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Trump has had a pretty good first 100 days, but what are some of the things people inside and outside the Trump administration are saying need to be addressed in the next 100 days?
Score Trade Deals that Build Off His Tariff Policies
When Trump announced new or increased tariffs on "Liberation Day" in the White House Rose Garden earlier this month, the world’s markets shook and economists were rattled.
Moore, an adviser during the first Trump administration, admits he opposed using tariffs but has reconsidered his position and now believes if a healthy number of deals are secured by Trump in the next 100 days it could unleash prosperity and end market panic.
"I was a skeptic, as you know. I thought Trump has really gotten himself into a thicket that he might not be able to get out of when we all saw those big declines in the stock market, and people started to panic. But, you know, Trump, really this guy is shrewd. He really is two moves on the chessboard ahead of everybody else," Moore told the Just the News, No Noise television show last week.
"And right now I'm feeling pretty confident, not entirely, and I'm not saying that the motion sickness that we've all had on the stock market is over," he added. "I think we're going to have up days and down days based on the progress that's been made. But it sure looks a lot better than it did a couple of weeks ago."
Make the tax cuts permanent
Moore's prediction of an economic boom leans into a second major task for the second 100 days: getting Trump's 2017 tax cuts renewed before they expire at the end of the year. Though ridiculed by Democrats as a tax cut for the rich, the data shows the policy has been profound for everyday Americans.
The goal now is to get the tax cuts made permanent in the next funding package, which Trump and Congress have called “one big beautiful bill.” If not, the individual income tax cuts will expire, reinstating what tax expert Pete Sepp, president of National Taxpayers Union, predicts will be a punishing 22% tax increase, or upwards of $1,800. And if you have children it will be even more than that.
'Water Is The New Oil.' Create a water czar.
At the very end of his first term, Trump signed an historic executive order aiming to re-imagine and reorganize America's stressed water resources, especially in the West. Joe Biden's election win thwarted that reform, and the need has only grown since.
Trump could consolidate the chessboard and make leadership of this pressing issue easier by naming a czar for water rights just like he did for border security. Tom Homan's appointment and record as border czar is one of the administration's shining successes of his first 100 days in office.
A water czar could be transformative for the second 100 days.
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