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In one of the most shocking U.S. elections in modern political history, Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton._  by [Haley Sweetland Edwards](https://time.com/author/haley-sweetland-edwards/)  ## Haley Sweetland Edwards Nov 10, 2016 5:08 PM UTC In one of the most shocking U.S. elections in modern political history, Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton.  by [Haley Sweetland Edwards](https://time.com/author/haley-sweetland-edwards/)  ## Haley Sweetland Edwards Nov 10, 2016 5:08 PM UTC A powerful coalition of social conservatives, evangelicals, Tea Partiers and fiscal hawks gathered in Washington, D.C., this week to lay out a framework for “transformative conservative leadership” under President-elect Donald Trump. Representatives from Freedom Works, the Susan B. Anthony List, the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, Club for Growth and seven other highly influential conservative organizations, many of which did not support Trump as the Republican nominee, all lined up behind the new president. “We will be an enthusiastic army” working with the new administration on a “pro-growth agenda,” said Club for Growth president David McIntosh, whose organization [underwrote a campaign of attack ads](http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/272687-club-for-growth-is-trump-enemy-no-1) against Trump earlier this year. “I was one of many who did not support Donald Trump in the primary,” said Penny Nance, who heads the Concerned Women for America’s Legislative Action Committee, “but I believe that the bumps that we came upon, the rockiness early on in our relationship, made us stronger, brought us more together.” “He was not our first choice,” added Ginni Thomas, the founder of Liberty Consulting, but said her organization saw 2017, the first year in which all three branches of the federal government will be controlled by Republicans for just [the second time since 1929](http://theweek.com/speedreads/660907/gop-now-controls-white-house-senate-house-supreme-court-pick-most-governorships-state-houses), as a “transformative world event” similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall. “This is a new American Revolution,” said Richard Viguerie, the chairman of ConservativeHQ. “The Bush wing of the Republican Party is dead. It was buried by the American people.” Some of the groups present at the meeting advanced dissonant agendas for a new Trump administration. McIntosh, for example, said he thought the Trans-Pacific Partnership was a “good agreement” while FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon urged Congress not to pass it. But the take-home message was clear: Grassroots groups on the right see Trump’s victory Tuesday not as a validation of Republican leadership, but as a mandate to fundamentally remake Washington in their image. In planning for 2017, Brent Bozell, the head of conservative advocacy group Media Research Center, suggested that Republicans take notes from President Obama, who enjoyed Democratic majorities in Congress during his first two years in the White House. “He came in with an agenda of legislative priorities, one after another after another after another, and he believed that was his mandate,” he said. “I would expect President Trump is going to do the same thing.” At the top of their list is to undo as many of Obama’s policies as possible to “bank a lot of wins in the first several weeks,” Bozell said. Many of those actions could be achieved through executive action—”unfiating the fiats,” as Bozell put it. Here are ten top agenda items for 2017. **1\. Appoint “a pro-life justice” to the Supreme Court** In May, Trump [first published](http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-releases-names-of-11-potential-supreme-court-choices-1463598588) a list of [21 potential nominees](http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-expands-short-list-of-potential-supreme-court-picks-1474657161), all of whom have met conservative criteria that they be pro-life and pro-gun, to fill the seat of former Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council Action, described Trump’s election as a rejection in part of “a Supreme Court that has acted as an oligarchy for the last four decades.” With 80-year-old Justice Anthony Kennedy and 83-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the bench as well, several conservative leaders said they expect Trump will eventually appoint several like-minded justices to control the court for decades. **2\. Repeal Obamacare** Republican majorities will likely jump at the chance to scrap the long-hated law shortly after taking office in January. But none of the conservative groups present at Wednesday’s meeting cited a specific plan on how to replace it (except to suggest, as McIntosh did, a “free market solution.”) In June, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan published a barebones blueprint that would create new refundable tax credits and reform private health savings accounts to help lower and middle class Americans afford insurance. Roughly 20 million Americans currently get their health insurance on the public exchanges created by Obamacare. **3\. Chuck** **the Iran Nuclear Deal** Ralph Reed, Chairman of Faith and Freedom Coalition, said his group planned to push the new administration to take seriously Trump’s campaign promise to [blow-up](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-iran-idUSKBN13427E) the U.S.’s negotiated pact with Iran. From a constitutional standpoint, Trump has all the cards: since the deal was a political commitment, and not a formal treaty, which requires Congress’s ratification, Trump will have the power to simply stop waiving the sanctions, to renegotiate the terms entirely, or to simply renege on the U.S.’s commitment so far. **4\.** **Defund Planned Parenthood, outlaw abortions after 20 weeks and codify the Hyde Amendment** A Republican-majority Congress has already passed legislation in recent years banning federal funding to health care centers that provide abortions and outlawing all abortions after twenty weeks, but it was vetoed by President Obama. “We had the wrong president, so of course he didn’t sign it,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, “but this time will be different.” Nance, of Concerned Women for America, agreed that “now is the time” to permanently codify the Hyde Amendment, a 40-year old provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for most abortions. **5\. Pass tax reform** “We will support the tax cuts, the repeal of Obamacare, the cutting of regulations that are killing millions of jobs,” said McIntosh of the Club For Growth. While he didn’t cite any particular tax reform plan, Trump’s [two proposed tax plans](http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-donald-trumps-tax-plan/full), as well as Speaker Ryan’s [more comprehensive version](http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-2016-house-republican-tax-reform-plan), all promise large tax breaks to top income earners. **6\.** **Undo all of Obama’s executive actions** Conservative leaders say they’ll hold Trump to his campaign promise to “cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders.” That could include [dozens of Obama administration executive actions](http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2014/02/top-10-abusive-executive-actions-by-the-obama-administration), from its commitment to the Paris Agreement, the treaty to reduce global warming, and executive guidance on [protecting transgender students from discrimination](https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pence-transgender-students-aa32ee93cdb7#.r41pmey90) to Obama’s executive order [requiring all gun sellers to have a license](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/04/fact-sheet-new-executive-actions-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our) and conduct [background checks](http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/02/politics/donald-trump-obama-guns/). The White House’s executive action [prohibiting](https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/04/08/another-step-toward-equality-lgbt-workers) federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and [the Pentagon’s decision to remove the ban](http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/6/30/breaking-pentagon-ends-ban-transgender-service-members) on transgender service members are also on the list. Perkins drew murmurs of support from his conservative allies Wednesday when he suggested that Trump rescind Obama’s executive actions that “make a social experiment out of the U.S. military.” In 2014, the conservative Heritage Foundation also [published](http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2014/02/top-10-abusive-executive-actions-by-the-obama-administration) a list of “abusive” executive actions by Obama administration agencies, which included the Education Department’s move to underwrite states’ Common Core standards and the Justice Department’s tacit refusal to enforce federal drug laws in states that have legalized marijuana. **7\. Undo DACA and DAPA** Getting rid of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protects children who were brought to the U.S. illegally from deportation, and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA, which was designed to protect illegal immigrants who have lived in the U.S. since 2010 and have children who are American citizens are at the top of many conservatives’ list. In June, the Supreme Court struck down large parts of those measures, both of which were passed by executive action, Trump could score a win with conservatives by expunging them from the books. **8\. Stop all new regulations** Several conservative leaders noted Trump’s campaign pledge to “reform the entire regulatory code” to and to place a “temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety.” That could include, they mused, all Environmental Protection Agency regulations that haven’t been finalized, which includes Clean Power Plan limiting carbon emissions, and some pending regulations associated with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. While most of the financial regulatory agencies, like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve, are technically independent, Trump will have unilateral power to appoint those agency heads. Depending on a [pending federal court appeal](http://www.squirepattonboggs.com/~/media/files/insights/publications/2016/10/another-loss-for-the-cfpb/cfpbalert.pdf), the Trump administration may also have the power to replace the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the agency created by Dodd-Frank and the brainchild of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. At the meeting Wednesday, the Madison Coalition also advocated for the passage what’s known as the [“Madison Rule,”](http://www.madisoncoalition.org) which would require that Congress approve any major new federal regulation. The Madison rule would effectively end federal agencies’ normal operations. **9\. Impose the strongest possible border control** Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives presidents near unilateral power to control the borders. It reads, “Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States” the president can keep them out for “such period as he shall deem necessary.” While the conservative coalition Wednesday talked only obliquely of closing the border and pursuing tougher national security concerns, Trump will have the power to ban immigration from any list of countries he chooses that he says pose a threat owing to “radical Islamic terrorism.” On Wednesday’s Trump’s campaign promise to impose a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was taken down from his website. **10\. Possibly pass an infrastructure bill?** Trump’s campaign promise to spend $500 billion dollars on new infrastructure has [drawn ire from Republicans](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/donald-trumps-big-spending-infrastructure-dream/494993/) worried about big government expenditures. But the conservative groups gathered Wednesday were on board with Trump’s plan. Club for Growth’s McIntosh said that conservatives are not against federal government spending on “roads and bridges” so long as it’s done right. He suggested his group would back an infrastructure bill that did not include big pork spending projects and that funneled federal money to the states, which could choose which projects to spend the money on. While it’s not clear how much of these action items the Trump administration will implement immediately, or what Trump’s top priorities will be, Reed, of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said the populist, evangelical, Tea Party wing of the Republican Party was now inarguably at the helm. “There were an awful lot of premature obtituarlites written about us,” he said with a smile. “But as Mark Twain said, ‘The reports of our death have been grateful exaggerated.’” ## Transcript [00:00] [ PEOPLE CLAPPING AND CHEERING ] USA! USA! USA! [00:17] Thank you, thank you very much So much, everyone. [00:20] [ APPLAUSE ] Sorry to keep you waiting. [00:25] Complicated business, complicated. [00:28] [ APPLAUSE ] Thank you very much. [ APPLAUSE ] [00:40] I've just received. A call from Secretary Clinton. [00:44] [ APPLAUSE ] [00:50] She congratulated us it's about us on [00:54] our victory. And I congratulated her [00:58] And her family on a very, very hard fought campaign. I [01:03] mean she fought very hard. [ APPLAUSE ] [01:10] Hillary has worked very long and very hard, [01:15] over a long period of time And we owe her a major [01:19] debt of gratitude for her service to our country. I [01:24] mean that very sincerely. [ APPLAUSE ] Now it's [01:28] time for America to bind the wounds of division, [01:32] have to get together. To all Republicans, and [01:36] Democrats, and Independents across this nation I say [01:40] it is time for us to come together as one [01:45] united people. [ APPLAUSE ] It's time. [01:49] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I [01:54] pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be [01:58] President for all Americans and this is so important [02:03] to me. For [02:08] those who have chosen not to support me in the past [02:12] of which there are a few people. I'm reaching [02:17] out to you for your guidance and your help. So that we [02:21] can work together and unify our great country [02:27] [ applause ]. As I've said from the beginning, ours [02:31] was not a campaign but rather an [02:35] incredible and great movement made up of million [02:39] [ APPLAUSE ] Of hardworking men and women who [02:43] loved their country, and want a better, brighter future [02:47] for themselves and for their family. [ APPLAUSE ] [02:53] It's a movement comprised of Americans from all [02:55] racists, religions, backgrounds, and beliefs, who want [03:00] and expect our government to serve the people. And [03:04] serve the people it will. [ APPLAUSE ] [03:11] Working together, we will begin the urgent task [03:15] of rebuilding our nation and renewing the American [03:19] dream. I've spent my entire life in business. [03:25] Looking at the un tapped potential in project, and in [03:28] people all over the world, that is now what [03:32] I wanna do for our country. [ APPLAUSE ] Tremendous [03:38] potential I have got a [ UNKNOWN ] in our country so [03:42] well, tremendous potential. It's gonna be a beautiful [03:45] thing every single america will have the opportunity [03:49] to realize his or her fullest potential to [03:54] forgot men and women of our country will be forgot [03:58] no longer. [ APPLAUSE ] [04:05] We are going to fix our inner cities and [04:09] rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, [04:12] schools, hospitals, we're gonna rebuild our [04:15] infrastructures. [ INAUDIBLE ] Which will [04:19] become By the way, second to none. [ APPLAUSE ] [04:24] And we will put millions of our people to work as we [04:28] rebuild it. [ APPLAUSE ] [04:32] We will also, finally, take care of our [04:36] great veterans. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] [04:40] You've been so loyal, and I've got the nos so many, [04:45] over this 18 months journey. The time I've spent [04:49] within during this campaign has been among my [04:53] greatest honours, [ UNKNOWN ] incredible people. [04:56] We'll embark upon a project of national growth and [05:00] renewal. I will harness the creative talents of our [05:03] people and we will call upon the best and brightest to [05:06] leverage the tremendous talent for the benefit of all. [05:10] It's gonna happen. [ APPLAUSE ] [05:14] We have a great economic plan. We will [05:18] double our growth and have the strongest economy [05:21] anywhere in the world. At the same time, we will get [05:25] along with all other nations, willing to get along with us. [05:29] [ APPLAUSE ] [05:31] We'll have great relations. We expect to have great, [05:34] great relations. No dream is too big, no challenge [05:38] is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond [05:42] our reach. America will no longer settle for anything [05:46] less than the best .>> [ APPLAUSE ] [05:51] We must reclaim. [ APPLAUSE ] Our country's destiny. [05:55] And dream big and bold and daring. We have to do [06:00] that. We are going to dream of things for our country. [06:04] And beautiful things and successful things once again. I [06:09] want to tell the world community. That while we will [06:13] always put America's interest first, we will deal fairly [06:17] with everyone, with everyone. To all people [06:22] and all other nations. We will seek common ground, [06:26] not hostility. Partnership, not conflict. And [06:30] now I'd like to take this moment to thank some [06:34] of the people who really helped me with this, what [06:38] they're calling tonight very very historic victory. [06:43] First I wanna thank my parents who I know are looking [06:46] down on me right now. [ APPLAUSE ] Great people. [06:53] I've learned so much from them, they were wonderful [06:57] in every regard. I had truly great parents. I also [07:02] wanna thank my sisters Maryanne and Elizabeth, who [07:05] here with us tonight. [ APPLAUSE ] [07:08] And where are they? They're here someplace. They're [07:12] very shy, actually. And my brother, Robert, my great [07:16] friend. Where is Robert? Where is Robert? [ APPLAUSE ] [07:20] My brother, Robert, and they should all be on this [07:24] stage but that's okay. [ APPLAUSE ] They're great [07:28] and also, my later brother, Fred. Great guy, fantastic [07:30] guy. Dad. [ APPLAUSE ] Fantastic [07:34] family. I was very lucky. Great brothers and sisters. [07:39] Great unbelievable parents. To Melania and [07:44] Don. [07:49] And Ivanka [ APPLAUSE ] And Derek. [ APPLAUSE ] [07:56] And Tiffany. [ APPLAUSE ] And Barron. [ APPLAUSE ] I [08:04] love you and I thank you. And especially for putting [08:09] up with all of those hours. This was tough We love you. [08:10] Aah! It is where's tough. It's [08:16] political staff is nasty and it's tough. So, I wanna [08:20] thank my family very much, really fantastic. Thank [08:25] you all. And Lara unbelievable job. Vanessa [08:29] thank you, thank you very much. What a great [08:33] group. You've all given me such an incredible [08:37] support and I will tell you that we have a large group of [08:41] people. You know, they kept saying we have a small [08:43] staff, not so small, look at all the people that we have. [08:46] Look at all of these people. [ APPLAUSE ] And Kelly Ann [08:48] and Chris and Rudy, [08:54] and Steve, and David, we [08:59] have got tremendously talented people up here, and I [09:02] want to tell you it's been very very special. I want to [09:06] give a very special thanks to our former Mayor Rudy [09:10] [ UNKNOWN ] [ APPLAUSE ] Unbelievable. [09:15] Unbelievable he travelled with us and he went through [09:20] meetings [ UNKNOWN ] [09:22] never changed. Where is [ UNKNOWN ]? Where is he? [09:25] [ UNKNOWN ]. [09:29] Governor Chris [ UNKNOWN ] [09:32] [ APPLAUSE ] Thank [09:37] you Chris. The first man, the first senator, the [09:41] first major major politician, let me tell you he is highly [09:45] respected in Washington because he is as smart as you [09:48] get, Senator Jeff Sessions. Where's Jeff? [ APPLAUSE ] [10:02] Great man. Another great man. Very tough competitor. [10:06] He was not easy. He was not easy. [ APPLAUSE ] [10:14] Who is that? Is that the Mayor that's here though? That [10:16] Rudy? Rudy got up here. [ APPLAUSE ] Another [10:22] great man who has been really a friend to me. But I'll [10:27] tell you, I got to know him as a competitor. Because [10:31] he was one of the folks that was negotiating to go [10:34] against those Democrats, Dr Ben Carson, where is Ben? [10:38] [ APPLAUSE ] Where is Ben? [ APPLAUSE ] [10:46] And by the way, Mike Huckabee is here, someplace, [10:48] and he is [ APPLAUSE ] This is fantastic. Mike and his [10:53] family, Sarah. Thank you very much. General [10:57] Mike Flynn. [ APPLAUSE ] Where is Mike? [11:03] And General Kellogg. We have over 200 generals [11:07] and admirals that have endorsed our campaign. And [11:10] the special people and is really an owner, we have 22 [11:14] congressional medal of owner recipients. We have just [11:17] tremendous people, a very special person who [11:21] believes me and you know i have read reports that im [11:23] not getting along with him . I never had bad second [11:27] with that He is an unbelievable star, he [11:32] is, that's right, how did you possibly guess? So let me [11:35] tell you about rights. [ APPLAUSE ] And I've said this, I [11:38] said rights and I know it, I know it, look at all these [11:42] people over there. I know it, rights is a superstar, but [11:46] I said They can't call you a superstar Rynce unless we [11:50] win. Cause you can't be called a superstar like [11:53] secretariat. If secretariat came in second, secretariat [11:58] wouldn't have that beautiful bronze bust at the [12:02] track at Belmont. I will tell you Rynce, Is really a star, [12:06] and he is the hardest working guy. [ APPLAUSE ] And in [12:08] a certain way I did this right. Come up here, where is [12:12] Ryan? [ APPLAUSE ] Get over here, Ryan. Boy, boy, [12:16] boy. [ APPLAUSE ] It's about time [12:20] you did this right. [ APPLAUSE ] My guy. Say a [12:25] few words, come here say something. [12:29] Ladies and Gentlemen the next President of the United [12:32] States, Donald Trump. [ APPLAUSE ] Thank you, [12:36] it's been an honor, God [12:40] bless, thank God. Amazing guy. [12:44] [ APPLAUSE ] Our partnership with the RNC was [12:49] so important to the success in what we've done. So, I [12:52] also have to say I've gotten to know some incredible [12:55] people, the Secret Service people. [ APPLAUSE ] [12:58] [ APPLAUSE ] They're [13:03] tough and they're smart and they're sharp and [13:08] I don't want to mess around with them, I can tell you. [13:12] And when I wanna go and wave to a big group of [13:14] people and they rip me down and put me back down [13:17] in the seat, but they are fantastic people so I want to [13:20] thank the Secret Service. [ APPLAUSE ] [13:25] [ APPLAUSE ] [13:29] And law enforcement to New York City, they're here [13:32] tonight. [ APPLAUSE ] These are spectacular [13:37] people, sometimes under appreciated, unfortunately, [13:41] but we appreciate them, we know what they go [13:44] through .>> [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] So, it's [13:48] been what they call a historic event, but [13:52] to be really historic we have to do a great job, and [13:56] I promise you that we will not let you down. We will do [13:58] a great job. [ APPLAUSE ] We will do a great job. I [14:03] look very much [ APPLAUSE ] Forward to being your [14:07] president and hopefully at the end of 2 years, or 3 [14:11] years, or 4 years, or maybe even 8 years. [14:14] [ APPLAUSE ] [14:16] You will say some of you work so hard first, but you [14:20] will say that you will say that, that was something that [14:24] you. Where it really we're very proud to do and [14:28] I can thank you very much. And I can only say that [14:34] while the campaign is over our work on this [14:38] movement is now really just beginning. [ APPLAUSE ] [14:43] We're going to get to work immediately for the [14:45] American people. [ APPLAUSE ] And we're going to be [14:49] doing a job that hopefully, you'll be so proud [14:53] of your President. You'll be so proud. Again, it's my [14:57] honor. It's an amazing evening. It's been an amazing [15:01] two year period. And I love this country. [15:05] Thank you. Thank you very much. [ APPLAUSE ] Thank [15:11] you to Mike Pence. Thank you everybody. Thank you [15:12] Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Your great. 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