During the campaign, many pointed to Project 2025 and its proposals as the Trump campaign’s agenda. However, Trump has claimed not to know Project 2025, and his campaign has outlined its own agenda for the next four years in Agenda 47, which the Trump Campaign has published on its website.
Immigration, Border Security and Deportations
President-Elect Donald Trump made deportions and blocking immigration one of his main goals in 2016 and in 2024. He has said he wants to use ICE and local law enforcement to deport millions of immigrants here in the US and stop others from arriving. He has also planned to build detention camps in major US cities and hire more ICE agents. A plan like this would cost $968 billion. Trump will also reverse the Biden administration’s reforms on immigration. He and his running mate JD Vance have blamed immigrants for a variety of problems that have no real evidence supporting them. Trump even talked about using the US military against undocumented immigrants but this would violate the constitution and the law.
Climate change and Environment and Energy Policy
The world is getting farther away from CO2 goals and closer to the critical CO2 emissions. President Elect Donald Trump has promised to cut back much of the Biden Administrations work on the climate crisis. During Trump’s first term he left the Paris agreement. Biden has rejoined but Trump will pull out again. He has also planned to deregulate energy to boost coal and strengthen an already booming oil industry. But many states are ready to act on climate change and even some of his Republican supporters believe some action must be taken.
Government and Military
Trump has made plans to reverse some of the policy’s President Biden put in place like allowing transgender people in the military. During the first Trump administration, he reformed the Veterans healthcare to make it more accessible to them. He will continue this by making veterans healthcare more privatized rather than having the Veterans Affairs take care of it. He will also ban offering abortions from VA hospitals. He also wants to appoint his own generals politically instead of maintaining the bipartisanship of the military and has talked about using the military on opponents. This will make the army weaker. Trump wants to use identity politics in his organization. For other parts of the bureaucracy his close advisor, billionaire Elon Musk has pledged to create a Department of Government of efficiency to reorganize the government. Although the details are not clear he will cut spending and fire employees. Pete Hegseth to run the defense department who has questioned women in combat zones and promised to remove generals he saw as “to woke.”
Tax Cuts
According to Promise Six in Agenda 47, he plans to have “large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!” Restaurant and hospitality workers, according to Forbes, are “…subject to both income and payroll taxes, according to the federal Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.” Cash and non-cash tips are considered income and subject to federal income tax. Employees are subject to tip tax only if they earn more than $20 in taxes in a single month.
However, “Trump also has not stated whether his proposal would exempt tips solely from federal income tax, or whether it would also exempt tips from payroll tax, the federal tax used to fund Medicare and Social Security. As it stands, the Senate bill only includes an exemption for income tax.”
Electric Vehicle Transition and Regulations
Promise fifteen in Agenda 47 calls for “Cancel[ing] the electric vehicle mandate and cut[ing] costly and burdensome regulations.” According to Reuters, his plan is to kill President Biden’s electric vehicle tax credit along with other clean energy policies and sharply reduce the power of the United States’s financial regulators.
With his cutting of the electric vehicle tax credit, it could lead to “grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition.” However, it could be used to “…help pay for the extension of trillions of dollars in tax cuts from his first term that are set to expire soon, the two sources said. Congressional Republicans plan to take up the broader tax bill as one of their first actions.”
This plan to reduce the power of United States financial regulators would entail reducing financial regulation and repealing many financial reforms instituted by Congress to prevent another 2008-era global banking meltdown. Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, claimed, “President Trump’s pro-growth, deregulatory agenda ignited the greatest economy in history” when responding to an email from Reuters.
Transgender People In Sports
Promise seventeen in Agenda 47 calls for “Keep[ing] men out of women’s sports.” Hill reports that Trump plans to accomplish this by signing an executive order. The Hill further reported, “Trump has pledged on multiple occasions to bar transgender women and girls, whom he calls ‘men,’ from female sports if he returns to the White House next year but has not outlined how his administration would do so.” Further, The Hill and NPR reported that Trump plans to repeal the Biden administration’s Title IX protections given to transgender people. Title IX is currently used to prevent discrimination across education, athletics, and more on the basis of sex.
Pro-Palestinian Protests in Schools
Promise eighteen in Agenda 47 calls for “Deport[ing] pro-hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.” NBC reported that Trump plans to accomplish this by deporting foreign students with visas who participate in college protests against Israel. However, they will most likely lead to legal challenges as “Civil liberties groups say attempts to deport protesters who are visa holders for speech-related offenses would spark legal battles nationwide.”
Overall, these are only a few of the twenty promises stated by the Trump campaign in Agenda 47, and we encourage you to view the rest as anything the federal government does has far-reaching implications that can and will impact your life at least slightly.
