Donald Trump
outlines policy plan
for first 100 days
By
Tom
LoBianco, CNN
Updated
7:35 PM ET, Mon November 21, 2016
Washington
(CNN)President-elect Donald Trump unveiled plans Monday for
his first 100 days in office, including proposals related to immigration, trade
deals and defense policy, using a video published online to briefly outline his
proposals.
Trump
promised to withdraw from negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
deal, cancel environmental restrictions put in place by President Barack Obama,
ask his national security team to buttress against infrastructure attacks, have
the Labor Department investigate federal worker visas and impose broad new bans
on lobbying by government employees.
The
six items Trump detailed Monday are all somewhat easy lifts inside Washington
-- because they can be done with a simple signature by Trump and do not require
congressional approval.
But
Trump also left out his biggest campaign promises -- including promises to
build a wall along the Mexican border, establish a "deportation
force," place new restrictions on immigration from some majority Muslim
countries, repeal Obamacare and spend $1 trillion on infrastructure.
Unlike
his items unveiled Monday, those measures would require the approval of
Congress and are likely to take significantly more work.
Time
and speed are very likely to be key factors as the new president looks for
bigger, more durable wins in his first year. Republicans control the House and
Senate, as well as the White House -- but Democrats struggled to pass key
items, like Obamacare, when they were in a similar position eight years ago.
Republicans
hold a firm majority in the House, but could struggle in the Senate, where
Democrats will hold 48 seats next year, enough to blockade Trump measures.
Trump
cast his measures as completely focused on American workers.
"Whether
it's producing steel, building cars, or curing disease, I want the next
generation of production and innovation to happen right here, in our great
homeland: America -- creating wealth and jobs for American workers," Trump
said in the two-and-a-half-minute video statement. "As part of this plan,
I've asked my transition team to develop a list of executive actions we can
take on day one to restore our laws and bring back our jobs."
Among
his first actions, the Republican said he would "issue our notification of
intent to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership" and replace it with
negotiating "fair bilateral trade deals." Trump campaigned on a
promise to halt the progress of the TPP trade deal, an agreement President
Barack Obama had hoped would be a part of his administration's trade legacy.
On
immigration, Trump promised to "investigate all abuses of visa programs
that undercut the American worker," but did not mention his signature
campaign promise of building a wall along the US border with Mexico.
The
items are all measures he broadly campaigned on, though Trump has begun
moderating some of the toughest stances he took on the campaign trail. In an
interview with "60 Minutes," he said that he would likely keep key
portions of Obamacare. And not long after his election win, his campaign took
down the web page with his earlier promise to ban all Muslims from entering the
country -- he has since moderated that view greatly, but left major questions
on how precisely he would limit immigration.
Source: CNN
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Two things are missing
from Trump's preview of his first 100
days
in the White House
Bryan Logan
Nov 22nd 2016 6:36AM
Trump
appeared in a YouTube video on Monday outlining a number of policies he says
his administration will seek to enact after he is inaugurated in January.
The
message closely resembled the pitch from his days on the campaign trail,
highlighting his goal to preserve American jobs and bolster US military
defenses.
· US
trade — issue a notice of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.
· US
energy — cancel what Trump described as "job-killing" restrictions on
American energy production.
· Regulations
— the incoming president says he will seek to formulate a simple rule: for
every one new regulation, two old regulations would be eliminated.
· National
security — Trump says he will ask the Department of Defense to develop policies
that protect US infrastructure from cyber attacks and "all other forms of
attacks."
· Immigration
— ask the Department of Labor to investigate abuses of visa programs that
"undercut the American worker."
· Ethics
reform — a 5- year ban on executive officials becoming lobbyists after they
leave the administration and a lifetime ban on the same officials lobbying on
behalf of foreign governments.
Two things were
missing from Trump's message — a mention of a border wall that he vowed to
build between the US and Mexico, and details on his proposed alternative to the
Affordable Care Act.
The border wall was
one of Trump's signature campaign promises and an extension of an immigration
platform that sought to deport millions of people who are in the US illegally.
On the Affordable
Care Act — better-known as Obamacare — then-candidate Trump promised to
"repeal and replace" the law as soon as he took office.
It is unclear when
those initiatives might be taken up. After Trump's first meeting with President
Barack Obama days after the election, Trump signaled that he may keep some Obamacare provisions in place.
Additionally, Trump's
promise on Monday to push for ethics reform comes on the same day that his
labyrinthine foreign business connections were called into question. Last week, amid a
flurry of meetings with domestic and international dignitaries, the billionaire
mogul also sat down with three Indian business partners who are building a
Trump-branded apartment complex near Mumbai.
According to The New
York Times, a Trump Organization spokeswoman described the meeting as a "courtesy
call."
Trump, who has grown
increasingly hostile toward news organizations since he was elected, appeared
to address that issue in a tweet late Monday night. The message claimed
that it was "well known" that he has business dealings around the
world. "Only the crooked media makes this a big deal," the tweet
read.
Source:
Business Insider
