As of January 2021
Trump Administration
Accomplishments
Unprecedented Economic Boom
Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we
built the world’s most prosperous economy.
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America gained 7
million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
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Middle-Class family
income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the
entire previous administration.
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The unemployment rate
reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
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Achieved 40 months in
a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
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More Americans
reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
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Jobless claims hit a
nearly 50-year low.
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The number of people
claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on
record.
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Incomes rose in every
single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
Delivered a future of greater promise and
opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.
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Unemployment rates for
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans,
veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school
diploma all reached record lows.
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Unemployment for women
hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
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Lifted nearly 7
million people off of food stamps.
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Poverty rates for
African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
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Income inequality fell
for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
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The bottom 50 percent
of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
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Wages rose fastest for
low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
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African American
homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.
Brought jobs, factories, and industries back
to the USA.
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Created more than 1.2
million manufacturing and construction jobs.
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Put in place policies
to bring back supply chains from overseas.
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Small business
optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.
Hit record stock market numbers and record
401ks.
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The DOW closed above
20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
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The S&P 500 and
NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs.
Rebuilding and investing in rural America.
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Signed an Executive
Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology
Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American
farming and agriculture.
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Strengthened America’s
rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture
Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to
rural America.
Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by
rejecting blanket lockdowns.
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An October 2020 Gallup
survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a
pandemic than four years prior.
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During the third
quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid
GDP growth ever recorded.
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Since coronavirus
lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than
half the jobs lost.
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Jobs have been
recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
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Unemployment fell to
6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April –
beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of
2020.
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Under the previous
administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10
percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump
Administration.
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Since April, the
Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American
unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
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80 percent of small
businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
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Small business
confidence hit a new high.
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Homebuilder confidence
reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since
December 2006.
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Manufacturing optimism
nearly doubled.
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Household net worth
rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
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Home prices hit an
all-time record high.
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The United States
rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless
public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
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Business confidence is
higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
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Stabilized America’s
financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department
supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.
Tax Relief for the Middle Class
Passed $3.2 trillion in historic tax relief
and reformed the tax code.
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Signed the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act – the largest tax reform package in history.
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More than 6 million
American workers received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits
thanks to the tax cuts.
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A typical family of
four earning $75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing
their tax bill in half.
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Doubled the standard
deduction – making the first $24,000 earned by a married couple completely
tax-free.
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Doubled the child tax
credit.
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Virtually eliminated
the unfair Estate Tax, or Death Tax.
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Cut the business tax
rate from 35 percent – the highest in the developed world – all the way down to
21 percent.
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Small businesses can
now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
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Businesses can now
deduct 100 percent of the cost of their capital investments in the year the
investment is made.
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Since the passage of
tax cuts, the share of total wealth held by the bottom half of households has
increased, while the share held by the top 1 percent has decreased.
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Over 400 companies
have announced bonuses, wage increases, new hires, or new investments in the
United States.
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Over $1.5 trillion was
repatriated into the United States from overseas.
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Lower investment cost
and higher capital returns led to faster growth in the middle class, real
wages, and international competitiveness.
Jobs and investments are pouring into
Opportunity Zones.
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Created nearly 9,000
Opportunity Zones where capital gains on long-term investments are taxed at
zero.
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Opportunity Zone
designations have increased property values within them by 1.1 percent,
creating an estimated $11 billion in wealth for the nearly half of Opportunity
Zone residents who own their own home.
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Opportunity Zones have
attracted $75 billion in funds and driven $52 billion of new investment in
economically distressed communities, creating at least 500,000 new jobs.
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Approximately 1
million Americans will be lifted from poverty as a result of these new
investments.
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Private equity
investments into businesses in Opportunity Zones were nearly 30 percent higher
than investments into businesses in similar areas that were not designated
Opportunity Zones.
Massive Deregulation
Ended the regulatory assault on American
Businesses and Workers.
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Instead of 2-for-1, we
eliminated 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
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Provided the average
American household an extra $3,100 every year.
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Reduced the direct
cost of regulatory compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an
additional $50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
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Removed nearly 25,000
pages from the Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous
administration added over 16,000 pages.
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Established the
Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations
at the state, local, and tribal levels.
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Signed an executive
order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
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Signed two executive
orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and
their small businesses from administrative abuse.
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Modernized the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
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Reduced approval times
for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or
less.
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Helped community banks
by signing legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
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Established the White
House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring
down housing costs.
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Removed regulations
that threatened the development of a strong and stable internet.
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Eased and simplified
restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space
projects.
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Published a
whole-of-government strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in
automated vehicle technology.
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Streamlined energy
efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including
preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and
enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.
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Removed unnecessary
regulations that restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
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Modernized the
Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the
lead to develop new technologies.
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Took action to suspend
regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting
restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.
Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory
overreach.
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Rescinded the previous
administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which would
have abolished zoning for single-family housing to build low-income, federally
subsidized apartments.
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Issued a final rule on
the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
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Eliminated the Waters
of the United States Rule and replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection
Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and property owners.
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Repealed the previous
administration’s costly fuel economy regulations by finalizing the Safer
Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more
affordable, and lower the price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.
Americans now have more money in their
pockets.
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Deregulation had an
especially beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher
share of their incomes for overregulation.
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Cut red tape in the
healthcare industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and
saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
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Deregulatory efforts
yielded savings to the medical community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a
reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work through 2021.
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Removed government
barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
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Once fully in effect,
20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Trump Administration are
expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
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Signed 16 pieces of
deregulatory legislation that will result in a $40 billion increase in annual
real incomes.
Fair and Reciprocal Trade
Secured historic trade deals to defend
American workers.
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Immediately withdrew from
the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Ended the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and replaced it with the brand new
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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The USMCA contains
powerful new protections for American manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers,
dairy producers, and workers.
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The USMCA is expected
to generate over $68 billion in economic activity and potentially create over
550,000 new jobs over ten years.
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Signed an executive
order making it government policy to Buy American and Hire American, and took
action to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas.
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Negotiated with Japan
to slash tariffs and open its market to $7 billion in American agricultural
products and ended its ban on potatoes and lamb.
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Over 90 percent of
American agricultural exports to Japan now receive preferential treatment, and
most are duty-free.
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Negotiated another
deal with Japan to boost $40 billion worth of digital trade.
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Renegotiated the
United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, doubling the cap on imports of
American vehicles and extending the American light truck tariff.
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Reached a written,
fully-enforceable Phase One trade agreement with China on confronting pirated
and counterfeit goods, and the protection of American ideas, trade secrets,
patents, and trademarks.
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China agreed to
purchase an additional $200 billion worth of United States exports and opened
market access for over 4,000 American facilities to exports while all tariffs
remained in effect.
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Achieved a mutual
agreement with the European Union (EU) that addresses unfair trade practices
and increases duty-free exports by 180 percent to $420 million.
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Secured a pledge from
the EU to eliminate tariffs on American lobster – the first United
States-European Union negotiated tariff reduction in over 20 years.
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Scored a historic
victory by overhauling the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were
undermining American workers and interests.
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Engaged extensively
with trade partners like the EU and Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
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Issued a first-ever
comprehensive report on the WTO Appellate Body’s failures to comply with WTO
rules and interpret WTO agreements as written.
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Blocked nominees to
the WTO’s Appellate Body until WTO Members recognize and address longstanding
issues with Appellate Body activism.
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Submitted 5 papers to
the WTO Committee on Agriculture to improve Members’ understanding of how trade
policies are implemented, highlight areas for improved transparency, and
encourage members to maintain up-to-date notifications on market access and
domestic support.
Took strong actions to confront unfair trade
practices and put America First.
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Imposed tariffs on
hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs and stop
China’s abuses under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Section
301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
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Directed an
all-of-government effort to halt and punish efforts by the Communist Party of
China to steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual property.
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Imposed tariffs on
foreign aluminum and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support
our national security.
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Approved tariffs on
$1.8 billion in imports of washing machines and $8.5 billion in imports of
solar panels.
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Blocked illegal timber
imports from Peru.
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Took action against
France for its digital services tax that unfairly targets American technology
companies.
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Launched
investigations into digital services taxes that have been proposed or adopted
by 10 other countries.
Historic support for American farmers.
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Successfully
negotiated more than 50 agreements with countries around the world to increase
foreign market access and boost exports of American agriculture products,
supporting more than 1 million American jobs.
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Authorized $28 billion
in aid for farmers who have been subjected to unfair trade practices – fully
funded by the tariffs paid by China.
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China lifted its ban
on poultry, opened its market to beef, and agreed to purchase at least $80
billion of American agricultural products in the next two years.
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The European Union
agreed to increase beef imports by 180 percent and opened up its market to more
imports of soybeans.
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South Korea lifted its
ban on American poultry and eggs, and agreed to provide market access for
record exports of American rice.
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Argentina lifted its
ban on American pork.
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Brazil agreed to
increase wheat imports by $180 million a year and raised its quotas for
purchases of United States ethanol.
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Guatemala and Tunisia
opened up their markets to American eggs.
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Won tariff exemptions
in Ecuador for wheat and soybeans.
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Suspended $817 million
in trade preferences for Thailand under the Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP) program due to its failure to adequately provide reasonable market access
for American pork products.
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The amount of food
stamps redeemed at farmers markets increased from $1.4 million in May 2020 to
$1.75 million in September 2020 – a 50 percent increase over last year.
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Rapidly deployed the
Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provided $30 billion in support to
farmers and ranchers facing decreased prices and market disruption when
COVID-19 impacted the food supply chain.
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Authorized more than
$6 billion for the Farmers to Families Food Box program, which delivered over
128 million boxes of locally sourced, produce, meat, and dairy products to
charity and faith-based organizations nationwide.
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Delegated authorities
via the Defense Production Act to protect breaks in the American food supply
chain as a result of COVID-19.
American Energy Independence
Unleashed America’s oil and natural gas
potential.
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For the first time in
nearly 70 years, the United States has become a net energy exporter.
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The United States is
now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
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Natural gas production
reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production
in 2018 and in 2017.
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The United States has
been a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years and has an export
capacity of nearly 10 billion cubic feet per day.
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Withdrew from the
unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.
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Canceled the previous
administration’s Clean Power Plan, and replaced it with the new Affordable
Clean Energy rule.
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Approved the Keystone
XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
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Opened up the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
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Repealed the last
administration’s Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium, which prohibited coal leasing
on Federal lands.
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Reformed permitting
rules to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.
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Fixed the New Source
Review permitting program, which punished companies for upgrading or repairing
coal power plants.
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Fixed the
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) steam electric and coal ash rules.
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The average American
family saved $2,500 a year in lower electric bills and lower prices at the gas
pump.
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Signed legislation
repealing the harmful Stream Protection Rule.
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Reduced the time to
approve drilling permits on public lands by half, increasing permit
applications to drill on public lands by 300 percent.
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Expedited approval of
the NuStar’s New Burgos pipeline to export American gasoline to Mexico.
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Streamlined Liquefied
natural gas (LNG) terminal permitting and allowed long-term LNG export
authorizations to be extended through 2050.
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The United States is
now among the top three LNG exporters in the world.
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Increased LNG exports
five-fold since January 2017, reaching an all-time high in January 2020.
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LNG exports are
expected to reduce the American trade deficit by over $10 billion.
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Granted more than 20 new
long-term approvals for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries.
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The development of
natural gas and LNG infrastructure in the United States is providing tens of
thousands of jobs, and has led to the investment of tens of billions of dollars
in infrastructure.
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There are now 6 LNG
export facilities operating in the United States, with 2 additional export
projects under construction.
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The amount of nuclear
energy production in 2019 was the highest on record, through a combination of
increased capacity from power plant upgrades and shorter refueling and
maintenance cycles.
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Prevented Russian
energy coercion across Europe through various lines of effort, including the
Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation, civil nuclear deals with
Romania and Poland, and opposition to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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Issued the
Presidential Permit for the A2A railroad between Canada and Alaska, providing
energy resources to emerging markets.
Increased access to our country’s abundant
natural resources in order to achieve energy independence.
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Renewable energy
production and consumption both reached record highs in 2019.
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Enacted policies that
helped double the amount of electricity generated by solar and helped increase
the amount of wind generation by 32 percent from 2016 through 2019.
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Accelerated
construction of energy infrastructure to ensure American energy producers can
deliver their products to the market.
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Cut red tape holding
back the construction of new energy infrastructure.
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Authorized ethanol
producers to sell E15 year-round and allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be
distributed from existing pumps at filling stations.
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Ensured greater
transparency and certainty in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
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Negotiated leasing
capacity in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Australia, providing American
taxpayers a return on this infrastructure investment.
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Signed an executive
order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of
foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
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Reformed Section 401
of the Clean Water Act regulation to allow for the curation of interstate
infrastructure.
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Resolved the OPEC
(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil crisis during COVID-19
by getting OPEC, Russia, and others to cut nearly 10 million barrels of
production a day, stabilizing world oil prices.
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Directed the
Department of Energy to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mitigate market
volatility caused by COVID-19.
Investing in America’s Workers and Families
Affordable and high-quality Child Care for
American workers and their families.
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Doubled the Child Tax
Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child and expanded the eligibility for
receiving the credit.
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Nearly 40 million
families benefitted from the child tax credit (CTC), receiving an average
benefit of $2,200 – totaling credits of approximately $88 billion.
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Signed the
largest-ever increase in Child Care and Development Block Grants – expanding
access to quality, affordable child care for more than 800,000 low-income
families.
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Secured an additional
$3.5 billion in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
to help families and first responders with child care needs.
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Created the first-ever
paid family leave tax credit for employees earning $72,000 or less.
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Signed into law
12-weeks of paid parental leave for Federal workers.
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Signed into law a
provision that enables new parents to withdraw up to $5,000 from their
retirement accounts without penalty when they give birth to or adopt a child.
Advanced apprenticeship career pathways to
good-paying jobs.
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Expanded
apprenticeships to more than 850,000 and established the new
Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs in new and emerging fields.
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Established the
National Council for the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy
Advisory Board.
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Over 460 companies
have signed the Pledge to America’s Workers, committing to provide more than 16
million job and training opportunities.
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Signed an executive
order that directs the Federal government to replace outdated degree-based
hiring with skills-based hiring.
Advanced women’s economic empowerment.
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Included women’s
empowerment for the first time in the President’s 2017 National Security
Strategy.
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Signed into law key
pieces of legislation, including the Women, Peace, and Security Act and the
Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
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Launched the Women’s
Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative – the first-ever
whole-of-government approach to women’s economic empowerment that has reached
24 million women worldwide.
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Established an
innovative new W-GDP Fund at USAID.
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Launched the Women
Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) with 13 other nations.
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Announced a $50
million donation on behalf of the United States to We-Fi providing more capital
to women-owned businesses around the world.
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Released the
first-ever Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security, which focused on increasing
women’s participation to prevent and resolve conflicts.
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Launched the W-GDP 2x
Global Women’s Initiative with the Development Finance Corporation, which has
mobilized more than $3 billion in private sector investments over three years.
Ensured American leadership in technology and
innovation.
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First administration
to name artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and 5G
communications as national research and development priorities.
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Launched the American
Broadband Initiative to promote the rapid deployment of broadband internet
across rural America.
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Made 100 megahertz of
crucial mid-band spectrum available for commercial operations, a key factor to
driving widespread 5G access across rural America.
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Launched the American
AI Initiative to ensure American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI),
and established the National AI Initiative Office at the White House.
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Established the
first-ever principles for Federal agency adoption of AI to improve services for
the American people.
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Signed the National
Quantum Initiative Act establishing the National Quantum Coordination Office at
the White House to drive breakthroughs in quantum information science.
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Signed the Secure 5G
and Beyond Act to ensure America leads the world in 5G.
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Launched a
groundbreaking program to test safe and innovative commercial drone operations
nationwide.
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Issued new rulemaking
to accelerate the return of American civil supersonic aviation.
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Committed to doubling
investments in AI and quantum information science (QIS) research and
development.
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Announced the
establishment of $1 billion AI and quantum research institutes across America.
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Established the
largest dual-use 5G test sites in the world to advance 5G commercial and
military innovation.
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Signed landmark Prague
Principles with America’s allies to advance the deployment of secure 5G
telecommunications networks.
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Signed first-ever bilateral
AI cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.
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Built collation among
allies to ban Chinese Telecom Company Huawei from their 5G infrastructure.
Preserved American jobs for American workers
and rejected the importation of cheap foreign labor.
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Pressured the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reverse their decision to lay off over 200
American workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
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Removed the TVA
Chairman of the Board and a TVA Board Member.
Life-Saving Response to the China Virus
Restricted travel to the United States from
infected regions of the world.
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Suspended all travel
from China, saving thousands of lives.
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Required all American
citizens returning home from designated outbreak countries to return through
designated airports with enhanced screening measures, and to undergo a
self-quarantine.
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Announced further
travel restrictions on Iran, the Schengen Area of Europe, the United Kingdom,
Ireland, and Brazil.
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Issued travel advisory
warnings recommending that American citizens avoid all international travel.
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Reached bilateral
agreements with Mexico and Canada to suspend non-essential travel and
expeditiously return illegal aliens.
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Repatriated over
100,000 American citizens stranded abroad on more than 1,140 flights from 136
countries and territories.
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Safely transported,
evacuated, treated, and returned home trapped passengers on cruise ships.
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Took action to
authorize visa sanctions on foreign governments who impede our efforts to
protect American citizens by refusing or unreasonably delaying the return of
their own citizens, subjects, or residents from the United States.
Acted early to combat the China Virus in the
United States.
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Established the White
House Coronavirus Task Force, with leading experts on infectious diseases, to manage
the Administration’s efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and to keep
workplaces safe.
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Pledged in the State
of the Union address to “take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens
from the Virus,” while the Democrats’ response made not a single mention of
COVID-19 or even the threat of China.
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Declared COVID-19 a
National Emergency under the Stafford Act.
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Established the 24/7
FEMA National Response Coordination Center.
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Released guidance
recommending containment measures critical to slowing the spread of the Virus,
decompressing peak burden on hospitals and infrastructure, and diminishing
health impacts.
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Implemented strong
community mitigation strategies to sharply reduce the number of lives lost in
the United States down from experts’ projection of up to 2.2 million deaths in
the United States without mitigation.
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Halted American
funding to the World Health Organization to counter its egregious bias towards
China that jeopardized the safety of Americans.
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Announced plans for
withdrawal from the World Health Organization and redirected contribution funds
to help meet global public health needs.
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Called on the United
Nations to hold China accountable for their handling of the virus, including
refusing to be transparent and failing to contain the virus before it spread.
Re-purposed domestic manufacturing facilities
to ensure frontline workers had critical supplies.
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Distributed billions
of pieces of Personal Protective Equipment, including gloves, masks, gowns, and
face shields.
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Invoked the Defense Production
Act over 100 times to accelerate the development and manufacturing of essential
material in the USA.
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Made historic
investments of more than $3 billion into the industrial base.
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Contracted with
companies such as Ford, General Motors, Philips, and General Electric to
produce ventilators.
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Contracted with
Honeywell, 3M, O&M Halyard, Moldex, and Lydall to increase our Nation’s
production of N-95 masks.
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The Army Corps of
Engineers built 11,000 beds, distributed 10,000 ventilators, and surged
personnel to hospitals.
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Converted the Javits
Center in New York into a 3,000-bed hospital, and opened medical facilities in
Seattle and New Orleans.
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Dispatched the USNS
Comfort to New York City, and the USNS Mercy to Los Angeles.
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Deployed thousands of
FEMA employees, National Guard members, and military forces to help in the
response.
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Provided support to
states facing new emergences of the virus, including surging testing sites,
deploying medical personnel, and advising on mitigation strategies.
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Announced Federal
support to governors for use of the National Guard with 100 percent cost-share.
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Established the Supply
Chain Task Force as a “control tower” to strategically allocate high-demand
medical supplies and PPE to areas of greatest need.
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Requested critical
data elements from states about the status of hospital capacity, ventilators,
and PPE.
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Executed nearly 250
flights through Project Air Bridge to transport hundreds of millions of
surgical masks, N95 respirators, gloves, and gowns from around the world to
hospitals and facilities throughout the United States.
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Signed an executive
order invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure that Americans have a
reliable supply of products like beef, pork, and poultry.
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Stabilized the food
supply chain restoring the Nation’s protein processing capacity through a
collaborative approach with Federal, state, and local officials and industry
partners.
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The continued movement
of food and other critical items of daily life distributed to stores and to
American homes went unaffected.
Replenished the depleted Strategic National
Stockpile.
·
Increased the number
of ventilators nearly ten-fold to more than 153,000.
·
Despite the grim
projections from the media and governors, no American who has needed a
ventilator has been denied a ventilator.
·
Increased the number
of N95 masks fourteen-fold to more than 176 million.
·
Issued an executive
order ensuring critical medical supplies are produced in the United States.
Created the largest, most advanced, and most
innovative testing system in the world.
·
Built the world’s
leading testing system from scratch, conducting over 200 million tests – more
than all of the European Union combined.
·
Engaged more than 400
test developers to increase testing capacity from less than 100 tests per day
to more than 2 million tests per day.
·
Slashed red tape and
approved Emergency Use Authorizations for more than 300 different tests,
including 235 molecular tests, 63 antibody tests, and 11 antigen tests.
·
Delivered
state-of-the-art testing devices and millions of tests to every certified
nursing home in the country.
·
Announced more
flexibility to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans to waive cost-sharing for
tests.
·
Over 2,000 retail
pharmacy stores, including CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens, are providing testing
using new regulatory and reimbursement options.
·
Deployed tens of
millions of tests to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, historically
black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribes, disaster relief operations,
Home Health/Hospice organizations, and the Veterans Health Administration.
·
Began shipping 150
million BinaxNOW rapid tests to states, long-term care facilities, the IHS,
HBCUs, and other key partners.
Pioneered groundbreaking treatments and
therapies that reduced the mortality rate by 85 percent, saving over 2 million
lives.
·
The United States has
among the lowest case fatality rates in the entire world.
·
The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) launched the Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program to
expedite the regulatory review process for therapeutics in clinical trials,
accelerate the development and publication of industry guidance on developing
treatments, and utilize regulatory flexibility to help facilitate the
scaling-up of manufacturing capacity.
·
More than 370
therapies are in clinical trials and another 560 are in the planning stages.
·
Announced $450 million
in available funds to support the manufacturing of Regeneron’s antibody
cocktail.
·
Shipped tens of
thousands of doses of the Regeneron drug.
·
Authorized an
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma.
·
Treated around 100,000
patients with convalescent plasma, which may reduce mortality by 50 percent.
·
Provided $48 million
to fund the Mayo Clinic study that tested the efficacy of convalescent plasma
for patients with COVID-19.
·
Made an agreement to
support the large-scale manufacturing of AstraZeneca’s cocktail of two
monoclonal antibodies.
·
Approved Remdesivir as
the first COVID-19 treatment, which could reduce hospitalization time by nearly
a third.
·
Secured more than 90
percent of the world’s supply of Remdesivir, enough to treat over 850,000
high-risk patients.
·
Granted an EUA to Eli
Lilly for its anti-body treatments.
·
Finalized an agreement
with Eli Lilly to purchase the first doses of the company’s investigational
antibody therapeutic.
·
Provided up to $270
million to the American Red Cross and America’s Blood Centers to support the
collection of up to 360,000 units of plasma.
·
Launched a nationwide
campaign to ask patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma.
·
Announced Phase 3 clinical
trials for varying types of blood thinners to treat adults diagnosed with
COVID-19.
·
Issued an EUA for the
monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab.
·
FDA issued an EUA for
casirivimab and imdevimab to be administered together.
·
Launched the COVID-19
High Performance Computing Consortium with private sector and academic leaders
unleashing America’s supercomputers to accelerate coronavirus research.
Brought the full power of American medicine
and government to produce a safe and effective vaccine in record time.
·
Launched Operation
Warp Speed to initiate an unprecedented drive to develop and make available an
effective vaccine by January 2021.
·
Pfizer and Moderna
developed two vaccines in just nine months, five times faster than the fastest
prior vaccine development in American history.
·
Pfizer and Moderna’s
vaccines are approximately 95 effective – far exceeding all expectations.
·
AstraZeneca and
Johnson & Johnson also both have promising candidates in the final stage of
clinical trials.
·
The vaccines will be
administered within 24 hours of FDA-approval.
·
Made millions of
vaccine doses available before the end of 2020, with hundreds of millions more
to quickly follow.
·
FedEx and UPS will
ship doses from warehouses directly to local pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare
providers.
·
Finalized a
partnership with CVS and Walgreens to deliver vaccines directly to residents of
nursing homes and long-term care facilities as soon as a state requests it, at
no cost to America’s seniors.
·
Signed an executive
order to ensure that the United States government prioritizes getting the
vaccine to American citizens before sending it to other nations.
·
Provided approximately
$13 billion to accelerate vaccine development and to manufacture all of the top
candidates in advance.
·
Provided critical
investments of $4.1 billion to Moderna to support the development,
manufacturing, and distribution of their vaccines.
·
Moderna announced its
vaccine is 95 percent effective and is pending FDA approval.
·
Provided Pfizer up to
$1.95 billion to support the mass-manufacturing and nationwide distribution of
their vaccine candidate.
·
Pfizer announced its
vaccine is 95 percent effective and is pending FDA approval.
·
Provided approximately
$1 billion to support the manufacturing and distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s
vaccine candidate.
·
Johnson &
Johnson’s vaccine candidate reached the final stage of clinical trials.
·
Made up to $1.2
billion available to support AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate.
·
AstraZeneca’s vaccine
candidate reached the final stage of clinical trials.
·
Made an agreement to
support the large-scale manufacturing of Novavax’s vaccine candidate with 100
million doses expected.
·
Partnered with Sanofi
and GSK to support large-scale manufacturing of a COVID-19 investigational
vaccine.
·
Awarded $200 million in
funding to support vaccine preparedness and plans for the immediate
distribution and administration of vaccines.
·
Provided $31 million
to Cytvia for vaccine-related consumable products.
·
Under the PREP Act,
issued guidance authorizing qualified pharmacy technicians to administer
vaccines.
·
Announced that
McKesson Corporation will produce store, and distribute vaccine ancillary
supply kits on behalf of the Strategic National Stockpile to help healthcare
workers who will administer vaccines.
·
Announced partnership
with large-chain, independent, and regional pharmacies to deliver vaccines.
Prioritized resources for the most vulnerable
Americans, including nursing home residents.
·
Quickly established
guidelines for nursing homes and expanded telehealth opportunities to protect
vulnerable seniors.
·
Increased
surveillance, oversight, and transparency of all 15,417 Medicare and Medicaid
nursing homes by requiring them to report cases of COVID-19 to all residents,
their families, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
·
Required that all
nursing homes test staff regularly.
·
Launched an
unprecedented national nursing home training curriculum to equip nursing home
staff with the knowledge they need to stop the spread of COVID-19.
·
Delivered $81 million
for increased inspections and funded 35,000 members of the Nation Guard to
deliver critical supplies to every Medicare-certified nursing homes.
·
Deployed Federal Task
Force Strike Teams to provide onsite technical assistance and education to
nursing homes experiencing outbreaks.
·
Distributed tens of
billions of dollars in Provider Relief Funds to protect nursing homes,
long-term care facilities, safety-net hospitals, rural hospitals, and
communities hardest hit by the virus.
·
Released 1.5 million
N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile for distribution to over
3,000 nursing home facilities.
·
Directed the White
House Opportunity and Revitalization Council to refocus on underserved
communities impacted by the coronavirus.
·
Required that testing
results reported include data on race, gender, ethnicity, and ZIP code, to
ensure that resources were directed to communities disproportionately harmed by
the virus.
·
Ensured testing was
offered at 95 percent of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which serve
over 29 million patients in 12,000 communities across the Nation.
·
Invested an
unprecedented $8 billion in tribal communities.
·
Maintained safe access
for Veterans to VA healthcare throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic and supported
non-VA hospital systems and private and state-run nursing homes with VA
clinical teams.
·
Signed legislation
ensuring no reduction of VA education benefits under the GI Bill for online
distance learning.
Supported Americans as they safely return to
school and work.
·
Issued the Guidelines
for Opening Up America Again, a detailed blueprint to help governors as they
began reopening the country. Focused on protecting the most vulnerable and
mitigating the risk of any resurgence, while restarting the economy and
allowing Americans to safely return to their jobs.
·
Helped Americans
return to work by providing extensive guidance on workplace-safety measures to
protect against COVID-19, and investigating over 10,000 coronavirus-related
complaints and referrals.
·
Provided over $31
billion to support elementary and secondary schools.
·
Distributed 125
million face masks to school districts.
·
Provided comprehensive
guidelines to schools on how to protect and identify high-risk individuals,
prevent the spread of COVID-19, and conduct safe in-person teaching.
·
Brought back the safe
return of college athletics, including Big Ten and Pac-12 football.
Rescued the American economy with nearly $3.4
trillion in relief, the largest financial aid package in history.
·
Secured an initial
$8.3 billion Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Act, supporting the
development of treatments and vaccines, and to procure critical medical
supplies and equipment.
·
Signed the $100
billion Families First Coronavirus Relief Act, guaranteeing free coronavirus
testing, emergency paid sick leave and family leave, Medicaid funding, and food
assistance.
·
Signed the $2.3
trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, providing
unprecedented and immediate relief to American families, workers, and
businesses.
·
Signed additional
legislation providing nearly $900 billion in support for coronavirus emergency
response and relief, including critically needed funds to continue the Paycheck
Protection Program.
·
Signed the Paycheck
Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act, adding an additional $310
billion to replenish the program.
·
Delivered
approximately 160 million relief payments to hardworking Americans.
·
Through the Paycheck
Protection Program, approved over $525 billion in forgivable loans to more than
5.2 million small businesses, supporting more than 51 million American jobs.
·
The Treasury
Department approved the establishment of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity
Facility to provide liquidity to the financial system.
·
The Treasury
Department, working with the Federal Reserve, was able to leverage
approximately $4 trillion in emergency lending facilities.
·
Signed an executive
order extending expanded unemployment benefits.
·
Signed an executive
order to temporarily suspend student loan payments, evictions, and collection of
payroll taxes.
·
Small Business
Administration expanded access to emergency economic assistance for small
businesses, faith-based, and religious entities.
·
Protected jobs for
American workers impacted by COVID-19 by temporarily suspending several
job-related nonimmigrant visas, including H-1B’s, H-2B’s without a nexus to the
food-supply chain, certain H-4’s, as well as L’s and certain J’s.
Great Healthcare for Americans
Empowered American patients by greatly
expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability.
·
Eliminated the
Obamacare individual mandate – a financial relief to low and middle-income
households that made up nearly 80 percent of the families who paid the penalty
for not wanting to purchase health insurance.
·
Increased choice for
consumers by promoting competition in the individual health insurance market
leading to lower premiums for three years in a row.
·
Under the Trump
Administration, more than 90 percent of the counties have multiple options on
the individual insurance market to choose from.
·
Offered Association
Health Plans, which allow employers to pool together and offer more affordable,
quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30 percent lower cost.
·
Increased availability
of short-term, limited-duration health plans, which can cost up to 60 percent
less than traditional plans, giving Americans more flexibility to choose plans
that suit their needs.
·
Expanded Health
Reimbursement Arrangements, allowing millions of Americans to be able to shop
for a plan of their choice on the individual market, and then have their
employer cover the cost.
·
Added 2,100 new
Medicare Advantage plan options since 2017, a 76 percent increase.
·
Lowered Medicare
Advantage premiums by 34 percent nationwide to the lowest level in 14 years.
Medicare health plan premium savings for beneficiaries have totaled $nearly 1.5
billion since 2017.
·
Improved access to
tax-free health savings accounts for individuals with chronic conditions.
·
Eliminated costly
Obamacare taxes, including the health insurance tax, the medical device tax,
and the “Cadillac tax.”
·
Worked with states to
create more flexibility and relief from oppressive Obamacare regulations,
including reinsurance waivers to help lower premiums.
·
Released legislative
principles to end surprise medical billing.
·
Finalized requirements
for unprecedented price transparency from hospitals and insurance companies so
patients know what the cost is before they receive care.
·
Took action to require
that hospitals make the prices they negotiate with insurers publicly available
and easily accessible online.
·
Improved patients
access to their health data by penalizing hospitals and causing clinicians to
lose their incentive payments if they do not comply.
·
Expanded access to
telehealth, especially in rural and underserved communities.
·
Increased Medicare
payments to rural hospitals to stem a decade of rising closures and deliver
enhanced access to care in rural areas.
Issued unprecedented reforms that dramatically
lowered the price of prescription drugs.
·
Lowered drug prices
for the first time in 51 years.
·
Launched an initiative
to stop global freeloading in the drug market.
·
Finalized a rule to
allow the importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
·
Finalized the Most
Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same
discounts to the United States as they do to other nations, resulting in an
estimated $85 billion in savings over seven years and $30 billion in
out-of-pocket costs alone.
·
Proposed a rule
requiring federally funded health centers to pass drug company discounts on
insulin and Epi-Pens directly to patients.
·
Ended the gag clauses
that prevented pharmacists from informing patients about the best prices for
the medications they need.
·
Ended the costly
kickbacks to middlemen and ensured that patients directly benefit from
available discounts at the pharmacy counter, saving Americans up to 30 percent
on brand name pharmaceuticals.
·
Enhanced Part D plans
to provide many seniors with Medicare access to a broad set of insulins at a
maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply of each type of insulin.
·
Reduced Medicare Part
D prescription drug premiums, saving beneficiaries nearly $2 billion in premium
costs since 2017.
·
Ended the Unapproved
Drugs Initiative, which provided market exclusivity to generic drugs.
Promoted research and innovation in healthcare
to ensure that American patients have access to the best treatment in the
world.
·
Signed first-ever
executive order to affirm that it is the official policy of the United States
Government to protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
·
Passed Right To Try to
give terminally ill patients access to lifesaving cures.
·
Signed an executive
order to fight kidney disease with more transplants and better treatment.
·
Signed into law a $1
billion increase in funding for critical Alzheimer’s research.
·
Accelerated medical
breakthroughs in genetic treatments for Sickle Cell disease.
·
Finalized the
interoperability rules that will give American patients access to their
electronic health records on their phones.
·
Initiated an effort to
provide $500 million over the next decade to improve pediatric cancer research.
·
Launched a campaign to
end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America in the next decade.
·
Started a program to
provide the HIV prevention drug PrEP to uninsured patients for free.
·
Signed an executive
order and awarded new development contracts to modernize the influenza vaccine.
Protected our Nation’s seniors by safeguarding
and strengthening Medicare.
·
Updated the way
Medicare pays for innovative medical products to ensure beneficiaries have
access to the latest innovation and treatment.
·
Reduced improper
payments for Medicare an estimated $15 billion since 2016 protecting taxpayer
dollars and leading to less fraud, waste, and abuse.
·
Took rapid action to
combat antimicrobial resistance and secure access to life-saving new antibiotic
drugs for American seniors, by removing several financial disincentives and
setting policies to reduce inappropriate use.
·
Launched new online
tools, including eMedicare, Blue Button 2.0, and Care Compare, to help seniors
see what is covered, compare costs, streamline data, and compare tools
available on Medicare.gov.
·
Provided new Medicare
Advantage supplemental benefits, including modifications to help keep seniors
safe in their homes, respite care for caregivers, non-opioid pain management
alternatives like therapeutic massages, transportation, and more in-home
support services and assistance.
·
Protected Medicare
beneficiaries by removing Social Security numbers from all Medicare cards, a
project completed ahead of schedule.
·
Unleashed
unprecedented transparency in Medicare and Medicaid data to spur research and
innovation.
Remaking the Federal Judiciary
Appointed a historic number of Federal judges
who will interpret the Constitution as written.
·
Nominated and
confirmed over 230 Federal judges.
·
Confirmed 54 judges to
the United States Courts of Appeals, making up nearly a third of the entire
appellate bench.
·
Filled all Court of
Appeals vacancies for the first time in four decades.
·
Flipped the Second,
Third, and Eleventh Circuits from Democrat-appointed majorities to
Republican-appointed majorities. And dramatically reshaped the long-liberal
Ninth Circuit.
Appointed three Supreme Court justices,
expanding its conservative-appointed majority to 6-3.
·
Appointed Justice Neil
Gorsuch to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
·
Appointed Justice
Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
·
Appointed Justice Amy
Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Achieving a Secure Border
Secured the Southern Border of the United
States.
·
Built over 400 miles
of the world’s most robust and advanced border wall.
·
Illegal crossings have
plummeted over 87 percent where the wall has been constructed.
·
Deployed nearly 5,000
troops to the Southern border. In addition, Mexico deployed tens of thousands
of their own soldiers and national guardsmen to secure their side of the
US-Mexico border.
·
Ended the dangerous
practice of Catch-and-Release, which means that instead of aliens getting
released into the United States pending future hearings never to be seen again,
they are detained pending removal, and then ultimately returned to their home
countries.
·
Entered into three
historic asylum cooperation agreements with Honduras, El Salvador, and
Guatemala to stop asylum fraud and resettle illegal migrants in third-party
nations pending their asylum applications.
·
Entered into a
historic partnership with Mexico, referred to as the “Migrant Protection
Protocols,” to safely return asylum-seekers to Mexico while awaiting hearings
in the United States.
Fully enforced the immigration laws of the
United States.
·
Signed an executive
order to strip discretionary Federal grant funding from deadly sanctuary
cities.
·
Fully enforced and
implemented statutorily authorized “expedited removal” of illegal aliens.
·
The Department of
Justice prosecuted a record-breaking number of immigration-related crimes.
·
Used Section 243(d) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to reduce the number of aliens coming
from countries whose governments refuse to accept their nationals who were
ordered removed from the United States.
Ended asylum fraud, shut down human smuggling
traffickers, and solved the humanitarian crisis across the Western Hemisphere.
·
Suspended, via
regulation, asylum for aliens who had skipped previous countries where they
were eligible for asylum but opted to “forum shop” and continue to the United
States.
·
Safeguarded migrant
families, and protected migrant safety, by promulgating new regulations under
the Flores Settlement Agreement.
·
Proposed regulations
to end the practice of giving free work permits to illegal aliens lodging
meritless asylum claims.
·
Issued “internal
relocation” guidance.
·
Cross-trained United
States Border Patrol agents to conduct credible fear screenings alongside USCIS
(United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) adjudication personnel to
reduce massive backlogs.
·
Streamlined and
expedited the asylum hearing process through both the Prompt Asylum Claim
Review (PACR) and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP).
·
Launched the Family
Fraud Initiative to identify hundreds of individuals who were fraudulently
presenting themselves as family units at the border, oftentimes with
trafficking children, in order to ensure child welfare.
·
Improved screening in
countries with high overstay rates and reduced visa overstay rates in many of
these countries.
·
Removed bureaucratic
constraints on United States consular officers that reduced their ability to
appropriately vet visa applicants.
·
Worked with Mexico and
other regional partners to dismantle the human smuggling networks in our
hemisphere that profit from human misery and fuel the border crisis by
exploiting vulnerable populations.
Secured our Nation’s immigration system
against criminals and terrorists.
·
Instituted national
security travel bans to keep out terrorists, jihadists, and violent extremists,
and implemented a uniform security and information-sharing baseline all nations
must meet in order for their nationals to be able to travel to, and emigrate
to, the United States.
·
Suspended refugee
resettlement from the world’s most dangerous and terror-afflicted regions.
·
Rebalanced refugee
assistance to focus on overseas resettlement and burden-sharing.
·
85 percent reduction
in refugee resettlement.
·
Overhauled badly-broken
refugee security screening process.
·
Required the
Department of State to consult with states and localities as part of the
Federal government’s refugee resettlement process.
·
Issued strict
sanctions on countries that have failed to take back their own nationals.
·
Established the
National Vetting Center, which is the most advanced and comprehensive visa
screening system anywhere in the world.
Protected American workers and taxpayers.
·
Issued a comprehensive
“public charge” regulation to ensure newcomers to the United States are
financially self-sufficient and not reliant on welfare.
·
Created an enforcement
mechanism for sponsor repayment and deeming, to ensure that people who are
presenting themselves as sponsors are actually responsible for sponsor obligations.
·
Issued regulations to
combat the horrendous practice of “birth tourism.”
·
Issued a rule with the
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make illegal aliens
ineligible for public housing.
·
Issued directives
requiring Federal agencies to hire United States workers first and prioritizing
the hiring of United States workers wherever possible.
·
Suspended the entry of
low-wage workers that threaten American jobs.
·
Finalized new H-1B
regulations to permanently end the displacement of United States workers and
modify the administrative tools that are required for H-1B visa issuance.
·
Defended United States
sovereignty by withdrawing from the United Nations’ Global Compact on
Migration.
·
Suspended Employment
Authorization Documents for aliens who arrive illegally between ports of entry
and are ordered removed from the United States.
·
Restored integrity to
the use of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by strictly adhering to the
statutory conditions required for TPS.
Restoring American Leadership Abroad
Restored America’s leadership in the world and
successfully negotiated to ensure our allies pay their fair share for our
military protection.
·
Secured a $400 billion
increase in defense spending from NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
allies by 2024, and the number of members meeting their minimum obligations
more than doubled.
·
Credited by Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg for strengthening NATO.
·
Worked to reform and
streamline the United Nations (UN) and reduced spending by $1.3 billion.
·
Allies, including
Japan and the Republic of Korea, committed to increase burden-sharing.
·
Protected our Second
Amendment rights by announcing the United States will never ratify the UN Arms
Trade Treaty.
·
Returned 56 hostages
and detainees from more than 24 countries.
·
Worked to advance a
free and open Indo-Pacific region, promoting new investments and expanding
American partnerships.
Advanced peace through strength.
·
Withdrew from the
horrible, one-sided Iran Nuclear Deal and imposed crippling sanctions on the
Iranian Regime.
·
Conducted vigorous
enforcement on all sanctions to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero and deny the
regime its principal source of revenue.
·
First president to
meet with a leader of North Korea and the first sitting president to cross the
demilitarized zone into North Korea.
·
Maintained a maximum
pressure campaign and enforced tough sanctions on North Korea while negotiating
de-nuclearization, the release of American hostages, and the return of the
remains of American heroes.
·
Brokered economic
normalization between Serbia and Kosovo, bolstering peace in the Balkans.
·
Signed the Honk Kong
Autonomy Act and ended the United States’ preferential treatment with Hong Kong
to hold China accountable for its infringement on the autonomy of Hong Kong.
·
Led allied efforts to
defeat the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to control the international
telecommunications system.
Renewed our cherished friendship and alliance
with Israel and took historic action to promote peace in the Middle East.
·
Recognized Jerusalem
as the true capital of Israel and quickly moved the American Embassy in Israel
to Jerusalem.
·
Acknowledged Israel’s
sovereignty over the Golan Heights and declared that Israeli settlements in the
West Bank are not inconsistent with international law.
·
Removed the United
States from the United Nations Human Rights Council due to the group’s blatant
anti-Israel bias.
·
Brokered historic
peace agreements between Israel and Arab-Muslim countries, including the United
Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Sudan.
·
In addition, the
United States negotiated a normalization agreement between Israel and Morocco,
and recognized Moroccan Sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara, a position
with long standing bipartisan support.
·
Brokered a deal for
Kosovo to normalize ties and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
·
Announced that Serbia
would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
·
First American
president to address an assembly of leaders from more than 50 Muslim nations,
and reach an agreement to fight terrorism in all its forms.
·
Established the Etidal
Center to combat terrorism in the Middle East in conjunction with the Saudi
Arabian Government.
·
Announced the Vision
for Peace Political Plan – a two-state solution that resolves the risks of
Palestinian statehood to Israel’s security, and the first time Israel has
agreed to a map and a Palestinian state.
·
Released an economic
plan to empower the Palestinian people and enhance Palestinian governance
through historic private investment.
Stood up against Communism and Socialism in
the Western Hemisphere.
·
Reversed the previous
Administration’s disastrous Cuba policy, canceling the sellout deal with the
Communist Castro dictatorship.
·
Pledged not to lift
sanctions until all political prisoners are freed; freedoms of assembly and
expression are respected; all political parties are legalized; and free
elections are scheduled.
·
Enacted a new policy
aimed at preventing American dollars from funding the Cuban regime, including
stricter travel restrictions and restrictions on the importation of Cuban
alcohol and tobacco.
·
Implemented a cap on
remittances to Cuba.
·
Enabled Americans to
file lawsuits against persons and entities that traffic in property confiscated
by the Cuban regime.
·
First world leader to
recognize Juan Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela and led a
diplomatic coalition against the Socialist Dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas
Maduro.
·
Blocked all property
of the Venezuelan Government in the jurisdiction of the United States.
·
Cut off the financial
resources of the Maduro regime and sanctioned key sectors of the Venezuelan
economy exploited by the regime.
·
Brought criminal
charges against Nicolas Maduro for his narco-terrorism.
·
Imposed stiff
sanctions on the Ortega regime in Nicaragua.
·
Joined together with
Mexico and Canada in a successful bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with 60
matches to be held in the United States.
·
Won bid to host the
2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Colossal Rebuilding of the Military
Rebuilt the military and created the Sixth
Branch, the United States Space Force.
·
Completely rebuilt the
United States military with over $2.2 trillion in defense spending, including
$738 billion for 2020.
·
Secured three pay
raises for our service members and their families, including the largest raise
in a decade.
·
Established the Space
Force, the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.
·
Modernized and
recapitalized our nuclear forces and missile defenses to ensure they continue
to serve as a strong deterrent.
·
Upgraded our cyber
defenses by elevating the Cyber Command into a major warfighting command and by
reducing burdensome procedural restrictions on cyber operations.
·
Vetoed the FY21
National Defense Authorization Act, which failed to protect our national
security, disrespected the history of our veterans and military, and
contradicted our efforts to put America first.
Defeated terrorists, held leaders accountable
for malign actions, and bolstered peace around the world.
·
Defeated 100 percent
of ISIS’ territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
·
Freed nearly 8 million
civilians from ISIS’ bloodthirsty control, and liberated Mosul, Raqqa, and the
final ISIS foothold of Baghuz.
·
Killed the leader of
ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.
·
Created the Terrorist
Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) in partnership between the United States and
its Gulf partners to combat extremist ideology and threats, and target
terrorist financial networks, including over 60 terrorist individuals and entities
spanning the globe.
·
Twice took decisive
military action against the Assad regime in Syria for the barbaric use of
chemical weapons against innocent civilians, including a successful 59 Tomahawk
cruise missiles strike.
·
Authorized sanctions
against bad actors tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
·
Negotiated an extended
ceasefire with Turkey in northeast Syria.
Addressed gaps in American’s
defense-industrial base, providing much-needed updates to improve the safety of
our country.
·
Protected America’s
defense-industrial base, directing the first whole-of-government assessment of
our manufacturing and defense supply chains since the 1950s.
·
Took decisive steps to
secure our information and communications technology and services supply chain,
including unsafe mobile applications.
·
Completed several
multi-year nuclear material removal campaigns, securing over 1,000 kilograms of
highly enriched uranium and significantly reducing global nuclear threats.
·
Signed an executive
order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of
foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
·
Established a
whole-of-government strategy addressing the threat posed by China’s malign
efforts targeting the United States taxpayer-funded research and development
ecosystem.
·
Advanced missile
defense capabilities and regional alliances.
·
Bolstered the ability
of our allies and partners to defend themselves through the sale of aid and
military equipment.
·
Signed the largest
arms deal ever, worth nearly $110 billion, with Saudi Arabia.
Serving and Protecting Our Veterans
Reformed the Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) to improve care, choice, and employee accountability.
·
Signed and implemented
the VA Mission Act, which made permanent Veterans CHOICE, revolutionized the VA
community care system, and delivered quality care closer to home for Veterans.
·
The number of Veterans
who say they trust VA services has increased 19 percent to a record 91 percent,
an all-time high.
·
Offered same-day
emergency mental health care at every VA medical facility, and secured $9.5
billion for mental health services in 2020.
·
Signed the VA Choice
and Quality Employment Act of 2017, which ensured that veterans could continue
to see the doctor of their choice and wouldn’t have to wait for care.
·
During the Trump
Administration, millions of veterans have been able to choose a private doctor
in their communities.
·
Expanded Veterans’
ability to access telehealth services, including through the “Anywhere to
Anywhere” VA healthcare initiative leading to a 1000 percent increase in usage
during COVID-19.
·
Signed the Veterans
Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act and removed thousands
of VA workers who failed to give our Vets the care they have so richly deserve.
·
Signed the Veterans
Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 and improved the efficiency
of the VA, setting record numbers of appeals decisions.
·
Modernized medical
records to begin a seamless transition from the Department of Defense to the
VA.
·
Launched a new tool
that provides Veterans with online access to average wait times and
quality-of-care data.
·
The promised White
House VA Hotline has fielded hundreds of thousands of calls.
·
Formed the PREVENTS
Task Force to fight the tragedy of Veteran suicide.
Decreased veteran homelessness, and education
benefits, and achieved record-low veteran unemployment.
·
Signed and implemented
the Forever GI Bill, allowing Veterans to use their benefits to get an
education at any point in their lives.
·
Eliminated every penny
of Federal student loan debt owed by American veterans who are completely and
permanently disabled.
·
Compared to 2009, 49
percent fewer veterans experienced homelessness nationwide during 2019.
·
Signed and implemented
the HAVEN Act to ensure that Veterans who’ve declared bankruptcy don’t lose
their disability payments.
·
Helped hundreds of
thousands of military service members make the transition from the military to
the civilian workforce, and developed programs to support the employment of
military spouses.
·
Placed nearly 40,000
homeless veterans into employment through the Homeless Veterans Reintegration
Program.
·
Placed over 600,000
veterans into employment through American Job Center services.
·
Enrolled over 500,000
transitioning service members in over 20,000 Department of Labor employment
workshops.
·
Signed an executive
order to help Veterans transition seamlessly into the United States Merchant
Marine.
Making Communities Safer
Signed into law landmark criminal justice
reform.
·
Signed the bipartisan
First Step Act into law, the first landmark criminal justice reform legislation
ever passed to reduce recidivism and help former inmates successfully rejoin
society.
·
Promoted second chance
hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find
meaningful employment.
·
Launched a new “Ready
to Work” initiative to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
·
Awarded $2.2 million
to states to expand the use of fidelity bonds, which underwrite companies that
hire former prisoners.
·
Reversed decades-old
ban on Second Chance Pell programs to provide postsecondary education to
individuals who are incarcerated expand their skills and better succeed in the
workforce upon re-entry.
·
Awarded over $333
million in Department of Labor grants to nonprofits and local and state
governments for reentry projects focused on career development services for
justice-involved youth and adults who were formerly incarcerated.
Unprecedented support for law-enforcement.
·
In 2019, violent crime
fell for the third consecutive year.
·
Since 2016, the
violent crime rate has declined over 5 percent and the murder rate has
decreased by over 7 percent.
·
Launched Operation
Legend to combat a surge of violent crime in cities, resulting in more than
5,500 arrests.
·
Deployed the National
Guard and Federal law enforcement to Kenosha to stop violence and restore
public safety.
·
Provided $1 million to
Kenosha law enforcement, nearly $4 million to support small businesses in
Kenosha, and provided over $41 million to support law enforcement to the state
of Wisconsin.
·
Deployed Federal
agents to save the courthouse in Portland from rioters.
·
Signed an executive
order outlining ten-year prison sentences for destroying Federal property and
monuments.
·
Directed the
Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute Federal offenses
related to ongoing violence.
·
DOJ provided nearly
$400 million for new law enforcement hiring.
·
Endorsed by the
355,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police.
·
Revitalized Project
Safe Neighborhoods, which brings together Federal, state, local, and tribal law
enforcement officials to develop solutions to violent crime.
·
Improved
first-responder communications by deploying the FirstNet National Public Safety
Broadband Network, which serves more than 12,000 public safety agencies across
the Nation.
·
Established a new
commission to evaluate best practices for recruiting, training, and supporting
law enforcement officers.
·
Signed the Safe
Policing for Safe Communities executive order to incentive local police
department reforms in line with law and order.
·
Made hundreds of
millions of dollars’ worth of surplus military equipment available to local law
enforcement.
·
Signed an executive
order to help prevent violence against law enforcement officers.
·
Secured permanent
funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund for first responders.
Implemented strong measures to stem hate
crimes, gun violence, and human trafficking.
·
Signed an executive
order making clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to
discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism.
·
Launched a centralized
website to educate the public about hate crimes and encourage reporting.
·
Signed the Fix NICS
Act to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
·
Signed the STOP School
Violence Act and created a Commission on School Safety to examine ways to make
our schools safer.
·
Launched the Foster
Youth to Independence initiative to prevent and end homelessness among young
adults under the age of 25 who are in, or have recently left, the foster care
system.
·
Signed the Trafficking
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which tightened criteria for whether
countries are meeting standards for eliminating trafficking.
·
Established a task
force to help combat the tragedy of missing or murdered Native American women
and girls.
·
Prioritized fighting
for the voiceless and ending the scourge of human trafficking across the
Nation, through a whole of government back by legislation, executive action,
and engagement with key industries.
·
Created the first-ever
White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.
Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty
Steadfastly supported the sanctity of every
human life and worked tirelessly to prevent government funding of abortion.
·
Reinstated and
expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring that taxpayer money is not used to
fund abortion globally.
·
Issued a rule
preventing Title X taxpayer funding from subsiding the abortion industry.
·
Supported legislation
to end late-term abortions.
·
Cut all funding to the
United Nations population fund due to the fund’s support for coercive abortion
and forced sterilization.
·
Signed legislation
overturning the previous administration’s regulation that prohibited states
from defunding abortion facilities as part of their family planning programs.
·
Fully enforced the
requirement that taxpayer dollars do not support abortion coverage in Obamacare
exchange plans.
·
Stopped the Federal
funding of fetal tissue research.
·
Worked to protect
healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights – ensuring that no
medical professional is forced to participate in an abortion in violation of
their beliefs.
·
Issued an executive
order reinforcing requirement that all hospitals in the United States provide
medical treatment or an emergency transfer for infants who are in need of
emergency medical care—regardless of prematurity or disability.
·
Led a coalition of
countries to sign the Geneva Consensus Declaration, declaring that there is no
international right to abortion and committing to protecting women’s health.
·
First president in
history to attend the March for Life.
Stood up for religious liberty in the United
States and around the world.
·
Protected the
conscience rights of doctors, nurses, teachers, and groups like the Little
Sisters of the Poor.
·
First president to
convene a meeting at the United Nations to end religious persecution.
·
Established the White
House Faith and Opportunity Initiative.
·
Stopped the Johnson
Amendment from interfering with pastors’ right to speak their minds.
·
Reversed the previous
administration’s policy that prevented the government from providing disaster
relief to religious organizations.
·
Protected faith-based
adoption and foster care providers, ensuring they can continue to serve their communities
while following the teachings of their faith.
·
Reduced burdensome
barriers to ensure Native Americans are free to keep spiritually and culturally
significant eagle feathers found on their tribal lands.
·
Took action to ensure
Federal employees can take paid time off work to observe religious holy days.
·
Signed legislation to
assist religious and ethnic groups targeted by ISIS for mass murder and
genocide in Syria and Iraq.
·
Directed American
assistance toward persecuted communities, including through faith-based
programs.
·
Launched the
International Religious Freedom Alliance – the first-ever alliance devoted to
confronting religious persecution around the world.
·
Appointed a Special
Envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
·
Imposed restrictions
on certain Chinese officials, internal security units, and companies for their
complicity in the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
·
Issued an executive
order to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.
Safeguarding the Environment
Took strong action to protect the environment
and ensure clean air and clean water.
·
Took action to protect
vulnerable Americans from being exposed to lead and copper in drinking water
and finalized a rule protecting children from lead-based paint hazards.
·
Invested over $38
billion in clean water infrastructure.
·
In 2019, America
achieved the largest decline in carbon emissions of any country on earth. Since
withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has reduced carbon
emissions more than any nation.
·
American levels of
particulate matter – one of the main measures of air pollution – are
approximately five times lower than the global average.
·
Between 2017 and 2019,
the air became 7 percent cleaner – indicated by a steep drop in the combined emissions
of criteria pollutants.
·
Led the world in
greenhouse gas emissions reductions, having cut energy-related CO2 emissions by
12 percent from 2005 to 2018 while the rest of the world increased emissions by
24 percent.
·
In FY 2019 the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned up more major pollution sites
than any year in nearly two decades.
·
The EPA delivered $300
million in Brownfields grants directly to communities most in need including
investment in 118 Opportunity Zones.
·
Placed a moratorium on
offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Florida.
·
Restored public access
to Federal land at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument.
·
Recovered more
endangered or threatened species than any other administration in its first
term.
Secured agreements and signed legislation to
protect the environment and preserve our Nation’s abundant national resources.
·
The USMCA guarantees
the strongest environmental protections of any trade agreement in history.
·
Signed the Save Our
Seas Act to protect our environment from foreign nations that litter our oceans
with debris and developed the first-ever Federal strategic plan to address
marine litter.
·
Signed the Great
American Outdoors Act, securing the single largest investment in America’s
National Parks and public lands in history.
·
Signed the largest
public lands legislation in a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of
wilderness.
·
Signed a historic
executive order promoting much more active forest management to prevent
catastrophic wildfires.
·
Opened and expanded
access to over 4 million acres of public lands for hunting and fishing.
·
Joined the One
Trillion Trees Initiative to plant, conserve, and restore trees in America and
around the world.
·
Delivered
infrastructure upgrades and investments for numerous projects, including over
half a billion dollars to fix the Herbert Hoover Dike and expanding funding for
Everglades restoration by 55 percent.
Expanding Educational Opportunity
Fought tirelessly to give every American
access to the best possible education.
·
The Tax Cuts and Jobs
Act expanded School Choice, allowing parents to use up to $10,000 from a 529
education savings account to cover K-12 tuition costs at the public, private,
or religious school of their choice.
·
Launched a new
pro-American lesson plan for students called the 1776 Commission to promote
patriotic education.
·
Prohibited the
teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Federal government.
·
Established the
National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the
statues of the greatest Americans to ever live.
·
Called on Congress to
pass the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act to expand education
options for 1 million students of all economic backgrounds.
·
Signed legislation
reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.
·
Issued updated
guidance making clear that the First Amendment right to Free Exercise of
Religion does not end at the door to a public school.
Took action to promote technical education.
·
Signed into law the
Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, which
provides over 13 million students with high-quality vocational education and
extends more than $1.3 billion each year to states for critical workforce development
programs.
·
Signed the INSPIRE Act
which encouraged NASA to have more women and girls participate in STEM and seek
careers in aerospace.
·
Allocated no less than
$200 million each year in grants to prioritize women and minorities in STEM and
computer science education.
Drastically reformed and modernized our
educational system to restore local control and promote fairness.
·
Restored state and
local control of education by faithfully implementing the Every Student
Succeeds Act.
·
Signed an executive
order that ensures public universities protect First Amendment rights or they
will risk losing funding, addresses student debt by requiring colleges to share
a portion of the financial risk, and increases transparency by requiring
universities to disclose information about the value of potential educational
programs.
·
Issued a rule
strengthening Title IX protections for survivors of sexual misconduct in
schools, and that – for the first time in history – codifies that sexual
harassment is prohibited under Title IX.
·
Negotiated historic
bipartisan agreement on new higher education rules to increase innovation and
lower costs by reforming accreditation, state authorization, distance
education, competency-based education, credit hour, religious liberty, and
TEACH Grants.
Prioritized support for Historically Black
Colleges and Universities.
·
Moved the Federal
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative back to the
White House.
·
Signed into law the
FUTURE Act, making permanent $255 million in annual funding for HBCUs and
increasing funding for the Federal Pell Grant program.
·
Signed legislation
that included more than $100 million for scholarships, research, and centers of
excellence at HBCU land-grant institutions.
·
Fully forgave $322
million in disaster loans to four HBCUs in 2018, so they could fully focus on
educating their students.
·
Enabled faith-based
HBCUs to enjoy equal access to Federal support.
Combatting the Opioid Crisis
Brought unprecedented attention and support to
combat the opioid crisis.
·
Declared the opioid
crisis a nationwide public health emergency.
·
Secured a record $6
billion in new funding to combat the opioid epidemic.
·
Signed the SUPPORT for
Patients and Communities Act, the largest-ever legislative effort to address a
drug crisis in our Nation’s history.
·
Launched the
Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand in order to
confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis.
·
The Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a record $9 billion in grants to expand
access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services to States and local
communities.
·
Passed the CRIB Act,
allowing Medicaid to help mothers and their babies who are born physically
dependent on opioids by covering their care in residential pediatric recovery
facilities.
·
Distributed $1 billion
in grants for addiction prevention and treatment.
·
Announced a Safer
Prescriber Plan that seeks to decrease the amount of opioids prescriptions
filled in America by one third within three years.
·
Reduced the total
amount of opioids prescriptions filled in America.
·
Expanded access to
medication-assisted treatment and life-saving Naloxone.
·
Launched
FindTreatment.gov, a tool to find help for substance abuse.
·
Drug overdose deaths
fell nationwide in 2018 for the first time in nearly three decades.
·
Launched the
Drug-Impaired Driving Initiative to work with local law enforcement and the
driving public at large to increase awareness.
·
Launched a nationwide
public ad campaign on youth opioid abuse that reached 58 percent of young
adults in America.
·
Since 2016, there has
been a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of Americans receiving
medication-assisted treatment.
·
Approved 29 state
Medicaid demonstrations to improve access to opioid use disorder treatment,
including new flexibility to cover inpatient and residential treatment.
·
Approved nearly $200
million in grants to address the opioid crisis in severely affected communities
and to reintegrate workers in recovery back into the workforce.
Took action to seize illegal drugs and punish
those preying on innocent Americans.
·
In FY 2019, ICE HSI
seized 12,466 pounds of opioids including 3,688 pounds of fentanyl, an increase
of 35 percent from FY 2018.
·
Seized tens of
thousands of kilograms of heroin and thousands of kilograms of fentanyl since
2017.
·
The Department of
Justice (DOJ) prosecuted more fentanyl traffickers than ever before, dismantled
3,000 drug trafficking organizations, and seized enough fentanyl to kill
105,000 Americans.
·
DOJ charged more than
65 defendants collectively responsible for distributing over 45 million opioid
pills.
·
Brought kingpin
designations against traffickers operating in China, India, Mexico, and more
who have played a role in the epidemic in America.
· Indicted major Chinese drug traffickers for distributing fentanyl in the U.S for the first time ever, and convinced China to enact strict regulations to control the production and sale of fentanyl.