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Former President Donald Trump will discuss his legislative priorities in more detail when he meets with Republican lawmakers Thursday on Capitol Hill.
In his third bid for the White House, Mr. Trump has laid out a wide-ranging Agenda 47, which focuses heavily on reversing President Biden’s executive actions on immigration, energy and equity programs.
Mr. Trump needs Congress to score policy wins in Washington and, more importantly, enact structural changes to how the federal government operates. He said some of the restrictions handcuffed him in his first term.
The former president will make his first visit to Capitol Hill since the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and since he became a convicted felon. A senior Trump campaign official said the meeting will focus on how Republicans can advance policies “protecting Social Security and Medicare, securing the southern border, and cutting taxes for hardworking families.”
Rep. Jim Jordan, a top Trump ally from Ohio, said the Trump agenda includes reauthorizing the expiring 2017 tax cuts, opening up energy production by slashing federal regulations, stopping the weaponization of government agencies and “most importantly securing the border.”
Others said they would seek more clarity from Mr. Trump.
“I want to hear a really clear vision of what we’re going to do in January,” said Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican. “I just want to hear specifics about what we’re running on.”
Mr. Trump’s Agenda 47 makes it clear he plans to lean on lawmakers to reshape the congressional budget process to give the executive branch more control over federal spending. He said it is “a crucial tool with which to obliterate the Deep State, Drain the Swamp, and starve the Warmongers — these people that want wars all over the place; killing, killing, killing, they love killing — and the Globalists out of government.”
Mr. Trump wants to “totally reform FISA courts [and create] an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people,” according to the plan.
The Trump legislative wish list also includes:
• Requiring all U.S. states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states.
• Establishing universal school choice and a parental bill of rights.
• Giving “baby bonuses” to new parents.
• Creating a constitutional amendment mandating term limits for Congress.
• Banning sex-change procedures for minors and biological males playing in women’s sports.
On the policy front, Mr. Trump has frustrated budget hawks by vowing to stop Republicans from voting to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security.
The presumptive Republican nominee’s legislative agenda also aims to build off signature policy wins from his first term.
Mr. Trump has vowed to extend the 2017 tax cuts, which are set to expire next year.
He has promised to push Congress to slash the tax increases on oil and gas producers that Mr. Biden approved in the Inflation Reduction Act and eliminate taxes on tipped income for hospitality workers.
On trade, he wants to expand on the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal he signed into law in 2020, which fulfilled his campaign promise to update NAFTA and strengthen protections for workers.
Mr. Trump has proposed a Trump Reciprocal Trade Act that will give him and his successors the power to slap countries with the same tariffs they impose on U.S.-made exports and more overall leeway to negotiate import tariffs.
Mr. Trump is also looking to advance immigration legislation, which he failed to do during his first term. Instead, he relied on unilateral moves to strengthen the border.
He will push Congress to greenlight legislation establishing a merit-based immigration system, the death penalty for drug dealers and human traffickers, and safeguards ensuring illegal immigrants do not receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.
Congress also would likely have to approve his pledge to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
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