Trump’s agenda if he wins the 2024 election, from energy to education

Former President Donald Trump plans to deport millions of migrants, overhaul global trade with expensive tariffs and fill the government with loyalists if he wins a second four-year term in the White House in November’s presidential election.

From overhauling education to an “America-first government,” the former commander-in-chief promises to reinvigorate the following programs and policies once he returns to power.

prices

Trump has mentioned the idea of 10 percent and higher tariffs on all goods imported into the country, claiming this will eliminate trade deficits. He also wants to implement a four-year plan to ensure that the US “no longer has to rely on China for essential medical and national security supplies” and to ban Chinese ownership of critical infrastructure in the US.

Energy

The former president plans to boost domestic energy production, lower fuel costs, scrap the Green New Deal and allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, fossil fuels accounted for 81% of U.S. energy production in 2022.

Immigration

If elected in November, the Republican president plans to restore first-term immigration policies, including limiting access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, abolishing automatic citizenship for those born from immigrant parents in the US, and replacing the National Guard and local law enforcement agencies. “rapidly removing illegal alien gang members and criminals” while implementing a merit-based immigration system.

Trump also promises to impose a total naval embargo on cartel vessels, directing the US Department of Defense to “inflict maximum damage on the cartel’s leadership and operations” and “designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.” ” He will also tell other governments to do the same. and “uncover any bribes and kickbacks that enable these criminal networks to maintain their brutal rule.

Law and Order

The Republican Party frontrunner has also talked about providing record funding for hiring police officers in the US and criticizing the Biden administration and the “radical left” for trying to defund police departments. He claimed that murder rates in Democratic cities have risen since he left office. According to the Pew Research Center, the U.S. homicide rate rose 30 percent in 2020 and remained “significantly higher than before the coronavirus pandemic” in 2022. Preliminary data indicate a significant decline in homicides by 2023.

Education

Trump said he would “remove Biden’s radical left ideology from our military and reinstate every patriot who was wrongly fired” and “in the world and American leadership abroad.” He also plans to cut federal funding for schools and programs that promote ideals on the radical left agenda, including critical race theory, gender ideology, the weaponization of citizenship education and transgender athletes competing in the gender division with which they identify.

Project 2025, created by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC, also plans to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.

In return, he will reward schools that eliminate tenure for K-12 teachers, implement the Parental Bill of Rights, reduce the number of administrators, establish elections for principals voted on by parents, and “constitutional law” protect by prayer. public schools. The U.S. Department of Education allows private prayers in public schools but says, “Officials may not prescribe prayers to be recited by students or school authorities.”

Freedom of opinion

Trump says he will restore freedom of speech by enacting legislation that will limit the ability of social media platforms to censor or restrict the rights of their users. He has also pledged to continue appointing judges and justices “who believe in upholding the law, not their own political agenda.”

Reuters contributed to reporting on the story.

Victor Hagan is the Alabama Election Reporting Fellow for the USA TODAY Network. He can be reached at [email protected] or at X @TheVictorHagan. To support his work, please subscribe to the Advertiser.