The Republican National Committee is out with a new party platform, and its the first in 40 years to not include any mention of a national ban on abortion and contains no thoughts on marriage equality.

The changes were apparently approved and come at the request of the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, who has come out against a national ban on abortion after a Supreme Court stacked with his appointees overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the matter back to state Legislatures.

Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said the new platform “articulates his vision to Make America Great Again in a way that is concise and digestible for every voter.”

“While Joe Biden and Democrats argue about who will be at the top of their ticket and have implemented policies that have raised prices on everyday families, opened the floodgates to migrant crime via wide-open borders, shackled American energy with red tape forced by Washington bureaucrats, and sewn chaos across the world through weak foreign policy, President Trump will Make America Great Again through these America First principles,” they said in a joint statement.

According to the RNC, the short party platform — it can be broken down to a list of 20 bullet points — is a “forward-looking agenda” that will be implemented “very quickly when we win the White House and Republican majorities in the House and Senate.”

Some of the party priorities outlined in the platform are sealing the border, the mass arrest and subsequent deportation of 11 million human beings, putting an end to inflation, energy and manufacturing dominance, preventing World War III, and maintaining the dominance of the U.S. dollar as a tool of international trade, among several others.

Absent, unlike in past years, is a call to ban abortion nationally. Trump has made clear that he will not support a national ban, telling his supporters to be realistic and that he’s “got to get elected.”

Also missing is any reference to the LGBTQ community or the rights of same sex couples to marry. The platform does include a plan to “cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”

Massachusetts Republican Party Chair Amy Carnevale served as whip and Chair of the Sub-Committee on the Economy in drafting the GOP’s new agenda, and she says the platform “presents a unifying agenda, outlining what Americans can expect under another Trump presidency.”

“It signifies a new direction of optimism for the Republican Party on a national level, addressing how we plan to rectify the disastrous outcomes of Biden-era policies and shifting to address the concerns of people in Massachusetts and across the Nation. Each policy in the platform builds on the others. Unleashing America’s energy sector will reduce inflation and boost the economy, complemented by cutting taxes and regulations. Sealing the border to address the severe immigration crisis will free up funds for veterans and Social Security. The platform is pragmatic and straightforward, poised to usher America’s economy and citizens into a new golden age,” she said in a statement.

President Joe Biden’s campaign staff said voters should not be fooled by the new GOP platform, that Republicans cannot be trusted when it comes to reproductive health or the rights of American minorities, and that “Donald Trump has made it clear with his own words and actions what he will do if he regains power – rip away women’s freedoms, punish women, and ban abortion nationwide.”

“You don’t have to take it from us, take it from Trump himself: He’s ‘proud’ to have ‘killed’ Roe v. Wade and unleashed extreme bans with no exceptions for rape or incest, which he calls ‘a beautiful thing to watch.’ He promised to be ‘leading the charge’ to ban abortion nationwide, and said he’d fight ‘side by side’ with extremists who want to ban abortion entirely. Trump himself said that women should be punished for having an abortion, that doctors should be criminalized for doing their jobs, and that he’s ‘looking at’ restrictions on birth control,” Biden-Harris 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in a statement.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump walks in the spin room before a presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump in Atlanta last month. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Amy Carnevale (Herald file)