Trade & Tariffs
This 2025 policy invoked a Cold War–era law to justify a 10% tariff on all imported goods under a “reciprocal trade” principle.
What is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) declaration?
Early in 2025, the administration proposed ending this constitutional guarantee of citizenship.
What is birthright citizenship?
The administration’s early “Day One” order froze civilian hiring to advance this goal of shrinking Washington’s bureaucracy.
What is reducing the size of the federal workforce?
The second-term doctrine that prioritized bilateral deals over multilateral alliances revived this signature campaign slogan.
What is “America First”?
The universal import duty proposed in Trump’s second term was set at this percentage.
What is 10 percent?
In mid-2025, this Asian democracy faced U.S. tariffs as high as 50% after continuing to import discounted Russian oil.
What is India?
This smartphone app, once used to schedule asylum appointments, was quietly discontinued in the administration’s first months.
What is CBP One?
The revived “Schedule F” plan re-classified career civil servants so they could be dismissed without standard protections.
What is making federal employees at-will?
A 20 percent tariff dubbed the “fentanyl tariff” targeted exports from this country, linking trade penalties to drug trafficking.
What is China?
Economists warned that sweeping tariffs could trim U.S. GDP by nearly this fraction of a percent annually.
What is 0.8 percent?
By spring 2025, U.S. average import tariffs reached their highest level since the Smoot–Hawley era — roughly this percentage.
What is 27 percent?
Citing national security, troops were redeployed to assist border agents under this type of presidential declaration.
What is a national emergency?
Proposals to dismantle this cabinet department tied school funding to states eliminating diversity programs and tenure systems.
What is the Department of Education?
Seeking self-sufficiency in critical industries, the administration promoted “friend-shoring” in sectors like semiconductors and shipbuilding under this broader economic philosophy.
What is industrial policy?
This renewable-energy incentive program, central to Biden-era policy, was slated for elimination.
What are tax credits for clean energy and electric vehicles?
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These “second-order” duties penalized countries that traded with sanctioned nations, expanding tariffs beyond direct offenders.
What are secondary tariffs?
A new federal rule shifted refugee screening responsibilities away from Washington and toward these sub-national jurisdictions.
What are states and local governments?
Environmental deregulation accelerated as this agency saw its budget and enforcement powers sharply reduced.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
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In early 2025, the U.S. began rolling back participation in global climate frameworks, starting with this landmark environmental accord.
What is the Paris Agreement?
A $550 billion bilateral investment initiative with this East Asian ally aimed to strengthen quantum-computing and shipbuilding capacity.
What is Japan?
Under Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, the administration reinstated steep tariffs on these three base metals, citing national-security concerns.
What are steel, aluminum, and copper?
The government’s 2025 plan to remove millions of undocumented immigrants was described as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
What is the mass deportation initiative?
Critics argued that the president was legislating by decree after issuing this surge of unilateral policy documents.
What are executive orders?
The administration’s trade actions reignited tensions within this North American economic pact.
What is the USMCA (United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement)?
The administration’s push to block foreign acquisitions of “critical infrastructure” was primarily aimed at buyers from this nation.
What is China?