What can we expect from Trump’s new term? These are your plans

The President-elect of the United States, Donald Trumphas pledged to take drastic 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.

During his campaign, Trump has avoided providing concrete details about his plans, although his public statements outline a broad agenda that combines traditional approaches to American conservatism in economics with a populist slant in foreign policy.

These are the main proposals:

Immigration

From his 2016 slogan to build a wall on the border with Mexico, Trump has subsequently promised the creation of the “largest mass deportation program” in the country’s history, putting reservists, sheriffs and local National Guard police officers in power to arrest undocumented immigrants. .

Furthermore, it aims to limit both irregular and regular migration, introducing an “ideological assessment” for those applying for visas, eliminating the right to citizenship by birth and restricting the entry of migrants for public health reasons.

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

abortion

Trump boasts that during his first term he placed the three justices who ended federal abortion protections on the Supreme Court in 2022, giving states a free hand to restrict that procedure, even in cases of incest or rape.

The president-elect argues that abortion policy should be decided at the state level and promised in the final month of the campaign that he would veto a national abortion ban if Congress passed it.

Foreign policy

Trump sums up his approach to foreign policy with a phrase from former President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): “Peace through strength.” His position is the most isolationist on foreign policy and protectionist on economics that the US has had since World War II (1939-1945).

He has assured that he could quickly end the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza, although, without specifying how, he has regularly criticized NATO and praised authoritarian leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The country has also distanced itself from traditional partners such as the EU and threatened not to support NATO if the rest of the countries do not increase their military spending.

Trade

Trump assures that he will save jobs in the United States by imposing tariffs of up to 20% on all imported products and 60% on those from China, intensifying the trade war.

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

Taxes and debt

Trump plans to extend the tax cuts for big companies that he introduced during his first term and proposes lowering the tax rate from 21% to 15% for companies that make all their products in the United States. He also promises to abolish overtime and tip taxes.

However, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, these policies would increase the national debt by $5.8 trillion over the next decade. Currently, the US national debt is $35 trillion.

Environment

Trump, who denies the existence of climate change, has promised to eliminate subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles and increase oil and natural gas production. “Drill, drill, drill!” It was a recurring slogan during his rallies.

During his previous administration, he removed numerous environmental regulations and withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement.

Health

Since 2015, Trump has been advocating the dismantling of Barack Obama’s health reforms (2009-2017), without proposing a concrete alternative.

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

Rights of the LGBTQ+ community

Trump has advocated for a reduction in the emphasis on diversity and legal protections for the LGBTQ+ community.

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

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