description nor Project 2025’s wish list.
Project 2025 says the Department of Health and Human Services Department should “return to being known as the Department of Life by explicitly rejecting the notion that abortion is health care.”
It recommends that the Food and Drug Administration reverse its 2000 approval of mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion. Medication is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. — accounting for around 63 percent in 2023.
If mifepristone were to remain approved, Project 2025 recommends new rules, such as cutting its use from 10 weeks into pregnancy to seven. It would have to be provided to patients in person — part of the group’s efforts to limit access to the drug by mail. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge to mifepristone’s FDA approval over procedural grounds.
WATCH: Trump’s plans for health care and reproductive rights if he returns to White House The manual also calls for the Justice Department to enforce the 1873 Comstock Act on mifepristone, which bans the mailing of “obscene” materials. Abortion access supporters fear that a strict interpretation of the law could go further to ban mailing the materials used in procedural abortions, such as surgical instruments and equipment.
The plan proposes withholding federal money from states that don’t report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention how many abortions take place within their borders. The plan also would prohibit abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid funds. It also calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the training of medical professionals, including doctors and nurses, omits abortion training.
The document says some forms of emergency contraception — particularly Ella, a pill that can be taken within five days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy — should be excluded from no-cost coverage. The Affordable Care Act requires most private health insurers to cover recommended preventive services, which involves a range of birth control methods, including emergency contraception.
Trump has recently said states should decide abortion regulations and that he wouldn’t block access to contraceptives. Trump said during his June 27 debate with Biden that he wouldn’t ban mifepristone after the Supreme Court “approved” it. But the court rejected the lawsuit based on standing, not the case’s merits. He has not weighed in on the Comstock Act or said whether he supports it being used to block abortion medication, or other kinds of abortions.
“When you read (Project 2025),” Harris told a crowd July 23 in Wisconsin, “you will see, Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
The Project 2025 document does not call for Social Security cuts. None of its 10 references to Social Security addresses plans for cutting the program.
Harris also misleads about Trump’s Social Security views.
In his earlier campaigns and before he was a politician, Trump said about a half-dozen times that he’s open to major overhauls of Social Security, including cuts and privatization. More recently, in a March 2024 CNBC interview, Trump said of entitlement programs such as Social Security, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” However, he quickly walked that statement back, and his CNBC comment stands at odds with essentially everything else Trump has said during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump’s campaign website says that not “a single penny” should be cut from Social Security. We rated Harris’ claim that Trump intends to cut Social Security Mostly False.
Project 2025 does propose changes to Medicare, including making Medicare Advantage, the private insurance offering in Medicare, the “default” enrollment option. Unlike Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans have provider networks and can also require prior authorization, meaning that the plan can approve or deny certain services. Original Medicare plans don’t have prior authorization requirements.
The manual also calls for repealing health policies enacted under Biden, such as the Inflation Reduction Act. The law enabled Medicare to negotiate with drugmakers for the first time in history, and recently resulted in an agreement with drug companies to lower the prices of 10 expensive prescriptions for Medicare enrollees.
Trump, however, has said repeatedly during the 2024 presidential campaign that he will not cut Medicare.
The Harris campaign said Project 2025 would “eliminate the U.S. Department of Education” — and that’s accurate. Project 2025 says federal education policy “should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated.” The plan scales back the federal government’s role in education policy and devolves the functions that remain to other agencies.
Aside from eliminating the department, the project also proposes scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also would let states opt out of federal education programs and calls for passing a federal parents’ bill of rights similar to ones passed in some Republican-led state legislatures.
Republicans, including Trump, have pledged to close the department, which gained its status in 1979 within Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s presidential Cabinet.
In one of his Agenda 47 policy videos, Trump promised to close the department and “to send all education work and needs back to the states.” Eliminating the department would have to go through Congress.
In the graphic, the Harris campaign says Project 2025 allows “employers to stop paying workers for overtime work.”
The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.
The document proposes that the Labor Department maintain an overtime threshold “that does not punish businesses in lower-cost regions (e.g., the southeast United States).” This threshold is the amount of money executive, administrative or professional employees need to make for an employer to exempt them from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In 2019, the Trump’s administration finalized a rule that expanded overtime pay eligibility to most salaried workers earning less than about $35,568, which it said made about 1.3 million more workers eligible for overtime pay. The Trump-era threshold is high enough to cover most line workers in lower-cost regions, Project 2025 said.
The Biden administration raised that threshold to $43,888 beginning July 1, and that will rise to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. That would grant overtime eligibility to about 4 million workers, the Labor Department said.
It’s unclear how many workers Project 2025’s proposal to return to the Trump-era overtime threshold in some parts of the country would affect, but experts said some would presumably lose the right to overtime wages.
Other overtime proposals in Project 2025’s plan include allowing some workers to choose to accumulate paid time off instead of overtime pay, or to work more hours in one week and fewer in the next, rather than receive overtime.
Trump’s past with overtime pay is complicated. In 2016, the Obama administration said it would raise the overtime to salaried workers earning less than $47,476 a year, about double the exemption level set in 2004 of $23,660 a year.
But when a judge blocked the Obama rule, the Trump administration didn’t challenge the court ruling. Instead it set its own overtime threshold, which raised the amount, but by less than Obama.
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