USA Policy positions of Donald Trump; let's see how many he achieves

[Malifice]

In the lead up to the '24 election, Donald Trump announced 20 key policies he would enact if re-elected.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

More detail is provided for these policies here:

https://rncplatform.donaldjtrump.co...8.1537293993.1730887358-1509222167.1730887358

Concrete, specific policies alluded to above include:

1. Finish the Border wall with Mexico.
2. Deport over a million people, using the National Guard and Army.
3. Ending inflation.
4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world (currently this is China, and by some margin)
5. Turning America into a 'manufacturing superpower' (it already is, second only to China, so to get this one up we would need to see real gains).
6. Large tax cuts for workers.
7. No tax on tips.
8. Prevent World War three (?), restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East (presumably this means ending the War in Israel/ Palestine/ Lebanon/ Iran, and ending the Russia/ Ukraine conflict 'in 24 hours').
9. Build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America.
10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders (this includes the death penalty for drug dealers).
11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world (current US Military spending is $841.4 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD), $32.4 billion for national security programs within the Department of Energy (DOE), and $438.0 million in defense-related activities).
13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency (although it's not like he has the power to stop the USD being the Worlds default reserve currency in any event).
14. No cuts to social security and Medicare.
15. No changes to the retirement age.
16. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate (good mate Musk is going to love this one).
17. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
18. Keep men out of women's sports.
19. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.
20. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.

Over the next four years, when (or if) any these policies happen, I'll check them off the list above.

Feel free to tag me in if/ when he achieves any from the above list of 20 key policy positions, and I'll strike them off the list as he does so.

 

[Crankyhawk]

How would we define "real gains" in manufacturing? Would we look at employment (number of manufacturing jobs) or output/ productivity of manufactured goods (dollar value is tricky due to currency fluctuation, but number of units is pretty meaningless)

 

[Malifice]

How would we define "real gains" in manufacturing? Would we look at employment (number of manufacturing jobs) or output/ productivity of manufactured goods (dollar value is tricky due to currency fluctuation, but number of units is pretty meaningless)

There is your metric.

The only way it works is if it gets cheaper to make stuff in the USA, or the USA goes the way of Germany and carves out a (massive) niche manufacturing high end stuff that people are willing to pay extra for.

His current plan is to impose tariffs on foreign built stuff (raising the prices of them for your average American) which makes the more expensive locally made stuff viable.

End result is everything will cost a lot more.

 

[Spearman]

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There is your metric.

The only way it works is if it gets cheaper to make stuff in the USA, or the USA goes the way of Germany and carves out a (massive) niche manufacturing high end stuff that people are willing to pay extra for.

His current plan is to impose tariffs on foreign built stuff (raising the prices of them for your average American) which makes the more expensive locally made stuff viable.

End result is everything will cost a lot more.

And the only way to make it cheaper in the US is to lower wages, lots of luck with that one. Sooooo bring in foreign workers who will work for peanuts?
Actually they do that here with SE Asians from Thai and Philippines mostly. Taiwanese would rather not work than do those menial factory jobs.

 

[Malifice]

And the only way to make it cheaper in the US is to lower wages, lots of luck with that one. Sooooo bring in foreign workers who will work for peanuts?

No, they're going to also ship out the foreign workers who work for peanuts.

And while doing all these things that contribute to inflation (impose tariffs, remove millions of unskilled workers on the minimum wage) he's also going to 'eradicate inflation'.

 

[Spearman]

No, they're going to also ship out the foreign workers who work for peanuts.

And while doing all these things that contribute to inflation (impose tariffs, remove millions of unskilled workers on the minimum wage) he's also going to 'eradicate inflation'.

Exactly they are going to cripple the manufacturing sector with an election gimmick. The economy relies on the low wage often undocumented or illegal workers.
My prediction is they will do some token deportations ala FL and DeSantis for the news cycles, but keep many and maybe put more onerous regulations on the workers, not the employers. Remember the meat packers during covid.