Plans of a Trump Administration
January 9, 2017
The following are the plans of President-Elect Donald Trump as compiled from speeches and statements given by Trump and organized by National Public Radio (NPR):
Economy:
- Has promised $1 trillion spending on nation’s infrastructure
- Estimated by the nonpartisan Committee for Responsible Federal Budgets to add $5.3 trillion to the National Debt of ten years
- Cut taxes for businesses to 15 percent
- Create an economic policy that grows the economy at 4 percent and create 25 million jobs through simplifying the tax brackets from seven to three while reducing middle class taxes 35 percent
- Estimated to add $7.2 trillion to debt
- Has not committed to reform of entitlements or Social Security
Immigration:
- Cancel federal funding to sanctuary cities
- Remove two million illegal immigrants who have committed crimes (numbered believed to be less than two million)
- Suspend immigration from nations like Syria where immigrants cannot be reliably vetted
- Build a wall on the Mexican border and create more criminal penalties for those who enter or reenter the U.S. illegally in order to discourage illegal immigration
Government or Social Affairs:
- Propose a constitutional amendment for term limits for members of Congress
- Enact a hiring freeze of federal employees, not including military, public safety or public health
- Decrease regulations; two eliminated for each new one created
- Pick a Supreme Court nominee who practices restraint and mirrors the values of the late Justice Antonin Scalia
- Increase resources for law enforcement to fight drugs and crime
- End Common Core and look to add more school choice for parents
- Repeal and replace Obamacare (likely will not repeal the entire Affordable Care Act)
- Protect the rights of LGBTQ citizens (first Republican President to do so)
Foreign/Military Policy:
- Increase spending and size of military
- Renegotiate or leave North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Withdraw from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
- Give veterans choices for their healthcare between the Veteran’s Administration and private doctors
- Create a better partnership with Russia
- End or renegotiate the Iran Nuclear Deal
- Strengthen military action including possible ground troops to defeat ISIS
Environmental:
- Lift restrictions on the energy sector, including coal and oil and build Keystone Pipeline
- Pay less to United Nations climate change programs and use the money to fix environmental problems in America