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Timeline and list of government responses to coronavirus https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/timeline-and-list-government-responses-coronavirus THIS WAS THE SOURCE OF THIS POST!

• President Trump declared a national emergency, inviting states, territories and tribes to access over $42 billion in existing funding. 
• Trump signed legislation securing $8.3 billion for coronavirus response. 
• President signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, ensuring that American families and businesses impacted by the virus receive the strong support they need.

• To leverage the resources of the entire government, the president created a White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate response.
• The Vice President Pence named Dr. Deborah Birx to serve as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator.
• President has held multiple teleconferences with our nation’s governors to coordinate response efforts and offer his full support.

In January, President Trump reacted quickly to implement travel restrictions on travel from China, buying U.S. valuable time to respond to the virus.

• The president has announced further travel restrictions on global hotspots, including Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland and Iran.
• Americans returning from travel-restricted countries are being routed to specific airports, where they can be screened and isolated as needed. 
• The United States reached mutual agreements with Mexico and Canada to restrict non-essential travel across the country's northern and southern borders.
• Administration announced it will expeditiously return illegal immigrants who cross between ports of entry or are otherwise not allowed to enter the country, considering the facilities in which they would be held cannot support quarantine for the time needed to assess potential cases. Administration raised travel warnings to their highest level for other hot spot locations such as Japan and South Korea.
• President has expanded airport screenings to identify travelers showing symptoms and instituted mandatory quarantines.
• State Department issued a global, level 4 travel advisory, urging Americans to avoid all international travel due to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide. 

Increasing coronavirus testing accessibility:

• The FDA issued emergency approval for new commercial coronavirus tests to significantly expand testing across the country.
• Trump secured legislation that will ensure Americans are able to be tested for free.
• Administration is working with state and local partners and the private sector to open up drive-through testing sites.
• Administration is working with the private sector to develop a website for Americans to determine whether they need a test and, if so, where to get it.
• HHS is providing funding to help accelerate the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the coronavirus.
• FDA cut red tape to expand testing availability.  
• Adm. Brett Giroir – the assistant secretary for Health and head of the Public Health Service – has been appointed to coordinate coronavirus testing efforts.
• FDA is empowering states to authorize tests developed and used by laboratories in their states.  
• Defense Department has set up 15 coronavirus testing sites worldwide.
• President signed legislation requiring more reporting from state and private labs to ensure our public health officials have the data they need to respond to this outbreak. 
• DoD and Department of Health and Human Services worked to airlift hundreds of thousands of swabs and sample test kits from Italy to the United States.

Support for affected by the pandemic:

• Small Business Administration has announced disaster loans that provide impacted businesses with up to $2 million.     
• SBA relaxed criteria for disaster assistance loans – expanding small businesses’ access to economic assistance.
• President Trump directed the Energy Department to purchase large quantities of crude oil for the strategic reserve. 
• The president has held calls and meetings with business leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, airlines, health insurers, grocery stores, retail stores, banks and more.
• Treasury Department approved the establishment of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility to provide liquidity to the financial system.
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• Timeline of Trump's executive actions since January 31, 2020:
• January 31 - President suspends entry of people into the U.S. who pose a risk of transmitting coronaviru and who previously visited China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
• February 29 - Trump suspends entry of people into the U.S. who pose a risk of transmitting coronavirus, who had visited Iran. 
• March 11 - President advocates for increase in respirator availability. 
• March 11 - Trump suspends entry into U.S. for those who pose a risk of transmitting coronavirus, who had visited the Schengen Area – 26 European states that share open borders. 
• March 13 - President declares a national emergency due to COVID-19 outbreak.
• March 13 - Trump orders states to expand diagnostic testing for COVID-19. 
• March 14 - Trump suspends immigrant entry to the U.S. for those who pose a risk of spreading COVID-19, who had visited the United Kingdom.
• March 14 - Trump announces a National Day of Prayer for Americans affected by coronavirus. 
• March 18 - Executive Order on prioritizing medical resources to prevent COVID-19 spread. 
• March 22 - Trump gives the OK for U.S. governors to use the National Guard for COVID-19 support.
• March 23 - President signs Executive Order to prevent hoarding and price gouging. 
• March 27: President signs Executive Order allowing Pentagon to activate up to 1 million retired troops. 
• March 27: Expansion of domestic production of PPE and ventilators.
• March 28: National Guard support for the Governors of the States of Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey and the territories of Guam and Puerto Rico.
• March 30: National Guard support for the Governors of the States of Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan
• April 2nd: Trump declares that supplies to make ventilators be made available to the appropriate companies.
• April 2nd: Trump authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to acquire respirators from the appropriate subsidiaries of the 3M Company.
• April 2nd: National Guard support for the Governors of the States of Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas and the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
• April 3rd: President takes measures to ensure PPE materials for American doctors remain in the United States.
• April 7th: National Guard support for the Governors of the States of Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia 

TRUMPS SOCIAL SECURITY

 Various fact check comments regarding the claims of social securities demise. 

Fact check: Biden suggests Trump could deplete Social Security by 2023. Needs context.

Biden suggested Thursday that Trump's policies could bankrupt Social Security.

The president is "the guy that the actuary of Medicare said, of Social Security, that if in fact he continues to withhold, his plan to withhold the tax on Social Security, Social Security will be bankrupt in 2023, with no way to make up for it," Biden said.

The Biden campaign has cited a letter by the Social Security Administration’s chief actuary that said that permanently eliminating all payroll taxes without a replacement would deplete the Social Security trust fund by 2023. But this is not Trump’s current position and the same letter noted that if Congress mandated the cost of the tax cuts come out of the general fund, as Trump has suggested, then benefits would be “essentially unaffected.”

But the White House quickly clarified that Trump doesn’t actually want to eliminate payroll taxes entirely, only to permanently forgive a four-month payroll tax holiday he issued via executive order during the coronavirus crisis. On Aug. 13, for example, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters: “What he was meaning yesterday is that he wants permanent forgiveness of the deferral.” 

Another important thing to keep in mind: There’s no scenario in which Trump could make any permanent changes to the tax system without the OK of Congress.

In a 1995 speech, Biden said: "When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the government. And I not only tried it once. I tried it twice. I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time." 

 FactCheck.org^® A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/bidens-false-attacks-on-trumps-social-security-plan/

A Biden campaign TV ad falsely claims that a government analysis of President Donald Trump’s “planned cuts to Social Security” shows that “if Trump gets his way, Social Security benefits will run out in just three years from now.”

White House and Trump campaign officials have said the president actually wants to forgive a four-month payroll tax holiday he authorized via executive action last month. Trump himself has said: “[W]hen I win the election, I’m going to completely and totally forgive all deferred payroll taxes without in any way, shape or form hurting Social Security. That money is going to come from the general fund.”

any permanent changes to Social Security would have to go through Congress, and the temporary payroll tax forgiveness — which Trump’s administration and campaign staff claim he really wants — would not “gut” or “wipe out” the program that pays retirement and disability benefits.

In 2019, nearly 90% of the funding for Social Security ($944.5 billion) came from a 12.4% payroll tax on income up to a certain threshold ($137,700 in 2020). That tax is split equally between employers and employees, while self-employed individuals pay the full tax.

In early August, Trump issued a memo allowing the deferral of the employee portion of the payroll tax for workers who earn less than $4,000 in taxable wages biweekly. The break from the tax goes from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, and so individuals don’t have to pay back that deferred amount next year, the memo instructed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “explore avenues, including legislation, to eliminate the obligation to pay the taxes deferred pursuant to the implementation of this memorandum.”

In a press briefing on Aug. 8, Trump said: “If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. So I’m going to make them all permanent.”

In another news conference on Aug. 10, he stated: “I signed directives to give a payroll tax holiday, with the understanding that after the election — on the assumption that it would be victorious for an administration that’s done a great job — we will be ending that tax. We’ll be terminating that tax.”

And on Aug. 12 he declared: “After I hopefully get elected, we’ll be terminating the payroll tax. So that will mean anywhere from 5,000 [dollars] to even more per family and also great for businesses and great for jobs.” He later added: “We’ll be paying into Social Security through the general fund. And it works out very nicely.”

In the Aug. 12 press conference McEnany referenced, Trump even said at one point: “When I win the election, I’m going to go completely and totally forgive all deferred payroll taxes without in any way, shape or form hurting Social Security. That money is going to come from the general fund. We’re not going to touch Social Security. I said from day one that we’re going to protect Social Security and we’re going to protect our people.”

“The President has called on Congress to make this deferral permanent,” a White House spokesperson said in an email. “If they do not, this action still effectively allows working Americans to get a sizable advance on their pay starting in a month, which is just when working Americans need it most as we are fighting to end the COVID-19 pandemic.”

President Trump and Administration officials have repeatedly said he wants to make the payroll tax cut deferral permanent to help America’s workers. The President has been clear: his payroll tax cut will have ‘zero impact’ on Social Security or the seniors that rely on the program. He supports transferring money from the government’s general coffers, protecting the program’s Trust Fund.”

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that, depending on how many employers opt to withhold payroll taxes for their eligible employees, up to $100 billion in tax payments could be delayed. (The deferral is reportedly mandatory for federal workers and members of the military who qualify.)

If Congress doesn’t agree to forgive the withheld taxes, as Trump wants, employees will be required to pay the money back in early 2021, between January and April. “Because most of these taxes would be repaid later, we estimate a deficit impact of roughly $5 billion,” CRFB said in its analysis of Trump’s executive actions.

If lawmakers do forgive the deferred payments, the money needed to make up for the lost tax revenue could either come from Social Security’s trust funds or from general revenues. The first option would speed up the insolvency of Social Security’s trust funds a bit. 

Fact check: President Trump has not said he will terminate Social Security

Camille Caldera

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/15/fact-check-donald-trump-hasnt-said-he-terminate-social-security/3343439001/ 

USA TODAY

One of the Aug. 8 executive orders instructed the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer payment of payroll taxes for employees who make less than $100,000 each year.

The deferrals, which may start Sept. 1 and extend through 2020, are intended to allow Americans to use the totality of their income amid the pandemic's hardships.

The order also instructed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to "explore avenues, including legislation, to eliminate the obligation to pay the taxes deferred" —

“If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax," Trump said, per the Washington Post. “I’m going to make them all permanent.”

"In other words, I'll extend it beyond the end of the year, and terminate the tax," he added. He reiterated his plan at a press conference on Monday.

An official from the White House told USA TODAY on Tuesday that the Social Security Trust Fund is not at risk, since payment deferral is only temporary, and at present, must be paid back early in 2021. The official confirmed, though, that the president called on Congress to make the deferral permanent, thereby eliminating the tax.

Strictly speaking, Social Security could be funded using general fund revenue or alternative revenue source, so terminating a tax and terminating a program are distinct things," he wrote in an email.

Notably, it's not within a president's power to unilaterally change tax law or re-appropriate government funds, experts told the New York Times.  

If reelected, Trump could continue to defer the payroll tax with executive orders, but he could not eliminate the payroll tax entirely or provide a new source of funding for Social Security without support from Congress.

Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, told USA TODAY that the Social Security trust fund has a surplus of $2.9 trillion – only enough to last three years without new tax revenue. **THAT IS if the eliminatation of that tax were permanent.  That can only be done with action of Congress.

But Altman admitted that the administration's actions to date "aren't going to end Social Security." 

Did Trump Vow to ‘Terminate’ Social Security?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-terminate-social-security/

• DAN MACGUILL

• PUBLISHED 10 AUGUST 2020

The president articulated several different plans for payroll taxes during a press conference at his golf club in August 2020.

On Aug. 8, Trump announced his executive actions at a press conference held at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. During the course of his remarks, Trump referred to the payroll tax deferral, saying, “In a few moments, I will sign a directive instructing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer payment of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes from September 1.”

However, the president made additional remarks that were not contained in the memorandum itself, indicating that he intended to extend that deferral beyond Dec. 31, 2020; to waive any later obligation on employees to pay the deferred contributions; and even that he planned to eliminate payroll taxes entirely. The following is an edited transcript of the relevant section of his remarks. (A full transcript of his press conference is available here, and his remarks can be viewed in full below.)

“If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. So I’m going to make them all permanent … If I win, I may extend and terminate. In other words, I’ll extend it beyond the end of the year and terminate the tax. And so, we’ll see what happens.”

An important difference exists between extending the deferral of payroll tax obligations and forgiving deferred obligations — just as a very significant difference exists between cutting payroll taxes and terminating them entirely.

However, it should not be ignored that, in the same Aug. 8 speech, Trump also articulated several other plans in relation to payroll taxes, and that at least one of those plans was mutually incompatible with “terminating the tax,” since Trump could not initiate “permanent cuts” to payroll taxes if those taxes no longer existed. As a result, we are issuing a rating of “Mixture” for this claim. 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/12/social-security-works/did-trump-say-he-will-terminate-social-security-if/

The statement has an element of truth but leaves out critical information that would give a different impression. We rate this statement Mostly False.

"Donald Trump says he will ‘terminate’ Social Security if re-elected."

• Trump has deferred about $100 billion in payroll tax payments through the end of the year. The payroll tax currently funds 90% of Social Security.
• Trump told reporters that if he wins re-election he wanted to “terminate” the program’s primary funding source. He can’t do that on his own.

Trump did use the word "terminate" when speaking about the payroll tax that funds Social Security, but his actual memo only pauses the tax for some employees for a few months. Trump hasn’t said he would end Social Security payments, but he has made comments that many have interpreted as him wanting to eliminate the payroll tax entirely. 

defer the withholding of the payroll tax on wages paid between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31. Each paycheck, employees see 6.2% of their wages go to Washington to help fund Social Security, while employers pay the same amount.

By one estimate, the tax holiday would initially save taxpayers, or alternatively cost the Social Security Trust Fund, $100 billion.   **THAT WOULD EFFECTIVLY GET PUMPED INTO THE ECONOMY AND JOB GROWTH

Employees could be asked to pay the money back, though Trump has said he hopes to forgive the payments all together. 

If the money isn’t paid back, Congress will need to find different funding to support Social Security, as it did during the Obama years. Or the Social Security trust funds end up running dry sooner than expected.

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If recollection serves me well, somewhere in this foggy old memory are tales of the Nazi government changing history, removing literature, confiscating weapons, and branding dissenters as non-patriots.

HOW COULD HE???

 

 

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What has PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished.....

FOR MINORITIES:·       

• 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.
• ·        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.
• 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.
•  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.
•     Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
• Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
• Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data. African-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low. (pre-COVID)
• Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low.(pre-COVID)
• Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.(pre-COVID)
• Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.(pre-COVID)

OUR GOVERNMENT:

• 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

 

 

FOR MILITARY:

• Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
• Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
•  ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.

FOR VA:

•  He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
• Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
•  Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act.
• Expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
• 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

·       LAW AND ORDER:

•   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. 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.
•          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. 

FOR ECONOMY:

•        Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
•      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.
•        New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago. Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high.
•        More than 7 million jobs created since election.
•       Stock Market has reached record highs.
•     Median household income has hit the highest level ever recorded.
•       We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
•     The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in more Americans being employed than ever recorded before in our history.
•      More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
•        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.
•        The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment

FOR MEDICAL:

•       Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
•        Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
•         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 less 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.
•        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.
•         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. 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.
•        Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.

FOR EDUCATION:

·       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

·       $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
* Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.

FOR MID-EAST INVOLVEMENT:

·       Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed. ISIS leader

·       Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed. 

FOR ENVIRONMENT:

•        Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
•        Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
•        Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
•        Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.

FOR SENIORS:

•        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.       

FOR ENERGY:

•  Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
• U.S. oil production recently reached 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.

FOR LGBT:

•        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.

FOR BUSINESS:

•        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.
•        Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
•        Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
•        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. 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
•        Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
•         As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
• .       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

FOR CORONA:

FOR PRISON REFORM:

•        In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which 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’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.
•     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

INTERNATIONAL:

•        Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
•        Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
•        Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
•        NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
•        Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017.
•        The U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions

FOR WOMEN:

• Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms. 

IN GENERAL:

•        Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
•        Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
•        Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
•        President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions. Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
•        Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
•        Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
•         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 Employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
•         Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
•         Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
•         Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
•     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.
•        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 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