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ARTICLE · 17 NOVEMBER 2016

Assessing Mr Trump's Economic Policies

Donald Trump's policies are as unconventional as his campaign rhetoric. On the face of it Mr Trump may be about to upend the Washington consensus on immigration, government debt, free trade and America's role in the world.

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Donald Trump's policies are as unconventional as his campaign rhetoric. On the face of it Mr Trump may be about to upend the Washington consensus on immigration, government debt, free trade and America's role in the world.  Going through Mr Trump's policies over the last couple of weeks has left me amazed at the scale of his ambitions.

Now the game is on for journalists to establish whether Mr Trump means it all. The notion that he will temporise in government gained traction on Friday when Mr Trump said that, rather than repealing President Obama's health reforms, he might amend them. And on Sunday he diluted his pledge to build a wall with Mexico by saying parts of it might be a fence. But Mr Trump went on to reiterate his commitment to large scale deportations, saying he planned to expel "two to three million" illegal immigrants with criminal records.

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