Former President Donald Trump will return to the White House on Monday, and while his potential final policy options remain to be seen, he may simply advance plans for a years-old timeline that includes stricter regulations for schools, immigration policies more difficult. policies, abolishing climate regulations and creating entirely new “freedom cities. ”
Trump’s “Agenda47” consists of proposals his campaign issued on its website during the primary election season, from December 2022 to December 2023, many of which may require congressional action but some of which could be enacted through executive orders—and are separate to the Project 2025 proposals developed by third-party organizations.
While Trump’s Agenda47 proposals and videos were long linked on his campaign website, his website’s homepage now only links to a shorter set of proposals and includes a separate link to the Republican National Committee’s broader platform—but the links to his more detailed Agenda47 proposals remain active, offering more insight about the ex-president’s priorities than what’s listed on his website now.
Education: Trump’s proposals for elementary and middle schools include choosing school principals by parents, federal investment of any school that teaches “critical race theory,” ending instructor tenure, and creating a new accreditation framework to certify only instructors “who adhere to patriotic values. “encouraging prayer in schools, making it less difficult to expel “uncontrollable troublemakers,” supporting school districts that license instructors to carry concealed firearms, and peddling “school choice” policies.
Universities: Trump has proposed getting rid of existing accreditors for colleges and universities and creating new ones who impose his party’s values on institutions, along with levying significant fines on colleges and universities that he believes “discriminate” against students—with a plan to use those fines to create a free online “American Academy” that “cover[s] the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills.”
Climate Change: The U.S. would again leave the Paris Climate Accord, and the ex-president has proposed getting rid of President Joe Biden’s policies restricting emissions and targeting 67% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032 and massively scaling up oil and gas production.
Justice Department: Trump pledged to appoint a hundred U. S. lawyers who would align with his policies and investigate some left-leaning local prosecutors, and he also pledged to create a Justice Department task force to “protect the right to self-defense” and address such-called anti-conservative bias in law schools and law firms.
Crime: Trump pledged to invest in recruiting and retaining police officers (and expanding their liability protections), selling policies like “stop and frisk,” ordering the Justice Department to “dismantle every single gangs, street teams and drug trafficking networks. in the United States,” deploying federal troops, adding the National Guard “to repair law and order” when local officials “refuse to act” and impose the death penalty on drug dealers, drug cartels and traffickers of people.
Immigration: Trump plans to ban undocumented immigrants from receiving benefits, end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, reinstate a “travel ban” from certain countries, suspend refugee admissions, require “a comprehensive evaluation of aliens,” blocking federal grants for sanctuary cities, ending the “catch and release” practice of releasing migrants who finish immigration hearings, closing the southern border to asylum seekers and suspending visa programs, adding the lottery visas. and family visas.
Economy: Trump proposes cutting federal taxes and regulations, and also proposes critical price lists for foreign goods in hopes of boosting American manufacturing, which will benefit countries with “unfair industrial practices. “
Health: Trump proposed requiring federal agencies to purchase drugs and medical devices made in the United States and prohibiting federal agencies in other countries from purchasing “essential” drugs; It is also an executive order that stipulates that the government will only pay pharmaceutical corporations “the most productive value they offer to foreign countries. ”
Foreign Policy and Defense: Trump wants European allies to pay back the U.S. for depleting its military stockpiles sending weapons to Ukraine; he has also taken a hardline stance on China, calling for new restrictions on Chinese-owned infrastructure in the U.S., and wants to build a missile defense shield.
Social Security: Contrary to the views of some pre-Trump Republican politicians, Trump has said there will be no cuts to Social Security or Medicare “under any circumstances. “
Homelessness: Trump plans to work with states to ban “public camping” by homeless people and instead give them the choice of receiving treatment or being arrested, and calls for creating large “tent cities” where homeless people would be relocated, which would have doctors and social workers on site, along with expanding mental institutions.
Transgender rights: Trump is taking a strong stance against transgender rights, calling for any physical care provider who offers gender-affirming care to other youth to be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid, and cutting federal investment for any school where a manager or instructor suggests a child may simply be “stuck in the body,” and encourage Congress to pass a law saying that “the only genders identified by the United States government are men and women, and assigned at birth.
Big Tech: In line with conservatives’ claims that social media platforms are biased against them, Trump said he’ll pass an executive order barring any federal department from working with other entities to “censor” Americans and prohibit federal money being used to combat misinformation, also announcing steps like altering Section 230 to open up social media platforms to more legal liability.
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The “platform” section of Trump’s campaign website now lists a set of 20 vague priorities, which are the same as those in the Republican National Committee’s formal platform and often overlap with his previous Agenda47 proposals. The proposals now outlined on the website include “seal[ing]
Trump’s Agenda47 is distinct from Project 2025, a potential policy blueprint for the next conservative administration—namely Trump’s—developed by the Heritage Foundation along with other third-party groups. While Agenda47 was released directly by the Trump campaign, the ex-president has said he doesn’t have any involvement with Project 2025 and has attempted to distance himself from it, even as the 900-page policy guidebook was created with help from more than 100 people who served in his administration. Trump has also praised the Heritage Foundation’s policy work in the past. The two policy proposals do have many commonalities—like calling to leave the Paris Climate Agreement, kicking out career bureaucrats, pushing “school choice” policies and railing against transgender rights—and it’s unclear how much of Project 2025 Trump could choose to implement if he’s elected.
Many pieces of Agenda 47 and Project 2025 would likely require congressional action – which could be feasible, since Republicans have snatched the Senate and it is not yet clear which party will regain the House; However, both systems propose to expand the president’s power over the executive branch. . The Trump47 Agenda proposes reinstating Trump’s 2020 executive order (which Biden rescinded), which would make it particularly less difficult to upgrade career officials with politically appointed officials. It also needs to “review federal departments and agencies” to get rid of “corrupt actors,” crack down on government leakers, and identify a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to combat what the GOP calls “the deep state. “
Since the publication of Agfinisha47’s last video in December 2023, Trump has announced policy proposals other than those published under Agfinisha47. When it comes to abortion, Trump said he believes the factor deserves to be left up to the states, even though many abortion rights advocates still believe it would limit abortion. He and the Republican Party have also promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, something not mentioned in Agfinisha’s immigration plans47. He also pushed for eliminating the federal source of income taxes on service workers’ tips, as well as eliminating social security and double taxation taxes for Americans living abroad and returning interest on tax deductible auto loans. Trump also called for mass arrests and prosecutions of others who oppose his claims of election fraud, which he said would include “lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and corrupt election officials. ” He is also expected to try to negotiate with China and ByteDance over TikTok, as a federal ban on the app is expected to take effect Sunday ahead of his inauguration. Trump is reportedly contemplating issuing an executive order that would at least temporarily end the ban. Its management is trying to find a solution that allows the app to work in the United States without ByteDance. After his election, Trump also announced the creation of a “Department of Government Effectiveness” led by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek. Ramaswamy, who is expected to propose significant discounts on federal spending, although the effect on this organization is still unclear as it will officially operate outside of the government. While Trump has long advocated for price lists, the president-elect announced in November his express goal of increasing price lists for imports from China, Canada and Mexico, and said Tuesday that he was seeking to create a new ” External Revenue Service” to collect money from taxes on imports. Array The president-elect has also made a series of comments in recent weeks about the United States’ preference for purchasing Greenland, something the Danish territory has been reluctant to do.
What Trump will do once he takes office. Trump’s initial Agenda47 was released during the primary election and with the proposals on his website during the general election offering much less detail, it’s still unclear what policies Trump will actually impose now that he’s been elected. The ex-president has tacked slightly more to the center in the general election on issues like abortion, but it remains to be seen what policies he will adopt once he’s back in the White House.
In addition to proposals around more expected issues like immigration, education and defense, Trump’s Agenda47 also includes a proposal for “freedom cities,” as the ex-president has called for using federal land to create up to 10 new cities, which would be roughly the size of Washington, D.C. Plans for the cities would be chosen via a nationwide contest, and Politico reported in March 2023 Trump’s proposal includes investing in “vertical takeoff-and-landing vehicles” akin to human-sized drones and “baby bonuses” in hopes of staving off a declining birth rate.
Trump won the presidential election in November against Vice President Kamala Harris, winning a second term after winning key battleground states including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. The former president released his Agenda47 videos while facing a crowded first box of Republican candidates in the primaries, but Trump ultimately emerged as the clear favorite, winning the nomination in March. The policy proposals have come under increased scrutiny in the months leading up to the election, especially as Democrats used the questionable 2025 plan to oppose Trump’s candidacy, while President Joe Biden faces complaints about his seniority. Project 2025 and Agenda 47 have been published since 2023.
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