Being in office for only a week, Donald Trump has signed 12 executive actions. Among these actions we can find the order to begin building the wall and the pipelines, massive deportations, federal hiring freeze, cut funding for organization that provide abortion services and more. Most of these actions require funding which currently the U.S does not have. The action signed to begin building the wall states that aside from contracting a company to begin the construction, the U.S will hire about 5,000 new border patrol agents. That is 5,000 new salaries which is only for one operation and yet he signed the action to begin the construction of the pipelines.
Trump also signed the executive action to begin the massive deportation of immigrants. This action also states that now law enforcement officers must act as immigration officers. Therefore, if they believe that a person is illegal they have the right to stop them and ask them for their documents. However, it doesn't end there. This action also orders the Homeland Security to block any federal grants to "sanctuary cities," such as Los Angeles, which do not enforce immigration laws.
Some of his executive actions require funding and others cut program funding. However, those that do require funding are large projects that will require funding that we currently do not have. This will then mean that our taxes will increase in order to proceed working on these projects.
Article: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/10-executive-actions-trump-signed-far/
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Something interesting that I found was that Trump plans on cutting PBS and NPR, which makes up less than one percent of our deficit, but is more than willing to take on these massive expenses such as the wall and increases in infrastructure. It seems that his cuts are not significant enough to cover these expenses, and he should worry more about the big picture.
Trump clearly stated that he had never specified the American consumers would be the ones who would be paying for the wall initially. According to Mexico would eventually pay in some form but to start the project the common American's taxpayer dollars would be put towards this project. Instead of putting the money towards education systems and public housing projects to alleviate homelessness, going through with the promise of a wall seems wasteful. Analysts have projected the wall to cost around 25 billion dollars. However, Mexico has made it extremely clear that they will not be reimbursing for the wall at a later date. Also, as part of the GOP tax plan, corporations will get a tax cut from 35% to 20%. A tax like this would surely increase prices of goods like tomatoes in the American market once the tax is is imposed on the consumers. It is important to note that Mexico is the second largest supplier of agricultural goods. This tax reform plan will backfire and the American taxpayer will be left to deal with the consequences.
I agree with Brooks, i feel that trump thinks he is going to save the United States money but cutting funding to the programs that he feels that are not needed but he keeps on creating all these other jobs like more boarder control which is going to cost the us money in the long run. this wall that he is planning on building is going to be a huge expense that i feel doesn't need to be paid by the U.S citizens.
I think that Trump will increase consumer taxes to help fund these project that he plans to implement. Moreover, since Trump has drastically decreased corporate taxes, the American consumers will have to fund these projects via tax increases.
Trump has also said that immigrants from Saudi Arabia will face "extreme vetting" and this could have a disastrous effect from a foreign policy perspective. Since they are in OPEC, there could be a direct impact on the American economy if foreign relations with Saudi Arabia are soiled.
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