RNC panel adopts Trump-backed platform with no entitlement cuts, softer abortion stance

• The Republican Party's platform committee adopted a plank that reflects its further alignment with former President Donald Trump.
• The new language softens the GOP's prior stances on abortion and marriage.
• The platform also echoes Trump's vow not to cut Social Security and Medicare.
• The new document offers far fewer policy details than its predecessor, and at times reads more like a list of preferred outcomes than a statement of beliefs or legislative goals.

The Republican Party's platform committee on Monday adopted a plank drafted by aides to Donald Trump, whose new language softens the GOP's prior stances on marriage and abortion while rattling off a series of utopian economic promises.

Among those are vows to "end inflation," make the U.S. a "manufacturing superpower" and deliver "large tax cuts for workers."

At the same time, the document echoes Trump's promise to not cut "one penny" from Social Security and Medicare, the expensive but popular government-benefits and health-care programs.

The 16-page platform was approved by the Republican National Committee's panel in an 84-18 vote, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.

It's a fraction of the size of the platform the RNC used during the 2016 and 2020 election cycles. The new platform further cements an ongoing push to reshape the GOP in Trump's populist, nationalist image, while playing down some issues that the party once held at its core.

The Trump campaign in a press release Monday afternoon touted the new document as "President Donald J. Trump's 2024 Republican Party Platform."

The platform now begins with language mirroring a Trump campaign press release, including the presumptive nominee's "Make America Great Again" and "America First" slogans.

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