Trump Reveals his Top Priorities

After a meeting with the top Republicans on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss the agenda ahead, President-elect Donald Trump laid out his top three priorities: immigration, health care and jobs.

"We're gonna look very strongly at immigration; we're gonna look at the border. We're gonna look very strongly at health care, and we're looking at jobs — big league jobs," Trump told a throng of reporters after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the lawmaker's second-floor Capitol Hill office.

While Trump mentioned the border being a top priority within the realm of immigration, he did not specifically mention the construction of a physical wall, something that he campaigned heavily on. Such a wall, however, is estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars.

"We have a lot of priorities, a lot of really great priorities," Trump added. "People are gonna be very, very happy."

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Trump was asked if he would ask Congress to ban Muslims from entering the country, a proposal Trump floated on the campaign trail. But Trump ignored the question, said "thank you, everybody" and walked away.

After a temporary removal of his Muslim ban from his website, it is now back on it, reported the Washington Post.

The new website for his transition, GreatAgain.gov, however, doesn't include a Muslim ban per se, but calls for the suspension of "the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur."

Trump's meeting with McConnell lasted about an hour and was superseded by a lunch between Trump, Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence, incoming first lady Melania Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan at the Republican Party's Capitol Hill Club, a private club used for meetings and fundraisers.

With Trump by his side, Ryan congratulated Trump on "one of the most impressive victories we've ever seen."

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"We're gonna turn that victory into progress for the American people, and we are now talking about how we are going to hit the ground running to make sure that we can get this country turned around and make American great again," Ryan added.

Ryan also showed Trump where his inauguration will take place from the Speakers Balcony, a spacious balcony on the second floor of the Capitol outside of Ryan's office overlooking the National Mall.


Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/cong...rities-n682211

It's all politics. What you say on the campaign trail is totally different from when you're in charge and you learn on what you can and cannot do. We will see what happens. Right next talk is just talk. I don't think Trump really knows what he's doing or what he's in for. He just wanted to win the election. He's going to realize how much work and stress go into being the President of the United States. Be careful what you wish for.

I posted about this in another topic.

Have you seen Trump these last few days?

He looks totally out of it, like he is bored, drained of the excitement because he may not want the responsibility of being President. He likes the win, but maybe doesn't care about what follows.

He can't even follow or promote his Trump TV anymore, something he seemed to be ready for when he expected to lose...that's right, even Trump's campaign expected to lose...his win surprised EVERYONE, including the guy who won!!! lol...

Well, with immigration being one of his top priorities I think we will find out very early what he is going to do with us.

I am hoping during his meeting with Obama for 90 minutes, that Obama pitched him the request to not mess with DACA.

Who knows. To me it kinda feels like we're a tiny little ant amongst the vast majority of issues in this country and we're about to be smashed with the flick of a finger.

I still remember a while back when Trump was kind of backpedaling on immigration and saying that there could be some softening. One can only hope that he lets us slide.

The funny thing is, it may be possible that Trump really doesn't care to mess with DACA, but his administration...oh dear...

He said people will be happy. I am guessing Immigration Reform?

^He speaks in generalities, no way to tell.