Trump reversed numerous environmental regulations and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change. He enacted tariffs, triggering retaliatory tariffs from China, Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and signed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), a successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement with modest changes. Trump oversaw the third-biggest federal deficit growth of any president; it significantly increased under Trump due to spending increases and tax cuts.
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He withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement and later escalated tensions in the Persian Gulf by ordering the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Trump announced the U.S. would leave the Paris Agreement on June 1, 2017. Under the Agreement, each country determines, plans and regularly reports its own contribution and targets for mitigating global warming. There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond previously set targets.
Trump confirmed three new Supreme Court justices, started a trade war with China, signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and removed the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. A whistleblower said that Trump had stopped aid to Ukraine until they would investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden; Hunter’s father, Democrat Joe Biden, would be Trump’s opponent in the 2020 presidential election. Early on November 9, 2016, the day after the election, Trump was projected to have secured the presidency. Trump won the presidential election with 304 electoral votes, while Hillary Clinton received 227, though Clinton won a plurality of the nationwide popular vote, receiving nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump. Trump thus became the fifth person to win the presidency while losing the popular vote.1 The electoral votes were certified on January 6, 2017.
- He stood against illegal immigration, expanded the wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and banned immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.
- He was unsuccessful in his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act but rescinded the individual mandate.
- A whistleblower said that Trump had stopped aid to Ukraine until they would investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden; Hunter’s father, Democrat Joe Biden, would be Trump’s opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
- There is no mechanism to force a country to set a specific target by a specific date, but each target should go beyond previously set targets.