Blog Post 2.5

. In changing environmental policy, how much bureaucratic regulation has the Trump Administration reduced?
53 rules have been rollbacked, and 32 are in the works. Even Republican chiefs of the EPA from Reagan and Bush's era have criticized the regulations.

2. How has the Trump Administration changed America's approach to resource extraction?
Trump has increased the extraction of natural resources. American oil output has soared, and net imports of crude oil and petroleum products are the lowest in a long time.

3. What changes has the Trump Administration made to the Medicaid program?
He pared back the social safety net by allowing states to impose work requirements on their Medicaid programs.

4. What has been the result of these changes?
This caused a lot of people to lose their health insurance, for example nearly 20000 lost insurance in Arkansas alone.

5. What policy changed has caused the biggest changes in the federal deficit?
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

6. How has the Securities and Exchange Commission changed its enforcement of regulations about the stock market?
They brought about 40 percent fewer regulatory actions. 

7. What impact have Trump's policies had on the banking industry?
They allowed banks to update their failure plans less frequently and made stress tests easier to pass, causing banks to become more profitable but may make financial crises more risky.

8. What are three actions Trump has taken to change immigration enforcement?
travel ban
built a layer of impediments in Central America, at the border, in detention centers, and immigration courts
cut refugee resettlements by over 80 percent

9. What impact have Trump's policy changes had on refugee resettlement in America?
He's made it harder because he cut them by over 80 percent.

10. How do Trump's appointments to Circuit Courts compare to Obama's time in office?
He's [put 46 Circuit Court judges in 3 years than 55 across 8 years of Obama.