TOI correspondent from Washington: The first day of Trump’s second term is still 75 days away, but January 20 (Monday) will be a very busy day as he has made more than 40 “one day” promises. Among them: launch “the largest deportation campaign in American history,” expand oil drilling, eliminate subsidies for electric vehicles, and ban transgender people from women’s sports.
Of course, he can’t cram everything into a half-day that begins after he’s sworn in as president at noon, not to mention that some of his promises are outside the presidential purview or require congressional approval. But still, some of his actions that followed days and weeks later would usher in a new era in American politics, life, and society.
Some of the most dramatic changes will be on the immigration front, where Trump promised not to immediately begin mass deportations but to “reinstate Trump’s travel ban that barred entry from terror-stricken countries,” ending “every open border policy in the world.” Biden administration” and signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, a fundamental principle of civil rights enshrined in the 14th Amendment.
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At various times during his campaign, Trump has also threatened to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was used to detain more than 100,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, although its original mandate was to incarcerate, relocate or deport. -Citizens of countries that were considered enemies of America during the war. If this principle was loosely applied during WWII, US citizens whose country of origin was at war with the US at any time could be detained and deported.
During his tenure, if he pays attention to Project 2025 proposals (a report he rejected) drawn up by officials who served in his first administration, there will be a new “Border Patrol and Immigration Agency” that will revitalize and build Trump’s border wall. Camps to detain children and families, using the military to deport millions of illegal immigrants. “Illegal immigration must be ended, not reduced; The boundary is sealed, not re-prioritised,” says the Project 2025 report.
Some of the most fundamental changes will come in the area of reproductive rights, the so-called abortion issue, especially if the authors of Project 2025 are installed in the administration. The report called for ways to infuse Christian nationalism into government policy by promoting policies that encourage “marriage, work, motherhood, fatherhood, and the nuclear family,” views echoed by Vice-President-elect J.D. Vance.
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Among other steps, the project’s proposals call for banning the abortion pill, which is used in more than half of all American abortions, and criminalizing abortion care providers using government tools to track miscarriages, stillbirths and miscarriages. It also recommends making it harder to get certain emergency contraceptive care covered by insurance.
Big changes are also happening on the broader health front, where Trump has said he would let Robert Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, “go wild” among other ugly ideas. Hours after Trump’s victory, Kennedy, expected to head the Department of Health, said in an interview that he would recommend removing fluoride from drinking water supplies, a decades-long practice experts say improves oral health.
Trump has dismissed some of Project 2025’s proposals as hawkish, but there are many ideas he has embraced, including politicizing the bureaucracy and military to elicit unquestioning loyalty to the president. After firing at least three generals who served in civilian capacities in his administration and unloading a four-star general who called him a fascist, Trump said he preferred a Hitler-like general, according to his former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly. was
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Trump has also promised to eliminate the federal Department of Education and suggested the president be subordinated to the Justice Department and the Federal Reserve, a respected institution that has long been independent of the White House. Then of course there are tariffs, his weapon for all seasons to enrich America and punish countries that resist his vision of a level playing field on trade.
Trump has set the stage for one, explaining a conservative Supreme Court decision he engineered in his first term. Imperial PresidencyThe likes of which the United States has never seen. The “failed” New York Times, his bete-noire, put it more modestly in an analysis with the headline “America Hires a Strongman.”
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