Subject: Wonkbook: A simple guide to what Donald Trump wants to do to America
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Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee after a primary victory in Iowa Tuesday. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)
By Jim Tankersley and Max Ehrenfreund
Donald Trump now appears in line to be the Republican presidential nominee, so we can say officially what has been apparent throughout the primaries: He will enter the general election with more question marks surrounding his policy agenda than any major-party candidate in recent memory.
Trump has talked vaguely – and sometimes contradictorily – about how he would govern in domestic or foreign affairs, and he has given plenty of indication that key positions could change in the months to come.
He has a few core proposals that unite his coalition thus far, and would seem likely to remain his focus through November, including renegotiating the terms of foreign trade, deporting immigrants here illegally and building a wall along the Mexican border and blocking Muslim refugees from entering the United States.
The rest looks fuzzy or fungible or both. His tax plan includes a large cut in the corporate rate and the top marginal income tax rate – but he has spoken favorably of raising taxes on the rich. He has promised to spend more on the military and on infrastructure, and not to touch Social Security benefits, but he also has said he would pay off the entire national debt in the course of eight years. Virtually no policy analyst believes those goals are compatible.
His health care plan strings together a series of conservative proposals to inject more free-market competition into the system, in hopes of expanding coverage and reducing prices. But he has, in the past, embraced universal government-directed coverage.
Here’s a synthesis of what we know about where he says he would lead the country. Read it on Wonkblog.
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