[STATEMENT] Patrick Gaspard condemns violence at Trump rally

[TAKE ACTION] We must protect reproductive health care access Problems viewing this email? [View it in your browser]( [Center for American Progress]( InProgress from the Center for American Progress To make sure you never miss an email from us, please add progress@americanprogress.org to your contacts or safe senders list. Thanks for staying connected with us! STATEMENT: CAP’s Patrick Gaspard condemns violence at Trump rally After shots were fired at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13, [Patrick Gaspard]( president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: This shooting at the Trump political rally is a dark development for our country. We should all be relieved that former President Trump was not seriously harmed, and we mourn the death of a rally attendee. This act of violence requires the strongest condemnation by all. [STATEMENT FROM JULY 13, 2024]( Project 2025 would compel local prosecutors to enforce the far right’s agenda [The outline of a person holding an umbrella in front of the White House ]( Photo credit: Getty/Jakub Porzycki The United States is in the middle of an ongoing reproductive health care crisis as [21 states]( have already enacted a wide range of abortion-related restrictions. These laws, pushed by far-right extremists in state legislatures, [criminalize]( medical providers for providing necessary abortion care, even in critical life-or-death circumstances. Right-wing radicals have created a plan that weaponizes local justice systems to harshly enforce and prosecute people for purportedly violating abortion laws. In [“Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership]( a policy playbook to consolidate power in the presidency, a far-right Department of Justice would be empowered to take federal legal action against local prosecutors who fail to enforce laws—including abortion bans—to the satisfaction of extremist, right-wing officials. This means that the nearly 2,300 locally elected district attorneys, who were chosen by their communities to seek justice according to local priorities, will become subject to control by extreme, far-right officials. Presently, district attorneys possess sole discretion to decide whom to charge and with what crime, and they strongly influence the severity of punishment. Project 2025 calls for the Department of Justice to infringe on this power and compel these locally elected officials to enforce the far right’s agenda or face federal lawsuits, removal from office, or potential criminal prosecution as punishment. Here’s the unfortunate truth: This reality is already closer than we think. [Learn More]( 🚨 To receive immediate alerts on our breakdown of the far right’s Project 2025, subscribe to our Spotlight Project 2025 newsletter: [Sign Up]( From abortion to IVF, we must protect reproductive health care access As extremist anti-abortion attacks continue, we know that protecting abortion access is critical—but it is not enough. We must expand and strengthen access to reproductive health care everywhere. Add your name to help preserve the right to affordable, accessible abortion care now: [Take Action]( The cost of Project 2025 How would Project 2025 hurt your wallet? [Image shows a single student desk against a dark blue background. Text on screen reads: If enacted, the far-right's Project 2025 agenda would implement destructive new higher education policies that: Deny earned debt relief for borrows like teachers and nurses Make monthly loan payments a financial anchor for millions Push more borrowers into default and force others to pay in perpetuity ]( [Share This]( New report: A cleaner path forward for the cement and concrete industry [Construction workers use a cement mixer to pour concrete onto a road. ]( Photo credit: Getty/Universal Images Group/Jeffrey Greenberg Did you know concrete is the second-most widely used material after water? If the cement and concrete industry were a country, it would rank as the world’s fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, following the United States, China, and India. Yet despite cement’s overwhelming presence, the world has been relatively slow to address its decarbonization. Like the rest of the industrial sector, the cement industry is often questionably labeled “hard to abate.” Cement cannot be decarbonized by simply switching to clean energy. Because of this, emissions from the cement industry have remained consistently high over the past decade, while progress in the power and transportation sectors has soared ahead. However, after years of research and development spurred by federal funding and incentive policies, dozens of companies have begun investing in new low-emission cement and concrete manufacturing technologies. In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) allocated $1.6 billion for six cement and concrete decarbonization projects that will avoid a total of 4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. These grants were a part of the OCED’s Industrial Demonstrations Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act. In addition to these significant funding opportunities, further ambitious policymaking will be necessary to bring low-emission technologies to the scale needed to completely transform the cement and concrete industry. The climate crisis cannot be solved without eradicating emissions from heavy manufactured goods such as cement. Now is the time to invest more in clean energy and push for deeper ambition from countries and companies around the world to rapidly reduce emissions from the cement and concrete sector. [Read More]( RSVP: State Policy Efforts To Avert and Alleviate Medical Debt [A person sorts through bills in New York on June 26, 2024. ]( Photo credit: Getty/Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis In the United States, [41 percent]( of American adults report having debt from medical or dental bills. 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