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Here are 5 policies that Trump is already back-pedaling on
Elizabeth Preza 11 Nov 2016 at 19:13 ET
Donald Trump (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)
Donald Trump made a lot of promises over the course of this campaign. And as his transition learns the ins and outs of government operations, it’s clear the president-elect, and those in his orbit, are reneging on some of the more integral policy platforms he ran on.
Here are all the positions president-elect Trump has qualified (so far):
“Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced,” he added.
Build a big, beautiful wall—and make Mexico pay
Trump’s core promise, and a familiar refrain by the president-elect. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall,” Trump said repeatedly. “Mark my words .. http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/wild-donald-trump-quotes/14/ .”
Thursday, Newt Gingrich—who’s reportedly being considered for Trump’s Secretary of State—admitted the president-elect’s promise to get Mexico to pay for it may have been a “campaign device.”
“He may not spend much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it,” Gingrich said. “But it was a great campaign device.”
End the “war on coal”
One of the major Trump’s sweep through the rust belt during the campaign “end the war on coal.” And likewise, in its 2016 GOP platform, the Republican party vowed to restore coal jobs, dismissing clean energy as part of President Obama’s “war on coal”:
“The Democratic Party does not understand that coal is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource. Those who mine it and their families should be protected from the Democratic Party’s radical anti-coal agenda.”
But now it looks like Republican party leaders recognize that bringing coal jobs back is not so simple. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday told the Lexington Herald-Leader it’s “hard to tell” if the government will be able to expand the coal industry in a meaningful way.
“We are going to be presenting to the new president a variety of options that could end this assault,” McConnell said. “Whether that immediately brings business back is hard to tell because it’s a private sector activity.”
“A government spending program is not likely to solve the fundamental problem of growth,” McConnell added. “…I support the effort to help these coal counties wherever we can, but that isn’t going to replace whatever was there when we had a vibrant coal industry.”
Deport illegal immigrants through mass deportations
Illegal immigration was another cornerstone of Trump’s campaign. In an interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley last year, Trump talked mass deportation:
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Trump: If they’ve done well, they’re going out and they’re coming back in legally. Because you said it–
Pelley: You’re rounding them all up?
Trump: We’re rounding ’em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they’re going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn’t sound nice. But not everything is nice.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus Wednesday said Trump is no longer calling for “mass deportation,” and is instead calling for the deportation of criminals.
“He’s not calling for mass deportation,” Priebus said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He said, ‘No, only people who have committed crimes.’ And then only until all of that is taken care of will we look at what we are going to do next.”
“Appearing to walk back statements made by president-elect and other advisers,” senior Trump adviser Walid Phares claims that the treaty will instead be “renegotiated.” He also said that Trump might not actually move the US Embassy to Jerusalem immediately.
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