'He talked about eating pets!' Sparks fly at House hearing over 'Trump's Project 2025'

A usually tame House Committee meeting became heated Wednesday after a Democrat tried to enter the conservative plan known as Project 2025 into the official record — and tied it to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

During a hearing before the House Committee on Natural Resources, two Republicans objected when Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) tried introducing "Trump's Project 2025."

"To say that this is his project, I think, is wrong, and it's wrong to enter it into the records," Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) complained.

"Mr. Chairman, this is about this committee, not even waiting for Donald Trump, actually proceeding now to implement parts of Project 2025," Huffman argued.

But Republicans continued to object.

"I find that surprising," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) noted. "Rarely in the history of this committee or any other have I seen an objection to unanimous consent report for documents, regardless of party submitting to it."

"President Trump denied association with it last night," she said of Tuesday night's presidential debate in which the former president said he hadn't read the document and he wasn't associated with it.

Project 2025 was drawn up by the rightwing Heritage Foundation, with more than 100 hundred people who have worked for Trump being involved. It's widely considered a blueprint for his next administration.

"He also said a lot of other things," Ocasio-Cortez went on.

"He talked about eating pets and transgender operations on migrants in prisons, and he talked about being the leader of fertilization. I mean, his denial doesn't really carry much weight here."

After a third try, Ocasio-Cortez successfully entered Project 2025 into the record.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called the conflict "shocking."

"It doesn't even have to be in the record, you guys," she explained. "It's online. You can just Google it."

"And if you read it, AOC actually read from page 61 of this report, which was written by Donald Trump's OMB director," she continued. "It literally is calling for the things that are in this bill."

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"I'm just genuinely shocked. I hope people will replay the clip over and over again of the objection that just happened here a few moments ago, because I have never seen that happen."

Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AK) suggested that the Project 2025 document had been "photoshopped."

"I think the objection was to something called the Trump Project 2025 report, which if you or Mr. Huffman or anybody else can produce that report, a legitimate report that has not been photoshopped, then we would probably more than likely unanimously accept that to the record too," he insisted.

"I think you can replay the tape, and that is not what was objected to," Stansbury pointed out.

Watch the video below from the House Committee on Natural Resources or click here.