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A look at what Donald Trump has proposed for his second term | AP News

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The body text is an authentic Associated Press wire article by politics reporter Bill Barrow, headlined 'Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration.

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The body text is an authentic Associated Press wire article by politics reporter Bill Barrow, headlined 'Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed', first moved 6 November 2024 and updated 7 November 2024. Independent republications by AP member/subscriber outlets (WHYY, WDRB, The Washington Times, Standard-Journal) confirm the text, byline and dates, so provenance is strong. Targeted research corroborated every high-priority substantive claim checked: the proposed cut of the corporate rate from 21% to 15%, universal tariffs of 10-20%, elimination of the Department of Education under Agenda 47, the college-accreditation 'secret weapon' and 'American Academy' endowment-funded proposal announced 1 November 2023, the Truth Social pledge to veto a federal abortion ban (1 October 2024), the 2024 GOP platform dropping national-ban language for the first time in about 40 years, the 'concepts of a plan' ACA remark at the September 2024 debate, the ask to Congress to recognise only two sexes assigned at birth, the August 2020 'Buy American' essential-medicines executive order, the suggestion that presidents should have a say over Federal Reserve rate decisions, and the accuracy of the 'record high' US oil production framing. The tip-income reclassification loophole flagged by AP matches independent economists' warnings. Two weaknesses drive the deduction rather than any factual error: (1) severe temporal drift — the page as captured carries a 2026 copyright and current 2026 news furniture (verified live stories on the Iran conflict, the Lake Ontario/'Lake America' Google Maps change, Messi's international retirement, Djokovic's US Open first-round loss), while the article itself is a November 2024 campaign-proposal explainer whose dateline renders as unfilled template placeholders, so a reader could mistake proposals for present policy; and (2) a small number of adjudicative characterisations ('claims falsely that climate change is a hoax', transgender participation 'a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread') that are editorial judgements, with FactCheck.org noting it did not find Trump using the word 'hoax' during the 2024 campaign period. Roughly 85-90% of the supplied text is navigation, section menus and footer boilerplate rather than article content, which inflates the word count and self-reference metrics.

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  • Authorship and provenance: the article is AP copy bylined Bill Barrow, first moved 6 Nov 2024 and updated 7 Nov 2024 — confirmed by syndicated republications at whyy.org (7 Nov 2024), wdrb.com (6 Nov 2024) and washingtontimes.com (6-7 Nov 2024).
  • Trump proposed lowering the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 15% — confirmed by Tax Notes (6 Sep 2024, Economic Club of New York speech), CRFB (Sep 2024) and Penn Wharton Budget Model (26 Aug 2024); note the 15% rate was pitched as conditional on domestic manufacturing.
  • Trump proposed tariffs of 10% to 20% on foreign/imported goods, with higher rates floated for China — confirmed by CNBC (6 Nov 2024), Marketplace (4 Nov 2024) and FactCheck.org (Nov 2024).
  • Trump said on Truth Social that he would veto a federal abortion ban — confirmed by CNN (1 Oct 2024), CBS News (1 Oct 2024) and Forbes (1 Oct 2024).
  • The 2024 Republican platform omitted a call for a national abortion ban for the first time in about four decades — confirmed by ABC News (9 Jul 2024), Christian Science Monitor (9 Jul 2024) and NBC Washington (Jul 2024).
  • Trump said he had 'concepts of a plan' to replace the Affordable Care Act at the September 2024 debate — confirmed by STAT (11 Sep 2024), ABC News (11 Sep 2024) and KFF.
  • Trump's Agenda47 proposed eliminating the federal Department of Education — confirmed by ABC News (11 Nov 2024) and subsequent reporting on the closure directive (WTSP, Feb 2025).
  • Trump described college accreditation as his 'secret weapon' and, in a video posted 1 November 2023, proposed an online 'American Academy' funded by taxing, fining and suing large private university endowments — confirmed by Inside Higher Ed (4 May 2023), The Nation (5 Jul 2024) and Snopes (which dates the video to 1 Nov 2023).
  • Trump pledged to ask Congress to legislate that only two genders/sexes, assigned at birth, are recognised, and to roll back the Biden administration's April 2024 Title IX protections for transgender students — confirmed by GLAAD's sourced fact sheet and the UCLA Williams Institute (Jan 2025), which quote the Agenda47 pledge.
  • Trump promised to reinstitute the August 2020 executive order requiring federal purchase of 'essential' medicines from US companies — the underlying order was signed 6 August 2020 (CNBC, 6 Aug 2020; TIME, 10 Aug 2020; FDA essential-medicines list, Nov 2020).
  • Trump suggested the president should have a say in Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions — confirmed by CNBC (8 Aug 2024) and Fox Business (9 Aug 2024) reporting his Mar-a-Lago news conference.
  • AP's caveat that US energy production was already at record highs is accurate — EIA data show US crude output at an all-time high of about 13.3 million barrels per day in 2024, with a monthly record in August 2024.
  • AP's warning that exempting tips could let high earners reclassify pay as tip income reflects independent expert analysis — see Econofact (20 Sep 2024) and economists quoted by Common Dreams (30 Aug 2024).
  • Contextual sidebar claim that Republicans won Senate control while House control remained undecided was accurate as at 6-7 November 2024 — confirmed by CNN live coverage (6 Nov 2024) and Washington Post live updates (8 Nov 2024).
  • Trump's first administration reshaped Medicaid by allowing states to pursue work requirements — confirmed by the Commonwealth Fund (30 Sep 2025) and Ballotpedia's waiver tracking.
  • Trump promoted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a 'Make America Healthy Again' health agenda in the closing stage of the campaign — confirmed by STAT (31 Oct 2024) and Euronews (10 Nov 2024).
Disputed claims 2 claims
  • Contested characterisation (not adjudicated False): the sentence 'Trump, who claims falsely that climate change is a hoax'. Trump has a long record of dismissive climate statements and reportedly used words including 'con', 'scam' and 'hoax' in a September 2025 UN address (E&E News, 24 Sep 2025), but FactCheck.org stated it did not find an instance of him calling climate change a 'hoax' after announcing his campaign in November 2022. The framing as a present-tense claim was therefore arguably unsupported at the time of writing; the underlying point that climate change is not a hoax is scientifically sound.
  • Contested characterisation (not adjudicated False): 'a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread', regarding transgender athletes in girls' sports. The 'without evidence' qualifier is an editorial adjudication embedded in reportage; participation numbers are genuinely small, but the article supplies no citation, so the phrasing is a presentational rather than factual weakness.
? Unverified claims 6 claims
  • The precise quotation attributed to an 'Oct. 23, 2023, statement' on United Auto Workers dues ('I'm telling you, you shouldn't pay those dues') could not be matched to a primary document of that exact date in available search results; closely similar remarks urging UAW members not to pay dues are documented from late September 2023 (CNN, 27 Sep 2023). Date/wording therefore Unverified, not disputed.
  • The assertion that Trump 'claims that presidents have exclusive power to control federal spending' with appropriations acting as a 'ceiling' but not a floor is consistent with the impoundment theory later advanced by his budget office (Stanford Law Review, 23 Jul 2025; City Journal, 19 Nov 2025), but a dated campaign-era primary statement in Trump's own words was not located, so the attribution as of Nov 2024 remains Unverified.
  • The claim that ending birth-right citizenship 'almost certainly would require a constitutional change' is a contested legal-interpretive judgement rather than a verifiable fact; competing scholarly positions exist and no authoritative determination was retrieved.
  • Numeric assertions about a 'largest mass deportation program in history' and its operational design are self-described campaign aspirations; AP itself notes the absence of detail, and no independent verification of scope is possible.
  • The displayed publication timestamp on the captured page renders as unfilled template placeholders ('[hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]'), so the exact update time cannot be verified from the artefact itself; the in-text note stating the story first moved 6 Nov 2024 and was updated 7 Nov 2024 is the only internal dating evidence.
  • Whether the article as currently served has been substantively revised since November 2024 could not be determined, because no live AP URL content or revision history was retrievable in this session.
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Confidence

High (0.88) — Confidence is high because provenance was independently established through three syndicated republications carrying the same byline and dates, and because twelve of twelve high-priority substantive claims were corroborated by dated primary records or multiple reputable secondary sources spanning the political spectrum. Confidence is held below very high for four reasons: the live AP page could not be retrieved, so no revision history was inspectable; the supplied capture contains no resolvable hyperlinks and renders its timestamp as template placeholders; two quotation-level details (the 23 October 2023 UAW statement and the campaign-era impoundment phrasing) remain Unverified; and the supplied sentiment, complexity and self-reference metrics are contaminated by roughly 85-90% boilerplate, limiting their diagnostic value. The verified authenticity of the surrounding late-August 2026 headlines materially increased confidence that the artefact is a genuine AP page capture rather than a fabrication, while simultaneously confirming the temporal-context risk that drives the main deduction.

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AP News Bill Barrow Donald Trump sweeping plans second administration what he's proposed November 2024

Trump proposal corporate income tax rate 15% from 21% campaign 2024

Trump Truth Social veto federal abortion ban 2024 statement

2024 Republican platform first time decades no national abortion ban language

Trump proposed tariffs 10% to 20% all imports 2024 campaign

Trump eliminate Department of Education proposal Agenda 47

Trump college accreditation 'secret weapon' American Academy endowment November 2023

Trump no tax on tips overtime Social Security campaign proposal 2024

Trump October 23 2023 statement UAW 'you shouldn't pay those dues'

Trump 'concepts of a plan' Affordable Care Act September 2024 debate

Republicans win Senate control November 6 2024 House still undecided

Trump Schedule F reclassify federal workers outside civil service protections plan

Trump impoundment appropriations 'ceiling' not a floor presidential power spending

Trump August 2020 executive order essential medicines buy American

US crude oil production record high 2024 fact check

Trump Agenda 47 ask Congress bill only two genders recognized at birth Title IX transgender rollback

Trump Robert F Kennedy Jr 'make America healthy again' campaign rallies October 2024

Trump climate change hoax statements fact check

Trump says president should have say Federal Reserve interest rate decisions August 2024

no tax on tips loophole high earners reclassify income economists warning 2024

Lake Ontario renamed Lake America Google Maps Trump order / Messi retirement / Strait of Hormuz strikes / Djokovic US Open first-round loss

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Share []( Share * [Facebook]( * Copy Link copied * Print * [Email](mailto:?body=Donald%20Trump%20has%20sweeping%20plans%20for%20a%20second%20administration.%20Here%27s%20what%20he%27s%20proposed%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fdonald-trump-wins-second-term-policies-de3dcf0f173b42602b258042fd7aaafb%3Futm_source%3DEmail%26utm_medium%3Dshare%0A%0AThe%20now%20president-elect%20has%20outlined%20an%20agenda%20that%20blends%20traditional%20conservative%20approaches%20to%20taxes%2C%20regulation%20and%20cultural%20issues%20with%20a%20more%20populist%20bent%20on%20trade%20and%20a%20shift%20in%20America%E2%80%99s%20international%20role.) * [X]( * [LinkedIn]( * [Bluesky]( * [Flipboard]( * [Pinterest]( * [Reddit]( WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration. The former president and now president-elect often skipped over details but through more than a year of policy pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America’s international role. **What to know about the 2024 election:** * **Turning promises into policy:** Americans frustrated over high prices [await the change Trump has promised]( Proponents of [school choice]( will have an ally in the White House once again, but private schooling suffered high-profile defeats in several states. * **Balance of power:** Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate, giving the GOP a major power center in Washington. Control over the [House of Representatives is still up for grabs.]( * **AP VoteCast:** Democracy was a motivating factor for both Harris and Trump voters, [but for very different reasons]( * **Voto a voto:**[Sigue la cobertura de AP en español]( de las elecciones en EEUU. _News outlets globally count on the AP for accurate U.S. election results. Since 1848, the AP has been calling races up and down the ballot. Support us._[_Donate to the AP_]( Trump’s agenda also would scale back federal government efforts on civil rights and expand presidential powers. A look at what Trump has proposed: ## Immigration “Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how he would ensure that it targeted only people in the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which almost certainly would require a constitutional change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies such as “Remain in Mexico,” limiting migrants on public health grounds and severely limiting or banning entrants from certain majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the approach would not just crack down on illegal migration, but curtail immigration overall. ## Abortion Trump played down abortion as a second-term priority, even as he took credit for the Supreme Court ending a woman’s federal right to terminate a pregnancy and returning abortion regulation to state governments. At Trump’s insistence, the GOP platform, for the first time in decades, did not call for a national ban on abortion. Trump maintains that overturning Roe v. Wade is enough on the federal level. Trump said last month on his social media platform Truth Social that he would veto a federal abortion ban if legislation reached his desk — a statement he made only after avoiding a firm position in his September debate against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. []( Related Stories []( [Kalshi bans ex-Congressman George Santos for life after concluding he likely was insider trading]( 2 MIN READ [12]( []( [DEA tactic that let fentanyl flood the streets is being investigated by House Republicans]( 3 MIN READ [17]( []( [House lawmakers return to Washington with a stopgap funding bill atop the list of priorities]( 3 MIN READ [29]( But it’s unclear if his administration would aggressively defend against legal challenges seeking to restrict access to abortion pills, including mifepristone, as the Biden administration has. Anti-abortion advocates continue to wage [legal battles]( over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug as well as the agency’s relaxed prescribing restrictions. Trump is also unlikely to enforce Biden’s guidance that hospitals must provide abortions for women who are in medical emergencies, even in states with bans. []( Read More ## Taxes Trump’s tax policies broadly tilt toward corporations and wealthier Americans. That’s mostly due to his promise to extend his 2017 tax overhaul, with a few notable changes that include lowering the corporate income tax rate to 15% from the current 21%. That also involves rolling back Democratic President Joe Biden’s income tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans and scrapping Inflation Reduction Act levies that finance energy measures intended to combat climate change. Those policies notwithstanding, Trump has put more emphasis on new proposals aimed at working- and middle class Americans: exempting earned tips, Social Security wages and overtime wages from income taxes. It’s noteworthy, however, that his proposal on tips, depending on how Congress might write it, could give a back-door tax break to top wage earners by allowing them to reclassify some of their pay as tip income — a prospect that at its most extreme could see hedge-fund managers or top-flight attorneys taking advantage of a policy that Trump frames as being designed for restaurant servers, bartenders and other service workers. []( **Sign up for Morning Wire:** Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up - [x] By checking this box, you agree to AP's [Terms of Use]( and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our [Privacy Policy]( ## Tariffs and trade Trump’s posture on international trade is to distrust world markets as harmful to American interests. He proposes tariffs of 10% to 20% on foreign goods — and in some speeches has mentioned even higher percentages. He promises to reinstitute an August 2020 executive order requiring that the federal government buy “essential” medications only from U.S. companies. He pledges to block purchases of “any vital infrastructure” in the U.S. by Chinese buyers. ## DEI, LGBTQ and civil rights Trump has called for rolling back societal emphasis on diversity and for legal protections for LGBTQ citizens. Trump has called for ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government institutions, using federal funding as leverage. On transgender rights, Trump promises generally to end “boys in girls’ sports,” a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread. But his policies go well beyond standard applause lines from his rally speeches. Among other ideas, Trump would roll back the Biden administration’s policy of extending Title IX civil rights protections to transgender students, and he would ask Congress to require that only two genders can be recognized at birth. ## Regulation, federal bureaucracy and presidential power The president-elect seeks to reduce the role of federal bureaucrats and regulations across economic sectors. Trump frames all regulatory cuts as an economic magic wand. He pledges precipitous drops in U.S. households’ utility bills by removing obstacles to fossil fuel production, including opening all federal lands for exploration — even though U.S. energy production is already at record highs. Trump promises to unleash housing construction by cutting regulations — though most construction rules come from state and local government. He also says he would end “frivolous litigation from the environmental extremists.” The approach would in many ways strengthen executive branch influence. That power would come more directly from the White House. He would make it easier to fire federal workers by classifying thousands of them as being outside civil service protections. That could weaken the government’s power to enforce statutes and rules by reducing the number of employees engaging in the work and, potentially, impose a chilling effect on those who remain. Trump also claims that presidents have exclusive power to control federal spending even after Congress has appropriated money. Trump argues that lawmakers’ budget actions “set a ceiling” on spending but not a floor — meaning the president’s constitutional duty to “faithfully execute the laws” includes discretion on whether to spend the money. This interpretation could set up a court battle with Congress. As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power. Though he has not offered details, any such move would represent a momentous change to how the U.S. economic and monetary systems work. ## Education The federal Department of Education would be targeted for elimination in a second Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington out of classrooms. He still proposes, among other maneuvers, using federal funding as leverage to pressure K-12 school systems to abolish tenure and adopt merit pay for teachers and to scrap diversity programs at all levels of education. He calls for pulling federal funding “for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.” In higher education, Trump proposes taking over accreditation processes for colleges, a move he describes as his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” he says control higher education. Trump takes aim at higher education endowments, saying he will collect “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts. That almost certainly would end up in protracted legal fights. As in other policy areas, Trump isn’t actually proposing limiting federal power in higher education but strengthening it. He calls for redirecting the confiscated endowment money into an online “American Academy” offering college credentials to all Americans without a tuition charges. “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to be allowed,” Trump said on Nov. 1, 2023. ## Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Trump insists he would protect Social Security and Medicare, popular programs geared toward older Americans and among the biggest pieces of the federal spending pie each year. There are questions about how his proposal not to tax tip and overtime wages might affect Social Security and Medicare. If such plans eventually involved only income taxes, the entitlement programs would not be affected. But exempting those wages from payroll taxes would reduce the funding stream for Social Security and Medicare outlays. Trump has talked little about Medicaid during this campaign, but his first administration reshaped the program by allowing states to introduce work requirements for recipients. ## Affordable Care Act and Health Care As he has since 2015, Trump calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act and its subsidized health insurance marketplaces. But he still has not proposed a replacement: In a September debate, he insisted he had the “concepts of a plan.” In the latter stages of the campaign, Trump played up his alliance with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines and of pesticides used in U.S. agriculture. Trump repeatedly told rally crowds that he would put Kennedy in charge of “making America healthy again.” ## Climate and energy Trump, who claims falsely that climate change is a “hoax,” blasts Biden-era spending on cleaner energy designed to reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels. He proposes an energy policy – and transportation infrastructure spending – anchored to fossil fuels: roads, bridges and combustion-engine vehicles. “Drill, baby, drill!” was a regular chant at Trump rallies. Trump says he does not oppose electric vehicles but promises to end all Biden incentives to encourage EV market development. Trump also pledges to roll back Biden-era fuel efficiency standards. ## Workers’ rights Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance framed their ticket as favoring America’s workers. But Trump could make it harder for workers to unionize. In discussing auto workers, Trump focused almost exclusively on Biden’s push toward electric vehicles. When he mentioned unions, it was often to lump “the union bosses and CEOs” together as complicit in “this disastrous electric car scheme.” In an Oct. 23, 2023, statement, Trump said of United Auto Workers, “I’m telling you, you shouldn’t pay those dues.” ## National defense and America’s role in the world Trump’s rhetoric and policy approach in world affairs is more isolationist diplomatically, non-interventionist militarily and protectionist economically than the U.S. has been since World War II. But the details are more complicated. He pledges expansion of the military, promises to protect Pentagon spending from austerity efforts and proposes a new missile defense shield — an old idea from the Reagan era during the Cold War. Trump insists he can end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, without explaining how. Trump summarizes his approach through another Reagan phrase: “peace through strength.” But he remains critical of NATO and top U.S. military brass. “I don’t consider them leaders,” Trump said of Pentagon officials that Americans “see on television.” He repeatedly praised authoritarians like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. —- Associated Press reporter Amanda Seitz contributed. __ This story first moved Nov. 6, 2024. It was updated Nov. 7, 2024, with video. []( [BILL BARROW]( Barrow covers U.S. politics for The Associated Press. He is based in Atlanta. [twitter]( []( []( []( []( []( Most read 1. [Hundreds feared stuck in hydropower tunnels as flood deaths surpass 950 in Nepal and China]( 4 MIN READ [53]( 2. [US strikes Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in first military action in weeks]( 4 MIN READ [412]( 3. [Grand Canyon flash flood leaves 1 dead and several missing or unaccounted for, park service says]( 3 MIN READ [89]( 4. 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