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On the day of his inauguration on Friday, US President Donald Trump and his team published the outline of various key plans on the official White House website, which the new administration intends to focus on.
We examine some of the administration’s key plans, which include an “America First” foreign policy strategy and an “America First” energy plan.
What to watch out for in Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office
 
‘America First’ foreign policy
● Commit to a foreign policy that focuses on American interests and American national security above all else.
● Rebuild America’s shrinking military – which has seen the size of its navy drop from 500 vessels in 1991 to 275 in 2016 – and assert a military dominance that will be unquestioned by the rest of the world.
● Defeat Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups, cut off funding for terrorist groups, expand intelligence sharing and engage in cyberwarfare to disrupt propaganda.

‘America First’ energy plan
● Deregulate the energy industry and scrap policies, including the climate action plan and the Waters of the US rule, which will help increase wages by more than US$30 billion over the next seven years.
●Embrace the shale oil and gas revolution, which is worth is estimated US$50 trillion.
●Revive the coal industry
● Work with America’s Gulf allies to develop energy relationship as part of anti-terrorism strategy.
Trump trade strategy starts with quitting TPP - and a warning to nations that ‘violate trade agreements’
Trade deals
● Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes 12 members, but not mainland China
● Renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), with the possibility of withdrawing from Nafta
● Identify all trade violations and crack down on countries that break trade agreements
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Bringing back jobs and growth
● Create 25 million American jobs in 10 years and boost the economy so it has a 4 per cent annual growth.
● Support pro-growth tax reforms, lower rates in every tax bracket, simplify the tax code, and reduce the US corporate tax rate.
● Renegotiate existing trade deals and take a tough stance on future ones in an effort to bring jobs back to the country and support American manufacturing.
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Boosting defence
● End limits on the defence budget and launch a new budget to rebuild the military
● Develop a state-of-the-art missile defence system to protect against missile-based attacks from adversarial nations such as Iran and North Korea.
● Develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities
● Make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities.
● Transform the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care and benefits to US veterans and their dependents; fire corrupt veteran affairs executives.
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Law enforcement
● Build a border wall to stop illegal immigration, gang violence, and drug trafficking.
● Deport illegal aliens with records of violent crime.
●Uphold the US’ Second Amendment rights “of the People to keep and bear arms” at every level of the judicial system.
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In foreign policy, energy, jobs and trade, Donald Trump’s key plans put ‘America First’

US President Donald Trump raises a fist after his inauguration on Friday. Photo: AFP

TOPSHOT - Migrants wait to receive food donated by people from the Community Center for Migrant Assistance in the community of Caborca in Sonora state, Mexico, on January 13, 2017. Hundreds of Central American and Mexican migrants attempt to cross the US border daily. / AFP PHOTO / ALFREDO ESTRELLA

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 24, 2016 shows employees working on building pipe at Pioneer Pipe in Marietta, Ohio. New claims for US unemployment benefits fell in the second week of January, pulling the four-week average down to a 43-year low, the Labor Department reported on January 19, 2017. Initial claims for jobless benefits fell by 15,000 to 234,000 in the week ending January 14, seasonally adjusted. The figure, which can show big swings week to week, was 18,000 below an analyst consensus forecast. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / SPENCER PLATT

Oil pumps and equipment in the South Belridge oil field in Kern County, Calif., on March 4, 2014, about forty miles west of Bakersfield. Some Central Valley residents are concerned Monterey Shale oil extraction efforts would alter the lives of families living in the rural communities in the valley. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

This Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, photo shows the USS Gabrielle Giffords, a Naval littoral combat ship built at the Austal USA shipyards, docked on the Mobile River in Mobile, Ala. The ship is named in honor of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords of Arizona. Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt in 2011, helped christen the ship in 2015. It's part of a hotly debated program that congressional critics slam as flawed and too expensive but that Navy leaders defend as a critical new step in naval warfighting. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

epa05736779 US President Donald J. Trump (L) greets new Secretary of Defense James 'Mad Dog' Mattis (R) in the reviewing stand during the Inaugural Parade after Trump took the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2017. Trump won the 08 November 2016 election to become the next US President. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

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