On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. If you are not familiar with his stance on a lot of important policies, below is a compilation of his major points regarding most of his policies, according to https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies.
Infrastructure: Infrastructure refers to the buildings, roads and facilities needed in order for a society to operate. Trump’s policies begin with him pledging to “transform America’s crumbling infrastructure” by focusing on America’s infrastructure investments.
Trump wants to invest in new technology and cost-effective systems for transportation, prioritizing clean water for all and modernizing our electricity grids. He wants to modernize our airports and airtime while protecting the American people from terrorists.
Healthcare: Trump has created a seven-step healthcare plan that begins with immediately “repealing and replacing Obamacare.” He plans to create more patient center healthcare systems and ensure access to those who have not had continuous health coverage. He also wants to ensure that there is healthcare coverage for Americans across state lines.
Abortion: Trump strongly opposes the spending of government money on abortions. Trump has said that Planned Parenthood does a lot of good but is willing to defund the entire organization if they do not stop providing abortions.
Cyber security: Trump wants to create tasks to collaborate with federal, state and local law to respond to cyber threats. He wants to “enhance cyber command to focus on offense and defense cyber domain.” Trump mostly wants to put emphasis on protecting the American people from attacks on the US government, private sectors and from hackers.
National defense: Trump wishes to rebuild a majority of the United States military. He plans to do this by increasing to 540,000 active soldiers, rebuilding the U.S. Navy to 350 ships, increasing the U.S. Marine Corps to 36 battalions and providing the U.S. Air Force with 1,200 new air crafts, as well as the modernization and rebuilding of our missile defense and national defense.
Veteran Affairs: Trump’s policies regarding veteran affairs is to give them the opportunity to “receive care whenever and wherever they need it.” His 10-step plan includes finding and firing those who corrupted the veteran administration, rewards those who did not and then completely restore the veteran affairs system.
He vows to do this by setting up better health care services, increasing mental health professionals, setting up a direct veteran affairs and White House hot-line, giving veterans a choice between the Administration care or their own private service provider and making sure care is given in a timely manner.
Taxes: Trump begins his tax policy by discussing his goal to ultimately reduce taxes significantly for the middle and working classes. One way he plans to achieve this is by reducing child care costs and deducting the average from taxes, including stay at home parents. He also intends on providing mothers with six weeks paid leave.
However, as outlined in his plan, the paid leave only is qualified to mothers in a “legally binding marriage that is recognized under state law.” This six-week paid leave excludes fathers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents and some sets of unmarried parents. As for the wealthy, he wants them to pay their fair share of taxes, except not the point that it will destroy jobs and cause them to not be able to compete with other businesses. Trump plans on eliminating special interest loopholes and make the business tax rate more competitive.
Education: Trump thinks that it is imperative that every child has a chance to receive a good education. He wants to increase federal investments into education by $20 million to ensure children are being given the opportunity of a great education.
To the 11 million school-aged children living in poverty, he wants to provide them with education options. He plans to make reforms to guarantee that universities are making an effort to reduce the cost of college student debt. His ultimate goal is to make any two-year, four-year, vocation or technical education easier to access, pay for and finish for all.
Immigration: As far as Trump’s immigration policy, he says his biggest concerns are jobs, wages and security. He wants stricter enforced immigration laws to safeguard American safety and all jobs to be offered to American citizens first. His 10-step Immigration Administration plan begins with building a wall along the Mexico and United States border. Trump stands firmly against President Barack Obama’s catch and release policy. Trump wants to implement entry and exit visa tracking, get rid of the jobs and benefits magnet that attracts immigrants and force other countries to take back the people we deport.
Aside from his listed policies, Trump released a 100-day plan of action for his first few months in office. First, Trump wants to change the Constitution to impose term limits on members of Congress.
Trump is going to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with a qualified and conservative individual who will “uphold and defend the U.S Constitution.” Concerning the second amendment, Trump vows to ban gun-free zones on school and military properties. Concerning immigration, Trump plans on suspending immigration from “terror prone” countries.
For immigrants that illegally re-enter the United States, Trump proposes a minimum two-year prison sentence, and a five-year prison sentence for those who illegally re-enter the United States with a criminal background.
Finally, Trump, in his first 100 days of office, wants to end payments to the United Nations climate change program and use that money towards United States infrastructure and clean water priorities. All of Trump’s policies are available for free view on his website at https://www. donaldjtrump.com/policies.
Kennedy Jirard is a second-year student majoring in communication studies. They can be reached at KJ846459@wcupa.edu.