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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