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U.S is 200 days into a Trump presidency and a lot has happened. While most decisions taken by the Trump Administration have been controversial in some way or the other, this has made it difficult for people to follow whats going. While the travel ban and a few other terms have been flying around, heres a quick run down of all the decisions Trump Administration has taken so far in case it comes up at a dinner party.

1. Paris Climate AgreementIn 2016, World leaders from 195 nations across the globe united against climate change through the United Nations Framework Convention by agreeing to curb greenhouse gas emissions. While America has always preferred to be a spectator in talks regarding curbing of GHGS, the Trump cabinet went a step further. In June 2017 Trump cabinet withdrew from the accord, as Trump felt that the US was getting a raw deal out of it and that it was unfair to the US Economy. He believed it would cost the US $3 trillion in lost GDP and 6.5 million jobs, leaving the US impoverished. However, as matters stand today, the United States is not only the worlds largest economy but also, cumulatively, its largest greenhouse gas emitter. Hence its pulling out significantly weakens the global climate commitment towards the planet.

2.Healthcare Bill

One of the 1st orders of business for the Trump cabinet was to repeal ObamaCare. But the Trump cabinets replacement plan wasnt all that great which led even Republicans rejecting it saying it wasnt enough to just repeal ObamaCare. A second draft of the bill was submitted as well, but Republicans seem divided over the decision. With the plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare still hanging in balance, trump is in the hot seat.

Heres the whole scoop on the U.S Healthcare Bill

3.Travel Ban

The Travel ban is probably the most talked about decision of the Trump cabinet.In January 2017, Trump released an executive order barring entry into US for citizens from 7 Muslimcountries namely Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, as he believed that the immigrants and refugees from these countries posed a serious security threat. He also called for the US to suspend resettling refugees from these regions until extreme vetting procedures can be implemented, including ideological tests to screen out extremists. While the policy got entangled in many lawsuits and 2 attempts by Trump to implement the ban were blocked by U.S courts. the Supreme Court ruled for the partial implementation of the policy and allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with the 90 days ban on visitors from the remaining 6countries and 120 days suspension of US refugee settlements, but asked the White House to ease down on the travel restrictions with respect to the relatives of the existing immigrants in the country.

Just in case you want to know more about the Travel ban

4. Multiple Firings

Ever since Trump assumed the office of POTUS, there have been dismissals galore of various top officials.While Acting Attorney general Sally Yates was fired for asking the travel ban to not be imposed.FBI Director James Comey was let go for his probe into the Russian investigation. Press secretary Sean Spicer resigned after the President appointed Anthony Scaramucci (an unworthy recruit in Spicers opinion) as his communications director. Right after Scaramuccis appointment, White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus was fired 10 days into his job after Scaramucci accused him of leaking information to the media and called him an ineffective Chief of staff.

5.Transgender restrictions

The Trumps administration has taken a series of deliberate steps against the transgender community. In February, the administration withdrew federal protection of transgender students that allowed them to use bathrooms of the gender they identified with in schools. This led to to a full blown debate within the Trump administration itself, but finally the bathroom bill was passed. To add to this, he recently banned transgenders from joining the army and claimed this was because ofthe tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. With about 6,000 or so transgender troops already serving in the military,whether it would it bar trans people from joining the military going forward, or would it force the military to discharge trans people who are already serving is still to be seen.

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