Donald Trump is the Lincoln of our lifetime! Yet many remain unaware, just how hard he has worked for our nation, and the extent of his accomplishments, which vividly demonstrate, an unyielding commitment to America. The Truth must be shared, to preserve our freedoms, and ensure our nation’s survival!
Here are more than 300 of President Trump’s significant accomplishments, across the following 15 categories, for you to SHARE:
ECONOMY
LAW AND JUSTICE
MILITARY AND VETERANS
HEALTH CARE
EDUCATION
FOREIGN POLICY
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
AGRICULTURE
ENVIRONMENT
IMMIGRATION
HISPANIC AMERICANS
BLACK AMERICANS
WOMEN’S RIGHTS
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
AMERICA FIRST
🇺🇸 President Trump’s leadership, enacted historic tax cuts and relief for hard-working Americans. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was the first major tax reform signed in 30 years.
🇺🇸 As a result of the historic tax cuts, nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones were created in all 50 states, DC, and 5 territories.
🇺🇸 Opportunity Zones spurred $100 billion in private capital investment, and positively impacted nearly 35 million Americans.
🇺🇸 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, increased the Child Tax Credit by 100%, keeping more money in the pockets of hardworking families through the following: 1) Doubled the Child Tax Credit, providing an additional $1,000 per child in tax relief for working parents; 2) Doubled the standard deduction, a change that simplified the tax filing process for millions of Americans; 3) Cut taxes for small business by 20%, providing $415 billion in tax relief for small business owners; 4) Alleviated the tax burden for many companies, who used those savings to fund bonuses and wage increases for 4.8 million Americans; 5) Spurred businesses to invest $482 billion into new American projects; and 6) Made U.S. companies competitive on the world stage, lowering the corporate tax rate from one of the highest in the industrialized world (35%) to 21%.
🇺🇸 President Trump fulfilled his promise, that no cuts would be made to Social Security and Medicare benefits.
🇺🇸 New home sales jumped to an annual rate of 764,000 units, under President Trump’s economy, the highest level since July of 2007.
🇺🇸The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit record highs over 100 times under President Trump.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, establishing the National Council For The American Worker.
🇺🇸 More than 300 companies and associations of all size and industry, signed the Administration’s Pledge to America’s Workers, promising to create more than 14 million education, training, and skill-building opportunities over 5 years.
🇺🇸 The unemployment rate just prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, was 3.5%, a 50-year low.
🇺🇸 December 2019 marked the 22nd consecutive month that the unemployment rate was at or below 4%.
🇺🇸 December 2019 also marked the 22nd consecutive month wage growth remained almost at or above 3%.
🇺🇸 During the Trump Administration, prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, record low unemployment was achieved for African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and women.
🇺🇸 In December of 2019, unemployment was as follows: African American unemployment was at 5.9%; Hispanic American unemployment was at a near record low of 4.2%; Asian American unemployment was at a near record low of 2.5%; adult women’s unemployment rate hit 3.2%, the lowest since 1953.
🇺🇸 By August of 2019, real income per household had increased by $5,205 since 2017, and was growing at nearly twice the average annual rate, than during the previous administration.
🇺🇸 As of December 2019, 2.4 million Americans had been lifted out of poverty, since President Trump took office.
🇺🇸 By October of 2019, unemployment for Americans without a high school diploma, was at the lowest rate ever recorded.
🇺🇸 7.3 million jobs were created during the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
🇺🇸 In 2019, 1.5 million jobs were added for women. accounting for more than 50% of total job gains, for the first time ever.
🇺🇸 By November of 2019, a record 158.5 Million Americans were employed.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, there were a record number of job openings, and July 2019 marked the 17th consecutive month, with more job openings than unemployed workers looking for work.
🇺🇸 Over 500,000 manufacturing jobs were created in the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, that reduced the time it took to approve infrastructure projects, from 10 years to 2 years.
🇺🇸 7 million people came off of food stamps, during the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency.
🇺🇸 In February of 2020, Gallup polls found that: 1) Satisfaction with the state of the nation reached a 15-year high; 2) President Trump’s elevated job approval rating reached 49%, an all-time high; 3) 62% of Americans gave President Trump credit for the economic improvements in the United States; 4) Nearly 60% of Americans said they were better off financially than the previous year.
🇺🇸 In February of 2020, Rasmussen polling found that 46% of Americans, believed the United States was headed in the right direction, nearly doubling the number who thought so in 2016.
🇺🇸 President Trump developed cost-deducing approaches to Federal Sector Collective Bargaining.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an executive order, to ensure transparency, accountability, and efficiency, in taxpayer-funded union time use (E.O. 13837).
🇺🇸 President Trump reported to congress, 38 rescissions of budget authority, totaling $15.4 billion of unused appropriations.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed 15 Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions into law, focused on rolling back regulations. This is more than any other president. Since the CRA became law in 1996, only one CRA Resolution had ever been signed previously.
🇺🇸 According to a study by NERA Economic Consulting, implementing the previous Administration’s plan under the Paris Climate Agreement, would have cost the United States economy nearly $3 trillion and 6.5 million industrial sector jobs by 2040.
🇺🇸 More than 860 regulatory actions were withdrawn or removed from active status during the Trump Administration.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration formed the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation, which aimed to better align state and Federal efforts, to cut additional unnecessary regulations and costs.
🇺🇸 President Trump rolled back unnecessary job-killing regulations at a historic pace. President Trump signed an Executive Order, mandating that two regulations must be eliminated, for every regulation created, in order to reduce compliance costs.
🇺🇸 In Fiscal Year 2017, the Administration saved $8.1 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings, equivalent to $570 million per year.
🇺🇸 Regulatory costs were slashed by nearly $50 billion, saving taxpayers $220 billion.
🇺🇸 President Trump created the Office of American Innovation, whose purpose was to make recommendations to the President, on policies and plans that improve Government operations and services, improve the quality of life for Americans now and in the future, and spur job creation.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the STOP School Violence and Fix NICS Acts, which appropriated more than $2.3 billion in new funding, to ensure effective mental health, training, and school safety programs, in an effort to eliminate tragic incidents of gun violence in schools. The legislation invested in early intervention and prevention programs, to stop school violence before it happens. It authorized the Department of Justice, to make grants to states, for purposes of training students, school personnel, and law enforcement, to proactively identify signs of violence, and intervene, to prevent people from harming themselves or others.
🇺🇸 The Fix NICS act also strengthened the background check system, to ensure guns were kept out of the hands of criminals.
🇺🇸 In June of 2017, The Trump Administration announced the creation of the new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities, to reduce violent crime.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration expanded Project Safe Neighborhoods, to encourage U.S. Attorneys, to work with communities, to develop customized crime reduction strategies.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology Act (INTERDICT Act). This Act gave customs agents an additional $9 million for screening tools at the border.
🇺🇸 Prosecutors were directed by the Department of Justice, to focus on taking illegal guns off our streets. As a result, criminals charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, increased by 23%.
🇺🇸 In 2018 alone, President Trump’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, dismantled nearly 3,000 drug trafficking organizations, removed $16.5 billion in drugs, and over 21,000 firearms, from communities across the nation.
🇺🇸 In 2020, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), announced it would disburse more than $266 million (largest-ever annual baseline funding), to 29 regional HIDTA Programs, in 50 States, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed legislation, permanently funding the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
🇺🇸 President Trump committed his Administration, to advancing second chance hiring for former prisoners. This includes launching a “Ready to Work Initiative.”
🇺🇸 The President announced new initiatives from the Departments of Labor, Education, and Justice, as well as the Office of Personnel Management and Bureau of Prisons, to promote second chance hiring.
🇺🇸 The Department of Justice announced more than $98 million in grant funding, through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program, to allow 802 additional full-time law enforcement officers.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, to restore state and local law enforcement’s access to Life-Saving Surplus Equipment and Resources from the Defense Department, such as armored vehicles.
🇺🇸 President Trump reshaped the Federal judiciary at a record pace, and followed-through on his promise, to appoint judges who will uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
🇺🇸 President Trump installed more federal court judges, than any other president did over the previous four decades.
🇺🇸 By 2020, President Trump had nominated, and the Senate confirmed, a grand total of 187 Article III judges, including: 50 Circuit Court judges; 133 District Court judges; 2 Court of International Trade Judges; 2 Supreme Court Justices.
🇺🇸 In 2018, President Trump broke the record, for the most circuit court of appeals judges confirmed (29), in the first 2 years of a presidency.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed three Executive Orders, aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations, including drug cartels and gangs, and preventing violence against law enforcement officers.
🇺🇸 The Department of Justice convicted eight members of an international criminal organization, known as the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking Organization, on federal charges, arising from their scheme to force young women and girls from Mexico and Latin America, into prostitution.
🇺🇸 The Department of Justice designated MS-13 as a priority for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, to allow federal law enforcement to utilize an expanded toolkit, in its efforts to dismantle the organization.
🇺🇸 In September of 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) worked with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to charge more than 4,000 MS-13 and 18th Street gang members, in the United States and Central America. This included the alleged leader of MS-13’s “East Coast Program.”
🇺🇸 In Fiscal Year 2018, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested more than 10,000 gang members, including more than 2,000 members of MS-13.
🇺🇸 The Department of Justice secured a guilty plea, for the first case prosecuted under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, involving a victim targeted because of gender identity
🇺🇸 To ensure the government serves the needs of all Americans, President Trump tightened rules for federal employees, and signed an executive order that placed a five-year ban on lobbying, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign countries, for federal employees.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, an important step in providing our nation’s heroes the support they have earned. This provides educational benefits to veterans, service members, and their family members, including tuition, fees, books, housing, and additional costs.
🇺🇸 President Trump protected America, and our allies, by rebuilding our military, while ensuring our veterans receive the care they deserve. President Trump worked with Congress, to increase defense spending, reverse the defense sequester, expand our military capacity, and modernize its capabilities.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump’s leadership, Congress passed three historic National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA).
🇺🇸 In 2017, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2018, which increased the size of the American Armed Forces, for the first time in seven years, and authorized nearly $700 billion annually for U.S. defense expenditures.
🇺🇸 The FY2020 NDAA included a much needed 3.1% pay raise for our troops.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration signed the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights, fulfilling the President’s promise to support military families.
🇺🇸 In 2019, President Trump signed a memorandum, that eliminated 100% of student loan debt, for permanently disabled veterans.
🇺🇸 The President called upon all 50 states, to ensure disabled veterans do not pay state tax on their forgiven debts.
🇺🇸 More than 20 American captives abroad, were released during the Trump Administration.
🇺🇸 The FY2020 NDAA, established the United States Space Force, to ensure American dominance in space.
🇺🇸 President Trump revived the National Space Council, to develop and implement a new national space policy and strategy.
🇺🇸 President Trump elevated the U.S. Cyber Command, into a major warfighting command, to advance U.S. efforts in cyberspace.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration hosted the first-ever National Cybersecurity Summit, which successfully brought together industry partners and federal officials, to examine and bolster the United States’ digital infrastructure.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration moved to protect critical U.S. infrastructure, through the creation of the National Risk Management Center, and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration provided more than a billion dollars, to the European Defense initiative.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.), to hold failing employees accountable, and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers. More than 4,000 Veterans Affairs employees were removed, demoted, or suspended as a result of the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act.
🇺🇸 The President signed the V.A. Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017, to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds, for the Veterans Choice Program (VCP).
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration created a new White House V.A. Hotline, staffed by veterans and family members, who provided our nation’s Veterans with a direct, dedicated contact line, to answer their needs and concerns. As of 2020, the hotline had received more than 250,000 calls.
🇺🇸 The Administration secured a record $8.6 billion in funding, for mental health services, with the goal of ending the tragedy of veteran suicide.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration created the PREVENTS initiative, a task force aimed at unifying the efforts of government, businesses, and nonprofit groups, to help our veterans.
🇺🇸 The President secured $73.1 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs - the highest funding for the VA in history.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed The VA MISSION Act, which worked to integrate the VA healthcare system, and modernize it for the 21st century. It provided veterans with more choices in their healthcare options, whether from VA doctors or the community.
🇺🇸 Veterans Affairs increased transparency and accountability, by launching an online “Access and Quality Tool”. This provided veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, the VA announced initiatives, to expand access to healthcare for veterans, using Telehealth technology, to serve veterans no matter where the provider or veteran is located. The VA Telehealth initiative, forged partnerships with private sector companies, including Walmart, T-Mobile, and Phillips.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Department of Veteran Affairs, has successfully reduced prescription opioid use, by patients within the VA health care system, by 64%.
🇺🇸 The unemployment rate among veterans, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, was at a record low of 2.8%, with 9.1 million veterans employed.
🇺🇸 By the start of 2020, the number of unemployed veterans had been reduced by 40% under President Trump.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced measures to reduce employment barriers for military spouses, fulfilling the President’s promise to support military families.
🇺🇸 In November of 2019, President Trump became the first president to walk in the New York City Veterans Day Parade.
🇺🇸 President Trump enacted the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act. This streamlined the lengthy process that veterans undergo, when appealing disability benefit claims with Veterans Affairs.
🇺🇸 President Trump called for a “full audit of the Pentagon.” The Department of Defense (DOD) responded to the president’s call to action, and began its full financial statement audit.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration eliminated the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty. As part of the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, President Trump repealed the mandate, which had previously forced people to buy expensive insurance, and taxed those who couldn’t afford it.
🇺🇸 The individual mandate had disproportionately hurt the poor: 80% of those affected made less than $50,000.
🇺🇸 Costly Affordable Care Act taxes were repealed, including the “Cadillac tax”, and the Medical Device Tax.
🇺🇸 The President made it clear, that patients with preexisting conditions would be protected.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration issued guidance, expanding options for individuals with chronic conditions. High deductible plans were adjusted to cover products such as insulin, inhalers and statins, pre-deductible.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed a six-year extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), to fund healthcare for 9 million. The CHIP program, provides healthcare coverage to children, in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance.
🇺🇸 The Department of Agriculture provided more than $1 billion, to improve access to health care services, for 2.5 million people in rural communities.
🇺🇸 President Trump established the Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved the largest number of generic drugs in history. Generics increase competition in the marketplace and lower the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans.
🇺🇸 Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Pfizer and Novartis, agreed to voluntarily drop their prescription drug prices, following talks with President Trump.
🇺🇸 In December of 2018, year-end drug prices fell for the first time in nearly 50 years.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration expanded access to Association Health Plans (AHPs), allowing small business to pool risk across states.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration allowed for Short-Term Limited Duration plans, to be extended by up to 12 months.
🇺🇸 President Trump implemented his plan to lower prescription drugs. President Trump signed four executive orders, to ensure that Americans are receiving the lowest price possible for their prescription drugs.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, Americans saw the first ever decline of average benchmark premiums, on the federal health care exchange.
🇺🇸 The President signed an Executive Order, to improve seniors’ health care, and the fiscal sustainability of Medicare.
🇺🇸 Reforms of Medicare Advantage options and Health Reimbursement Accounts were expanded.
🇺🇸 His Administration was committed to ending surprise billing. President Trump signed an Executive Order, that increased price and quality transparency.
🇺🇸 Health and Human Services (HHS), worked to require that hospitals make prices publicly available online, and in a more consumer-friendly format.
🇺🇸 The Administration proposed a rule, to require that insurance companies and group health plans, provide enrollees with cost estimates.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration promoted innovation and solutions, to expand treatment options for Americans living with disease, including HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, pediatric cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more. The Administration launched a program, to provide an HIV prevention drug for free, to uninsured patients.
🇺🇸 President Trump protected the sanctity of life, at all stages. In his first week in office, President Trump reinstated and expanded the "Mexico City Policy", that prohibits $9 billion in federal funding, for non-governmental organizations, that provide abortion counseling or referrals, advocate to decriminalize abortion, or expand abortion services.
🇺🇸 President Trump de-funded a U.N. agency, for colluding with China’s brutal program, of forced abortion and sterilization.
🇺🇸 President Trump worked with Congress, to overturn a bill, which prohibited States from defunding abortion service providers. Health and Human Services announced changes to Title X, to stop taxpayer dollars from supporting abortion providers.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration published guidance, to enforce a requirement, that taxpayer dollars should not support abortion coverage, in Affordable Care Act insurance plans.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed a Congressional Review Act bill, allowing states to restrict Planned Parenthood Funding.
🇺🇸 President Trump became the first sitting U.S. President, to address the “March for Life”, live from the White House.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services, created the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division (OCR), within the Office For Civil Rights. OCR enforces laws and regulations that protect the free exercise of religion, and prohibit discrimination in Health and Human Services-funded or conducted programs and activities.
🇺🇸 President Trump mobilized his Administration, to address drug addiction, by declaring a Nationwide Public Health Emergency. President Trump signed the Support for Patients and Communities Act, to fight the opioid epidemic. The Administration launched FindTreatment.gov, a public resource to help combat substance abuse.
🇺🇸 President Trump created a bipartisan opioid commission, that issued 56 recommendations to help defeat the opioid crisis.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, in Fiscal Year 2017 alone, Health and Human Services (HHS) invested nearly $900 million, to combat the opioid crisis.
🇺🇸 Drug overdose deaths dropped by 5% in 2019, the first decline in nearly three decades, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
🇺🇸 President Trump successfully pressured China, to close dangerous loopholes, which had allowed Chines fentanyl manufacturers to legally ship the compound worldwide, much of which ended up in the United States.
🇺🇸 On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Administration collected a record-breaking 912,305 pounds (456 tons) of potentially dangerous expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs, at more than 5,300 collection sites.
🇺🇸 The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, released a 2020 Drug-Free Communities report, which found that the Trump administration’s Drug-Free Communities Program, lowered youth substance use.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the bipartisan Tobacco-Free Youth Act, to raise the nationwide age for purchasing tobacco and vaping products, to 21 years old.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration launched a $3 million public safety campaign, to combat the almost 1,000 child vehicular heatstroke deaths, which occurred across the country over the last two decades.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced the REACH program, a national public health campaign, empowering all Americans to play a critical role in preventing suicide.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration awarded $107.2 million, to increase the health workforce in underserved communities, improving the quality, distribution, and diversity of health professionals in the United States.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an executive order, to modernize flu vaccines and help protect more Americans, by promoting new technologies that improve vaccine manufacturing and effectiveness.
🇺🇸 In 2019, President Trump signed a memorandum, eliminating 100% of student loan debt, for permanently disabled veterans.
🇺🇸 The Administration forgave more than $300 million in outstanding debt, for schools impacted by natural disasters, and provided $10 million to defer loan payments for schools facing financial difficulties.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration successfully implemented the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), empowering states with the flexibility they need to educate their students, while ending top-down mandates from Washington, D.C.
🇺🇸 35 states and the District of Columbia had their ESSA plans approved.
🇺🇸 President Trump made Historically Black Colleges and Universities a priority, including appropriating more money to HBCU's in a single year, than any other president, and established a Presidential Board of Advisors on HBCU's.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the FUTURE Act into law. The law permanently funded HBCU's, and simplified the FAFSA application.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act, which provides child care subsidies for low-income families, with children under age 13. This authorized an increase in funding, from $3.9 to $5.8 billion, the largest expansion ever.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced new Title IX enforcement, to combat sexual assault in K-12 public schools.
🇺🇸 The President signed a historic Executive Order, promoting and protecting free speech on college campuses.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration demonstrated their support for the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act.
🇺🇸 The President worked with the Department of Education, to expand transparency, and give students expanded access to vital information, about the career outcomes of the programs they enroll in.
🇺🇸 The President was committed to expanding and strengthening education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
🇺🇸 President Trump issued a presidential memorandum, encouraging the Department of Education, to promote STEM and Computer Science.
🇺🇸 President Trump directed more than $200 million per year, to technology education grants for women, and programs that encourage participation in STEM careers.
🇺🇸 The President signed the bipartisan re-authorization, of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. This law provides the necessary training for students and workers, to succeed in the 21st century economy.
🇺🇸 The President donated his 2017 second quarter salary to the Department of Education. The funds were used to host a STEM focused camp for students. The president donated his salary each quarter, to various causes.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the INSPIRE Act, which encouraged NASA to have more women and girls participate in STEM, and pursue careers in aerospace.
🇺🇸 The President signed an Executive Order, to expand apprenticeships in America.
🇺🇸 President Trump was committed to making our schools safer. The Administration established a Commission on School Safety, to examine ways to make schools safer for all students and teachers.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration allocated $2 billion for school safety.
🇺🇸 President Trump’s proposed budgets, made school choice a priority, a measure supported by two-thirds of Black Americans.
🇺🇸 The President's Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request, included $1 billion in funding to Furthering Options of Children to Unlock Success (FOCUS) Grants for public school choice. It also included $250 million to promote private school choice, through the Education Innovation and Research Program.
🇺🇸 The President's Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request, included $5 billion in federal tax credits, on donations that fund scholarships to private and vocational schools, apprenticeships programs and other educational opportunities.
🇺🇸 The administration lowered regulatory hurdles, to expand in-school nutrition options.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration implemented the year-round distribution of Pell Grants, instead of limiting these grants to the spring and fall semesters.
🇺🇸 Low-income students now have access to Pell Grant funds, over summer and winter breaks, which enables students to earn their degrees faster, with fewer loans.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration reformed the student loan servicing process. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FSA) was enhanced, to make the program more accessible and user-friendly for students. His Administration brought in financial experts, to modernize the way FSA offers and services student loans.
🇺🇸 The Department of Education provided $359.8 million in federal assistance, to 20 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to assist with the cost of educating students displaced by Hurricane Harvey, Irma, Maria, and California wildfires.
🇺🇸 President Trump was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, after negotiating a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, that ushered in the full normalization of relations between the nations.
🇺🇸 President Trump directed the State Department, to send aid through United States Agency for International Development (USAID), directly to Christians and other minorities facing genocide in the Middle East.
🇺🇸 President Trump persuaded allies, to develop national plans to boost defense spending, up to two percent of GDP by 2024, and for NATO to formally join the coalition to defeat ISIS, at the 2017 NATO Leaders’ meeting.
🇺🇸 President Trump went on a historic 12-day tour through Asia, including visits to five countries, and attended three regional summits, to promote America’s interests.
🇺🇸 President Trump reaffirmed the commitment of the United States, to promote prosperity and security in Asia.
🇺🇸 South Korea and Japan pledged to build closer defense collaboration with the United States, and the President underscored the commitment of the United States, to providing advanced military equipment.
🇺🇸 President Trump boosted Cooperation between the Quad countries (the United States, Japan, India and Australia) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in Manila.
🇺🇸 President Trump traveled to the Middle East and Europe, to solidify relations with our allies in both regions, and to push for greater commitments and cooperation. President Trump visited Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome, three of the world’s holiest places.
🇺🇸 In Saudi Arabia, President Trump pushed for a coalition of nations, to confront Iran, and attended the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology. It was created to empower Muslim-majority countries, in their fight against radicalization.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration successfully decimated ISIS.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the number one terrorist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was deposed.
🇺🇸 President Trump ordered the killing of ruthless terrorist, Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration’s leadership, the United States eliminated Qassim al-Rimi, a founder and leader of al Qaeda, who committed terrorist attacks on civilians in Yemen.
🇺🇸 President Trump fulfilled his promise, to name Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the US Embassy in Israel was moved to Jerusalem.
🇺🇸 In 2019, the Trump Administration recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, becoming the first country to officially do so.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration withdrew from UNESCO, to show it would not stand for the anti-Israel bias of the organization.
🇺🇸 In June 2019, President Trump became the first sitting U.S. President to enter North Korea, and held a historic meeting with Kim Jong Un at the DMZ.
🇺🇸 President Trump held two historic summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, further demonstrating the Administration’s commitment to a denuclearized Korean peninsula. North Korean leadership also released three American detainees.
🇺🇸 President Trump Signed Historic and Comprehensive Documents with Chairman Kim, to Return the Remains of U.S. Soldiers who Died in the Korean War, and Commit North Korea to Total Denuclearization.
🇺🇸 President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and instituted the toughest sanctions in history, to eliminate the regime’s oil exports. His administration also imposed hard-hitting sanctions, against Iran’s national bank.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration denied the Iranian regime, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), of funding, and opposed IRGC activities that extort the wealth of the Iranian people.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration imposed new sanctions on Iran, following attacks by the Iranian military, on U.S. and allied troops in Iraq.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration rallied the international community, to condemn the IRGC’s gross violations of human rights, and its unjust detention of American citizens and other foreigners.
🇺🇸 The Administration has vigorously and quickly enforced red lines, against regimes and individuals that use chemical weapons.
🇺🇸 President Trump ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase, after the Assad regime used it to launch chemical weapons attacks against civilians. President Trump prevented further chemical weapons attacks, by announcing detection of their preparation, and warning Syria that they would be struck again if the attacks were carried out.
🇺🇸 President Trump successfully withdrew U.S. troops from Syria, and the Trump Administration brokered a safe zone and ceasefire, to ensure stability in the region following troop withdrawal.
🇺🇸 President Trump placed sanctions on North Korea, for its use of chemical weapons in the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s stepbrother.
🇺🇸 President Trump placed sanctions on Russia, for its use of chemical weapons, in the attempted assassination of a former KGB spy in Britain.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration imposed sanctions on Russian entities and individuals, previously indicted for interference in our elections.
🇺🇸 President Trump supported Democracy in Venezuela, and cracked down on the Maduro regime.
🇺🇸 President Trump imposed numerous sanctions on the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela, targeting the regime itself, as well as individuals and entities supporting Maduro’s dictatorship.
🇺🇸 The financial sanctions prohibit dealings in new Venezuelan debt, and its corrupt oil company. The sanctions also ensured that the regime woulf no longer be able finance its debt using U.S. banks.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration publicly supported Juan Guaido, the Democratically elected leader of the Venezuelan General Assembly, and led the world in backing Guaido.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration approved more than $250 million in regional aid, to address the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
🇺🇸 President Trump’s policies unleashed our nation’s energy potential. His Administration acted aggressively, to increase exports of energy resources to the global market, and allow financing for new energy projects.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the U.S. became the largest producer of oil and natural gas, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. We became a net exporter of natural gas, for the first time since 1957.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Department of Energy announced the approval of the Lake Charles Liquefied Natural Gas terminal, supporting the increased export of Liquefied Natural Gas.
🇺🇸 The Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines were approved under the Trump Administration, supporting an estimated total of 42,000 jobs and $2 billion in wages.
🇺🇸 President Trump mandated that pipeline work be done by American Workers, using American-made steel.
🇺🇸 The New Burgos Pipeline, a cross-border project to export U.S. gasoline to Mexico, was approved.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewed a rule, to relax costly fuel regulations, and save $340 billion in regulatory costs.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration reversed the previous administration's moratorium, on new leases for oil and gas development on Federal lands.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the EPA issued the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, to reduce greenhouse gasses, empower states, promote energy independence, and facilitate economic growth and job creation.This replaced the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which according to NERA Economic Consulting, would have increased electricity rates by as much as 14 percent, costing American households up to $79 billion.
🇺🇸 President Trump instituted policies focused on outcome-driven planning efforts, and capital improvements to rebuild and modernize the nation's infrastructure, to enhance regional connectivity, grow small businesses, and increase employment opportunities for those living in rural communities.
🇺🇸 President Trump issued changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to reduce regulation, and allow infrastructure and transportation projects to move forward.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration enacted the Rural Infrastructure Program, and allocated $50 billion, empowering rural America, to address the infrastructure needs of their communities.
🇺🇸 The Rural Infrastructure Program encouraged the rebuilding of roads, bridges, railways, and other vital infrastructure, along with water, waste, and power projects. This helped ensure rural families had access to clean water, as well as reliable and affordable power, while better managing flood risk, and improving rural water supplies and waterways.
🇺🇸 80% of the Rural Infrastructure Program funds, went directly to the governor’s office of the state receiving funds, to allocate based upon their state's infrastructure needs. 20% percent was provided to selected states, that applied for Rural Performance Grants.
🇺🇸 President Trump's plan provided states with the flexibility they need, to address the unique needs of each community. The federal funding provided through the president’s plan, was not awarded in pre-packaged, asset-specific amounts, as is often the case with federal programs, giving states the freedom to spend the money where it’s needed most.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration made a $906 million investment, in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America discretionary grant program.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration worked to promote connectivity in rural America, by investing in rural broadband.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration provided 20 U.S. small businesses, in 14 states, more than $3 million to research and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges.
🇺🇸 In 2018, President Trump signed the sweeping new Farm Bill into law. The Farm Bill provided support and stability to America’s farmers, expanded crop insurance, doubled how much farmers can borrow, and helped open new markets for America’s farmers.
🇺🇸 The President authorized the year-round sale of E15 gasoline, which provided a boost to America’s corn growing communities.
🇺🇸 Red tape that has harmed American farmers was rolled back, including the burdensome Waters of the United States rule.
🇺🇸 President Trump’s historic Tax Cuts, and The Jobs Act, protected family farmers from the estate tax.
🇺🇸 Thanks to the President’s historic tax cuts legislation, the effective tax rate for farmers was expected to fall from 17.2% to 13.9%.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which increased America’s Agricultural exports by $2.2 billion.
🇺🇸 The USMCA eliminated Canada’s discriminatory programs, that allowed low-priced dairy, to undersell our own nation’s dairy products. USMCA included expanded market access for dairy products, eggs, and poultry.
🇺🇸 The USMCA was expected to create 588,000 jobs, and grow U.S. GDP by $235 billion.
🇺🇸 President Trump reached a new trade agreement with Japan. As a result, Japan eliminated or reduced tariffs, on approximately $7.2 billion in U.S. agricultural exports.
🇺🇸 President Trump consistently stood up to China, and their unfair trade practices targeting America’s farmers.
🇺🇸 The Administration provided $16 billion in funds, to defend farmers against unfair trade retaliation.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration expanded markets for America’s farmers, including: Soybean exports to the European Union; American pork exports to Argentina; American beef exports to Brazil and Japan; Idaho chipping potatoes to Japan; and American poultry to South Korea.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed a 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized the Production of industrial Hemp.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Agriculture issued guidance, that gave more flexibility to state operations of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, directing Federal agencies to streamline the agricultural biotechnology regulatory process.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an executive order, delegating authority under the Defense Production Act, to ensure meat packing facilities operated at more than 95% capacity.
🇺🇸 The President and his Administration pursued policies, that encouraged environmental protection, while promoting economic growth.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the United States had the cleanest air on record, and remained a global leader, for access to clean drinking water.
🇺🇸 Combined emissions of criteria pollutants and their precursors, dropped 7% under President Trump.
🇺🇸 President Trump announced that the U.S. would join the 1 Trillion Trees Initiative.
🇺🇸 The Save our Seas Act was signed into law in 2018. This law reauthorized the NOAA Marine Debris Program, promoting international action, to reduce marine debris, and authorized cleanup and response actions.
🇺🇸 In May of 2017, the Trump Administration created a Superfund task force, designed to streamline the Superfund cleanup program.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took “immediate, intense action”, to clean up America’s contaminated and hazardous sites. In Fiscal Year 2018, the EPA completed cleanup work on 22 Superfund sites, from the National Priorities list. This was the largest number in one year, since 2005.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed legislation, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness - the largest public lands legislation in a decade. The President took important action, to improve management of forests, and to help prevent devastating forest fires.
🇺🇸 In order to preserve the health of our forests, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 was signed into law. The Agriculture Improvement Act increased responsible forest management and coordinated Federal, State, tribal, and local assets, to prevent and combat wildfires.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed bipartisan legislation, permanently reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals.
🇺🇸 President Trump addressed federal control of land under the Antiquities Act, taking a first step towards protecting identified antiquities, without disenfranchising the local people who work and manage such areas.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the EPA acted to end ‘Sue and Settle’ practices.
🇺🇸 The Environmental Protection Agency Directive, prevented members of their Federal Advisory Committee, from Receiving EPA Funding, to prevent conflicts of interest.
🇺🇸 The EPA re-launched the Smart Sectors Program, to encourage partnerships with the private sector, streamlining EPA practices, and achieving better environmental outcomes. Under the program, the lead for each sector, within the respective agency, conducted educational site tours, analyzed data, advised options for environmental improvement, and developed reports that profile the impact of each sector.
🇺🇸 During Donald Trump’s presidency, the office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) was launched.
🇺🇸 The Administration made it a priority, to end human trafficking, and used many resources to do so.
🇺🇸 The Administration provided funding, to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security launched the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office, to support victims of crimes, committed by individuals in our nation illegally.
🇺🇸 The Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, more than doubled convictions of human traffickers, and increased the number of defendants charged in ACTeam districts.
🇺🇸 President Trump proclaimed January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, dedicated to increasing awareness of human trafficking, and showcasing efforts to combat these crime.
🇺🇸 President Trump enacted the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (H.R. 1865).
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an Executive Order, to Address Family Separation at the Border, in light of Congress’s failure to act.
🇺🇸 More than 300 miles of the border wall system was constructed, with a concentration on high entry sectors, such as San Diego, El Centro, El Paso, and Yuma.
🇺🇸 The new border wall, contributed to a 56% overall decrease, in the number of illegal migrant arrivals at the border.
🇺🇸 In Fiscal Year 2018, 57% of those deported, were convicted criminals.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Justice transferred immigration judges, to six detention centers near the border, to work in courts with excessive backlog.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Office of Field Operations, seized more than 3 million pounds of drugs.
🇺🇸 President Trump called on Congress, to close dangerous loopholes such as “Catch and Release”, "chain migration", and the visa lottery program, which enable illegal immigration.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration implemented a plan, incorporating anti-fraud and abuse measures, protecting the integrity of the H-2B visa program.
🇺🇸 The President proposed a merit-based immigration plan.
🇺🇸 The Administration looked to close the Flores Settlement Agreement, which requires the government to release families into the country after 20 days. This loophole has been exploited by smugglers, who use children as pawns to enter the United States.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration enacted a “Public Charge Rule”, that ensured non-citizens do not abuse our nation’s public benefits.
🇺🇸 President Trump ordered the hiring of 15,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, as well as 5,000 additional border patrol agents.
🇺🇸 Following pressure by the Trump Administration, Mexico agreed to deploy 6,000 national guard troops throughout the country, and on its Southern border.
🇺🇸 President Trump's actions, dismantled human-smuggling networks, and allowed neighboring countries to work more closely with the United States, to address the immigration crisis.
🇺🇸 President Trump withdrew from the "Global Compact on Migration", a plan for global governance of immigration and refugee policy, which compromised US Immigration Laws and our nation's sovereignty.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, Hispanic experienced record low unemployment.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, more than 2.9 million jobs were created for Hispanics, in the first three years of his presidency alone.
🇺🇸 In December of 2019, the Hispanic unemployment rate was at a near record low of 4.2%.
🇺🇸 The Hispanic unemployment rate hit several record lows in 2019, including falling below 4% for the first time in history.
🇺🇸 The median Hispanic income rose by $1,786 during President Trump’s first year in office alone. In 2017, the median Latino American income hit its highest level ever recorded ($50,486).
🇺🇸 During Trump's presidency, Hispanic homeownership rose by more than a percentage point (46.3% to 47.4%).
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an executive order, regarding the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, which improved access to education, training, and economic opportunities for Hispanic American students.
🇺🇸 President Trump stood up to socialism and communism in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. Thanks to pressure from President Trump, 50 countries followed his leadership, in recognizing Juan Guaidó, as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration rolled back the previous administration's disastrous rapprochement with Cuba, which only benefited the country’s dictatorship, instead of its people.
🇺🇸 At the direction of President Trump, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions against senior officials in the Nicaraguan regime, for their role in human rights abuses and undermining democracy. The President made it clear, that American interests do not align with failed socialist policies.
🇺🇸 Black Americans have a true champion in President Trump. President Trump created 1.6 million new jobs for black Americans, in the first three years of his presidency alone.
🇺🇸 In December of 2019, the black unemployment rate was at 5.9%, and had been at or below 7% for 23 consecutive months. Prior to President Trump’s administration, the black unemployment rate had never dipped below 7%.
🇺🇸 During his presidency, incomes for black Americans increased by 2.6%.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, the poverty rate among black Americans was at its lowest level in history, and 350,000 fewer black Americans were living in poverty.
🇺🇸 As a result of President Trump's historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones were created in all 50 states, DC, and 5 territories. Opportunity Zones create jobs and spur investment in disadvantaged communities. These Opportunity Zones spurred $100 billion in private capital investment and impacted 1.4 million minority households.
🇺🇸 President Trump was awarded the 2019 Bipartisan Justice award, by the nonprofit 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center. The President received this award, for his “ability to work across the aisle, to achieve meaningful progress in reforming our criminal justice system.”
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the historic First Step Act into law. It has been widely hailed as the most meaningful criminal justice reform in a generation. This landmark legislation, included necessary reforms to our justice system, improved our prison system, and prepared inmates for reentry into the community.
🇺🇸 As a result of the First Step Act, more than 3,000 Americans have been released from prison, and 90% of those who have had their sentences reduced, are black Americans.
🇺🇸 The First Step Act shortens mandatory minimum sentences, for nonviolent drug crimes, and provides judges greater liberty to bypass mandatory minimums. The law also allows offenders sentenced under racially motivated mandatory minimums, to petition for their cases to be re-evaluated.
🇺🇸 President Trump posthumously pardoned John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, the First African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, who was convicted in 1913 for violating a Jim Crow-era law.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration fought for a federal tax credit on donations, that fund scholarships to private schools. This proposal was supported by 64% of African Americans.
🇺🇸 The President directed the entire federal government, to develop a strategy to support HBCU's (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). This effort was supported by 32 departments and agencies.
🇺🇸 The Administration worked with HBCU's, to expand apprenticeship opportunities and career choices, while ensuring they received adequate support.
🇺🇸 President Trump made supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) a top priority. He announced the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCU's.
🇺🇸 In February of 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on HBCU's, the earliest in any term, that a President signed an Order on HBCU's. The EO established an Interagency Working Group, to advance and coordinate work regarding HBCU's.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the federal HBCU initiative office, was moved back into the White House. Although HBCU leaders had previously requested this move to the Obama Administration, the request was not previously met.
🇺🇸 President Trump appropriated more money than any other president, to HBCU's. He signed legislation, to increase federal funding for HBCUs by 13%, the highest level ever.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the Future Act into law. The law permanently funds HBCU's, and simplifies the FAFSA application.
🇺🇸 Through the Capital Financing Program, the Administration provided more than $500 million in loans to HBCUs.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Department of Education worked with HBCU's to protect $80 million in Title III carryover funding.
🇺🇸 President Trump took a big step in ending discriminatory restrictions, that had prevented faith based HBCU's from accessing federal support.
🇺🇸 President Trump enacted legislation, which created two new national monuments, honoring civil rights leaders.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump’s administration, women were empowered to reach their economic potential. The Trump Administration created the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP). The initiative aimed to mobilize $1 billion in capital, and help 50 million women, in 22 developing countries, realize their economic potential by 2025.
🇺🇸 Women experienced record low unemployment under President Trump.
🇺🇸 In the first three years of his presidency alone, President Trump created over 4.3 million new jobs for women.
🇺🇸 In 2019 alone, 1.5 million jobs were added for women, accounting for more than 50% of total job gains, for the first time ever.
🇺🇸 In 2019, Adult women’s unemployment rate hit 3.2%, the lowest since 1953, and was under 4% for 18 straight months.
🇺🇸 During the President’s first year in office, the number of American women in poverty fell by nearly 600,000.
🇺🇸 Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the child tax credit was doubled to $2,000 per child.
🇺🇸 President Trump was the first president to include a paid family leave policy in budget proposals.
🇺🇸 The FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included paid parental leave for federal workers.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration prioritized empowering women to pursue careers, and realize their economic potential. President Trump directed more than $200 million per year, to technology education grants for women, and programs that encourage participation in STEM careers.
🇺🇸 The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) mobilized more than $2.6 billion in capital for women entrepreneurs, in 26 developing countries.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration launched the WomenConnect Challenge, seeking to grow women’s access to digital technology, and bridge the digital gender divide.
🇺🇸 In response to COVID-19, the Trump Administration declared a National Emergency, providing over $42 billion in funding, resources, and protective measures, to state, local, and tribal communities.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration enacted the Paycheck Protection Program, which provided small businesses with funds, to pay up to 8 weeks of payroll costs, including benefits. Funds could also be used to pay interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities.
🇺🇸 The Paycheck Protection Program prioritized millions of Americans employed by small businesses, by authorizing up to $659 billion toward job retention and certain other expenses.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the CARES Act, to mitigate the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. economy, and aid areas in the U.S. that were most affected by the virus.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration initiated and extended the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, to help fill the hunger gap in communities across the country.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration’s nationwide extension of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, allowed local partners who served free meals to children during the health crisis, to continue doing so through the summer of 2020, regardless of where the children lives.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, expanding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women Infants Children (WIC) programs, by adding $500 million in funding, to help pregnant women, families, and those who lost their jobs due to COVID-19.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the USDA announced a 40% increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, to ensure low-income families had enough food during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🇺🇸 The Administration allocated $400 million in coronavirus funding, to enhance the VA’s emergency relief response for homeless veterans, and those at risk of homelessness during the Coronavirus pandemic.
🇺🇸 President Trump’s efforts to save jobs and reopen the economy, led to the U.S. labor market adding 2.5 million jobs in May, 4.8 million in June, 1.8 million in July, and 1.4 million in August of 2020.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration approved more than $545 million in payments, to producers who applied for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced the launch of the COVID-19 Uninsured Program Portal, in an effort to cover testing and treatment for uninsured individuals.
🇺🇸 President Trump signed an economic relief package, expanding Medicaid, guaranteeing free testing, and providing additional protections to health care workers, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration announced that 15.5 million cloth facial coverings would be sent to the transportation workforce.
🇺🇸 The Department of Transportation announced an additional $10 billion, for commercial and general aviation airports, to fund operations and save jobs during the COVID-19 crisis.
🇺🇸 President Trump ordered the testing of more than 500,000 Americans each day.
🇺🇸 The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $583 million to 1,385 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded health centers in all 50 states, DC, and eight territories, aimed to expand coronavirus testing to geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable Americans.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced, that the Office of Minority Health, would invest up to $40 million in state and local organizations, strengthening efforts to test for COVID-19 and provide services.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Homeland Security, announced an extension of its partnership with national pharmacy and grocery retail chains, to continue providing access to COVID-19 testing.
🇺🇸 The Administration announced an initiative, to distribute faster COVID-19 testing to sensitive populations, such as nursing homes.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new commission, the Independent Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration announced the framework and leadership for “Operation Warp Speed”, ann effort to accelerate the development of a coronavirus vaccine.
🇺🇸 The Trump administration announced a $1.6 billion agreement with Novavax, to demonstrate commercial-scale manufacturing of the company’s COVID-19 investigational vaccine.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Health and Human Services, announced a $628 million contract with Emergent BioSolutions, advancing capabilities for a potential coronavirus vaccine.
🇺🇸 The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency, distributed over 346 million masks for critical workers.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Health and Human Services, awarded $8 million to 73 organizations, to expand coronavirus training and technical assistance, to federally funded health centers nationwide.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, approved funding for 185 health care providers, in 38 states and Washington, D.C.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Health and Human Services, announced $225 million in funding for Rural Health Clinics, to support coronavirus testing efforts.
🇺🇸 President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, which allocated health care supplies, and increased production of necessary products, to counter COVID-19.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The USDA and CDC, worked with state and local officials, to ensure a stable supply of meat sources for American Consumers, throughout the COVID Pandemic.
🇺🇸 The Department of Health and Human Services, announced an expedited process, to release emergency grants for treatment of substance use disorders and mental illnesses, during the COVID-19 crisis.
🇺🇸 Directed by the Trump Administration, the “USNS Comfort”, a Navy hospital ship, arrived in New York City, providing up to 1,000 beds for the sick, and freeing up beds at local hospitals focused on combating COVID-19.
🇺🇸 Under the direction of the Trump Administration, the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship “Mercy”, arrived In Los Angeles, to help relieve local hospitals overburdened by COVID-19.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Education announced an additional $6.2 billion in funding, for higher education institutions during the COVID-19 crisis. The Department of Education also announced a new process, providing funding flexibilities to states, to best meet the needs of students and educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🇺🇸 Under President Trump, The Department of Education announced it would waive the interest on all student loans held by the Federal Government, to help Americans during the COVID- 19 crisis. Collections and wage garnishments, were also halted.
🇺🇸 President Trump acted quickly to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, restricting all non-essential travel across the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border, as well as travel between China and the U.S. along with many additional countries around the world.
🇺🇸 President Trump delivered on his promise, to correct trade imbalances. The Trump Administration took unprecedented steps, to modernize and improve trading practices, and negotiate freer, fairer, and reciprocal trade agreements with our global allies.
🇺🇸 Just over two years after President Trump’s inauguration, there were already 10,000 more factories in America, than on Election Day.
🇺🇸 President Trump kept his promise, to deliver a modern and rebalanced trade deal, and replaced NAFTA with The United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USCMA spurred economic growth, created as many as 176,000 jobs, and added $68.2 billion to the U.S. economy, all while raising wages. As a result of USMCA, farm incomes were expected rise to nearly $100 billion annually.
🇺🇸 Under the Trump Administration, the Department of Commerce initiated 79 antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) investigations.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration launched an extensive investigation, into whether Chinese policies, acts, and practices related to technology transfer, licensing, and intellectual property, are unreasonable or discriminatory. The investigation included a thorough analysis of evidence and comments received from academics, think tanks, law firms, trade associations, as well as American companies and workers.
🇺🇸 The investigation concluded that China conducts and supports cyber intrusions into U.S. companies, to access their sensitive commercial information, such as trade secrets. An interagency analysis estimated that China's unfair acts, policies, and practices caused tens of billions in damage to the United States each year.
🇺🇸 In response to China’s rampant trade violations, the Trump Administration placed 25 percent tariffs on approximately $250 billion worth of products, with a focus on those supported by China’s unfair industrial policies.
🇺🇸 President Trump negotiated a new trade deal with Japan, one of America’s strongest economic partner, benefiting American farmers, ranchers, workers, and businesses.
🇺🇸 The Administration revised the United States/Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), to make it more beneficial to American workers.
🇺🇸 The President, and European Union President Juncker, agreed to a new trade deal, that strengthened and reformed the US/EU trade relationship. The agreement did the following: 1) Worked toward zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-automotive industrial goods; 2) Made it easier for the EU to purchase liquefied gas; 3) Reduced trade and bureaucratic obstacles between the U.S. and the EU; 4) Addressed unfair trade practices.
🇺🇸 President Trump agreed to a phase one trade deal with China, that included a strong enforcement mechanism.
🇺🇸 President Trump withdrew the United States from the flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership.
🇺🇸 President Trump re-affirmed our Allie’s’ continued commitment to NATO.
🇺🇸 President Trump designated Brazil as a major non-NATO ally, underscoring his administration’s commitment, to working with regional partners across North and South America.
🇺🇸 In 2017, President Trump signed House Joint Resolution 38, to support U.S. Coal production, and coal exports increased by 60%.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration found, that global dumping of steel and aluminum, had critically weakened the United States capacity to produce steel and aluminum, in times with national security implications.
🇺🇸 The President exercised his authority, to impose a 25 percent global tariff on steel imports, and a 10 percent global tariff on aluminum imports, in order to protect our national security. The tariffs on steel and aluminum, reduced imports to the levels, where domestic industries can achieve long-term viability. In turn, the strengthening of our domestic steel and aluminum industries, reduced our reliance on foreign producers.
🇺🇸 As a result of President Trump’s actions, the steel and aluminum industries, were able to re-open closed mills, and sustain a skilled workforce, while maintaining or increasing production.
🇺🇸 President Trump stood up for America’s farmers, by negotiating fairer, freer, and more reciprocal trade deals, that removed barriers and opened markets for American farmers.
🇺🇸 The Trump Administration protected farmers from unfair trade practices, by authorizing $12 billion in aid to the American agricultural heartland, under The Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act.
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