Democratic and Republican candidates set to blitz rallies in Pennsylvania and Michigan as polls shows race too close to call
In an interview with NBC News, Donald Trump did not rule out banning certain vaccines if he was elected to a second presidential term.
Trump told the outlet in a phone interview that he is open to some of the more controversial ideas of Robert F Kennedy Jr, a nephew of President John F Kennedy and son of the US attorney general and New York senator Robert F Kennedy.
Much of Trump’s inflation-reduction plan hinges on his vow to slash energy costs by expanding oil and gas drilling and deregulation. He has also been highly critical of high interest rates, the Federal Reserve’s main inflation-fighting tool.
Trump said recently that he thinks the president should have a say in decisions made by the Fed, which traditionally operates independently from politics.
Trump has vowed to extend and expand a suite of tax cuts he signed into law in 2017, while pledging to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% from 21% for companies that make their products in the US. He has also said he would exempt Social Security benefits and overtime pay, in addition to tips, from income taxes.
He has suggested an across-the-board levy of perhaps 10% and up to 20% on virtually all foreign-made goods, as well as slapping tariffs of 60% – or more – on goods from China.
Trump has said abortion access should be left to the states, and has vowed that as president he would not sign a national abortion ban (weeks before making that pledge, he refused to say whether he would veto such a ban).
Trump has said that if he wins he would make IVF free for women, though has provided few specifics and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blocked legislation that would protect the treatment.
Trump has promised to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in US history, a policy that would face many logistical, legal and financial hurdles.
Trump has said he would reinstate several controversial policies from his first term, including the Remain in Mexico program, Title 42 and a travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority nations.
He has vowed to rescind programs that shield undocumented immigrants from deportation, including children, while revoking the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the US under the federal temporary protected status program.
Trump has also suggested he would end birthright citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrant.
Trump has questioned established climate science, previously dismissing the climate crisis as “mythical” and an “expensive hoax”.
As president, Trump claims he will prioritize clean air and water for Americans. Yet he has also promised to continue to roll back environmental regulations, including all of the ones put in place by the Biden administration.
In a May meeting with oil bosses, he reportedly offered to dismantle Biden’s environmental rules and requested $1bn in contributions to his presidential campaign. He is especially opposed to wind power – falsely claiming wind turbines kill birds and cause cancer.
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