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* Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives
compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-
1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives
federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in
Montana.
* Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military
branch.
* Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so
that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
* Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising
during the 2 years before he was elected.
* Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
* Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure
problem in Flint, Michigan.
* Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and
Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
* Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that
prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
* Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex
Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex
Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and
victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
* Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for
breastfeeding Moms.
* The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in
November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the
country's highest-paid workers.
* Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and
from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
* Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection and conservation bill
in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
* Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per
year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
* He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada
so that prescription prices would go down.
* Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare
providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can
comparison shop and know how much fewer providers charge
insurance companies.
* When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by
bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
* Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for
services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to
accept.
* In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration,
prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year.
Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine
of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
* He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and
principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of
veterans.
* VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance,
with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and
suspended so far.
* Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense,
Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to
provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they
transition to civilian life.
* Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most
federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% —
the largest raise in more than 10 years.
* Trump signed into law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for
millions of federal workers.
* Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to
200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
* All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
* Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together
when buying insurance to get a better price
* President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that
provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to
better understand maternal complications and identify solutions &
largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black
Americans.
* In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act,
a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice
system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
* The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing
laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed
mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
* The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in the sentencing of
non-violent crimes.
* Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing
reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
* The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates,
helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
* Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
* Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that
threatened HBCUs.
* New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019
compared to just one year ago.
* Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director
of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
* Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black
college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
* The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump
administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
* Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have
reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
* President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments,
expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness,
and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water, Conservation
Fund.
* Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water
infrastructure.
* Consumer confidence and small business confidence is at an all-time
high.
* More than 7 million jobs created since the election.
* More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our
history.
* More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
* Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
* Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany,
to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the
globe.
* Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam)
initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of
human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged
by 75% in ACTeam districts.
* In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization
that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related
advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
* Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for
government procurement officials to more effectively combat human
trafficking.
* Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland
Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with
Human Trafficking.
* Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided
funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify
perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
* The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
* Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human
trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to
June 30, 2018.
* The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim
assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
* President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice
legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of
his or her zip code.
* The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that
increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
* The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school
choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for
elementary and secondary education.
* Under his leadership, ISIS has lost most of its territory and been
largely dismantled.
* ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
* Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing
more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career
education programs.
* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for
students and workers.
* Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government
from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of
faith.
* Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold
money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail
to combat anti-Semitism.
* President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to
international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
* Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have
killed their citizens.
* Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
* Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy
exports to Europe.
* Withdrew the U.S. from the job-killing TPP deal.
* Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and
$12 billion in Vietnam.
* Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade
retaliation.
* Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama
could not get freed.
* Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to
copyright law in decades.
* Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our
southern border.
* The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to
give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find
meaningful employment.
* Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to
Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former
prisoners.
* President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new
Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income
communities across the country.
* 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as
Opportunity Zones.
* Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term
private capital investment in economically distressed communities
across the country.
* Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
* Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
* Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran
suicide.
* Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from
overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
* Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30
years.
* Stock Market has reached record highs.
* Median household income has hit the highest level ever recorded.
* African-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
* Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
* Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
* Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.
* Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
* We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
* The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers
committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
* 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—
the highest ever.
* As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the
lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
* Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
* Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have
children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
* Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than
ever before in history.
* Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging
low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions
of $$$ this year alone.
* Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try
an experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
* Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
* Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA
telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and
mental health care.
* U.S. oil production recently reached an all-time high so we are less
dependent on oil from the Middle East.
* The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
* NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his
pressure campaign.
* Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord
in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the
largest reduction in carbon emissions.
* Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than
any other new administration.
* Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh
confirmed.
* Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
* Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase
jobs here and $$$ coming in.
* Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S.
exports.
* Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology
transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade
practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
* Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
* Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever
into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve
treatments.
* The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the
maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted
the income limits so more people could claim it.
* It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
* In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding
increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total
of $8.1 billion to states to fund child care for low-income families.
* The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law
by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care
expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending
Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to
use for child care.
* In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration,
Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into
law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to
help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
* In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages
providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific
research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion
in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus
funding EVER.
* Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two
Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades
called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal
Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s the law, the TRACED Act will
extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who
intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires
voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are
legitimate before they reach your phone.
* US stock market continually hits all-time record highs.
* 9-15-20 Israel recognized by Bahrain and UAE – brokered
normalization deals - signed peace accord
* Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment
charges. How would you react to this constant abuse?
Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed
in one place, here it is. (No links provided to remove bias as Google
search is easy.)!
