International Desk, Bangladesh Global: Donald Trump made a slew of promises before the election. Now that he’s returning to the White House for a second time, people will be closely watching his next steps.
For starters, he is inheriting two major global conflicts—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s multi-frontal war in the Middle East. And then there’s North Korea acting up.
Trump has promised to "end inflation and make America affordable again" - he says he'll do this by expanding US energy production and opening areas such as the Arctic wilderness to oil drilling to lower energy costs.
He's proposed a number of tax cuts worth trillions, including an extension of ones he enacted in 2017, which mostly helped the wealthy. Trump says that he will pay for cuts through higher growth and tariffs on imports.
Trump campaigned heavily on this issue, promising to seal the US's border by completing construction of the wall he promised to build between the US and Mexico during his last presidency. He's also said he'll enact the biggest mass deportation of undocumented migrants in US history.
He previously rolled back hundreds of environmental protections, including limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and vehicles, and protections for federal waterways. He's again vowing to cut regulations and has attacked electric vehicles, promising to overturn the Biden administration's bid to switch to cleaner cars.
Trump has struggled to find a consistent message on abortion, but suggested during his campaign that individual US states should decide its legality. Three Supreme Court judges he appointed while president was pivotal in the overturning of Roe v Wade - a ruling which had guaranteed women, nationwide, the right to an abortion up until the point of foetal viability.
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