🚨 BREAKING: Reporting Reveals Trump OMB Pick Ed Martin’s Extreme Anti-Choice Record – Including “Rais[ing] the Idea of Jailing Women for Abortions” Arrow

In response to Donald Trump tapping Ed Martin to be Chief of Staff at the Office of Management and Budget, DNC Senior Spokesperson Hannah Muldavin released the following statement:

"Donald Trump has spent years threatening doctors with jail time for providing abortion care after overturning Roe v. Wade - so it comes as no surprise that his Project 2025-tied pick to help run OMB has the same extreme anti-choice record. Democrats are ready to stand up against the wildly out-of-touch and dangerous Project 2025 hardliners Trump is trying to staff his administration with, and will fight back against their all-out assault on our basic rights."

NEW: Donald Trump taps Ed Martin, an extreme anti-choice hardliner who advocated for a national abortion ban without exceptions and proposed criminalizing women and doctors for abortions, to be Chief of Staff at OMB.

CNN: "President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Ed Martin, a hardline, socially conservative activist and commentator, to serve as the next chief of staff at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]

"Martin has publicly advocated for a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest and has raised imposing criminal penalties on women and doctors involved in abortions. […]

"'If you ban abortion in Louisiana, is a doctor who has an abortion breaking the law? Yes. Should he be punished? Yes - I think that seems obvious. What is the punishment? Not sure yet. Could be criminal, could be a jail sentence, I suppose,' [Martin] said. […]

"Martin has also opposed exceptions for abortions to save the life of the mother, calling it 'an absolute scientific fact that no abortion is ever performed to save the life of the mother. None, zero, zilch.'"

Ed Martin is an election denier who helped organize and finance the "stop the steal" movement to overturn the 2020 election and previously worked closely with the "chief architect" of Project 2025, Russ Vought, who is set to be his boss.

New York Times: "Mr. Martin will work under Russell Vought, a close ally of Mr. Trump's who ran O.M.B. for part of his first administration. […]

"Mr. Vought was one of the influential figures behind Project 2025, the blueprint that the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have mapped for the Trump administration. […]

"Mr. Martin worked with Mr. Vought on the Republican National Committee's new policy platform"

PBS: "A chief architect of Project 2025 - the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government - Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration."

NBC News: "Ed Martin, who was hired by the RNC in May, pushed to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 loss and marched outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. […]

"On the morning of Jan. 6, Martin attended Trump's speech near the White House before joining the crowd in marching to the Capitol and posting about it on social media. […]

"Later in 2021, Martin was subpoenaed by the House's Jan. 6 committee, which said it had evidence that he was 'involved in the logistical planning' of the 'Stop the Steal' rally on Jan. 6, where Trump encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol. The committee said it also had evidence that Martin 'paid costs associated with vendors hired for that event.' He did not show up for a deposition with the committee in February 2022.

Trump paved the way for the draconian abortion bans Martin advocates for when he "proudly" overturned Roe v. Wade, calling it an "incredible" thing.

Trump: "I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of … Roe v. Wade."

Trump: "For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it, and I'm proud to have done it. … Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle."

Trump: "After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the 'shock' of everyone … Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!"

Trump: "Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was an incredible thing for pro-life because it gave pro-life something to negotiate with. Pro-life had absolutely nothing, being stuck in Roe v. Wade, to negotiate with. … And look, everybody that was president wanted to get rid and tried to get rid of Roe v. Wade … For fifty years, this has been going on. I was able to do it, and I was very honored to do it."

Trump and his Project 2025 allies are pushing a dangerous Project 2025 agenda that would ban abortion nationwide, threaten access to IVF and contraception, and rip away reproductive freedoms.

Rolling Stone: "Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report"

Trump: "There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it's very important."

Trump: "There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have an abortion]."

Interviewer: "There are ads running that say that you would support certain states with bans monitoring a woman's pregnancy."

Trump: "Well that would be up to the states, again. They will make a decision as to how they do it."

Washington Post: "Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills"

New Republic: "On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan-far from it. It's part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one."

Politico: "Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They're now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.

"Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed."

Vance: "On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood […] our view is we don't think that taxpayers should fund late term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view."

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