On taxes, he would get plenty of help from Republicans in
Congress, who have been laying the groundwork for a tax-code overhaul that
would lower rates and close loopholes. But they will encounter fierce
resistance from home-owners, businesses and other interest groups that benefit
from current tax breaks.
Trump's promise to protect entitlement programs such as
Social Security and Medicare will rile fiscal conservatives, who worry they
will swamp the federal budget in the decades to come. But those programs are
popular with the American public.
WALL STREET REGULATION
Trump has promised a "dismantling" of the 2010
Dodd-Frank financial reform law enacted following the financial crisis, but has
given few details.
Both Trump and the Republican Party have called for
re-instating Glass-Steagall, the 1930s-era law that forced the separation of
investment banks from deposit-taking institutions.
Republican lawmakers have so far been unable to undo many
of their most-despised pieces of the Dodd-Frank law, and many in their ranks
oppose a return to Glass-Steagall.
Trump appears to be leaning toward weakening the law in a
manner like what was proposed in a bill known as the CHOICE Act this northern
summer by Jeb Hensarling, the Republican chairman of the US House Financial
Services Committee.
ISLAMIC STATE
Trump has offered few details about his plans to fight
Islamic State but has said he would "knock the hell out of" the
militant group. He says he is keeping the details of his strategy a secret so
as not to disclose them to the enemy. Trump said that if he won, he would give
US generals 30 days after taking office on January 20 to propose their own
plans.
Trump has said he opposes accepting refugees fleeing
violence in Syria, and instead has said he would create "safe zones"
there, which he says would be funded by Gulf states.
Obama has said a safe zone in Syria would require a large
US military commitment, something that could prove unpopular with Americans
weary of lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
RUSSIA
Trump has said he would have a "very, very
good" relationship with Russia.
He has said he could work with Russia to combat Islamic
State. He also said he would consider recognising Crimea, seized from Ukraine
in 2014, as Russian territory and lifting sanctions on Russia imposed by
Western nations for what they called an illegal land grab.
Trump has criticised the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, saying some US allies have not met their defence commitments. In
July, he said if Russia attacked a NATO member, he would consider whether the
country has paid up before providing defence.
NATO leaders say the sanctions against Russia are key to
persuading it to change that country's behaviour in Ukraine, where it has
backed ethnic Russian separatists, and that the alliance has long been focused
on fighting international terrorism.
SUPREME COURT
With one vacancy on the Supreme Court and several more
possible in the coming four years, Trump will have a chance to put a
conservative stamp on the courts for decades to come.
His list of potential nominees has won praise from
conservative activists and Republicans in the US Senate, who will be eager to
help him in that area.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Trump has called global warming a hoax and said he wants
to cancel the 2015 Paris Agreement among almost 200 nations that entered force
on November 4. Instead, he says he will push ahead and develop cheap coal,
shale and oil.
Trump's advisers are considering ways to bypass a
theoretical four-year procedure for leaving the accord, per a source on his
transition team.
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