Signs 5-Year Lobbying Ban for Administration Officials
Executive Order directing federal agencies to remove two regulations for every new one they issued, and cap the total cost of new regulations at zero
Signed Right to Try bill into law
Allowed free credit freeze and unfreeze for consumers
Signs $55 Billion Bill to Replace VA Choice Program
Reduced white house staff saving $5.7 million/year
Insisted that NATO members pay their agreed amount to support their defense
Signs bills lifting pharmacist ‘gag clauses’ on drug prices that kept pharmacists from disclosing cheaper drug options to consumers
Signs Save our Seas Act, authorizing $10 million per year to fund NOAA’s Marine Debris Program
Signs bill requiring airports to provide spaces for nursing mothers
Signs Opportunity Zone order to revitalize over 8,000 economically distressed communities, affecting nearly 35 million people.
Unemployment at record lows for all Americans
All-time low unemployment for minorities
Constant U.S. factory production expansion
Fastest wage growth in a decade
Launched global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality
Signs Biggest Wilderness Protection Bill in Decade, Designates 375,000 New Acres of Protected Land
Eliminated AMT for most taxpayers
Required upfront disclosure of costs for medical procedures.
Expanded uses for Health Savings Accounts
Signed an Executive order on kidney transplants that will save thousands of lives each year
Trump administration oversees five-year high in approved citizenship applications
Signs order to expedite forgiving student loan debt for disabled veterans
Real median household income increased to the highest level in nearly two decades
Poverty rate fell to its lowest level since 2001 reaching 11.8 percent in 2018 – almost 1% lower than 2 years ago
Between 2017 and 2018, 1.4 million Americans were lifted out of poverty
The poverty rate fell by 0.9 percentage points for black Americans in 2018
The poverty rate fell by 0.8 percentage points for Hispanic Americans in 2018
The poverty rate fell by 1.2 percentage point for children in 2018
Poverty among single mothers with children fell by 2.5 percentage points in 2018
in 2018 the share of income held by the top 20 percent fell by the largest amount in over a decade
HHS announces the largest decrease in prescription drug prices in over 50 years
To end AIDS transmission by 2030 – Ready Set PrEP gives free Pre-exposure prophylaxis to protect up to 200,000 people a year over the next 11 years.
Trump signs bill restoring funding for black colleges, restoring $255 million in annual funding that lapsed after Congress failed to renew it.
Introduces Price Transparency Requirements to Increase Competition and Lower Healthcare Costs
Trump signs bill making animal cruelty a felony
US greenhouse gas emissions were reduced an estimated 2.1% in 2019
Trump announces the US will join 1 trillion tree initiative
Betsy DeVos issues memo to better protect student loan borrowers
Ivanka Trump Records A Message Dedicated To Middle Eastern Women During UAE Trip addressing the USA and UAE’s combined efforts to empower women globally
Suspended Federal Student Loan payments through all of 2020
First Human Space Mission Launched From U.S. Since 2011
Executive Order keeping foreign-made equipment out of our power grid
Signs Executive Order boosting support for Foster Child programs, increasing adoption chances for kids
U.S. Navy vet freed from Iran marks over 40 American hostages and detainees brought home since Trump took office
Signs Bill Pressuring China Over Uighur Muslim Crackdown
Executive Order directing federal agencies to fill vacancies based on merit, rather than require a certain level of education
Signed four executive orders to lower drug prices that progressive Democrats, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have pushed
Signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law – $2.8 billion toward land acquisition and conservation efforts
Does not take any salary, instead donates the money to charity
Signs Executive Order to Boost U.S. Drug Manufacturing
Congress gridlocked on Covid relief – Trump signs Executive Orders to just do it himself.
Brokers peace deal between Israel and UAE, a victory for peaceful Muslims
Announces posthumous pardon to Susan B. Anthony
More Than 6,500 Teachers Have Had Unfair Student Debts Erased
People who live near the most toxic sites in America say that under Trump they saw a level of attention they hadn’t seen in decades
Four executive orders to lower prescription drug prices – allow drug imports from countries like Canada, requires middlemen to pass on discounts, lower insulin costs, and require Medicare to purchase drugs at the same price that other countries pay.
Pretty much destroyed ISIS. ISIS was a rapidly growing threat when he assumed office – a year after the end of his presidency it was a shadow of what it was.
The first American President in the lifetime of anyone under 30 who didn’t start a war or get us into a war and, in fact, reduced our troop deployments and involvement in other nations.
Signed the Abraham Accords, which marked the first public normalization of relations between an Arab country and Israel since that of Jordan in 1994.
