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Trump recently has taken steps to address mounting student debt, but he is not in support of making four-year colleges and universities tuition-free. The concept of free four-year college came up in the 2016 presidential race. In an interview, Trump\u2019s then-campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis spoke for the Trump campaign, saying<\/a>, \u201cUnequivocally no. How do you pay for that? It\u2019s absurd on its surface.\u201d
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In the 2016 interview<\/a>, Clovis also spoke for the Trump campaign in rejecting the idea of a state-federal partnership to make community college free. Community colleges are “damn near free” now, and “almost anyone can afford community college,” Clovis said. Although these statements are from 2016, there is little to suggest that Trump\u2019s opinion has changed on the matter. Most of his suggestions to eliminate student debt surround reforming student loans.
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Trump has made it a priority to simplify and publicize student loan repayments. By way of a recent executive order<\/a>, Trump has put pressure on universities to share information on the earnings and average loan repayments of alumni who received federal student aid.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to the White House, giving students more information on the prices and outcomes of specific degrees in higher education will help them make \u201cbetter and well-informed choices<\/a>\u201d on where to go to school and what major to enroll in.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cInstitutions should be transparent about the average earnings and loan repayment rates of former students who received Federal student aid,\u201d the executive order states. \u201cAdditionally, the Federal Government should make this information readily accessible to the public and to prospective students and their families, in particular.\u201d
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Making this information available will also, according to the White House, \u201cencourage institutions to take into account likely future earnings when establishing the cost of their educational programs.\u201d
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- Title IX<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The Trump Administration has suggested repealing<\/a> Obama-era Title IX laws that make it illegal to discriminate people based on their gender while in an educational environment. The proposed changes would define gender as being determined by genitalia at birth. In educational environments, gender determines which bathrooms and dormitories students can occupy and which sports teams or extracurricular programs students can partake in. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Trump administration also proposed new rules<\/a> to govern cases in which universities receive sexual assault complaints, claiming that such changes would ensure \u201cfair, reliable procedures that provide adequate due-process protections for those involved in grievance processes.\u201d At large, the proposed rules would grant greater protections to students accused of sexual misconduct. Among the proposed changes, is a rule that would allow students who are accused of assault to cross-examine their accusers and other witnesses against them. Colleges\u2019 responsibilities to investigate would be limited to where the alleged incidents happened on campus or within an educational program or activity.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n2. Donald Trump on Social Justice <\/strong>
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It is not a priority of Trump\u2019s, per se, to close the income gap between the rich and the poor. Instead, he prioritizes job creation as a method to distribute wealth and give financial opportunity to low-income or unemployed Americans. According to the White House<\/a>, in November of 2018, the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent, the lowest it has been since 1969.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 2020 election comes at a time where candidates, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.), have proposed taxes on Wall Street financial trades and the super-rich as a means to distribute wealth. All evidence points to Trump being against such measures, as the tax law he signed in December 2018 saved the United States\u2019 six big Wall Street banks $3.59 billion over one quarter, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n- LGBT Rights<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump voiced his support for the LGBT community, tweeting<\/a>, \u201cThank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.\u201d And in some ways, Trump has stayed true to his word. Recently, the Trump administration announced<\/a> a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in nearly 70 countries.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, largely, the LGBT community feels that they have been negatively impacted by Trump in many ways<\/a>. On March 23, 2018, for example, Trump\u2019s administration announced a plan that would prohibit transgender people from serving in the militairy. And his administration supports eliminating Title IX laws that make it illegal to discriminate people based on their gender in an educational environment.
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During Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign, he claimed the United States needs to be \u201ctough on crime<\/a>.\u201d He has even voiced his support<\/a> for policies, such as stop-and-frisk, which allows police officers to stop, question and search any pedestrian for guns, drugs, or other illegal possessions.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, recently, he signed the First Step Act<\/a>, which is a bipartisan proposal that encourages incarcerated people to join rehabilitation programs and engage in \u201cproductive activities\u201d by incentivizing them with an opportunity for an earlier release date, into law.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThis legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community,\u201d Trump said<\/a> during his State of the Union speech. \u201cThe First Step Act gives nonviolent offenders the chance to reenter society as productive, law-abiding citizens. Now, states across the country are following our lead. America is a nation that believes in redemption.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\n3. Donald Trump on the Environment<\/strong>
<\/h2>\n\n\n\n- Climate Change<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Trump doesn\u2019t seem to believe in climate change, so he has ignored climate measures and gone forward with promoting fossil fuels. In 2017, Trump withdrew<\/a> the United States from the Paris Agreement, stating, \u201cThe agreement is a massive redistribution of U.S. wealth to other countries.\u201d In his opinion, it is \u201cless about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the U.S.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd in 2012, Trump tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,\u201d which he later referred to as a \u201cjoke<\/a>.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn response to a 2018 climate report<\/a>, which highlighted that the world has just over a decade to address climate change and was created by 13 federal agencies and more than 300 climate scientists, Trump said<\/a>, \u201cI just don\u2019t believe it.\u201d
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All in all, finding sustainable solutions to mitigate climate change does not seem to be something Trump is concerned about. He has recently called for a 70 percent cut<\/a> in renewable energy funding.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n4. Donald Trump on Immigration <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nDuring his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to tighten the U.S. borders. Specifically, he pushed forward the idea of building a border wall, which would serve as a physical boundary separating the United States from Mexico. After failing to receive adequate funding to build the wall, Trump declared a national emergency in March 2019.
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\u201cThe current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency,\u201d Trump said in a statement<\/a>.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nHis primary concern, according to the statement, is the amount of drugs, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, that \u201cpour across our border<\/a>.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn February 2017, Trump introduced Executive Order 13769<\/a>, better known as the \u201ctravel ban,\u201d which aimed to restrict the ability of people from seven countries to travel to the United States. Critics referred to it as the \u201cMuslim ban\u201d due to the fact that Islam is the primary religion<\/a> in five of the seven countries.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n5. Donald Trump on Gun Control<\/strong>
<\/h2>\n\n\n\nIn the wake of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Trump voiced his support of some increases to regulations, background checks and the concept of arming teachers, tweeting<\/a>, \u201cVery strong improvement and strengthening of background checks will be fully backed by White House. Legislation moving forward. Bump Stocks will soon be out. Highly trained expert teachers will be allowed to conceal carry, subject to State Law. Armed guards OK, deterrent!…….\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut the measures Trump supports aren\u2019t quite as strict as those of his Democratic colleagues and competitors. He recently vowed to veto<\/a> a House-passed plan to extend background check review periods from three days to 10 days.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n6. Donald Trump on Marijuana Legalization<\/strong>
<\/h2>\n\n\n\nTrump has gone back and forth on marijuana legalization. During his 2016 presidential campaign, he supported<\/a> the idea that states should be able to decide whether or not they would legalize medical and\/or recreational marijuana. But after he was elected, his opinion on recreational marijuana seemed to have switched. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the Trump Administration would increase<\/a> enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana. However, more recently, Trump voiced his likely support<\/a> of the STATES Act<\/a>, which would put an end to the federal ban on marijuana and allow states to decide whether to legalize it or not.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n7. Donald Trump on Net Neutrality<\/strong>
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Trump recently has taken steps to address mounting student debt, but he is not in support of making four-year colleges and universities tuition-free. The concept of free four-year college came up in the 2016 presidential race. In an interview, Trump\u2019s then-campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis spoke for the Trump campaign, saying<\/a>, \u201cUnequivocally no. How do you pay for that? It\u2019s absurd on its surface.\u201d In the 2016 interview<\/a>, Clovis also spoke for the Trump campaign in rejecting the idea of a state-federal partnership to make community college free. Community colleges are “damn near free” now, and “almost anyone can afford community college,” Clovis said. Although these statements are from 2016, there is little to suggest that Trump\u2019s opinion has changed on the matter. Most of his suggestions to eliminate student debt surround reforming student loans. Trump has made it a priority to simplify and publicize student loan repayments. By way of a recent executive order<\/a>, Trump has put pressure on universities to share information on the earnings and average loan repayments of alumni who received federal student aid. According to the White House, giving students more information on the prices and outcomes of specific degrees in higher education will help them make \u201cbetter and well-informed choices<\/a>\u201d on where to go to school and what major to enroll in. \u201cInstitutions should be transparent about the average earnings and loan repayment rates of former students who received Federal student aid,\u201d the executive order states. \u201cAdditionally, the Federal Government should make this information readily accessible to the public and to prospective students and their families, in particular.\u201d Making this information available will also, according to the White House, \u201cencourage institutions to take into account likely future earnings when establishing the cost of their educational programs.\u201d The Trump Administration has suggested repealing<\/a> Obama-era Title IX laws that make it illegal to discriminate people based on their gender while in an educational environment. The proposed changes would define gender as being determined by genitalia at birth. In educational environments, gender determines which bathrooms and dormitories students can occupy and which sports teams or extracurricular programs students can partake in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump administration also proposed new rules<\/a> to govern cases in which universities receive sexual assault complaints, claiming that such changes would ensure \u201cfair, reliable procedures that provide adequate due-process protections for those involved in grievance processes.\u201d At large, the proposed rules would grant greater protections to students accused of sexual misconduct. Among the proposed changes, is a rule that would allow students who are accused of assault to cross-examine their accusers and other witnesses against them. Colleges\u2019 responsibilities to investigate would be limited to where the alleged incidents happened on campus or within an educational program or activity. It is not a priority of Trump\u2019s, per se, to close the income gap between the rich and the poor. Instead, he prioritizes job creation as a method to distribute wealth and give financial opportunity to low-income or unemployed Americans. According to the White House<\/a>, in November of 2018, the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent, the lowest it has been since 1969. The 2020 election comes at a time where candidates, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.), have proposed taxes on Wall Street financial trades and the super-rich as a means to distribute wealth. All evidence points to Trump being against such measures, as the tax law he signed in December 2018 saved the United States\u2019 six big Wall Street banks $3.59 billion over one quarter, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump voiced his support for the LGBT community, tweeting<\/a>, \u201cThank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.\u201d And in some ways, Trump has stayed true to his word. Recently, the Trump administration announced<\/a> a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in nearly 70 countries. However, largely, the LGBT community feels that they have been negatively impacted by Trump in many ways<\/a>. On March 23, 2018, for example, Trump\u2019s administration announced a plan that would prohibit transgender people from serving in the militairy. And his administration supports eliminating Title IX laws that make it illegal to discriminate people based on their gender in an educational environment. During Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign, he claimed the United States needs to be \u201ctough on crime<\/a>.\u201d He has even voiced his support<\/a> for policies, such as stop-and-frisk, which allows police officers to stop, question and search any pedestrian for guns, drugs, or other illegal possessions. However, recently, he signed the First Step Act<\/a>, which is a bipartisan proposal that encourages incarcerated people to join rehabilitation programs and engage in \u201cproductive activities\u201d by incentivizing them with an opportunity for an earlier release date, into law. \u201cThis legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community,\u201d Trump said<\/a> during his State of the Union speech. \u201cThe First Step Act gives nonviolent offenders the chance to reenter society as productive, law-abiding citizens. Now, states across the country are following our lead. America is a nation that believes in redemption.\u201d Trump doesn\u2019t seem to believe in climate change, so he has ignored climate measures and gone forward with promoting fossil fuels. In 2017, Trump withdrew<\/a> the United States from the Paris Agreement, stating, \u201cThe agreement is a massive redistribution of U.S. wealth to other countries.\u201d In his opinion, it is \u201cless about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the U.S.\u201d And in 2012, Trump tweeted<\/a>, \u201cThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,\u201d which he later referred to as a \u201cjoke<\/a>.\u201d In response to a 2018 climate report<\/a>, which highlighted that the world has just over a decade to address climate change and was created by 13 federal agencies and more than 300 climate scientists, Trump said<\/a>, \u201cI just don\u2019t believe it.\u201d All in all, finding sustainable solutions to mitigate climate change does not seem to be something Trump is concerned about. He has recently called for a 70 percent cut<\/a> in renewable energy funding. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to tighten the U.S. borders. Specifically, he pushed forward the idea of building a border wall, which would serve as a physical boundary separating the United States from Mexico. After failing to receive adequate funding to build the wall, Trump declared a national emergency in March 2019. \u201cThe current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency,\u201d Trump said in a statement<\/a>. His primary concern, according to the statement, is the amount of drugs, including cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, that \u201cpour across our border<\/a>.\u201d In February 2017, Trump introduced Executive Order 13769<\/a>, better known as the \u201ctravel ban,\u201d which aimed to restrict the ability of people from seven countries to travel to the United States. Critics referred to it as the \u201cMuslim ban\u201d due to the fact that Islam is the primary religion<\/a> in five of the seven countries. In the wake of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Trump voiced his support of some increases to regulations, background checks and the concept of arming teachers, tweeting<\/a>, \u201cVery strong improvement and strengthening of background checks will be fully backed by White House. Legislation moving forward. Bump Stocks will soon be out. Highly trained expert teachers will be allowed to conceal carry, subject to State Law. Armed guards OK, deterrent!…….\u201d But the measures Trump supports aren\u2019t quite as strict as those of his Democratic colleagues and competitors. He recently vowed to veto<\/a> a House-passed plan to extend background check review periods from three days to 10 days. Trump has gone back and forth on marijuana legalization. During his 2016 presidential campaign, he supported<\/a> the idea that states should be able to decide whether or not they would legalize medical and\/or recreational marijuana. But after he was elected, his opinion on recreational marijuana seemed to have switched. In 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the Trump Administration would increase<\/a> enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana. However, more recently, Trump voiced his likely support<\/a> of the STATES Act<\/a>, which would put an end to the federal ban on marijuana and allow states to decide whether to legalize it or not.
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n5. Donald Trump on Gun Control<\/strong>
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<\/p>\n\n\n\n7. Donald Trump on Net Neutrality<\/strong>
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