This article encompasses the domestic policy of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States.

Background Prospective policies for Trump's second presidency were proposed in Agenda 47, a collection of his formal policy plans.

Agriculture

Artificial Intelligence

As AI software began to mature across various domains in the 2020s, the second Trump administration has repeatedly called for backing AI as both a priority from a economic standpoint and for national security. The administration often framed the issue with "staying ahead of China on AI" as part of a broader narrative around avoiding decline in a time of increasing authoritarianism abroad and growing sentiment of nativism at home. Polls surrounding AI have been mixed, data centers being the flashpoint issue within the broader discussion. With data centers, the concerns are broad and include environmental destruction, groundwater contamination and increased noise pollution in adjacent residential areas. The administration's energy policy and environmental policies have been predominantly pro business and therefore pro-AI. In the environmental domain, the administration has reduced inspections, regulations, and have slashed approval times in order to spur as much data center construction as possible. With Moore's Law at play on the computing side of the issue, AI industry backers say the infrastructure must be built domestically to prevent data security and blackout issues. The administration has shown a greater level of integration with the industry, often blurring the line and releasing websites featuring a heavy amount of AI chatbot use.

Criminal justice and law enforcement

Trump entered office following 2024's 50-year record-low level of violent crime. The Associated Press reported that despite historic drops in crime, many voters felt unsafe due to "misleading campaign rhetoric". Upon taking office, Trump signed Executive Order 14164 promoting capital punishment; the order instructed the Justice Department to resume and pursue executions at the federal level, to challenge Supreme Court precedent restricting the use of the death penalty, and to supply lethal injection drugs to states that retained the death penalty. As part of the Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, Trump rescinded Executive Order 14006 (Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities). The Justice Department put a freeze on civil rights cases and signaled it would roll back consent agreements with police departments two days after Trump took office. The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (which kept disciplinary records of federal law enforcement officers) was deactivated in January 2025; it was proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden in 2023. Trump also eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which had been created by the Biden administration and cut federal funding for gun violence prevention. Separately, Elon Musk's private bodyguards were assigned as special deputies by the United States Marshals Service in February 2025. In February 2025, the administration shut down Task Force KleptoCapture.

The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division moved to dismiss lawsuit against the Louisville and Minneapolis police departments. The division also worked to close investigations into, and retract findings of constitutional violations on the part of the police departments of Phoenix, Trenton, Memphis, Mount Vernon, Oklahoma City, and the Louisiana State Police.

The administration charged Mayor Ras Baraka and Representative LaMonica McIver over the Newark immigration detention center incident.

In July 2025, the DOJ sought a 1-day sentence for Brett Hankison.

In August 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14342 which orders the Attorney General to submit a list of jurisdictions that have "eliminated cash bail as a potential condition of pretrial release from custody for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism" and that the head of each executive department and agency, shall identify Federal funds provided to these jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated. Executive Order 14339 orders the Secretary of Defense to ensure "each State's Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order" and "ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment".

Speaking about the killing of Iryna Zarutska on September 8, 2025, Trump called the attacker "a madman" and "a lunatic". He continued by blaming local officials in places like Chicago for failing to stop crime and denounced cashless bail.

The Justice Department reportedly shut down an investigation into Tom Homan accepting $50,000.

The Federal Communications Commission raised that cap that inmates can be charged for phone calls and proposed empowering local and state correctional authorities to jam signals from contraband devices.

Following the killing of Alex Pretti, the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Puppet Master and Project Whipple Shield, two surveillance operations targeting progressive organizations, labor unions, and other groups opposed to the Trump administration's immigration policy. Undercover agents infiltrated protest group chats and attempted to entice people into discussing or committing crimes. Agents also infiltrated community meetings held in churches, schools and parks and tracked license plate numbers to compile names of people who attended gatherings. Agents used facial recognition software Clearview AI to compile photo dossiers of activists. DHS agents also filed subpoenas to obtain the financial records of multiple organizations. Organizations targeted include the AFL-CIO, Sunrise Movement, Service Employees International Union, Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, Democratic Socialists of America, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Minnesota 50501, and Communications Workers of America. The New York Times noted that the operations were reminiscent of COINTELPRO.

The Justice Department lost thousands of lawyers including, according to Todd Blanche, all employees who investigated Donald Trump. The actions of the administration, described as a pattern of defiance of lower court orders, led judges to question the presumption of regularity. Through the shadow docket, the Roberts Court commonly removed lower court rulings against the administration. The Associated Press wrote that "Critics say those decisions are emboldening the administration to ignore judges' orders."

The Justice Department sought the death penalty against at least 42 defendants, more than in Trump's first term, and the army planned to conduct executions if Trump ordered such action.

Domestic military deployments

Opioid epidemic

On July 16, 2025, Trump officially signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, which will make it easier to prosecute and incarcerate fentanyl traffickers.

A Drug Enforcement Administration sweep in August 2025 arrested about 600 people nationally, including 171 in New England that the DEA claimed were "high-level" members of the Sinaloa Cartel without releasing any names or evidence. A Boston Globe Spotlight investigation could only find mention of the cartel in court documents for two arrestees, and found that most arrestees were drug users and not dealers. Some were immediately released with no charges filed. Several interviewed defendants said the government had never asked them about the Sinaloa Cartel and complained the public relations effort was putting them in danger by falsely associating them with it.

Presidential pardons and commutations

Human trafficking

Federal initiatives for fighting human trafficking were drastically rolled back across a number of departments, according to an investigation by The Guardian. The State Department cut more than 70% of its human trafficking workforce. At the Department of Homeland Security, agents were shifted from focus on human trafficking to deporting immigrants. The administration delayed the release of its annual report on human trafficking. The Department of Justice cut funding for law enforcement investigations of sex crimes against children and canceled the 2025 National Law Enforcement Training on Child Exploitation. Meetings were halted which had been regularly held between Internet Crimes against Children taskforces, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and tech companies.

Demographics and discrimination

Trump attributed societal problems to diversity, equity, and inclusion and wokeness. Equating diversity with incompetence, he reversed pro-diversity policies in the federal government, and downsized divisions working on civil rights. He displayed hostility towards and rolled back enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and reoriented civil rights protections and affirmative action to protect white men to combat alleged "anti-white racism", previously stating during his campaign that there was "a definite anti-white feeling in this country." He reoriented remaining civil rights divisions to target state and local officials, companies, and colleges for "illegal DEI", which became a buzzword in his administration. Trump's firings of senior military officers were disproportionately women, and as part of Trump's efforts to root out "DEI" initiatives in the federal government, agencies with the highest planned workforce reductions and dismissals were also those with the highest percentages of women, minority, and Black employees. His policies were described as politics of "white grievance" and resulting from backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd protests, and attempting to purge American culture of anything deemed "woke" or promoting diversity. His administration launched worldwide investigations into companies, cities, and institutions for alleged "DEI" programs. Based on claims of DEI overreach and Antisemitism, Trump threatened cultural institutions and sixty universities, and forced law firms to capitulate to his political agenda.

In response to anti-DEI executive actions and against what the administration called "improper ideology", numerous agencies and websites altered or removed material related to women, racial minorities, and transgender individuals. The National Park Service removed mentions of transgender individuals from its website on the Stonewall riots, changed "LGBT" to "LGB", and removed the word "queer". The National Cryptologic Museum papered over portraits of women and racial minorities in their Hall of Honor, including those of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, Washington Wong, and Ralph W. Adams Jr. The portraits were restored after news of the actions began circulating online. Pictures that celebrated women in science were removed from NASA buildings. Some removed content deemed "DEI" relating to Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Enola Gay, and the Navajo Code Talkers were later restored.

The Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions rescinded Executive Order 13985, 13988 and 14020.

LGBTQ rights