A Policy Agenda for the Trump Administration

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Now that the election is over, the real campaign begins. We start by looking at policy changes to recommend to a new Administration.

We invite Solari subscribers to post your ideas and comments below. This is a work in progress; we will keep updating it as the discussion continues through the transition.

Administration Integrity and Transparency:

Staff top 1,000 jobs with people with a record of actively supporting the U.S. Constitution and not working for companies or having significant investments in enterprises with a record of lawbreaking and poisoning Americans.
Staff federal agencies such that citizens can speak directly to agency staff to address problems.
Comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Require strict conflict-of-interest policies and public disclosure of conflicts of interest, including all foreign citizenship/passports.

Federal Budget and Financial Management:

Identify where the $21 trillion ($65,000 per person) missing from the U.S. government (as of FY 2015) went and get it back.
Publish clean agency financial statements since FY 1996.
Publish place-based financial statements on an ongoing basis.
Comply with federal financial management laws, including audited financial statements.
Make appropriations contingent on compliance with financial management laws.
Meaningfully enforce the 1990 Federal Credit Reform Act.
Publish all agency contract budgets and scopes of work; make contractors subject to FOIA.
End contracting with companies with a demonstrated and meaningful criminal record.
Retract the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board’s Standard 56 (FASAB 56).
Audit the Fed and the New York Fed (NY Fed) role as depository of the U.S. government; require significantly increased transparency of Fed operations, including NY Fed management of the Exchange Stabilization Fund, and Fed and NY Fed transactions with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the World Bank, the IMF, and other international organizations that enjoy sovereign immunity.
Audit international slush funds, such as the Climate Change Fund.
Reverse executive orders and administrative policies that would encourage all-digital monetary and payment systems; encourage the continued use of cash and checks.

Financial Freedom and Privacy Protections:

Stop policies pertaining to any type of digital ID, including the REAL ID and related agency requirements for the REAL ID, as well as biometric surveillance.
Do not make federal benefits dependent on REAL or other IDs; permit paper filing of taxes.
Maintain physical offices, documents, and staff to support citizen needs in person.
Disclose, review, and revise sovereign immunity protections and liability relief offered to corporations and international organizations.

Constitutional Protections:

Stop all pressure for private media and social media to weaken First Amendment protections.
Stop federal “bully pulpit” attacks on the Second Amendment.
Significantly reduce emergency powers and PATRIOT Act and National Security Agency (NSA) overreach.

Border:

Close the border—legal immigration only. Do not require biometric surveillance or digital IDs of U.S. citizens.

Participation in International Organizations and Treaties:

Leave and stop funding the World Health Organization (WHO), and stop funding other international organizations with similar objectives (e.g., Gavi).
Leave and stop funding the Paris Agreement.
Leave multiple UN programs, including One Health.

Genocide and War:

End the Gaza genocide.
End the Ukraine war.

Food and Health:

Halt “revolving door” appointments to key leadership positions at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and others.
Require strict regulation and labeling, including warning labels on “pharma food” (e.g., cultured or lab-grown “meat”).
Provide strong administration support for repeal of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (the “1986 Act”).
Stop regulations (coming in November 2024) for electronic tagging of cattle and bison.

Things for the Trump Administration to Ask Congress to Do:

Repeal the FinCEN filing requirement for businesses immediately.
Starting January 1, 2025, all businesses, including small businesses, must file beneficial ownership information with the federal Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Most business owners are not aware of this. Noncompliance is a felony, according to the FinCEN website, and each day of noncompliance constitutes a separate violation. Thus, business owners face both civil penalties of up to $5,000 per day and up to five years in prison, simply for doing business in the United States. This will quickly force many small businesses into bankruptcy and have a chilling effect on anyone considering starting their own business. New businesses are required to file this information since January 1, 2024. Both filing requirements and the penalties for not filing should immediately be repealed retroactively in order not to stifle entrepreneurship in America.
Make research and development (R&D) costs once again tax-deductible in the year they occur.
Since 2022, R&D costs, including labor, are no longer tax-deductible in the year they occur. Instead, they now have to be amortized over a five-year period (15 years for foreign research). This makes R&D unaffordable for many startups and incentivizes innovative businesses to move abroad. To maintain America’s competitiveness, this should be repealed immediately.
Repeal the National Firearms Act (NFA) and the Gun Control Act (GCA).
Both laws are irreconcilable with the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act (18 U.S.C. § 922(q)).
The GFSZA is unconstitutional. It is in direct violation of both the Second and Tenth Amendments. In practical application, it also deprives people who live within 1,000 feet of a school, as well as their guests, of their Second Amendment rights, and it makes schools a prime target for mass shooters. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the original GFSZA as unconstitutional. Congress then passed it again, this time limiting it to firearms which affect, or at some point have been in, interstate commerce, in an attempt to pretend that the new act fits into the enumerated powers of Congress.
Allow carrying in federal buildings, including post offices.
Nearly all (97.8%) of mass shootings occur in so-called gun-free zones.
Remove restrictions on possession and carry of firearms (including rifles, magazines of any size, etc.) and pepper spray, mace, or stun guns in the District of Columbia.
Crime is out of control in D.C., and law-abiding citizens are helpless.
Pass federal reciprocity.
Art IV § 1 of the Constitution for the United States explicitly states: “Full faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.” Hence, recognizing by means of a federal law that the carry permit from one state has to be acknowledged by every other state is explicitly permitted and even expected by the U.S. Constitution. Because many states violate Art IV § 1 with regard to carry permits from other states, though, passing a federal law explicitly requiring states to acknowledge other states’ permits is warranted.
End double-taxation of American citizens abroad.
The U.S. and Eritrea are the only two countries on the planet in which taxation is based on citizenship rather than residence and source of income. The filing requirements are a bureaucratic nightmare.