Project 2025 would severely restrict abortion pills, abolish federal agencies, block climate change research, end student loan forgiveness and more.

BBC Verify examined the claims Walz and Vance made during the first and only vice-presidential debate.

Vance has repeatedly tried to distance himself from the project, a conservative policy blueprint for a future GOP administration that has outraged Democrats.

The head of the group behind Project 2025 said Vance “is absolutely going to be one of the leaders—if not the leader—of our movement.”