Trump Did This?

Even though Democrats and others on the Left constantly complain about President Trump’s legislative inaction during the first years of his presidency, facts do not bear out their wild allegations. In fact, few presidents have ever achieved as much as has this President while in office. When taking into consideration the fact that almost everything he HAS accomplished has come with a huge Democrat battle in every case, it is more amazing that so much has been accomplished.

This time every year we take a look back and provide a list of some of the Trump Administration’s most notable accomplishments the previous year. Today, we’ll take that one step further: find below a synopsis of Trump’s accomplishments summarized for the entirety of his first three years.

Let’s get started.

(scroll to the bottom to download this list in .pdf format)

The “Trump Show”

• Trump signed three bills for Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for the loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one reauthorizes funding for Native language programs and the other gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana
• In December 2019, Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch
• In December 2019, Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences
• Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising the 2 years before he was elected
• Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal
• Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan
• Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil
• Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information
• Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking
• Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms
• The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, that outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country’s highest-paid workers
• Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and corporations that are increasing entry-level pay
• Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land
• Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean
• 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, which include gross charges, the negotiated rates with insurers and the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept from a patient
• He signed a bill in 2019 allowing some drug imports from Canada’s prescription prices to go down
• In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6 percent per year. Fast forward to today, and prescription drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1 percent drop as of the most recent month. In June 2019, the United States saw the largest single-year drop (2.0 percent year-over-year decline) in prescription drug prices since 1967
• Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans
• VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far
• Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life
• Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than ten years
• Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers
• Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drug for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years
• All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays
• Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group when buying insurance so they can get it at a better price
• President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act which was written by a Republican lawmaker that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality review committees to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans
• In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society. The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes
• Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans
• The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in the sentencing of non-violent crimes
• The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime
• Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%
• Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs
• 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
• New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago
• The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment
• Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data
• Pres. Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund
• Trump’s USDA committed more than $124 Million to help rebuild rural water infrastructure
• Consumer confidence & small business confidence at an all-time high
• More than 7 million jobs created since the election
• More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history
• More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election
• Trump appointed five openly gay ambassadors
• Trump ordered his openly gay ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell. to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe
• Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts
• In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking
• The Office of Management and Budget 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
• The United States law enforcement officers are collaborating with Mexican law enforcement officials to dismantle human trafficking networks operating across the U.S.-Mexico border
• 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
• That hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases and provided 14,419 referrals to services between October 2017 and March 2019
• 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 ensure that victims have the proper resources and support
• President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code
• The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million
• The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education
• Under his leadership, ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled
• ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed
• Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs
• Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers
• President Trump’s issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith
• Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti- Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism
• President Trump has ordered a halt to all U.S. taxpayer money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions
• Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens
• A finalized new trade agreement with South Korea
• Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe
• Withdrew the U.S. from the job-killing TPP deal
• Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam
• OK’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation
• Had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed
• Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades
• Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border
• The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment
• The Department of Education is expanding an initiative that allows individuals in prison to receive Pell Grants to better prepare themselves for the workforce
• The Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners
• President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low- income communities across the country
• 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones
• Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long- term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country
• Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core
• Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide
• Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed
• Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years
• Stock Market has reached record highs
• Median household income has hit the highest level ever
• Recorded African-American unemployment is at an all-time low
• Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low
• Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low
• Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65 year low
• Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low
• We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded
• The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans
• Ninety-five percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
• As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years
• A record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses
• Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare
• Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history
• Reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone
• Signed Right-To-Try legislation which allows terminally ill patients to try any experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before
• Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic
• Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care
• U.S. oil production recently reached 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
• Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the most substantial reduction in carbon emissions
• NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign
• Created Space Force and got it signed into law as our 6th military branch
• Has his circuit court judges being confirmed faster than any other new administration
• Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed
• Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
• Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in
• Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports
• Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices H
• as agreed to a part 1 trade deal with China (Still negotiating part 2)
• Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline
• Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it. It also created a new tax credit for other dependents
• In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to states to fund child care for low-income families
• The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care
• In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families
• In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding ever

Note: Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next few weeks, Trump will sign the first primary anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence)
Once it’s a law, the TRACED Act will extend the period the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone. The TRACED Act requires carriers to share tools & the ability to block spam callers with customers for free. It also changes the fine imposed on spam telemarketers from $1,500 to $10,000 PER CALL. Earlier this year (2019) Trump’s FCC fined one robocall guy $120 million

Summary

I know, the list is exhaustive! But isn’t it encouraging that even with the constant, non-stop push-back this President has received, he has been able to get this many bills passed, executive orders signed, and deals negotiated? That in itself is a miracle, even forgetting the content of each act! Just imagine how much more could and would have been accomplished if Democrats and Trump-resistant Republicans in Congress had simply joined Mr. Trump to get even more done.

What’s ahead for 2020? I dare not foretell! With Donald Trump in the White House, there is no telling what will be accomplished. But, one thing we know for certain is there will be many opportunities for many additional policies, legislation, and programs implemented under President Trump. Let’s see if Congress will join the “Trump Show!”

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The Trump Show