Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta speaks on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 20, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta delivered a blistering speech ripping into Project 2025 at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Kenyatta warned how Project 2025 would raise drug costs and strip workers of overtime pay.
Carrying a 900-page Project 2025 textbook onto the stage of the Democratic National Convention, State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta delivered a blistering speech warning Americans about the perils of Project 2025 and how it will undermine working families.
“It is a radical plan to drag us backwards, bankrupt the middle class and raise prices on working families like yours and mine. Under Project 2025, a family making just $75,000 a year, with just two kids, would pay $1,800 more in federal taxes,” Kenyatta said.
“On page 465, Project 2025 would stop medicare from negotiating to lower the price of prescription drugs and capping out of pocket costs, and on page 587, Project 2025 would cut overtime pay for hard working Americans.”
Kenyatta, 34, was first elected to the Pennsylvania House in 2018 and is quickly rising through the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
In 2022, Kenyatta ran for US Senate with the support of progressive organizations from across the commonwealth but finished in third place behind US Sen. John Fetterman and former US Rep. Conor Lamb in the primary.
Kenyatta then launched a campaign for Pennsylvania Auditor General in the upcoming November election and has received the support of the Democratic Party in his efforts to unseat Republican incumbent Tim DeFoor.
During his convention speech, Kenyatta recalled a conversation he had with his grandmother, a former civil rights activist, who apologized for thinking her generation ended racial and economic issues.
Kenyatta told her, “it’s ok, grandma. It’s just our turn.”
“It’s just our turn to stand up for working people and to stand up for our nation’s promise,” Kenyatta said.
“It’s just our turn to defend our rights and ensure democracy doesn’t die on our watch. It’s our turn to make history my friends by electing Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States of America.”
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