Former President Donald Trump will face the Republican National Convention on Thursday after winning the GOP nomination. A years-old platform dating back to the Republican primary lays out a series of priorities should he be elected, adding stricter regulations for schools, plus sweeping immigration policies, climate regulations and the creation of entirely new “cities of freedom. “
Trump’s “Agenda 47” is made up of a series of proposals his campaign posted on its online page during the first election season, from December 2022 to December 2023, many of which would possibly require congressional action, but some of which may also simply be enacted. through executive orders, separate from Project 2025 proposals developed through third-party organizations.
Education: Trump’s proposals for elementary and middle schools include choosing parents of school principals, federal investment of any school that teaches “critical race theory,” ending instructor tenure, and creating a new accreditation framework to certify only instructors “who adhere to patriotic values. “encouraging prayer in schools, making it less difficult to expel “uncontrollable troublemakers,” supporting school districts that license instructors to carry concealed firearms, and peddling “school choice” policies.
Universities: Trump has proposed getting rid of existing accrediting bodies for schools and colleges and creating new ones that impose his party’s values on institutions, while also slapping significant fines on schools and colleges that he says “discriminate” against academics, with the goal of creating an online “American Academy” that “covers the full spectrum of human wisdom and abilities. “
Climate change: The United States would once again abandon the Paris Climate Agreement and the former president has proposed getting rid of President Joe Biden’s policies that restrict emissions and aim for 67% of new cars to be electric by 2032 and massively increase the production of oil and fuels. .
Justice Department: Trump pledged to appoint a hundred U. S. lawyers who would align with his policies and investigate some left-leaning local prosecutors, and he also pledged to create a Justice Department task force to “protect the right to self-defense” and address such-called anti-conservative bias in law schools and law firms.
Crime: Trump pledged to invest in the hiring and retention of police officers (and expand their protections from legal liability), to announce policies such as “stop-and-frisk,” to order the Justice Department to “dismantle all gangs, street teams, and drug trafficking networks. “in the United States,” “Deploy federal troops, adding the National Guard to restore law and order” when local officials “refuse to act” and impose the death penalty on drug traffickers, drug cartels, and human traffickers.
Immigration: Trump plans to ban undocumented immigrants from receiving benefits, end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, reinstate a “travel ban” from certain countries, suspend refugee admissions, require “comprehensive control of foreign nationals,” block federal grants for sanctuary cities, end the “catch and release” practice of releasing migrants after immigration hearings, close the southern border to asylum seekers, and suspend visa programs, adding the visa lottery and family visas.
Economy: Trump is proposing to cut federal taxes and regulations, and is also proposing fundamental price lists for foreign goods in hopes of boosting American manufacturing, which will benefit countries with “unfair industrial practices. “
Health: Trump proposed requiring federal agencies to acquire drugs and medical devices manufactured in the United States and prohibiting federal agencies in other countries from buying “essential” drugs; It is also an executive order stipulating that the government will only pay pharmaceutical corporations “the most productive value they offer to foreign countries. “
Foreign policy and defense: Trump’s European allies will reimburse the United States for exhausting its military arsenals and sending weapons to Ukraine; It has also taken a difficult stance on China, calling for new restrictions on Chinese infrastructure in the United States and the construction of a missile shield.
Social Security: Contrary to the views of some pre-Trump Republican politicians, Trump has said there will be no cuts to Social Security or Medicare “under any circumstances. “
Homelessness: Trump plans to work with states to ban homeless “public encampments” and instead give them the option of receiving treatment or being arrested, and calls for the creation of giant “tent cities” where homeless people would be relocated and staffed with medical staff and social painters on site. as well as expanding psychiatric facilities.
Transgender rights: Trump is taking a strong stance against transgender rights, calling for any physical care provider who offers gender-affirming care to other youth to be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid, and cutting federal investment for any school where a manager or instructor suggests a child may simply be “stuck in the body,” and encourage Congress to pass a law saying that “the only genders identified by the United States government are men and women, and assigned at birth.
Big Tech: In line with conservative claims that social media platforms have an opposing bias to them, Trump said he would pass an executive order that would prohibit any federal branch from collaborating with other entities to “censor” Americans and prohibit the use of federal money to combat misinformation. . , and also pronounced measures such as amending Section 230 to open up social media platforms to greater legal liability.
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Trump’s Agenda 47 is separate from Project 2025, a potential policy blueprint for the next conservative administration — specifically Trump’s — that is being developed through the Heritage Foundation with other third-party groups. Although Agenda47 was published directly through the Trump campaign, the former president said he was not involved in Project 2025 and tried to distance himself from it, despite the fact that the 900-page political consultant created with the help of more than a hundred people served in his administration. Trump has also praised the Heritage Foundation’s political paintings in the past. The two policy proposals have a lot in common — such as calling for abandoning the Paris Climate Agreement, expelling career bureaucrats, peddling “school choice” policies, and denouncing transgender rights — and it’s unclear exactly what part of the 2025 plan Trump can simply decide to put into effect if he so chooses. elected.
Many Agenda 47 and Project 2025 issues would likely require acts of Congress, but both systems propose expanding the president’s power over the executive. Trump’s Agenda 47 proposes reinstating Trump’s 2020 executive order (which Biden rescinded), which would make it much less difficult to upgrade career public officials to political appointees. He also needs to “reform federal departments and agencies” to get rid of “corrupt actors,” crack down on government leakers, and establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to combat what the Republican Party calls it ” Deep State. “
Since the last Agenda47 video was published in December 2023, Trump has announced other policy proposals independent of those published under the Agenda47 title. Regarding abortion, Trump said that he is the factor that deserves to be left in the hands of the states, although many abortion rights still defend that he would limit abortion if elected. He and the Republican Party have also promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, something that is not discussed in Agenda47’s immigration plans. He also pushed to eliminate the federal source of income taxes on service workers’ tips.
What Trump will do once in force if elected. Agenda47 was published during the first election and it is unclear whether Trump will tone down his proposals to appeal more to the general electorate as Election Day approaches. Trump’s crusade has yet to respond to a request for comment on how the former president’s timeline has evolved since the release of the most recent Agenda 47 proposals last year. In addition to Agenda 47 and Project 2025, the Republican National Committee has also released its own political timeline that would most likely also consider a long-term Trump administration, though it echoes many of the priorities already defined by Trump and the authors of Project 2025. – with fewer details.
In addition to proposals on more anticipated issues such as immigration, schooling and defense, the Trump Agenda47 also includes a “freedom cities” proposal, in which the former president calls for the use of federal lands to create up to 10 new cities, which would be about the length of Washington, D. C. Plans for the cities would be selected through a national contest, and Politico reported in March 2023 that Trump’s proposal includes making an investment in “vertical takeoff and landing vehicles” similar to human-length ones. drones and “baby bonuses” in the hope of preventing a decline in the birth rate.
Trump officially gathered enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination Monday afternoon as the Republican National Convention was underway, securing his right to run and declare Sen. J. J. D. Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate. The former president posted his Agenda47 videos while facing a giant organization of Republican candidates in the primaries, Trump ultimately emerged as a transparent leader, clinching the nomination in March. The GOP’s policy proposals have come under scrutiny in recent weeks in the run-up to the conference. – And while Democrats used the questionable 2025 plan to oppose Trump’s candidacy while President Joe Biden faced complaints about his age, even though the 2025 plan and Agenda 47 have since been released last year.
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