1. In changing environmental policy, how much bureaucratic regulation has the Trump Administration reduced?
2. How has the Trump Administration changed America's approach to resource extraction?
3. What changes has the Trump Administration made to the Medicaid program?
4. What has been the result of these changes?
5. What policy changed has caused the biggest changes in the federal deficit?
6. How has the Securities and Exchange Commission changed its enforcement of regulations about the stock market?
7. What impact have Trump's policies had on the banking industry?
8. What are three actions Trump has taken to change immigration enforcement?
9. What impact have Trump's policy changes had on refugee resettlement in America?
10. How do Trump's appointments to Circuit Courts compare to Obama's time in office?
1. A major trend of Trump-era policymaking has been to roll back environmental regulation. This involves going through the process of promulgating new rules that are far more lax than those they replace. The New York Times has identified 53 separate rules that have completed the rollback process and 32 more that are still in the works.
2. It’s not unusual for Republican administrations to take a more skeptical view of environmental regulation, but the Trump administration really has been more uniformly aggressive on this front than its predecessors, as seen by criticism of the Trump Environmental Protection Agency by several of the agency’s Reagan- and Bush-era chiefs. Tendency toward recklessness with regard to politics and public opinion obscured in part by the large volume of coverage dedicated to Trump scandals and Trump’s personal behavior.
3. Allow states to impose work requirements on their Medicaid programs.
4. uninsurance rates have risen steadily under trump despite improving labor market because of lack of interest in vigorous implementation of affordable care act
5. tax cuts and jobs act of 2017
6. brought 40% fewer regulatory actions
7. trump's financial stability oversight council has removed Obama administration's designation of non-bank financial institutions as "systemically significant" and subject to strutter regulatory oversight.
8. travel ban, outside of losing skirmish over funding for border wall, there have barely been any efforts to get congressional action on immigration
9. cut refugee settlement by over 80%, made it more difficult to get H-1B visas for skilled workers and is in the process of stripping their spouses of work permits.
10. trump has put 46 circuit court judges on the bench in three years compared. to Obama's 55 over eight years.
