Donald Trump and his vice president-elect, JD Vance, have said that in office they will put the working class first, vowing to protect everyday Americans from an influx of immigrant labor, to return manufacturing jobs to the U.S., to support rural areas and families with children and, generally, to stick it to the elites.

Critics reply by citing Project 2025, a potential blueprint for a right-wing presidential administration that proposes deep cuts to the social safety net for lower-income families alongside more large tax breaks for the wealthy. But Trump, despite his clear ties to its authors, has said that Project 2025 doesn’t represent him.

Still, his approach to issues affecting working-class and poor people can be found in the actions he tried to take when, the first time he was president, he had the power to make public policy.

ProPublica reviewed Trump’s proposed budgets from 2018 to 2021, as well as regulations that he attempted to enact or revise via his Cabinet agencies, to see what he might do.

Number of acres of public lands the Bureau of Land Management is on track to log during Joe Biden’s presidency, nearly the same amount as during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Along with our partners at Oregon Public Broadcasting, we reported that despite Biden's promise to protect old forests, his administration keeps approving plans to cut them down.