Newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump will focus this week on trade, immigration and national security, issues about which he may sign executive orders in the coming days, chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday.
In an interview with Fox News, Priebus said that there will be “movement” in those three areas during his first week in office.
Trump on Friday, just hours after being inaugurated, an executive order against his predecessor’s health care reform known as Obamacare, instructing federal agencies to start “unwinding” the health care law without waiting for Congress to repeal and replace it with a new plan.
Sunday, Trump announced he will renegotiate the 2-decades-old North American Free Trade Agreement with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, one of his main campaign promises.
At a White House event to swear in several top officials he had named, the president confirmed his intention to renegotiate NAFTA with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, whom he will welcome to Washington on Jan. 31, and with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with whom he intends to meet soon.
Trump blames NAFTA for killing U.S. jobs, for the closure of companies in the United States and a relocation of operations to Mexico for lower costs.
The president said that that he would discuss NAFTA with Peña Nieto along with “immigration” and “border security.”
After winning the Nov. 8 election, Trump said he would deport any undocumented migrant with a “criminal record,” a total of some three million people, instead of the 11 million undocumented foreigners he had promised to deport during his campaign.
Former President Barack Obama personally asked Trump to protect the so-called “Dreamers,” young undocumented foreigners who entered the U.S. as children and have benefited under the deferred action program he launched by executive order in 2012.
Meanwhile, new presidential advisor, Kellyanne Conway, said Trump is not intending to release his personal tax returns, telling ABC that people “don’t care” about Trump’s taxes after a petition with more than 100,000 signatures – which requires a formal government reply – was posted on the White House website.
A recent survey by ABC and the daily Washington Post revealed that three-quarters of Americans believe that Trump should release his tax information. The mogul – who months ago said he would – has subsequently refused to do so, stating he is not required to make his tax information public. EFE
In a sudden turn WikiLeaks has tweeted “Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today that Trump will not release his tax returns. Send them to: https://wikileaks.org/#submit so we can.”




