The private White House meeting had the potential to be awkward after the two men sniped at each other throughout the bitter presidential campaign. If Republicans have any ambition to make any progress on domestic policy, Mr. Trump and other Republicans need the support of Democrats in Congress to create bipartisan legislative initiatives. Despite dire predictions Trump’s candidacy could spur a wave that would undermine Republicans down the ballot, his stronger-than-expected draw at the top of the ticket in such states as Missouri and in helped the GOP maintain control of the Senate and minimize losses in the House.
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In recent months, President Obama ramped up his efforts to fight climate change, but Trump, who once suggested climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese, plans to take aim at numerous president’s energy initiatives and regulations.
The business mogul would seek a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on congressional lawmakers and place a hiring freeze on the federal government, with certain departments exempted. “It is time for us to come together as one united people”, he said.
In his outline, President-elect Trump vowed to “clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, D.C”.
As for Trump’s actual plans and whether Republicans in Congress will go along with them: The 2016 election also has the effect of undermining the GOP establishment’s claims that moderation is the best course – particularly on issues such as immigration.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could reverse with the stroke of a pen.
At first, the Republicans crowed about retaining the Senate and the House while winning the White House as well. He’s said he will balance the budget and cut taxes, but expand Social Security and increase military spending. “That’s something that Republicans will have to consider moving forward”.
But Trump is no mainstream Republican.
The political rhetoric around this mix will sound a lot like what we heard when George W. Bush was elected in 2000. Major constraints include budget caps, laws he can not reverse without Congress, and the pressure that will emerge to replace policies he chooses to abandon.
The governor was notably absent from the steady stream of advisers entering Trump’s eponymous skyscraper in NY for meetings Friday. “That is all vulnerable to countervailing executive authority by a Trump administration”.
Some elements of his policy agenda will take a little longer.
The defining feature of the election, Winston says, was the fact the two most disliked presidential candidates in history were running against one another, both given unfavorable ratings from a majority of the electorate.
These Washington changes were not expected to occur in the election, however. In the hands of a more conventional politician – a Mitt Romney, a Marco Rubio – this would be a golden opportunity to pass legislation to advance conservative goals, including lower taxes and tighter federal budgets. “I think most of the things that he’s likely to advocate we’re going to be enthusiastically for”. In the short-run, this will mean more credit on easier terms, at least for large financial firms.
On January 20, Trump will assume office in the White House. Ryan, in an interview on Fox News Channel, talked about “serious problems” with Medicare, an issue he’s addressed in the past with a top-to-bottom overhaul for which Trump has shown no enthusiasm. In actuality, America’s vetting process remains one of the most rigorous in the world, and now accepts the most vulnerable refugees like women and children seeking to escape war-torn counties. But we will also likely see a severe recession and financial crash of some variety during the coming years. The tenets of TrumpCare should be founded on the principle that middle class families are protected, and that providers are paid at market-rate for services not the Medi-Cal rate because it simply drives doctors away from treating patients.
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Simon Johnson is a professor at MIT, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
