[36][37][38], Trump and his political views have often been described as nationalist. Did he say that? [204] In an October 2015 interview with Chris Wallace, Trump explained, "what they do is a disgrace. [188] In December 2009, Trump and his three adult children had signed a full-page advertisement from "business leaders" in The New York Times stating "If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet" and encouraging "investment in the clean energy economy" to "create new energy jobs and increase our energy security". [89], According to Chris Christie (who served briefly as leader of Trump's White House transition team), Trump will seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Obama and will ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers. Fact checkers can tell you how often. North Korea: After Trump's United Nation's speech last fall, some would have considered relations with North Korea were on the brink of nuclear war. "[145] For the first three years of his presidency he said nothing about cutting Social Security or Medicare. 1. Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. [100][101] Trump has asserted that Common Core is "education through Washington, D.C.", a claim which Politifact and other journalists have rated "false", since the adoption and implementation of Common Core is a state choice, not a federal one. [15] In October 2018, Trump again described himself as a nationalist. [178] Trump accused California state officials of denying farmers of water so they can send it out to sea "to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish. * : These candidates are constitutionally ineligible to serve as President or Vice President. President Trump's Trade Policy Turns The Tables On Democrats When it comes to trade, Trump and the Democrats sound a lot alike. This controversial decision significantly raised premiums on the ACA exchanges (as much as 20 percentage points) along with the premium tax credit subsidies that rise with them, with the CBO estimating a $200 billion increase in the budget deficit over a decade. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans. There is also emergency funding that's not subject to sequestration. Restore balance and vertical separation of powers between the federal and state governments. Presidential determinations may involve any number of actions, including setting or changing policy, or any number of other exercises of executive power. There is also emergency funding that's not subject to sequestration. It also affected HIV-positive soldiers, who are allowed to serve within the US but cannot be deployed overseas; the DOGO policy meant that they could no longer serve within the US, either. One of President Trump’s biggest campaign promises was to make a government by and for the people. Marijuana and the rights of individual states to legalize recreational and medical marijuana was an issue of Trump's presidential campaign, and he formally stated during his campaign that he believed states should have the right to manage their own policies with regard to medical and recreational marijuana. [327] A few days later, after two top officials of the NRA challenged the notion that drinking clubgoers should be armed, Trump reversed his position, saying that he "obviously" meant that additional guards or employees should have been armed in the nightclub. [65] During October 2016, Trump outlined a series of steps for his first 100 days in office. [90][91][92] While Trump systematically disavowed pro-Trump super PACs earlier in the race, he stopped doing so from early May 2016. "[316], While campaigning for the presidency Trump reversed some of his positions on gun issues, calling for the expansion of gun rights. View a list of all of the platform policies made on Government by presidential candidate Donald Trump running in the 2016 election. Political commentator Josh Barro termed Trump a "moderate Republican," saying that except on immigration, his views are "anything but ideologically rigid, and he certainly does not equate deal making with surrender. [225] The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the bills would increase the number of uninsured by over 20 million persons, while reducing the budget deficit marginally.[223]. "[325] According to the Washington Post fact-checker, Clinton's statement was accurate. Throughout his first year in office, the President worked to drain the swamp and created more transparency. [286] Trump is in favor of at least one mandatory sentence, where using a gun to commit a crime results in a five-year sentence. [95], Donald Trump is opposed to DC statehood. All of Trump’s major executive actions so far. In 2016, the ranking was changed to 5.1C out of 10, shifting him more to the conservative spectrum.[48]. [224] The Senate bill, called the "Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017" (BCRA), failed on a vote of 45–55 in the Senate during July 2017. 1. President Trump signing Executive Order 13792. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know." [330], At a rally on August 9, 2016, Trump accused his opponent of wanting to "essentially abolish the Second Amendment", and went on: "By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. "[4], During his 2016 campaign for the presidency, Trump consistently described the state of the United States in bleak terms, referring to it as a nation in dire peril that is plagued by lawlessness, poverty, and violence, constantly under threat, and at risk of having "nothing, absolutely nothing, left". "[30], Trump has stated that he wants to replace Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court with "a person of similar views and principles". President Trump promised to complete a wall on the 1,954 mile U.S. border with Mexico. A free source of these documents is the Federal Register, which contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. President Trump reversed years of policies that locked up American energy and restricted our ability to sell to other countries. Trump's former Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon, stated in February 2017 that Trump's goal is to "deconstruct the administrative state". [189], Although "not a believer in climate change," Trump has stated that "clean air is a pressing problem" and has said: "There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of climate change. The correct citation, made in the Federal Register version, is section 207 of title 18. [184] However, it was also pointed out that he often conflates weather with climate change. By our reckoning, a Trump administration would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth amendments if it tried to implement his most controversial plans. "[211], After months of protest by thousands of protesters, including the largest gathering of Native Americans in 100 years, in December 2016 the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the Obama administration announced that it would not grant an easement for the pipeline, and the Corps of Engineers undertook an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternative routes. [387], The Trump administration also reversed Obama-era guidance on transgender prisoners, ordering the Bureau of Prisons instead to house them according to their "biological sex. "[191], Trump has said "we're practically not allowed to use coal any more," a statement rated "mostly false" by PolitiFact. Look at some of the high school tests from earlier in this century and you'll wonder if they weren't college-level tests. [165], According to a report by the RAND Corporation, Trump's proposed health-care policy proposals, depending on specific elements implemented, would result in between 15 and 25 million fewer people with health insurance and increase the federal deficit in a range from zero to $41 billion in 2018. [234], President Trump's argument that the CSR payments were a "bailout" for insurance companies and therefore should be stopped, actually results in the government paying more to insurance companies ($200B over a decade) due to increases in the premium tax credit subsidies. More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. Trump's retweet earned PolitiFact's "Pants on Fire" rating and was called "grossly inaccurate" by FactCheck.org the next day. [158] The Wall Street Journal noted that "such a plan is counter to recommendations from major veterans groups, the VA itself and from the Commission on Care, an independent body established by Congress that last week made recommendations for VA changes. That edge may now be eroding, but Trump’s numbers on economic policy are still much better than on other important issues: On the Issues. 1. "[123], For several years Trump promoted "birther" conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's citizenship. [106], In 2015 Trump called eminent domain "wonderful". [171] Also related to this news, Trump's niece, Mary Trump, said, "Trump Has Shown Himself To Be Nothing But An Anti-American, Anti-Military Traitor". [362] A stronger role of manned Lunar exploration is possible in NASA's quest for a manned mission to Mars. [286][293][294][295][296][297] Trump's assertion that crime is rising is false; in fact, both violent crime and property declined consistently declining in the U.S. from the early 1990s until 2014. [361], As of October 2016, one of Trump's policy advisors declared that, under Trump, NASA would recreate the National Space Council and pursue a goal of "human exploration of the solar system by the end of the century", to drive technology developments to a stronger degree than a manned mission to Mars. He also claimed that his administration is "building the wall faster and better than ever", but no new barriers were erected by June 2019 at the Mexico-U.S. border unlike what Trump promised during his 2016 campaign. [362] Prior to that statement, the Trump campaign appeared to have little to no space policy at all. Most Popular on TIME. [124][125][126], In March 2011, during an interview on Good Morning America, Trump said he was seriously considering running for president, that he was a "little" skeptical of Obama's citizenship and that someone who shares this view should not be so quickly dismissed as an "idiot." [253], Explaining how he would address the problem of ensuring the people that would lose their insurance coverage if Obamacare were repealed, Trump said, "We have to come up, and we can come up with many different plans. My first day. [311], In his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump wrote that he generally opposed gun control, but supported the ban on assault weapons and supported a "slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. In 2019, HHS granted an exemption from an Obama-era nondiscrimination regulation to a foster care agency in South Carolina. "[315] In 2008, Trump opposed hunting-education classes in schools and called the "thought of voluntarily putting guns in the classroom...a really bad plan. [305], At a luncheon hosted by the Miami Herald in April 1990, Trump told a crowd of 700 people that U.S. drug enforcement policy was "a joke," and that: "We're losing badly the war on drugs. "[312] He proposed eliminating prohibitions on assault weapons, military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines (which Trump described as "scary sounding phrases" used by gun control advocates "to confuse people"), as well as making concealed carry permits valid nationwide, rather than on the current state-to-state basis. A running list from POLITICO. Now, it shouldn't be that way. 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[109][110], In September 2016, Trump posted a list on his web site of regulations that he would eliminate. Share Tweet Link. Data from the Washington Post for 2009 to 2013 showed a ratio of 1.5 white deaths by police for each black death. [137] On September 15, 2016, Trump for the first time acknowledged that Obama was born in the United States. Trump budgeted $576 billion for the Department of Defense for Fiscal Year 2020. The Trump administration brought about a long list of changes in US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians over the last four years. [365], The Free Press Action Fund, a group of tech policy activists, rated Trump the worst 2016 presidential candidate for "citizens' digital lives," citing his positions opposing reforming the Patriot Act, favoring Internet censorship, and opposing net neutrality. Here are 282 of Donald Trump's campaign promises", "Trump: I Am a Nationalist in a True Sense", "Promoting His Agenda, Trump Embraces the 'Nationalist' Label". 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[179] A U.S. move to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as Trump proposes is viewed as likely to unravel the agreement;[179] according to Reuters, such a move would spell "potential doom for an agreement many view as a last chance to turn the tide on global warming. You are on your own." [120] Trump's comments were criticized by a number of public figures as racist and inappropriate. [182][372] Trump has not, however, been a personal proponent of same-sex marriage, saying as recently as 2011 that he was "not in favor of gay marriage[391] and saying during his 2016 campaign that he would "strongly consider" appointing Supreme Court justices who were inclined to overturn Obergefell v. [382] In 2020, the Department of Education threatened to withhold funding from Connecticut school districts that allow transgender girls to compete on girls' teams, claiming that the transgender students' participation is a violation of Title IX. 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