Going by the report from the CNN, it says President-elect Donald Trump has
today, Monday unveiled plans 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 which include 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.
"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.
Some of the first
international reaction came from Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who during a
press conference at the APEC summit in Peru on Monday according to a translator
said "The TPP without the United States is meaningless. Renegotiation is
possible, because the TPP without the United States will collapse the balance
of the benefit. As for the policy of the new US government, I don't want to
discuss with any assumption."
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.
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