Washington (AP) – The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office has been a hurricane of activities to show the Americans that his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.
Trump had a free hand with a compliant republican congress to start revising the Federal Government and the emerging foreign policy.
When Trump meets his 100th day in the office on Tuesday, his impression is everywhere. However, the long -term effects are often unclear.
Some of the executive regulations of the Republican President are declarations of intent or basics to achieve what does not yet have to be done. On day 1, for example, he explained an energy emergency to promote production. But he only promises a payment next year when he asked the voters to rely on a great decline in their pension calculations.
Trump’s goals occasionally contradict each other. He promised both the cost of living and tariffs for foreign goods, which will most likely augment prices. Other topics.
It is very worrying whether Trump has legally increased his scorecard. He confronted complaints about some of his actions, which means that a lot of what he did could be reversed in the course of cases.
Here is a look at where progress is on his promise:
He promised to be a price bopper
Inflation has dropped since a maximum of 9.1% in 2022. In January at 3%, the month that Trump was inaugurated, and 2.4%in March. “We have already solved the inflation,” Trump boasted. However, the Federal Reserve warned that the president’s tariff plans will most likely lead to higher prices by taxing foreign imports.
In addition, it is unlikely that Trump will manage to “pay off all of our debts”. His plans for tax cuts would reduce the income to cover the country’s invoices. He also forced a similar promise in 2016, and then the public debt hit during his first presidency.
He is linked to illegal immigration
Trump has clearly made progress in a signature promise to control the limit.
The number of people who tried to cross Mexico illegally to the United States fell from a high from 249,740 in December 2023 to 47,324 in President Joe Bidens last year. Under Trump, the figures fell only to 8.346 a.m. and 7.181 in March.
It is unclear whether Trump corresponds to Biden’s aggressive deportation record last year – the numbers are not yet in.
In the meantime, the immigration and customs authority arrested a vast number of people across the country. Many who claim their innocence were deported without proper procedure. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of those who hang in balance. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison, although he had no criminal record and no hearing about whether he is a gang member, as the government claimed.
He promised to reduce energy costs
In the campaign, Trump gave the voters a promise that they can judge themselves by simply looking at their supply calculations. He promised to reduce its energy costs by half to three quarters in 12 to 18 months.
Sometimes he crouched: “If it doesn’t work, you will say:” Oh, well, I voted for him and he still brought it down a lot. ”
In other cases, he did not handle it. “According to my plan, we will reduce energy and electricity prices in half,” he said in September to a MINT hill, North Carolina.
He raised the tariffs
Trump made no secret of his preference for tariffs or his conviction that other countries in international trade tear down the United States. “I will impose most of the foreign goods on comprehensive tariffs,” he said in the campaign.
It followed the great time, although he often changes.
Trump began with escalated tariffs in Canada, Mexico and China, supposedly as a punishment for fentanyl to the USA when he announced widespread taxes for foreign imports on April 2, which he described as a “day of liberation”. Trump retired from parts of this plan and instead decided to negotiate, but he let the tariffs in China up to 145%.
The stock market has been examined by the sturdy import taxes and errratism in its application. Trump has shown more tolerance for market chaos than in his first term.
He could not end a war, as promised
In the rally after the rally last summer, Trump only promised peace between Russia and Ukraine by winning the election. “Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I won the presidency, I will organize the terrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” he said in August, a conference of the National Guard Association in Detroit. Until then, he had the same vow since May. It didn’t happen.
Sometimes he framed the promise differently and said he would end the war in one day. This day has not come.
He promised ambitious tax cuts
Trump has tested the limits of what he can do through decree, but he will need the congress to achieve his promised tax cuts.
He promised to remove taxes for tips, overtime and social security payments, and said that he would make the tax cuts that he had issued during his first term.
None of it happened. And since vast tariffs are received, the tax burden is on the right track to worsen before it may get better.
But the president works with Republicans in the congress to search the legislation. With lean GOP majorities in the house and the Senate, it could be challenging to support unanimously within the party, which Trump calls “large, beautiful bill”.
He went by educational pillar
Trump’s threats to suffocate billions of billions in taxpayers in the campaign in the campaign – against anti -Semitism on campus, to combat diversity, justice and inclusion and to free campus from foreign students, which he sees as hostile to American values.
After several other prominent schools signaled their willingness to meet Trump’s demands, Harvard was firmly against the pressure.
In response to this, Trump asked to withdraw from Harvard’s tax-exempt status, to block him from the registration of foreign student-more than a quarter of his registration and to have frozen more than $ 2 billion in grants and contracts.
But such efforts extend far beyond Harvard. The Trump administration also pursues other universities and at least temporarily ended the legal status of many foreign students in schools across the country.
… and pillars of culture
The President’s promised agenda against the “Woke” policy quickly swept through the government, since the DEI programs from the bidges were stopped and references to diversity in federal communication were deleted.
These efforts extended deeply into cultural institutions and far beyond the attitude of Dei and at the workplace.
Chaotic revisionism was followed in particular in the Pentagon, when thousands of pictures were marked on websites and other online content for removal. A picture of the Enola Gay Bomber from the Second World War was given due to the deletion based on the “gay”, as was materials that praised the Black and Navajo war heroes and pioneering women. Most of the targeted material ultimately survived.
An executive order of Trump about “restoration of truth and reason in American history” banned the federal government, the Smithsonian programs that promote “improper ideology”.
He promised to roll back transgender rights
Trump was against the participation of transgender athletes in sports and against wider steps in society, especially in democratically conducted jurisdiction, to take into account views that gender is not binary by nature. He swore to take over “transgender crotchness”.
As President, he signed Executive Orders to ban transgender athletes of girls and women’s teams. He also asked the Supreme (*100*) to rule against deeper courts that have blocked his attempt to remove transgender troops from the military.
Doge? “I would love it”
Last year, Elon Musk Trump raised his idea for an efficiency of the Ministry of Government, which was to be charged with the reduction in the German bureaucracy. “I would love it,” replied Trump.
The result was more practical than many imagined. Musk started working directly for the administration and brought some of his allies. Loyalists spread to the federal authorities to access sensitive data, question career officers and push them after cuts.
The result was mixed. Trump and Musk managed to send shock waves through the bureaucracy and to push tens of thousands of employees, with further changes. However, there is no significant savings.
Musk lowered its targeted savings in the government’s costs to $ 150 billion after it originally promised at least 1 trillion US dollar. It is unclear whether he will achieve the smaller goal himself. Doge overvalued its results.
He promised to forgive rioters on January 6th and he did it
After a lot of Trump supporters had moved down to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, he denounced the “hideous attack” and explained that he was “outraged by violence, lawlessness and chaos”.
His melody soon changed. In the campaign, Trump celebrated the rioters as “patriots” and “hostages” of the judiciary and promised: “I will sign their forgives on the 1st day.” He did exactly that.
Around 1,500 people, including those who attacked police officers, received pardon.
He went after environmental protection
As part of his promised efforts to favor oil, natural gas and coal, Trump signed the instructions for this goal. But there is less than the eye here.
Revoke an order, which Trump referred to as the “electric vehicle mandate” of the bidea era, but there are none that can be revoked. He only turned away from a non -binding gate from Biden to compensate for half of the modern cars by 2030.
The arrangement also tries to end a liberation of the federal government with which California can carry out the sale of gas -powered cars by 2035. But Trump leaves it to the congress to say goodbye to a law that grabs the waiver, and that has not happened.
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Rebecca Santana and Matthew Daly, Associated Press Writers, contributed to this report.
