Further Readings
President Trump – policies and actions
3/16 event resource
President Trump’s 100-day action plan
“Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter.” DonaldJTrump. Donald J Trump
for President. Published prior to 08 November 2017. Web. 09 March 2017.
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316Contractv02.pdf
Complete list of Presidential actions (executive orders, memoranda, proclamations,
and related Office of Management and Budget material)
“Presidential Actions.” The White House, United States Government. Web. 10 March
2017. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions
Bacon, Perry, Jr. “The Eight Power Centers of the Trump Administration: From the
Bannon Wing to the Bureaucrats.” FiveThirtyEight. 06 March 2017. Web. 06 March
2017. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-eight-power-centers-of-the-trumpadministration/
Hains, Tim. “Stephen Bannon: Core of Trump’s Platform is ‘Deconstruction of the
Administrative State.’” RealClearPolitics. 23 February 2017. Web. 11 March 2017.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/23/stephen_bannon_pillar_of_tr
umps_platform_is_deconstruction_of_the_administrative_state.html
White House budget proposal seeks to add $54 billion to military spending, while
slashing EPA, Dept of Education, HUD, and more.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-white-house-budget-blueprint235435
Cities’ Role
Greenblatt, Alan. “’Sanctuary Cities’ Just the Start of Mayors’ Opposition to Trump.”
Governing. 27 January 2017. Web. 31 January 2017.
http://www.governing.com/topics/urban/gov-trump-sanctuary-cities-mayors.html
Congress
Understanding budget reconciliation – a process used by U.S. Senate to pass bills by
simple majority instead of the usual three-fifths majority.
http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/introduction-to-budgetreconciliation
Further Readings
Criminal Justice
3/16 event resource
“Stop and Frisk - Balancing Crime Control with Community Relations.” Urban
Institute.
http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/33661/413258-Stop-andFrisk-Balancing-Crime-Control-with-Community-Relations.PDF
Understanding mass incarceration
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html
Detroit
“How President Trump can help Detroit.”
http://www.bridgemi.com/detroit-journalism-cooperative/how-trump-can-helpdetroit
Environment
Opinion: “Trump to Great Lakes: ‘Drop dead’”
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephenhenderson/2017/03/03/great-lakes-epa-environment-trump/98698596/
National discussion: President Trump signed executive orders to advance two oil
pipline projects halted or delayed by Obama for violating treaty rights and posing
environmental risks.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-signs-order-advance-keystone-xldakota-pipelines/
Seeing “no indication the Trump administration is interested in helping vulnerable
communities,” EPA’s head of Environmental Justice Mustafa Ali, who helped
found the office in the 1990s, resigns.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/epa-head-environmental-justiceresigns/
Federal Budget
Federal Budget – Visual illustrations of federal budget data, from 1789 to present.
http://federal-budget.insidegov.com/
National Priorities Project – Federal Budget 101.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
Further Readings
3/16 event resource
Financial Deregulation
Six arguments against the Volcker rule and why they’re wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/12/10/there-are-sixmain-arguments-against-the-volcker-rule-heres-why-theyrewrong/?utm_term=.aeb3e06283df
What will happen to Dodd-Frank under Trump?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/02/06/what-will-happen-tododd-frank-under-trumps-executive-order/
President Trump campaigned on a populist message condemning bankers and
financial executives, but proposes to repeal post-crisis financial regulations
designed to protect consumers and the economy. - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/trump-doddfrank/515646/
Healthcare
Former Obama political strategist David Axelrod interviewed Nancy Ann DeParle
(Obama’s top health reform advisor) and Mike Leavitt (former Republican governor
of Utah and President Bush’s Secretary of Health and Human Services) about
healthcare reform on his podcast the Axe Files.
Axelrod, David. “Nancy Ann DeParle.” Audio blog post. The Axe Files. CNN 13
February 2017. Web 01 March 2017. http://podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-davidaxelrod/episode/all/07ZOKRs1uLYqcj/7t6bkk.1-1.html
Axelrod, David. “Mike Leavitt.” Audio blog post. The Axe Files. CNN 16 February
2017. Web. 01 March 2017. http://podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-davidaxelrod/episode/all/w5zYLBmSSW8cQQ/24ydl7.html
McConnell, Darci. “Why We Need Obamacare” Detroit Free Press 11 March 2017.
Web. 11 March 2017.
http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/03/11/why-we-needobamacare/99007590/
Further Readings
3/16 event resource
Newkirk, Vann R., II. “Is the Republican Healthcare Plan “Obamacare Lite?” The
Atlantic. 06 March 2017. Web. 07 March 2017.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/obamacare-lite-yes-andno/518772/
Obama, Barack. “United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next
Steps.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 2 August 2016. Web. 10 March
2017.
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2533698
Sanger-Katz, Margot and Quoctrung Bui. “The Impact of Obamacare, in Four Maps”
The New York Times. 31 October 2016. Web. 09 March 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/31/upshot/up-uninsured2016.html
Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
“What would $6 billion in budget cuts mean for public housing?”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0310/What-would-6-billion-in-budgetcuts-mean-for-public-housing
Immigration
Primer on DACA, President Obama’s executive order that protected “DREAMers” undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/daca-explainer-dreamers/
Conservative opinion on DACA. The National Review supports a bipartisan deal that
trades permanent amnesty for DREAMers in exchange for restricting the familybased immigration policy and discouraging employers from hiring undocumented
immigrants.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445693/daca-replacement-raise-e-verify
Trade Deals
Letter to President Trump from Citizens Trade Campaign, a coalition working for
social and environmental justice in trade policy
http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/CTC-PEOTUSTrade-Letter-011317.pdf