10 key points in Donald Trump's 100-day Presidential action plan

After being elected, Trump has rolled back some, if not all, of his radical proposals

US President-elect Donald Trump had announced in October the plans for his first 100 days in office. Trump’s address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which he termed ‘Contract with the American Voter’, touched upon a range of steps – from declaring China a currency manipulator to cancelling payments to the United Nations for combating climate change and renegotiating the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).
 
The speech, which Trump started with “change has to come from outside this broken system” before going on to threaten that he would sue all those women who accused him of making unwanted sexual advances, included the promise to block telecom conglomerate AT&T’s proposed buyout of Time Warner — for an estimated $85 billion — and to break up the Comcast-NBCUniversal merger.

Since being elected in a historic upset, Trump has walked back some of his earlier positions and stood firmly by others. In his first interview since being elected, given to CBS' "60 minutes", Trump said that he was "fine" with same-sex marriage remaining legal across the country. He also rolled back his remarks on deporting all illegal immigrants, in stead saying that his administration would focus on deporting those illegal aliens who had criminal records, and then "make a determination" about the rest. However, he did make it clear that he would appoint Supreme Court judges who were opposed to Abortions and pro-life.

 

Business Standard scans the draft of his 100-day agenda, as detailed on Trump’s website, www.donaldjtrump.com, and lists 10 key takeaways:
 
On economic agenda
 
1. Renegotiate Nafta
Making clear his views on key international trade deals, Trump said he would like to renegotiate Nafta or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205 and from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
 
2. Energy reserves
Trump promised to lift restrictions on the production of $50 trillion worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including those of shale gas, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
 
3. China, a currency manipulator
Trump said he would declare China a currency manipulator and also promised to end foreign trade abuses that impact American workers unfairly.

 
4. Infrastructure expansion
Trump assured to lift the “Obama-Clinton roadblocks” and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, such as the Keystone Pipeline. He also said he would cancel billions of dollars in payments to UN climate change programmes and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.
 
On immigration
 
5. Oust criminal illegal immigrants
Trump said he would begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the US and cancel the visas to foreign countries that wouldn’t take them back. Also, he said he would suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot occur safely, and all vetting of people coming to the US would be considered extreme.

 
On Corruption and transparency
 
6. Regulatory plans
Trump said he would propose measures like the Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of the Congress, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition — exempting military, public safety, and public health — and that two existing regulations would be eliminated for every new federal regulation.
 
7. Crackdown on lobbying
Trump assured tough actions on lobbying by proposing a five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after leaving service, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of foreign governments and a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

 
On legislative agenda
 
8. Trump proposed key economic legislations like the ‘Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act’ — a tax plan that envisions a gross domestic product growth rate of four per cent and the creation of 25 million new jobs in the near future. He also spoke of ending ‘the Offshoring Act’, which establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers to relocate in other countries, and the ‘American Energy & Infrastructure Act’, which leverages public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years.
 

9. Social legislation
Explaining his intentions on key social issues, Trump promised to bring key legislation like the ‘School Choice And Education Opportunity Act’, the ‘Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act’ and the ‘Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act’.
 
10. Restoring safety
Trump said he would try to secure the US domestically and externally by bringing the legislation like ‘Restoring Community Safety Act’ and ‘Restoring National Security Act’.