Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed

By BILL BARROW, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has promised sweeping enactment successful a 2nd administration.

The erstwhile president and present president-elect often skipped implicit details but done much than a twelvemonth of argumentation pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging docket that blends accepted blimpish approaches to taxes, regularisation and taste issues with a much populist bent connected commercialized and a displacement successful America’s planetary role.

Trump’s docket besides would standard backmost national authorities efforts connected civilian rights and grow statesmanlike powers.

A look astatine what Trump has proposed:

Immigration

“Build the wall!” from his 2016 run has go creating “the largest wide deportation programme successful history.” Trump has called for utilizing the National Guard and empowering home constabulary forces successful the effort. Still, Trump has been scant connected details of what the programme would look similar and however helium would guarantee that it targeted lone radical successful the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which astir surely would necessitate a law change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies specified arsenic “Remain successful Mexico,” limiting migrants connected nationalist wellness grounds and severely limiting oregon banning entrants from definite majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the attack would not conscionable ace down connected amerciable migration, but curtail migration overall.

Abortion

Trump played down termination arsenic a second-term priority, adjacent arsenic helium took recognition for the Supreme Court ending a woman’s national close to terminate a gestation and returning termination regularisation to authorities governments. At Trump’s insistence, the GOP platform, for the archetypal clip successful decades, did not telephone for a nationalist prohibition connected abortion. Trump maintains that overturning Roe v. Wade is capable connected the national level.

Still, Trump has not said explicitly that helium would veto nationalist termination restrictions if they reached his desk. And successful an illustration of however the blimpish question mightiness proceed with oregon without Trump, anti-abortion activists enactment that the GOP level inactive asserts that a fetus should person owed process protections nether the 14th Amendment’s adjacent extortion clause. That law statement is simply a roadmap for conservatives to question a nationalist termination prohibition done national courts.

Taxes

Trump’s taxation policies broadly tilt toward corporations and wealthier Americans. That’s mostly owed to his committedness to widen his 2017 taxation overhaul, with a fewer notable changes that see lowering the firm income taxation complaint to 15% from the existent 21%. That besides involves rolling backmost Democratic President Joe Biden’s income taxation hikes connected the wealthiest Americans and scrapping Inflation Reduction Act levies that concern vigor measures intended to combat clime change.

Those policies notwithstanding, Trump has enactment much accent connected caller proposals aimed astatine working- and mediate people Americans: exempting earned tips, Social Security wages and overtime wages from income taxes. It’s noteworthy, however, that his connection connected tips, depending connected however Congress mightiness constitute it, could springiness a back-door taxation interruption to apical wage earners by allowing them to reclassify immoderate of their wage arsenic extremity income — a imaginable that astatine its astir utmost could spot hedge-fund managers oregon top-flight attorneys taking vantage of a argumentation that Trump frames arsenic being designed for edifice servers, bartenders and different work workers.

Tariffs and trade

Trump’s posture connected planetary commercialized is to distrust satellite markets arsenic harmful to American interests. He proposes tariffs of 10% to 20% connected overseas goods — and successful immoderate speeches has mentioned adjacent higher percentages. He promises to reinstitute an August 2020 enforcement bid requiring that the Food and Drug Administration bargain “essential” medications lone from U.S. companies. He pledges to artifact purchases of “any captious infrastructure” successful the U.S. by Chinese buyers.

DEI, LGBTQ and civilian rights

Trump has called for rolling backmost societal accent connected diverseness and for ineligible protections for LGBTQ citizens. Trump has called for ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs successful authorities institutions, utilizing national backing arsenic leverage.

On transgender rights, Trump promises mostly to extremity “boys successful girls’ sports,” a signifier helium insists, without evidence, is widespread. But his policies spell good beyond modular applause lines from his rally speeches. Among different ideas, Trump would rotation backmost the Biden administration’s argumentation of extending Title IX civilian rights protections to transgender students, and helium would inquire Congress to necessitate that lone 2 genders tin beryllium recognized astatine birth.

Regulation, national bureaucracy and statesmanlike power

The president-elect seeks to trim the relation of national bureaucrats and regulations crossed economical sectors. Trump frames each regulatory cuts arsenic an economical magic wand. He pledges precipitous drops successful U.S. households’ inferior bills by removing obstacles to fossil substance production, including opening each national lands for exploration — adjacent though U.S. vigor accumulation is already astatine grounds highs. Trump promises to unleash lodging operation by cutting regulations — though astir operation rules travel from authorities and section government. He besides says helium would extremity “frivolous litigation from the biology extremists.”

The attack would successful galore ways fortify enforcement subdivision influence. That powerfulness would travel much straight from the White House.

He would marque it easier to occurrence national workers by classifying thousands of them arsenic being extracurricular civilian work protections. That could weaken the government’s powerfulness to enforce statutes and rules by reducing the fig of employees engaging successful the enactment and, potentially, enforce a chilling effect connected those who remain.

Trump besides claims that presidents person exclusive powerfulness to power national spending adjacent aft Congress has appropriated money. Trump argues that lawmakers’ fund actions “set a ceiling” connected spending but not a level — meaning the president’s law work to “faithfully execute the laws” includes discretion connected whether to walk the money. This mentation could acceptable up a tribunal conflict with Congress.

As a candidate, helium besides suggested that the Federal Reserve, an autarkic entity that sets involvement rates, should beryllium taxable to much statesmanlike power. Though helium has not offered details, immoderate specified determination would correspond a momentous alteration to however the U.S. economical and monetary systems work.

Education

The national Department of Education would beryllium targeted for elimination successful a 2nd Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington retired of classrooms. He inactive proposes, among different maneuvers, utilizing national backing arsenic leverage to unit K-12 schoolhouse systems to abolish tenure and follow merit wage for teachers and to scrap diverseness programs astatine each levels of education. He calls for pulling national backing “for immoderate schoolhouse oregon programme pushing Critical Race Theory, sex ideology, oregon different inappropriate racial, sexual, oregon governmental contented connected our children.”

In higher education, Trump proposes taking implicit accreditation processes for colleges, a determination helium describes arsenic his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” helium says power higher education. Trump takes purpose astatine higher acquisition endowments, saying helium volition cod “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively ample backstage assemblage endowments” astatine schools that bash not comply with his edicts. That astir surely would extremity up successful protracted ineligible fights.

As successful different argumentation areas, Trump isn’t really proposing limiting national powerfulness successful higher acquisition but strengthening it. He calls for redirecting the confiscated endowment wealth into an online “American Academy” offering assemblage credentials to each Americans without a tuition charges. “It volition beryllium strictly non-political, and determination volition beryllium nary wokeness oregon jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to beryllium allowed,” Trump said connected Nov. 1, 2023.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Trump insists helium would support Social Security and Medicare, fashionable programs geared toward older Americans and among the biggest pieces of the national spending pastry each year. There are questions astir however his connection not to taxation extremity and overtime wages mightiness impact Social Security and Medicare. If specified plans yet progressive lone income taxes, the entitlement programs would not beryllium affected. But exempting those wages from payroll taxes would trim the backing watercourse for Social Security and Medicare outlays. Trump has talked small astir Medicaid but his archetypal administration, successful general, defaulted to approving authorities requests for waivers of assorted national rules and it broadly endorsed state-level enactment requirements for recipients.

Affordable Care Act and Health Care

As helium has since 2015, Trump calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act and its subsidized wellness security marketplaces. But helium inactive has not projected a replacement: In a September debate, helium insisted helium had the “concepts of a plan.” In the second stages of the campaign, Trump played up his confederation with erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime professional of vaccines and of pesticides utilized successful U.S. agriculture. Trump repeatedly told rally crowds that helium would enactment Kennedy successful complaint of “making America steadfast again.”

Climate and energy

Trump, who claims falsely that clime alteration is simply a “hoax,” blasts Biden-era spending connected cleaner vigor designed to trim U.S. reliance connected fossil fuels. He proposes an vigor argumentation – and proscription infrastructure spending – anchored to fossil fuels: roads, bridges and combustion-engine vehicles. “Drill, baby, drill!” was a regular chant astatine Trump rallies. Trump says helium does not reason electrical vehicles but promises to extremity each Biden incentives to promote EV marketplace development. Trump besides pledges to rotation backmost Biden-era substance ratio standards.

Workers’ rights

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance framed their summons arsenic favoring America’s workers. But Trump could marque it harder for workers to unionize. In discussing car workers, Trump focused astir exclusively connected Biden’s propulsion toward electrical vehicles. When helium mentioned unions, it was often to lump “the national bosses and CEOs” unneurotic arsenic complicit successful “this disastrous electrical car scheme.” In an Oct. 23, 2023, statement, Trump said of United Auto Workers, “I’m telling you, you shouldn’t wage those dues.”

National defence and America’s relation successful the world

Trump’s rhetoric and argumentation attack successful satellite affairs is much isolationist diplomatically, non-interventionist militarily and protectionist economically than the U.S. has been since World War II. But the details are much complicated. He pledges enlargement of the military, promises to support Pentagon spending from austerity efforts and proposes a caller rocket defence shield — an aged thought from the Reagan epoch during the Cold War. Trump insists helium tin extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, without explaining how. Trump summarizes his attack done different Reagan phrase: “peace done strength.” But helium remains captious of NATO and apical U.S. subject brass. “I don’t see them leaders,” Trump said of Pentagon officials that Americans “see connected television.” He repeatedly praised authoritarians similar Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.