US Election 2016

US election: What has Donald Trump promised to do as president?

Updated November 09, 2016 20:11:49

We all know about building the wall but what else has the next president of the United States promised to do?

Here's just some of what Donald Trump has pledged throughout the campaign:

Immigration

Trade

  • Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and "walk away" from it if the US does not get what it wants
  • Increase tariffs on Chinese imports to 45 per cent

Law and order

Health

  • Scrap the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare
  • Allow the states to take back control of abortion laws. Says public funding of abortion providers is "an insult to people of conscience"
  • Punish doctors who carry out illegal abortions. At one point he also advocated punishing women who have illegal abortions, but he appeared to backtrack on that
  • Fix America's mental health system, which he says will prevent many mass shootings

Economy and jobs

Defence and national security

  • Try and improve the relationship with Russia: "If Russia and the United States got on well and went after ISIS, that would be good"
  • Submit a new budget to rebuild America's "depleted military"
  • Make countries that benefit from America's defence force cover some of the cost
  • Pursue "aggressive joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS"
  • Work with other countries to cut off funding to ISIS
  • Initiate cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable ISIS propaganda and recruiting
  • Order an immediate review of all US cyber vulnerabilities

Nuclear weapons

Climate change

Education

  • Scrap the Common Core program, which dictates what students should learn in each grade. He says curriculum decisions and standards should be made at a local level

Topics: us-elections, united-states

First posted November 09, 2016 19:09:59