There seems to be an infinite number of issues President Donald Trump and his liberal opposition vehemently disagree on.
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5 things Trump is doing that liberals probably actually like
There are a handful of policies the new administration is championing that liberals can get behind.
Donald Trump signing an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
But there are a handful of policies the new administration is championing that liberals can get behind, including large-scale infrastructure investment and paid family leave.
Here are five things Trump is doing that "the resistance" may actually be in favor of.
Scrapping the TPP
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President Donald Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to withdraw from
A $1 trillion infrastructure plan
In another break from Republican orthodoxy, Trump campaigned on the promise to invest billions of federal dollars in national infrastructure.
Protecting Social Security and Medicare
Guaranteed paid leave
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The U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world to not guarantee any kind of paid family leave on the federal level.
Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence, have long fought all kinds of Democratic paid leave proposals. In a break from his party, Trump proposed six weeks of guaranteed paid maternity leave for biological mothers on the campaign trail. Ivanka Trump, a self-proclaimed champion of women's empowerment, has been credited with helping craft the policy.
During his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, Trump confirmed his commitment to paid leave, but seemingly tweaked it by using the phrase "new parents," rather than "mothers."
Laws to encourage women in STEM
Early this month, Trump signed two bills aimed at promoting women in science.
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One measure — called INSPIRE — directs NASA
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