President Donald J. Trump’s Accomplishments List, according to MAGAPill. So Far there are 377 accomplishments on this list.
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“Government
- Trump meets Kim Jong Un at DMZ and becomes first sitting US President to enter North Korea
- Trump signs measure aimed at Preventing Veteran Suicides
- Trump signs Major public lands Conservation bill into law
- Trump signs into law Genocide Prevention Act
- Trump signs legislation enhancing US Leadership in Indo Pacific region
- President Trump signs Ashanti Alert Act into law
- Trump Signs $867B Bipartisan Farm Bill with Welfare Reform Work Requirements
- Trump Signs Law Punishing Chinese Officials Who Restrict Access to Tibet
- Production of Hemp to become Legal in all 50 States with Farm Bill passage
- Trump Limits Asylum Migrants must come in Legally
- Trump Signs New Hezbollah Sanctions Into Law
- Trump signs Opioids Law at White House event
- Trump signs bipartisan Water Infrastructure spending law
- Trump signs the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades
- Trump signs bills to Help Patients stop overpaying for Medicine
- Trump signs law ending Gag Orders against Pharmacists sharing Money Saving information
- Trump signs bill requiring Airports to provide spaces for Breastfeeding Moms
- Trump signs Karis Law on the 50th Anniversary of 911
- Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Military Prison open
- Trump signs proclamation directing troops to secure border
- President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un sign ‘important document’ at Singapore summit
- Trump signs law giving Border Patrol better Fentanyl detection tools
- Trump signs law expanding Hate Crime protections to Religious Institutions
- Trump signs technical education bill into law
- Trump signs law to expand Childhood Cancer Research
- Trump signs bill easing U.S. bank rules into law
- TRUMP SIGNS LAW FIGHTING SEX-TRAFFICKING
- Trump Cuts aid to Palestine
- Trump signs law creating national historic park for Martin Luther King Jr.e
- Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software
- Trump signs Russia sanctions bill into law
- Donald Trump signs law aimed at cutting abortion funding
- President Trump signs law declaring National Vietnam War Veterans Day
- Trump Signs 3 Executive Actions on Crime Against Police, Drug Cartels
- TRUMP SIGNS NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL INTO LAW
- Trump signs Space policy directive
- Trump signs First Step Act criminal justice reform into law
- Trump signs Historic USMCA trade agreement replacing NAFTA
- President Trump secures release of Pastor Brunson from Turkey
- President Trump Approval Rating at 51 Percent
- Justice Kavanaugh SWORN IN to Supreme Court
- Trump Shrinks Government by 16000 Jobs since elected
- US Cuts 300 Million In Aid To Pakistan
- Trump Cut Off 200 Million in Aid to Palestinians
- Trump ends 230 Million Dollar Rebuilding Payments to Syria
- Trump has our soldiers remains returned home from Korean War
- Trump signs Right to Try drug bill
- US Embassy moved to Jerusalem by President Donald J Trump
- Trump secures release of American Prisoners from North Korea
- Trump Negotiates Peace between North and South Korea
- Trump Signs Order Calling for Work Requirements for Welfare Programs
- HISTORIC: Trump Nominates First Woman for Head of CIA
- Feds collect record taxes in first month under Trump’s tax cuts; runs surplus in January
- Trump signs sweeping two-year budget deal – MILITARY FUNDED
- Trump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years – ‘Hire the best and fire the worst’
- Trump signs bipartisan bill to combat synthetic opioids
- Trump Shrinks Federal Bureaucracy by 16000
- President Trump set a record for lifetime appointed judges in 2017
- Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017
- Trump Administration Set to Roll Back $900 Million in Obama-Era Offshore Drilling Regulations
- Individual Mandate of Obamacare REPEALED
- Senate Passes Historic Sweeping Tax Reform
- Climate Change REMOVED from ‘Threat List’
- Trump Admin is a Deregulation Machine: Eliminating 22:1
- Trump signs $700 billion defense bill, gives troops largest pay raise in 7 years
- New Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar System
- Trump Declares Jerusalem the Capital of Israel
- Senate Passes Sweeping Tax Reform – 20% Corporate rate – Largest in 31 Years.
- Trump Shuts Down CIA funding of Syrian Rebels
- House Passes Tax Bill in Major Step Toward Overhaul
- Senate Passes Budget Resolution Clearing the Way to pass Tax Reform with a Simple Majority
- Trump’s HHS defines life as beginning at conception
- President Trump Declassifies and Releases JFK Files
- Iran Deal: DECERTIFIED
- Four Months into FY 2018, Refugee Admissions Plunge to Lowest Level in 15 Years
- US increases security screening measures for vetting refugees
- US Delays Payment to UN for Palestinians
- US Suspends $2 BILLION in security assistance to Pakistan
- Global Magnitsky Act Signed: Targeting Global Corruption and Human Rights Abuse
- North Korea Designated as ‘State Sponor of Terrorism’
- United States Announces a New Strategy on Iran
- Trump Administration Announces ‘Extreme Vetting’ Plans
- Trump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more Christians than Muslims
- Trump: ‘We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values’
- Trump administration abandons the Obama-era clean power plan aimed at reducing global warming
- School Choice tops the list of Priorities U.S. Education Department Grants
- Trump Signs Healthcare Order, Expands Choice and Access through associations
- US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO citing “anti-Israel bias”
- Trump has written 46 Executive Orders
- Treasury Deparment to target companies doing business with North Korea
- Trump has signed 53 bills into law
- New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
- UN Security Council unanimously steps up sanctions against North Korea
- Fewest Monthly Refugee Arrivals in August Since 2002
- Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help Homeland Security
- America has withdrawn almost $300 million in foreign aid to Egypt
- Trump Signs Order Rolling Back Environmental Rules on Infrastructure
- 11,000 government jobs slashed under Trump – downsizing government
- UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea
- Senate confirms 65 Trump nominees for various positions
- U.S. Small Business Administration opens assistance center
- 800 Obama regulations cut – Saved over $200 billion
- EPA’s Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental regulations in record time
- Cut the White House budget – Saved taxpayers $22 million
- Haley Tells Congress US Assuming More Assertive Role at UN
- Trump’s EPA To Repeal Obama’s ‘Waters Of The US’ Rule
- Eliminated 1200 man hours of wasteful paperwork requirements including Y2K preparedness
- President Trump Announces “Massive Permit Reform” Push
- Trump Lays Out Plan to Privatize Air Traffic Control System
- Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord
- Treasury to call for rolling back banking regulations
- Trump orders a Voter Fraud Commission to investigate 2016 election
- Fired corrupt and incompetent FBI Director James Comey
- HHS to Rescind Birth Control Mandate in Obamacare
- Appointed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
- Ben Carson Finds $500 Billion In Errors during Audit of Obama HUD
- President Trump’s executive order will undo Obama’s Clean Power Plan rule
- U.S. Will have Free but Fair and Balanced Trade: Mnuchin
- Executive order to reduce operating costs of the Federal Government
- Fired all 46 attorney generals hired by Obama
- Tillerson to shutter war crimes focused State Dept. office: report
- Rex Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs Antiterrorism Pact With Qatar
- Canceled Obama Era special immigration program for foreign entrepreneurs
- Critical milestone in the global fight against ISIS
- Tillerson to back up Trump efforts to bolster Eastern Europe against Russia
- Tillerson Tightens Limits on Filling State Department Jobs
- Report: Trump plans to cut foreign aid, merge State and USAID
- US to make at least $285m cut to UN budget
- Tillerson on North Korea: Military action is ‘an option’
- It’s a bloodbath at the State Department
- Purging the State Department of Obama loyalists
- Fixing lobbying laws – 5 year lobbying ban on White House officials
- Put a regulatory freeze on all federal agencies
- Cutting regulations in government agencies (add 1, take out 2)
- 45th PRESIDENT of the United States of America, DONALD J. TRUMP
Economy
- Record 157,005,000 Employed; 19th Record of Trump Era
- Boom! America Created 224,000 Jobs in June!
- Best Economic Optimism in 16 years
- 480,000 Manufacturing Jobs added since President Trump’s election
- US job openings rise outnumber the unemployed by 1 million
- Economic Growth Has Reached 3 Percent for the First Time in More than a Decade
- Opportunity Zones A New Dawn for Economic Opportunity
- Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Nearly 50 Years
- Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States
- LARGEST DECLINE IN DRUG PRICES IN NEARLY 50 YEARS
- Trump Policies Keep Economic Boom Going As Job Gains of 304000 Surpass Expectations
- MORE AMERICANS WORKING NOW THAN EVER BEFORE IN OUR HISTORY
- 250K JOBS ADDED IN OCTOBER
- Manufacturing Confidence at an ALL TIME HIGH
- Construction Jobs up more than 300K compared to last year
- Food Stamp usage declines for 8 straight months
- Middle Class income rises to HIGHEST on record
- Consumer Confidence 18 YEAR HIGH
- America is now the worlds largest oil producer
- Fastest growing pace in 14 years for manufacturers
- BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD LOW
- Jobless claims lowest level since 1969
- Trump secures 2026 World Cup for the USA
- Consumer Confidence Highest in 18 years
- Black Business Ownership Under Trump JUMPS 400 PERCENT in ONE YEAR
- Youth Unemployment Hits 52 Year Low
- Black Support for Trump DOUBLES to 29 percent
- RECORD Number of Employed – 63 Percent labor participation
- Worker pay rate hits highest level since 2008
- Black and Hispanic Unemployment rates hit record low in April
- Business Investments up 39 Percent Due to Tax Cuts
- Food Stamp Usage Drops Half Million in Single Month
- Highest Ever Manufacturer Optimism over 94 Percent
- Unemployment claims have fallen to a 45-year low
- Trump Economy Explodes Record Number of Americans Employed Stocks Soar
- FEB JOBS BLOWOUT 313K
- GREAT AGAIN Household Net Worth Pushes Further Into Record Territory
- U.S. Consumer Confidence Is at 17-Year High
- US homebuilding permits soar to highest level since 2007
- Economy to grow at 5.4% rate in first quarter
- Roaring: Economic Optimism Index hits 13-year high, credit to tax cuts
- U.S. jobless claims drop to near 45-year low
- Wages jump to highest level since 2009 – up 2.9%
- U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day, First Time Since 1970
- Trump Decreases Debt to GDP Ratio – First Time in Over 50 Years!
- Jobless claims drop to lowest level in nearly 45 years
- Apple to Invest $350 BILLION in US citing Trump Tax Plan
- Utilities cutting rates, cite benefits of Trump tax reform
- Over 100 companies giving ‘Trump Bonuses’ after tax victory
- Black unemployment rate falls to record low
- Trump adds 184,000 manufacturing jobs and continues growth trend
- Manufacturing in the U.S. Just Accelerated to Its Best Year Since 2004
- Trump Signs Korean Trade Deal
- Trump Blocks Chinese Purchase of Qualcomm due to National Security
- TRUMP SIGNS TARIFF ORDER ON STEEL AND ALUMINUM
- Trump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels imported from China
- Japan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s Visit
- U.S. Trade Deficit falls to 11-month low
- Trump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations End
- Crude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy Partnership
- Trump Blocks China from buying Semi-Conductor company, Lattice
- Crude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. ties
- Argentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 years
- Trump orders probe of China’s intellectual property practices
- New memorandum to protect American IPs from China – Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobs
- Coal exports up 60%
- China opens rice market for US exports for first time ever
- U.S. makes final finding rebar exports from Taiwan
- Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals – May terminate
- United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal
- First U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to Poland
- Signed an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi Arabia
- China, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gas
- Trump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements – WTO
- Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber imports
- Increased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)
- China buys more U.S. coal, sends North Korea
- Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) TERMINATED
- Nikki Haley negotiates $285M cut in ‘bloated’ UN budget
- WIC Welfare Participation Hits 17-Year Low
- U.S. home sales hit 11-year high
- Manufacturing Optimism Reaches Another All-Time High – 94.6%
- Economy adds 228K jobs in November
- Mining up 28.6% – Leads the Nation in Growth
- Broadcom will move back to U.S. — and bring tax money with it
- US private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct – Beats Expectations
- Consumer confidence highest level since December 2000
- Q3 GDP at 3 Percent – Beats Expectations
- Ivanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to foster Entrepreneurship among Women
- Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High
- 63.1%: Participation Rate Reaches Trump-Era High
- Unemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%
- New entrants from outside the labor market made up 3.2
- U.S. Factories Expanding at 13 Year high
- Dow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20 years
- Home builder confidence at 12-year high
- Manufacturer confidence at a 20-year high
- Tech giants pledge millions to Trump initiative
- Q2 GDP up 3.1%
- Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in August
- Federal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at record high of $1.7 trillion – Rising property values and Financial gain
- Surging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2 trillion
- Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under Trump
- Median Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007
- Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey
- Jobless claims drop to 240,000 – hottest streak in 43 years
- U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August
- Recovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated Workers
- U.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005
- American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest pace in six years
- Donald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work Requirements for Welfare
- Consumer confidence strengthens in August, second-highest level since late 2000
- President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer Period of Time Than Any President
- Pennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal mine
- Summer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969
- In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their best earnings in 13 years
- US trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year high
- Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months
- National unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it’s been in 16 years)
- 13,000 jobs being created in WI – largest job announcement in WI history (Foxconn)
- Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 Years
- Gas prices at a 12-year low
- Some states are experiencing their lowest unemployment rates in their histories
- Trump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship Funding
- U.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs
- CEO confidence highest since 2014
- U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 years
- Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and Training
- Government spending as percentage of GDP down
- 1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi Arabia
- Executive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology Council
- USA’s small business confidence is spurring a hiring and spending spree
- Alibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And President Trump’s ‘One Million U.S. Jobs’ Promise
- Slashing job-killing regulations left and right
- Creating thousands of more jobs for immigration officers and border patrol
- Signed a resolution encouraging women in entrepreneurship and STEM
- Executive ordered all federal agencies to create task forces to cut regulations that hurt the economy
- US Manufacturing Index at a 33-year high
- Coal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New Plant
- US Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By Gallup
National Security
- Orders Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security
- The United States has Liberated All ISIS-Controlled Territory
- Trump signs order directing an increase in Cyber Security
- Combating High Nonimmigrant Overstay Rates
- ICE arrests 364 criminal aliens and immigration violators in enforcement surge
- US signs proclamation against Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting
- DHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aid
- ICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern California
- End of Year Report: Deportations up 40% – Historically Low Crossings
- DHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee Admissions
- Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net
- DACA Renewals Drop 21%
- 30-foot concrete slab prototypes erected along border
- ICE has conducted a MASSIVE raid on sanctuary cities this week – 498 illegal immigrants arrested
- Trump has updated the travel ban to includes 8 more countries
- Crossing The Border Illegally Is Harder Than It’s Been In 50 Years
- Withholding Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities – Must allow ICE access to jails and notify befor release
- VA announces Access Standards for Health Care
- Trump signs VA Mission Act
- Enhancing Veteran Care Act
- VA seeks partnerships to build and improve health-care facilities
- VA announces Veterans Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences Act
- VA, Ginnie Mae create task force to address mortgage refinancing issues
- Telemedicine: An important tool for Veterans health
- Trump Signs Bill to Streamline VA Disability Claims Appeals Process
- Trump signs ‘Forever GI Bill,’ boosting aid to student vets
- VA expands Tele-Health access
- VA fires more than 500 feds under Trump, even before new accountability law
- Trump signs VA accountability act into law, promises better care for veterans
- Trump Administration Streamlines Veteran Medical Records
- White House to launch veterans’ complaint hotline
- Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at VA
- $1.6 billion down payment to start building the wall
- Trump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported immigrants
- Rescinded DACA
- Extreme Vetting’ for some green cards
- Deportation orders up 31% nationwide under Trump
- Deportation Orders Up 30%
- Miami has removed its “sanctuary” status
- ICE raids targeting families net 650 arrests
- Denver To ICE: Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants At Courthouse. ICE To Denver: Not A Chance.
- 17 Texas sheriffs approved to partner w/ICE
- ICE chief wants smuggling charges on leaders of sanctuary cities
- New crackdown on ‘so-called’ sanctuary cities
- Raids to target teenaged suspected gang members
- Army Corps starts pre-construction work on border wall
- Deportations in LA are up 60% alone
- 80% jump in illegal targets
- Feds taking over Texas National Guard mission along border
- Border Patrol Morale at Highest Level
- Christian refugees admitted now outnumber Muslim refugees admitted
- Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall
- ICE crackdown scaring some families back to Mexico
- Kate’s Law – harsher penalties for previously deported criminals – Passes House
- Number of refugees taken in is down 50%
- Rescinded DAPA
- Workers install final panel in upgrade of border fence
- Raids turn Oregon city into ghost town
- Ending “catch and release” immigration policy
- Silicon Valley Staffing Firm Charged in H1B Fraud
- Unshackling ICE – told that they can take action against ALL illegal immigrants – increasing presence in sanctuary cities
- Trump signs new defense policy bill that rebuilds military, boosts troop pay
- Top 5 ISIS Leaders Captured
- Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open
- US kills 150 ISIS terrorists in Syria airstrike during government shutdown
- ISIS has lost 98 percent of its territory – due to Trump admin
- Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit of the Department of Defense
- U.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa from ISIS
- ISIS facing imminent collapse in Syria’s Raqqa
- Gen. Mattis breaks down New Afghanistan Strategy
- US-backed fighters ‘seize 80% of Raqqa from Islamic State’
- Mattis sees need for new DOD space programs
- Trump calls for Increased Military: Senate passes $700 billion defense bill
- Mattis seeks Indian role in Afghanistan
- Mattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian ‘aggression’
- U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a “Unified Combatant Command”
- Mattis decides to withhold U.S. cash from key Pakistani military fund
- Mosul liberated from ISIS
- Mattis: ‘Annihilation Tactics’ Being Used Against ISIS
- US, Gulf countries form new group: ‘TFTC’ to stem flow of terror financing
- NATO weighs new ‘Counter Terrorism Post’ following Trump’s demands
- ISIS leader ‘admits DEFEAT in Iraq and orders militants to flee
- Mattis Gives White House Tentative Plan for Rapid Defeat of ISIS
- James Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ US backing for Nato over budgets
- Trump DOJ Sues California For Interference With Immigration Enforcement
- DOJ Halts Obama’s Operation Chokepoint, Which Targeted Firearm Dealers
- More than 1,000 arrests in sex trafficking operation
- Four charged with leaks from Trump administration
- Jeff Sessions announces new crackdown on ‘so-called’ sanctuary cities
- Justice Department announces takedown of AlphaBay, the largest dark web market
- Sessions’s New Civil-Forfeiture Rules
- 400 medical professionals charged in largest health care fraud takedown
- The Department of Justice Stands by Texas’s Voter ID Law
- Charges: Sex traffickers took hundreds from Thailand to US
- AG Sessions is bringing back the harsher sentences for drug dealers
- Sex Trafficking Arrests Soar Under Trump; MSM Completely Ignores
- DHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aid
- Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe
- ICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern California
- End of Year Report: Deportations up 40% – Historically Low Crossings
- DHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee Admissions
- Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net”
“HERE IT IS: COMPLETE LIST OF TRUMP’S HISTORIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS HIS FIRST TWO YEARS IN OFFICE”
This list is from Three Per Center Nation
According to this list there are 265 accomplishments.
Economic Growth
- 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
- For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
- 4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
- More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
- Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
- The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
- Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.
- Unemployment claims at 50 year low
- African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
- African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
- Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
- Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
- Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
- Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
- Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
- July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
- Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
- July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
- Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
- Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
- Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
- Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”
- 68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.
- Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
- Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
- Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
- Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
- Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
- 100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.
American Income
- Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.
- Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.
- Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
- Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
- Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.
- Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
- Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.
- Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.
- American Optimism
- Small business optimism has hit historic highs.
- NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.
- SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
- Manufacturers are more confident than ever.
- 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.
- Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
- 12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.
- Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.
American Business
- Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
- Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
- Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
- ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.
- Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.
- Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.
- Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.
- Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.
Deregulation
- Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
- Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.
- Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.
- Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.
- Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.
Tax Cuts
- Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law
- Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
- Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.
- Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.
- Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.
- Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.
- Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.
- Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
- Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.
- 9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
- More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.
- Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
- Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.
- Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.
Worker Development
- Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.
- Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.
- Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
- Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
Domestic Infrastructure
- Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
- Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.
- Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
- Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.
Health Care
- Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
- Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
- Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
- Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
- FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
- Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.
- Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.
- Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.
- Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.
- Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”
- USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
- Proposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.
- Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.
- HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.
- Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.
- Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.
Combating Opioids
- Chaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders.
- Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to keep dangerous drugs out of our communities.
- $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
- DEA conducted a surge in April 2018 that arrested 28 medical professions and revoked 147 registrations for prescribing too many opioids.
- Brought the “Prescribed to Death” memorial to President’s Park near the White House, helping raise awareness about the human toll of the opioid crisis.
- Helped reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent in 2017.
- Opioid Summit on the administration-wide efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
- Launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.
- Created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis which recommended a number of pathways to tackle the opioid crisis.
- Led two National Prescription Drug Take Back Days in 2017 and 2018, collecting a record number of expired and unneeded prescription drugs each time.
- $485 million targeted grants in FY 2017 to help areas hit hardest by the opioid crisis.
- Signed INTERDICT Act, strengthening efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids before they reach our communities.
- DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
- Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
- Declared the opioid crisis a Nationwide Public Health Emergency in October 2017.
Law and Order
- More U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever.
- Confirmed more than two dozen U. S. Circuit Court judges.
- Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the Constitution
- Nominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
- Signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to develop a strategy to more effectively prosecute people who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.
- Launched an evaluation of grant programs to make sure they prioritize the protection and safety of law enforcement officers.
- Established a task force to reduce crime and restore public safety in communities across Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
- Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
- Violent crime decreased in 2017 according to FBI statistics.
- $137 million in grants through the COPS Hiring Program to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts.
- Enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime.
- Signed legislation making it easier to target websites that enable sex trafficking and strengthened penalties for people who promote or facilitate prostitution.
- Created an interagency task force working around the clock to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent human trafficking.
- Conducted Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.
- Encouraged federal prosecutors to use the death penalty when possible in the fight against the trafficking of deadly drugs.
- New rule effectively banning bump stock sales in the United States.
Border Security and Immigration
- Secured $1.6 billion for border wall construction in the March 2018 omnibus bill.
- Construction of a 14-mile section of border wall began near San Diego.
- Worked to protect American communities from the threat posed by the vile MS-13 gang.
- ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested 796 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
- Justice worked with partners in Central America to secure criminal charges against more than 4,000 MS-13 members.
- Border Patrol agents arrested 228 illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 in FY 2017.
- Fighting to stop the scourge of illegal drugs at our border.
- ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin.
- ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl.
- ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017.
- Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States.
- Signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids.
- DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
- DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
- Released an immigration framework that includes the resources required to secure our borders and close legal loopholes, and repeatedly called on Congress to fix our broken immigration laws.
- Authorized the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.
- Enhanced vetting of individuals entering the U.S. from countries that don’t meet security standards, helping to ensure individuals who pose a threat to our country are identified before they enter.
- These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court hearing.
- ICE removed over 226,000 illegal aliens from the United States in 2017.
- ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in 2017 alone.
- In 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible for
- Over 76,000 with dangerous drug offenses.
- More than 48,000 with assault offenses.
- More than 11,000 with weapons offenses.
- More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses.
- More than 2,000 with kidnapping offenses.
- Over 1,800 with homicide offenses.
- Created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime.
- More than doubled the number of counties participating in the 287(g) program, which allows jails to detain criminal aliens until they are transferred to ICE custody.
Trade
- Negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.
- Agreed to work with the European Union towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsides.
- Deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
- Litigated multiple WTO disputes targeting unfair trade practices and upholding our right to enact fair trade laws.
- Finalized a revised trade agreement with South Korea, which includes provisions to increase American automobile exports.
- Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.
- Agreement to begin trade negotiations for a U.S.-Japan trade agreement.
- Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
- Established a Trade and Investment Working Group with the United Kingdom, laying the groundwork for post-Brexit trade.
- Enacted steel and aluminum tariffs to protect our vital steel and aluminum producers and strengthen our national security.
- Conducted 82 anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations in 2017 alone.
- Confronting China’s unfair trade practices after years of Washington looking the other way.
- 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods imported from China and later imposed an additional 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
- Conducted an investigation into Chinese forced technology transfers, unfair licensing practices, and intellectual property theft.
- Imposed safeguard tariffs to protect domestic washing machines and solar products manufacturers hurt by China’s trade policies
- Withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
- Secured access to new markets for America’s farmers.
- Recent deal with Mexico included new improvements enabling food and agriculture to trade more fairly.
- Recent agreement with the E.U. will reduce barriers and increase trade of American soybeans to Europe.
- Won a WTO dispute regarding Indonesia’s unfair restriction of U.S. agricultural exports.
- Defended American Tuna fisherman and packagers before the WTO
- Opened up Argentina to American pork experts for the first time in a quarter-century
- American beef exports have returned to china for the first time in more than a decade
- OK’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
Energy
- Presidential Memorandum to clear roadblocks to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
- Presidential Memorandum declaring that the Dakota Access Pipeline serves the national interest and initiating the process to complete construction.
- Opened up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration.
- Coal exports up over 60 percent in 2017.
- Rolled back the “stream protection rule” to prevent it from harming America’s coal industry.
- Cancelled Obama’s anti-coal Clean Power Plan and proposed the Affordable Clean Energy Rule as a replacement.
- Withdrew from the job-killing Paris climate agreement, which would have cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion and led to 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs by 2040.
- U.S. oil production has achieved its highest level in American history
- United States is now the largest crude oil producer in the world.
- U.S. has become a net natural gas exporter for the first time in six decades.
- Action to expedite the identification and extraction of critical minerals that are vital to the nation’s security and economic prosperity.
- Took action to reform National Ambient Air Quality Standards, benefitting American manufacturers.
- Rescinded Obama’s hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the industry $32 million per year.
- Proposed an expansion of offshore drilling as part of an all-of-the above energy strategy
- Held a lease sale for offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2018.
- Got EU to increase its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.
- Issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Foreign Policy
- Moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
- Withdrew from Iran deal and immediately began the process of re-imposing sanctions that had been lifted or waived.
- Treasury has issued sanctions targeting Iranian activities and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force
- Since enacting sanctions, Iran’s crude exports have fallen off, the value of Iran’s currency has plummeted, and international companies have pulled out of the country.
- All nuclear-related sanctions will be back in full force by early November 2018.
- Historic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
- The two leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both sides have met resulting in tremendous progress.
- North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
- Negotiated the return of the remains of missing-in-action soldiers from the Korean War.
- Imposed strong sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his inner circle.
- Executive order preventing those in the U.S. from carrying out certain transactions with the Venezuelan regime, including prohibiting the purchase of the regime’s debt.
- Responded to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
- Rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and entities tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
- Directed strikes in April 2017 against a Syrian airfield used in a chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.
- Joined allies in launching airstrikes in April 2018 against targets associated with Syria’s chemical weapons use.
- New Cuba policy that enhanced compliance with U.S. law and held the Cuban regime accountable for political oppression and human rights abuses.
- Treasury and State are working to channel economic activity away from the Cuban regime, particularly the military.
- Changed the rules of engagement, empowering commanders to take the fight to ISIS.
- ISIS has lost virtually all of its territory, more than half of which has been lost under Trump.
- ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city, Raqqah, was liberated in October 2017.
- All Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS.
- More than a dozen American hostages have been freed from captivity all of the world.
- Action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including their efforts to undermine the sanctity of United States elections.
- Expelled dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States and ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, WA.
- Banned the use of Kaspersky Labs software on government computers, due to the company’s ties to Russian intelligence.
- Imposed sanctions against five Russian entities and three individuals for enabling Russia’s military and intelligence units to increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities.
- Sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs, and 12 companies they own or control, who profit from Russia’s destabilizing activities.
- Sanctioned 100 targets in response to Russia’s occupation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine.
- Enhanced support for Ukraine’s Armed Forces to help Ukraine better defend itself.
- Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
- Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
Defense
- Executive order keeping the detention facilities at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay open.
- $700 billion in military funding for FY 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.
- Largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
- Ordered a Nuclear Posture Review to ensure America’s nuclear forces are up to date and serve as a credible deterrent.
- Released America’s first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years.
- New strategy on national biodefense, which better prepares the nation to defend against biological threats.
- Administration has announced that it will use whatever means necessary to protect American citizens and servicemen from unjust prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
- Released an America first National Security Strategy.
- Put in motion the launch of a Space Force as a new branch of the military and relaunched the National Space Council.
- Encouraged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to increase defense spending to their agree-upon levels.
- In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending amongst NATO allies.
- Every member state has increased defense spending.
- Eight NATO allies will reach the 2 percent benchmark by the end of 2018 and 15 allies are on trade to do so by 2024.
- NATO allies spent over $42 billion dollars more on defense since 2016.
- Executive order to help military spouses find employment as their families deploy domestically and abroad.
Veterans Affairs
- Signed the VA Accountability Act and expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
- Delivered more appeals decisions – 81,000 – to veterans in a single year than ever before.
- Strengthened protections for individuals who come forward and identify programs occurring within the VA.
- Signed legislation that provided $86.5 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest dollar amount in history for the VA.
- VA MISSION Act, enacting sweeping reform to the VA system that:
- Consolidated and strengthened VA community care programs.
- Funding for the Veterans Choice program.
- Expanded eligibility for the Family Caregivers Program.
- Gave veterans more access to walk-in care.
- Strengthened the VA’s ability to recruit and retain quality healthcare professionals.
- Enabled the VA to modernize its assets and infrastructure.
- Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act in 2017, which authorized $2.1 billion in addition funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
- Worked to shift veterans’ electronic medical records to the same system used by the Department of Defense, a decades old priority.
- Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
- Increased transparency and accountability at the VA by launching an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with access to wait time and quality of care data.
- Signed legislation to modernize the claims and appeal process at the VA.
- Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, providing enhanced educational benefits to veterans, service members, and their family members.
- Lifted a 15-year limit on veterans’ access to their educational benefits.
- Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
- VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
- Signed the Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act, increasing the number of VA employees that can assist justice-involved veterans.