section_path: Second presidency (2025–present)/Domestic policy, 2025–present
section_name: Domestic policy, 2025–present
paragraph_text: Domestic policy, 2025–present
  
  Trump inherited a resilient economy from the Biden administration, with increasing economic growth, low unemployment, and declining inflation. His announcement of global tariffs on imports in April 2025 triggered a stock market crash.
  
  Trump canceled and paused federal grants and made large cuts to scientific research. He appointed oil, gas, and chemical lobbyists to the EPA to reverse climate regulations and pollution controls. He declared a national energy emergency, allowing the suspension of environmental regulations, loosening the rules for fossil fuel extraction and limiting renewable energy projects. He initiated a review of the "legality and continued applicability" of the EPA endangerment finding, which is the basis of most federal regulations on greenhouse gases, and again withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
  
  Slashing the government's ability to address public corruption, Trump disbanded the Public Integrity Section and fired more than twelve inspectors general government-wide. By executive order, he halted enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He pardoned or dropped charges against officials accused of corruption.
  
  Trump attributed societal problems to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and wokeness. Equating diversity with incompetence, he reversed pro-diversity policies in the federal government. His administration aggressively moved against the rights of transgender people and what it termed " gender ideology ". He sought to remake civil society to his preferences by executive order. On DEI and antisemitism grounds, he threatened cultural institutions and sixty universities, and forced law firms to capitulate to his political agenda.