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Unprecedented Economic Boom
Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous
economy.
America gained 7 million new jobs –
more than three times government experts’ projections.
Middle-Class family income increased
nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous
administration.
The unemployment rate reached 3.5
percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more
job openings than job-hirings.
More Americans reported being
employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year
low.
The number of people claiming
unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
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.
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.
Unemployment for women hit its lowest
rate in nearly 70 years.
Lifted nearly 7 million people off of
food stamps.
Poverty rates for African Americans
and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
Income inequality fell for two
straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
The bottom 50 percent of American
households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
Wages rose fastest for low-income and
blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
African American homeownership
increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.
Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.
Created more than 1.2 million
manufacturing and construction jobs.
Put in place policies to bring back
supply chains from overseas.
Small business optimism broke a
35-year old record in 2018.
Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.
The DOW closed above 20,000 for the
first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have
repeatedly notched record highs.
Rebuilding and investing in rural America.
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.
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.
An October 2020 Gallup survey found
56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four
years prior.
During the third quarter of 2020, the
economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever
recorded.
Since coronavirus lockdowns ended,
the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
Jobs have been recovered 23 times
faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
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.
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.
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.
80 percent of small businesses are
now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
Small business confidence hit a new
high.
Homebuilder confidence reached an
all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
Manufacturing optimism nearly
doubled.
Household net worth rose $7.4
trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
Home prices hit an all-time record
high.
The United States rejected crippling
lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and
instead safely reopened its economy.
Business confidence is higher in
America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
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.
Signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act –
the largest tax reform package in history.
More than 6 million American workers
received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to the tax
cuts.
A typical family of four earning
$75,000 received an income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing their tax
bill in half.
Doubled the standard deduction –
making the first $24,000 earned by a married couple completely tax-free.
Doubled the child tax credit.
Virtually eliminated the unfair
Estate Tax, or Death Tax.
Cut the business tax rate from 35 percent
– the highest in the developed world – all the way down to 21 percent.
Small businesses can now deduct 20
percent of their business income.
Businesses can now deduct 100 percent
of the cost of their capital investments in the year the investment is
made.
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.
Over 400 companies have announced
bonuses, wage increases, new hires, or new investments in the United
States.
Over $1.5 trillion was repatriated
into the United States from overseas.
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.
Created nearly 9,000 Opportunity
Zones where capital gains on long-term investments are taxed at zero.
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.
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.
Approximately 1 million Americans
will be lifted from poverty as a result of these new investments.
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.
Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8
old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
Provided the average American
household an extra $3,100 every year.
Reduced the direct cost of regulatory
compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an additional $50 billion
in FY 2020 alone.
Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the
Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous administration
added over 16,000 pages.
Established the Governors’ Initiative
on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the state, local,
and tribal levels.
Signed an executive order to make it
easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
Signed two executive orders to
increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small
businesses from administrative abuse.
Modernized the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
Reduced approval times for major
infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less.
Helped community banks by signing
legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
Established the White House Council
on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing
costs.
Removed regulations that threatened
the development of a strong and stable internet.
Eased and simplified restrictions on
rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects.
Published a whole-of-government
strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in automated vehicle
technology.
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.
Removed unnecessary regulations that
restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
Modernized the Department of
Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the lead to develop
new technologies.
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.
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.
Issued a final rule on the Fair
Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
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.
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.
Deregulation had an especially
beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher share of their
incomes for overregulation.
Cut red tape in the healthcare
industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and saving
Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
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.
Removed government barriers to
personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
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.
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.
Immediately withdrew from the
job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Ended the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), and replaced it with the brand new United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
The USMCA contains powerful new protections
for American manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers, dairy producers, and
workers.
The USMCA is expected to generate
over $68 billion in economic activity and potentially create over 550,000 new
jobs over ten years.
Signed an executive order making it
government policy to Buy American and Hire American, and took action to stop
the outsourcing of jobs overseas.
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.
Over 90 percent of American
agricultural exports to Japan now receive preferential treatment, and most are
duty-free.
Negotiated another deal with Japan to
boost $40 billion worth of digital trade.
Renegotiated the United States-Korea
Free Trade Agreement, doubling the cap on imports of American vehicles and
extending the American light truck tariff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scored a historic victory by
overhauling the Universal Postal Union, whose outdated policies were
undermining American workers and interests.
Engaged extensively with trade
partners like the EU and Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
Issued a first-ever comprehensive
report on the WTO Appellate Body’s failures to comply with WTO rules and
interpret WTO agreements as written.
Blocked nominees to the WTO’s
Appellate Body until WTO Members recognize and address longstanding issues with
Appellate Body activism.
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.
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.
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.
Imposed tariffs on foreign aluminum
and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support our national
security.
Approved tariffs on $1.8 billion in imports
of washing machines and $8.5 billion in imports of solar panels.
Blocked illegal timber imports from
Peru.
Took action against France for its
digital services tax that unfairly targets American technology companies.
Launched investigations into digital
services taxes that have been proposed or adopted by 10 other countries.
Historic support for American farmers.
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.
Authorized $28 billion in aid for
farmers who have been subjected to unfair trade practices – fully funded by the
tariffs paid by China.
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.
The European Union agreed to increase
beef imports by 180 percent and opened up its market to more imports of
soybeans.
South Korea lifted its ban on
American poultry and eggs, and agreed to provide market access for record
exports of American rice.
Argentina lifted its ban on American
pork.
Brazil agreed to increase wheat
imports by $180 million a year and raised its quotas for purchases of United
States ethanol.
Guatemala and Tunisia opened up their
markets to American eggs.
Won tariff exemptions in Ecuador for
wheat and soybeans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For the first time in nearly 70 years, the
United States has become a net energy exporter.
The United States is now the number
one producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
Natural gas production reached a
record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and
in 2017.
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.
Withdrew from the unfair, one-sided
Paris Climate Agreement.
Canceled the previous
administration’s Clean Power Plan, and replaced it with the new Affordable
Clean Energy rule.
Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota
Access pipelines.
Opened up the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
Repealed the last administration’s
Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium, which prohibited coal leasing on Federal
lands.
Reformed permitting rules to
eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.
Fixed the New Source Review
permitting program, which punished companies for upgrading or repairing coal
power plants.
Fixed the Environmental Protection
Agency’s (EPA) steam electric and coal ash rules.
The average American family saved
$2,500 a year in lower electric bills and lower prices at the gas pump.
Signed legislation repealing the
harmful Stream Protection Rule.
Reduced the time to approve drilling
permits on public lands by half, increasing permit applications to drill on
public lands by 300 percent.
Expedited approval of the NuStar’s
New Burgos pipeline to export American gasoline to Mexico.
Streamlined Liquefied natural gas
(LNG) terminal permitting and allowed long-term LNG export authorizations to be
extended through 2050.
The United States is now among the top three
LNG exporters in the world.
Increased LNG exports five-fold since
January 2017, reaching an all-time high in January 2020.
LNG exports are expected to reduce
the American trade deficit by over $10 billion.
Granted more than 20 new long-term
approvals for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries.
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.
There are now 6 LNG export facilities
operating in the United States, with 2 additional export projects under
construction.
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.
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.
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.
Renewable energy production and
consumption both reached record highs in 2019.
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.
Accelerated construction of energy
infrastructure to ensure American energy producers can deliver their products
to the market.
Cut red tape holding back the
construction of new energy infrastructure.
Authorized ethanol producers to sell
E15 year-round and allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be distributed from
existing pumps at filling stations.
Ensured greater transparency and
certainty in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
Negotiated leasing capacity in the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Australia, providing American taxpayers a return
on this infrastructure investment.
Signed an executive order directing
Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of foreign
adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.
Reformed Section 401 of the Clean
Water Act regulation to allow for the curation of interstate
infrastructure.
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.
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.
Doubled the Child Tax Credit from
$1,000 to $2,000 per child and expanded the eligibility for receiving the
credit.
Nearly 40 million families benefitted
from the child tax credit (CTC), receiving an average benefit of $2,200 –
totaling credits of approximately $88 billion.
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.
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.
Created the first-ever paid family
leave tax credit for employees earning $72,000 or less.
Signed into law 12-weeks of paid
parental leave for Federal workers.
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.
Expanded apprenticeships to more than
850,000 and established the new Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship programs in
new and emerging fields.
Established the National Council for
the American Worker and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.
Over 460 companies have signed the
Pledge to America’s Workers, committing to provide more than 16 million job and
training opportunities.
Signed an executive order that
directs the Federal government to replace outdated degree-based hiring with
skills-based hiring.
Advanced women’s economic empowerment.
Included women’s empowerment for the
first time in the President’s 2017 National Security Strategy.
Signed into law key pieces of
legislation, including the Women, Peace, and Security Act and the Women
Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
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.
Established an innovative new W-GDP
Fund at USAID.
Launched the Women Entrepreneurs
Finance Initiative (We-Fi) with 13 other nations.
Announced a $50 million donation on
behalf of the United States to We-Fi providing more capital to women-owned
businesses around the world.
Released the first-ever Strategy on
Women, Peace, and Security, which focused on increasing women’s participation
to prevent and resolve conflicts.
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.
First administration to name
artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and 5G communications as
national research and development priorities.
Launched the American Broadband
Initiative to promote the rapid deployment of broadband internet across rural
America.
Made 100 megahertz of crucial
mid-band spectrum available for commercial operations, a key factor to driving
widespread 5G access across rural America.
Launched the American AI Initiative
to ensure American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), and established
the National AI Initiative Office at the White House.
Established the first-ever principles
for Federal agency adoption of AI to improve services for the American
people.
Signed the National Quantum
Initiative Act establishing the National Quantum Coordination Office at the
White House to drive breakthroughs in quantum information science.
Signed the Secure 5G and Beyond Act
to ensure America leads the world in 5G.
Launched a groundbreaking program to
test safe and innovative commercial drone operations nationwide.
Issued new rulemaking to accelerate
the return of American civil supersonic aviation.
Committed to doubling investments in
AI and quantum information science (QIS) research and development.
Announced the establishment of $1
billion AI and quantum research institutes across America.
Established the largest dual-use 5G
test sites in the world to advance 5G commercial and military innovation.
Signed landmark Prague Principles
with America’s allies to advance the deployment of secure 5G telecommunications
networks.
Signed first-ever bilateral AI
cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.
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.
Pressured the Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) to reverse their decision to lay off over 200 American workers
and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
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.
Suspended all travel from China,
saving thousands of lives.
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.
Announced further travel restrictions
on Iran, the Schengen Area of Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and
Brazil.
Issued travel advisory warnings
recommending that American citizens avoid all international travel.
Reached bilateral agreements with
Mexico and Canada to suspend non-essential travel and expeditiously return
illegal aliens.
Repatriated over 100,000 American
citizens stranded abroad on more than 1,140 flights from 136 countries and territories.
Safely transported, evacuated,
treated, and returned home trapped passengers on cruise ships.
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.
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.
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.
Declared COVID-19 a National
Emergency under the Stafford Act.
Established the 24/7 FEMA National
Response Coordination Center.
Released guidance recommending
containment measures critical to slowing the spread of the Virus, decompressing
peak burden on hospitals and infrastructure, and diminishing health
impacts.
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.
Halted American funding to the World
Health Organization to counter its egregious bias towards China that
jeopardized the safety of Americans.
Announced plans for withdrawal from
the World Health Organization and redirected contribution funds to help meet
global public health needs.
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.
Distributed billions of pieces of
Personal Protective Equipment, including gloves, masks, gowns, and face
shields.
Invoked the Defense Production Act
over 100 times to accelerate the development and manufacturing of essential
material in the USA.
Made historic investments of more
than $3 billion into the industrial base.
Contracted with companies such as
Ford, General Motors, Philips, and General Electric to produce
ventilators.
Contracted with Honeywell, 3M,
O&M Halyard, Moldex, and Lydall to increase our Nation’s production of N-95
masks.
The Army Corps of Engineers built
11,000 beds, distributed 10,000 ventilators, and surged personnel to
hospitals.
Converted the Javits Center in New
York into a 3,000-bed hospital, and opened medical facilities in Seattle and
New Orleans.
Dispatched the USNS Comfort to New
York City, and the USNS Mercy to Los Angeles.
Deployed thousands of FEMA employees,
National Guard members, and military forces to help in the response.
Provided support to states facing new
emergences of the virus, including surging testing sites, deploying medical personnel,
and advising on mitigation strategies.
Announced Federal support to
governors for use of the National Guard with 100 percent cost-share.
Established the Supply Chain Task
Force as a “control tower” to strategically allocate high-demand medical
supplies and PPE to areas of greatest need.
Requested critical data elements from
states about the status of hospital capacity, ventilators, and PPE.
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.
Signed an executive order invoking
the Defense Production Act to ensure that Americans have a reliable supply of
products like beef, pork, and poultry.
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.
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, improved 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.
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