Wednesday, September 30, 2020

What have PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished, you ask?

Here you go!


* 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.)!




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