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[Síguenos ahora también en WhatsApp. Da clic aquí] President-elect of the United States, Donald Trumppromised to take decisive action in his second term, including the largest deportation of immigrants

What are Trump’s “big plans” for a second term?

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President-elect of the United States, Donald Trumppromised to take decisive action in his second term, including the largest deportation of immigrants in the country’s history, new tariffs, an isolationist foreign policy and increased investment in fossil fuels.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has avoided specific details of his plans, although his public statements outline a broad agenda that combines traditional approaches to American economic conservatism with Populist bias in foreign policy.

Here are his main proposals:

Immigration

Since his 2016 slogan about building a wall on the border with Mexico, Trump has promised to create “largest mass deportation program” in the nation’s history by giving National Guard reservists, sheriffs and local police officers the power to arrest undocumented immigrants.

It also seeks to curb both illegal and legal migration by conducting an “ideological assessment” of those applying for visas, eliminating the right to citizenship by birth and limiting the entry of migrants on public health grounds.

He also wants to veto the entry of citizens from some Muslim-majority countries, as he tried to do in his first term.

abortion

Trump boasted that during his first term he appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who in 2022 struck down federal protections for abortion, giving states free rein to restrict the procedure, even in cases of incest or rape.

He supports this abortion policy. should be decided at the state level and in the final month of the campaign, he promised that he would veto a national abortion ban if Congress approved it.

Foreign policy

Trump sums up his foreign policy approach with a quote from former President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): “Peace through Strength”. His position is the most isolationist in terms of foreign policy and protectionist in terms of economics that the United States has ever taken since World War II.

He has pledged that he can quickly end the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza, although without specifying how. He has often criticized NATO and praised authoritarian leaders such as Viktor Orban in Hungary and Vladimir Putin in Russia.

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Trade

Trump says he will save jobs in the US by introducing duties up to 20% on all imported products, and 60% for people from China, with whom he is seeking to escalate the trade war.

His main target is the auto industry, and he has threatened tariffs of up to 200% on all cars coming from Mexico to dissuade Chinese manufacturers from setting up shop in the country.

Taxes and debt

Trump plans to extend tax cuts for big businesses that he implemented during his first term, and is proposing to cut the tax rate from 21% to 15% for companies that make all their products in the United States. He also promises to eliminate overtime and tips.

However, according to Penn Wharton’s budget model, these policies will increase the federal debt by $5.8 trillion over the next decade. The US national debt currently stands at $35 trillion.

Wednesday

Trump denies the existence of climate change promised to cancel subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles and increase oil and natural gas production. “Drill, drill, drill!” This slogan was constantly heard at his rallies.

During his previous administration, he rolled back numerous environmental regulations and withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Photo: Reuters

Health

Since 2015, Trump has advocated repeal Barack Obama’s health care reform (2009-2017), without offering a specific alternative.

In the final stages of his re-election campaign, Trump strengthened his alliance with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic, by promising to put him at the forefront of an initiative to “make America healthy again.”

Rights of the LGBTQ+ community

Trump advocated limit the emphasis on diversity and legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community.

On transgender rights, he vowed to ban “boys from playing girls’ sports,” a rhetoric that won him support.

However, his proposals go beyond symbolic and he has promised that he will ask Congress to recognize only two sexes (male and female) at birth, which would violate the rights of that community and limit legal recognition of gender identity. non-binary gender.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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