Donald Trump and his advisers are hedging on some major campaign pledges

Sat - November 12, 2016

From The Sydney Morning Herald - News Site of the Year.

by: Jose A. DelReal

President-elect Donald Trump and key advisers in recent days have backed away from some of the most sweeping pledges that the Republican candidate made on the campaign trail, suggesting that his administration may not deliver on promises that were important to his most fervent supporters.

Trump built his campaign message around bold vows to, among other things, force Mexico to pay for a massive border wall, fully repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ban Muslims from entering the United States.

But in the days since his upset election victory, he or his advisers have suggested that those proposals and others may be subject to revision.

On President Barack Obama's health-care law, for example, Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he would like to keep some parts of the law intact and may seek to amend the statute rather than repeal it.

Trump said he came to the conclusion after Obama, during Trump's Oval Office meeting Thursday, suggested areas of the law that should be preserved.

Trump suggested:

Provisions that prevent insurers from refusing coverage for pre-existing conditions and which allow children to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26, should stay.

"I like those very much," he said . . . . . .

More at -- http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/donald-trump-and-his-advisers-are-hedging-on-some-major-campaign-pledges-20161112-gso00k.html
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Also posted by Bob on Friday, 11-Nov-2016 04:20:30 . . . . . .

"Don't expect Trump to deliver on most of his 'promises'! He still has to work within 'the political process' ....... "

However, it IS another positive, yet gradual step forward in human 'consciousness' and/or 'awakening' (call it protest and/or years of pent-up frustration)

Real change in the world will not be delivered through the 'political process' but by the will of the people, through our combined non-compliance to (the) more unjust laws imposed by the few on the many.

That (compliance to unjust laws) has to stop!

And that, may take a little more than a few years to accomplish, but we're moving in the right direction, in my view.

Bob
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