Donald Trump touts economic plan to slash prices and taps Elon Musk to help

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : While Harris, the Democratic candidate, has pledged to expand access to affordable housing and limit price gouging among the food sector, with a focus on the so-called care economy, Trump has made lower taxes, tariffs on imports and deregulation the cornerstone of his pitch.
50% : Trump has already announced plans for sweeping protectionist measures including a 10 per cent tariff on all imports and a more than 60 per cent levy on Chinese goods.
47% : US oil and gas production has hit record highs during Biden's presidency, although petrol prices and other energy costs are higher now than when Trump was in office.
45% : The most recent FT-Michigan Ross poll also showed that more Americans trust Harris to handle the US economy than Trump.
41% : Trump also repeated his plan to cut the corporate tax rate from 21 per cent to 15 per cent for companies that make their products domestically, while expanding tax credits for businesses focused on research and development.
39% : "Trump said he would cull at least 10 regulations for every new one created and would appoint Tesla boss Musk to helm a new efficiency commission "tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms".
23% : "She's promising communist price controls, wealth confiscation, energy annihilation, reparations, the largest tax increase ever imposed and mass amnesty and citizenship for tens of millions of migrants who will consume trillions of dollars in federal benefits and destroy social security and Medicare," Trump said.
6% : "We delivered an economic miracle, which Kamala and Joe [Biden] turned into an economic disaster," Trump said, as he blamed high inflation in recent years on Harris.Trump also vowed to deliver "energy abundance, energy independence and even energy dominance" if he wins the election by immediately declaring a national emergency to achieve a "massive increase in domestic energy supply".

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