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President Donald Trump struck his second term to a complete sprint, marking every day with a wave of activities intended to rename the country and to redo the government.
It was a dizzying activity of activity that can turn people with people. Did everyone who voted for Trump really want all of this?
Thursday, it was a promise to impose new prices on foreign cars despite an increase in inflation data. Inflation and the economy, if you read survey data, were two of Trump’s main engines in the electoral victory. The prices, if you believe that most economists, will make things more expensive, no less.
Trump’s campaign promises to impose prices and reduce prices has been contradictory, and he decided to focus on inflation prices, at least to start.
He also used his power to make changes that have never been mentioned on the campaign track, such as renamed the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America”. Most Americans, 71%, oppose the name change, according to a recent Marquette University survey.
Add Trump’s many Trump’s political objectives – mass deportation, a much smaller bureaucracy, an attitude why climate change – and he could leave behind a very different country from the one he succeeded by President Joe Biden.
And this is the goal of the elections, as Trump argued, including Tuesday in the oval office when he said that voters had chosen his plan to considerably reduce public spending.
“This is what I was elected, this and the borders and the military, and a lot. But it is a large part of it.
Or, as Trump’s chief government said Elon Musk said, “The people voted for a major government reform. There should be no doubts about it. It was on the countryside. »»
Musk is certainly right to say that Trump promised a radical change, in particular on immigration, reduces the size of the government, ending the citizenship of the right of birth and more.
Details, especially on reducing government size, may surprise some. Trump has not talked much about the campaign of the end of agencies such as USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has actively moved from the 2025 project, the conservative plan which turned out to be very similar to a large part of the agenda of the second term of Trump.
Inflation was among the greatest reproaches of voters with the Biden administration. And yet, Trump’s first movements, especially on prices, can increase prices, at least in the short term.
“There are many things that people liked in the first weeks of Donald Trump in power. Inflation is not a part of it, “said the main journalist for CNN data Harry Enen during an appearance on the network. Enen underlined a recent CBS survey in which 66% of Americans said that he did not focus enough on the drop in prices for goods and services. This includes almost half of the Republicans.
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In the same CBS survey, however, Trump has a positive approval rating, 53% and majorities described it as difficult, energetic, targeted and efficient. Other polls have shown it slightly underwater.
Most people in the CBS survey, 70%, also agreed that he did what he had promised to do.
A majority can approve it and a large majority can expect it, but that does not mean that most people agree with all of this.
In this Marquette survey, 60% supports the deportation of migrants to the country illegally and 59% of support declaring a national emergency on the border, as Trump did.
On the other hand, 57% opposed the deportation of immigrants who have been illegally in the United States for several years, are employed and have no criminal record, although Trump probably seems to expel many people.
Representative Carlos Giménez, a Miami republican, generally supports Trump’s immigration policies, but heard the anger of the large Venezuelan population of his district to Trump’s decision to cancel temporary protection status for refugees from Venezuela , which are legally in the United States. Those of his district could be persecuted if they were expelled, Giménez told Pamela Brown on Thursday.
“It is up to me as a member of the Congress to represent my constituency,” said Gimenez. “The bad” should be resumed, he said, “but there are other people who are really afraid of the repercussions when they return to Venezuela or Cuba, and Cetera. And these people must be treated a little differently. »»
According to the exit polls.
In Reuters / Ipsos surveyThere was a lot of support for Trump’s executive actions, in particular by narrowing government size and freezing most foreign aids. But only 40% or fewer Americans supported some of Trump’s most controversial movements. These include:
- Prohibiting transgender people from serving openly in the army
- End federal efforts to prioritize the hiring of women and minorities
- Removal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement
- Try to end the citizenship of the right of birth
- Freezing financing for certain services and subsidies
- Pardonage of demonstrators of January 6
In particular, the majority of Republicans support all these policies, but even they are opposed to the Trump plan to impose less restrictions on how and the way in which artificial intelligence systems are used.
In a country of more than 330 million people who only provide two viable options for its leader every four years, it is to be expected that no one will support everything that a president is doing.
This is particularly true with regard to Trump, who turned the GOP on a populist journey that makes the Republicans of the old care uncomfortable.
Senator Mitch McConnell, who was until recently the Senate republican leader, is now a lonely voice against Trump on certain questions.
Polio survivor, McConnell was the only republican to oppose the skeptical confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vaccines, Trump’s choice for health and human services. Kennedy was confirmed on Thursday. On Thursday in the comments, Trump insulted McConnell wondering if he had never had polio.
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McConnell also opposed the Trump Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, and his national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard.
Despite his criticism of Trump on certain questions, McConnell said that he would support most of Trump’s policies, although he is a noisy republican voice against isolated foreign policy or a retirement to support besieged democracies like Ukraine.
This could be a lost battle for McConnell, because Trump adopted a much more friendly approach to Russia and said on Thursday that he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin.
McConnell undoubtedly helped to allow Trump’s political rebirth when he refused to vote to condemn Trump during a trial of dismissal of the Senate in 2021. The conviction could have prohibited Trump from his functions after the riot of 6 January. McConnell reprimanded Trump at the time.