What Comes Next for President Trump?

The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency offered something that has become quite rare in Washington, he kept his campaign promises. Those who voted for him can’t wait to see what’s next and the pundits who so wrongly proclaimed there was no way he would ever be elected are wringing their hands over what might be next.

Perhaps, what many in this country are finding difficult to process is that America now has a leader who does what he said he would do. A writer for Politico, no friend of the President, started his article this week with, “the best guide to what Donald Trump would do as president appears to be what he said he would do as president.”

During the transition months, Trump promised to make his first 100 days something to remember. That plan outlined three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress; protecting American workers; and restoring rule of law.

He also promised to work with Congress to introduce 10 pieces of legislation that would encourage infrastructure investment, promote school choice, repeal Obamacare, fund the construction of a wall at the Southern border (with a provision that Mexico would reimburse the U.S.), and rebuild military bases.

One only has to look at the way the media and even some within the Republican Party reacted to Trump’s swift action in halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations to know what lies ahead.

Though he made a great show of cooperation, Barack Obama is already speaking out against his successor. The mainstream media learned few lessons from its advocacy journalism during the election that led to predictions that were right with their pollsters but woefully wrong with the people who actually voted. Both of these reactions is to be expected.

Not a total surprise, is the waffling among some Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to mend fences with Trump but also expressed little enthusiasm in some of his plans. On Trump’s proposal to impose term limits on Congress, McConnell said, “It will not be on the agenda in the Senate.” McConnell has been a long-standing opponent of term limits.

So how will President Trump react to such opposition?

Donald J. Trump doesn’t react – he acts. That is evident in his first week as President, his cabinet appointments, and his nominee for the Supreme Court. While McConnell dug his heels in, Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his choice for justice. President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is a strong supporter of term limits. Having a justice who agrees with the President on this issue does nothing to ensure that legislators on either side of the aisle will vote to limit themselves but it does reflect a tone that resonates with voters.

Last October, then candidate Trump released his 100-day plan, called “Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter.” Based on his first 10 days in office, one can look at that contract as a good indicator of what is ahead. First priorities in that plan included:

  • A Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress
  • A hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health)
  • A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated
  • A 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service
  • A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government
  • A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.

President Trump has already announced our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Now that his cabinet is all but in place here are the next promises he is sure to keep:

  • Renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal
  • Label China a currency manipulator
  • Identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
  • Lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal
  • Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
  • Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.The first 20 days shook up the status quo and the 80 that follow are sure to continue the trend.

~ American Liberty Report


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