Changes were made in the social field, such as the completion and inauguration of part of the São Francisco River transposition project, the reform of high school education and the establishment of the National Common Curriculum Base.

[27] Although he didn't want his government to be represented by a parliamentarian close to Eduardo Cunha, Temer eventually gave in to pressure from known as the Centrão – a bloc of 225 MPs from different parties, whose support was needed to pass important amendments, such as the pension reform.

On 18 May, he appointed André Moura, a PSC deputy from Sergipe, who was involved in six inquiries at the Supreme Court – with charges ranging from embezzlement to murder – and in the Car Wash investigations, for active and passive corruption and gang formation, to the leadership of the government in the Chamber.

Minister of Foreign Affairs José Serra's decision to grant a diplomatic passport to Assembly of God pastor Samuel Pereira, who was also accused in the Car Wash operation, was condemned by parliamentarians, including PCdoB leader Daniel Almeida (BA).

[32] In a ceremony held at the Planalto Palace on 24 August, Temer defended the planned labour reform and said that its objective was not to remove rights, but to maintain jobs, because nothing hurts human dignity more than unemployment.

[48][49] At the beginning of his term, Temer announced the direction of his government's economic policy, which was based on the guidelines set out in the document Uma Ponte Para O Futuro, drawn up by the Ulysses Guimarães Foundation.

"The rapid appreciation observed in recent weeks is functional for the fall in inflation, but it should once again put domestic industry in check, making it difficult to reverse high unemployment," said the eighteen members of the organization.

Another way to reduce the debt would be to collect the resources of the so-called Sovereign Fund, estimated at 2 billion reais, which were conceived as a destination for pre-salt revenues, with the aim of relieving public accounts in times of crisis.

According to Henrique Meirelles, the Union agreed to give the states a larger share of the funds collected from the so-called repatriation, a programme that provided incentives for Brazilians to regularize assets held abroad that had not been declared to the Internal Revenue Service.

The proposal was sent by the president to Congress in June and was considered by the government to be essential for rebalancing public accounts, alongside the pension reform, while the opposition argued that the measure would freeze investment in health and education.

[74] On 6 July, after a meeting with Temer and the economic team, the senator and rapporteur of the budget guidelines law, Wellington Fagundes, said that the revenue forecast would be raised by increasing CIDE taxes (on fuel) and with resources from concessions and privatizations.

[80] On 16 February 2017, when Temer sanctioned the high school reform law, he declared in his speech at the Planalto Palace that the new model was only possible thanks to the government's boldness in facing up to the controversy surrounding issues that are relevant to the country.

[84] On 26 July, Dyogo Oliveira, Minister of Planning, Budget and Management, said that the government would prepare a list of infrastructure projects under the Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC) that it considered a priority for public investment.

The Minister of Planning, Dyogo Oliveira, denied that the government's recent permission for workers to withdraw amounts from inactive FGTS accounts would reduce the volume of resources from the fund earmarked for housing finance.

[100] On 17 February 2018, alongside the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezão, and the city's mayor, Marcelo Crivella, Temer announced at a meeting the creation of the Extraordinary Ministry of Public Security, headed by until then defence minister Raul Jungmann.

The plan included the hiring of 80,000 people with complete high school education and a cost of R$2 billion a year, with the goal of providing assistance to children up to the age of three, covering a period considered vital for cognitive development.

Negotiations between companies and workers now take precedence over the law on certain items, such as split holidays, flexible working hours, employee profit-sharing, lunch breaks, job and salary plans and time banking.

In a statement released on 9 June by Serra, the Brazilian government said that the decision did not expressly refer to the Jewish people's historical ties with Jerusalem, particularly the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine, which was considered "an error that makes the text partial and unbalanced".

In March, the then Minister of Justice Eugênio Aragão visited the German ambassador in Brazil to discuss the reception of Syrians and told journalists that the country could take in around 100,000 refugees over the next five years, with the backing of Rousseff.

However, interim president Temer summoned ministers and the Federal Police to a meeting on the subject, defining the strategy as an attempt to curb the entry of weapons and drugs and combat violence within the country.

[135] Days later, she once again considered the determination to obstruct Operation Car Wash, as well as the intention to set in motion an ultra-liberal policy in economics and conservative in everything else, as the real causes of the impeachment, and said that the Temer government was completely submissive to Eduardo Cunha, who allegedly demanded the appointment of his lawyer, Alexandre de Moraes, as justice minister.

[139][140] On 19 November 2016, then-Minister Geddel Vieira Lima, of the Secretariat of Government, was accused by former culture minister Marcelo Calero, in an interview with Folha de S.Paulo, of pressuring him to review a decision by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) that prevented the construction of a real estate development where he had bought an apartment.

The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office claimed that Geddel acted to avoid possible plea bargains from former president of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha and businessman Lúcio Funaro, both imprisoned by Operation Car Wash and also investigated in Cui Bono.

In the same recording, made by businessman Joesley Batista in March 2017, Temer appoints deputy Rodrigo Rocha Loures to resolve matters at J&F, a holding company that controls the JBS meatpacker.

The detentions took place at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Republic, Raquel Dodge, as part of Operation Skala, launched on the same day by the Federal Police in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The operation was authorized by Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), who is investigating whether Temer, through a decree, benefited companies in the port sector in exchange for allegedly receiving bribes.

The information was published on 27 April by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, which also stated that, in addition to laundering money from construction projects, Michel Temer had concealed real estate transactions on behalf of third parties.

According to the magazine, in 2010, Michel Temer received Márcio Faria da Silva, one of the main executives of the construction company Odebrecht, at his political office in São Paulo, for a conversation which was also attended by Eduardo Cunha and the lobbyist João Augusto Henriques, a collector of bribes for the PMDB within Petrobras.

Temer justified the measure on the grounds of the seriousness of the moment and the need to react firmly to defeat organized crime; the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezão, agreed with the procedure.

[204][205] On 17 May, during the Cannes Film Festival in France, members of the Aquarius team, including director Kleber Mendonça Filho and actress Sônia Braga, displayed placards protesting against Dilma's impeachment.