{"id":284,"date":"2019-08-03T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americaschallenges.wordpress.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:25:00","slug":"the-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"The List Of President Trump&#8217;s Accomplishments So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>Mar 10, 2019 <\/p>\n<p><u>Keep this list handy for the next time you get into a argument with a Trump hater, or sed this to them:<\/u> <\/p>\n<p><strong>IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump\u2019s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to President Trump\u2019s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters.\n<li>Real GDP grew at annual rates of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter.\n<li>More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump\u2019s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.\n<li>This is the eighth time this year that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent.\n<li>Prior to this year, the unemployment rate had fallen below 4 percent only five times since 1970.\n<li>The unemployment rate for African Americans in May fell to 5.9 percent, which is the lowest rate on record.\n<li>Asian and Hispanic-American unemployment rates have reached record lows this year.\n<li>Initial weekly jobless claims have hit a nearly 50-year low under President Trump.\n<li>Under President Trump, job openings outnumber the unemployed for the first time on record.\n<li>Recently, more than two-thirds of Americans rated \u201cnow\u201d as a good time to find a quality job, tying a record high in a poll by Gallup.\n<li>Americans are seeing more money in their pockets thanks to the booming economy.\n<li>In recent months, workers have seen their largest nominal year over year wage growth in nearly a decade.\n<li>In 2017, real median household income rose to a post-recession high.\n<li>President Trump\u2019s policies are helping to lift Americans out of poverty.\n<li>African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent, respectively, in 2017.\n<li>Since the election, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.\n<li>Consumer confidence has soared under President Trump, recently reaching an 18-year high.\n<li>President Trump is delivering on his promise to bring back American manufacturing.\n<li>The National Association of Manufacturers\u2019 Outlook Index had the highest annual average in its history over the past year.\n<li>Manufacturing added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most added in a year since 1997\n<li>Small Business optimism jumped to a record high under President Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).\n<li>The NFIB\u2019s Small Business Optimism Index broke a 35-year record in August.\n<li>President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, ushering in the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.\n<li>These tax cuts are delivering real results for American families and workers.\n<li>More than 6 million workers received tax cut bonuses and benefits.\n<li>More than 100 utility companies have announced lower rates.\n<li>President Trump is ensuring American workers receive the training and education they need to compete in today\u2019s economy.\n<li>President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.\n<li>More than 185 companies and associations have signed our \u201cPledge to America\u2019s Workers,\u201d promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.\n<li>The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.\n<li>President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.\n<li>The women\u2019s unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years.\n<li>The Small Business Administration lent approximately $500 million more in capital to women-owned businesses in 2017 compared to 2016.\n<li>The Administration helped launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which could leverage more than $1 billion to support women entrepreneurs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ROLLING BACK RED TAPE: President Trump is rolling back costly regulations that have burdened hardworking Americans and stifled innovation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump has followed through on and exceeded his promise to roll back two regulations for every new one created.\n<li>President Trump\u2019s Administration surpassed the 2:1 ratio in 2018, eliminating 12 regulations for every new one in 2018.\n<li>In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated 22 regulations for every new one.\n<li>Since taking office, President Trump\u2019s deregulation efforts have achieved $33 billion in regulatory savings.\n<li>In 2018, these efforts alone delivered $23 billion in benefits to American families and business owners.\n<li>President Trump has signed 16 Congressional Review Act resolutions into law, eliminating burdensome Obama-era rules and regulations.\n<li>President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have harmed America\u2019s economy and cost American workers millions of jobs.\n<li>President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects with a goal of cutting approval time from up to 10 years to an average of 2 years.\n<li>President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NEGOTIATING BETTER DEALS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is negotiating fair and balanced trade deals that protect American industries and workers.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.\n<li>Once enacted by Congress, the United States\u2013Mexico\u2013Canada Agreement (USMCA) will better serve the interests of American workers and businesses.\n<li>USMCA will incentivize billions of dollars in auto and auto parts production in the United States and create a freer and fairer market for American agriculture.\n<li>USMCA also includes the strongest-ever provisions on labor, environmental, digital, and intellectual property protections to reflect the realities of the 21st century economy.\n<li>The President renegotiated the United States\u2013Korea Free Trade Agreement to preserve and grow jobs in the American auto industry and increase American exports.\n<li>The United States and Japan are set to begin negotiations on a United States\u2013Japan Trade Agreement.\n<li>President Trump is establishing a new trade relationship with the European Union (EU), working toward the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to transatlantic trade.\n<li>President Trump has established a Trade and Investment Working Group to lay the groundwork for post-Brexit trade with the United Kingdom (UK) and has notified Congress of his intent to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK.\n<li>This year, President Trump filed a withdrawal notification with the Universal Postal Union, launching a one-year negotiation to secure fair international postal rates for American mailers.\n<li>President Trump has expanded market access for American agricultural producers.\n<li>Argentina has opened to American pork and beef, Brazil to American beef, Japan to lamb and Idaho chipping potatoes, South Korea to American poultry, and more.\n<li>The Administration authorized $12 billion to aid farmers affected by unfair retaliatory tariffs.\n<li>The Trump Administration has begun the process to expand the sale of E15, or gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol, to year round.\n<li>Under President Trump, the United States will no longer accept bad trade deals and unfair trade practices that harm American workers and industries.\n<li>One of the President\u2019s first actions after taking office was withdrawing the United States from the terrible Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incentivized outsourcing.\n<li>In 2017, the Administration oversaw 82 antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.\n<li>President Trump is holding China accountable for its unfair trade practices, such as the theft of intellectual property, by imposing tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods.\n<li>Following President Trump\u2019s successful meeting with President Xi in Buenos Aires, both agreed to conduct negotiations over 90 days to address the United States concerns.\n<li>American steel and aluminum jobs are coming back following President Trump\u2019s tariffs to protect domestic industries that are vital to national security.\n<li>President Trump imposed tariffs to protect American-made washing machines and solar products that were hurt by import surges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY:President Trump is rolling back costly and burdensome regulations to unleash America\u2019s incredible energy resources.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After years of stifling regulation under the last Administration, President Trump is unleashing America\u2019s energy potential.\n<li>America is the largest crude oil producer in the world and production has hit a record high.\n<li>President Trump\u2019s policies are helping to boost American energy exports.\n<li>The Administration has streamlined Liquefied Natural Gas terminal permitting.\n<li>In 2017, the United States became a net natural gas exporter for the first time in 60 years.\n<li>American coal exports increased by more than 60 percent in 2017.\n<li>President Trump is expanding access to our country\u2019s abundant natural resources.\n<li>The President signed legislation to open up energy exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.\n<li>In July 2018, the Department of the Interior announced it would hold the largest oil and gas lease sale in history.\n<li>In 2017, the Administration approved construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and the cross border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.\n<li>The Administration issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will export American petroleum products to Mexico.\n<li>The President has ended the war on coal, cutting Obama-era regulations such as the \u201cStream Protection Rule\u201d which was estimated to cost industries $81 million a year.\n<li>President Trump is replacing the Clean Power Plan, a flawed Obama-era regulation that the Supreme Court ordered halted.\n<li>President Trump rescinded the hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the oil and gas industry $32 million per year.\n<li>The Trump Administration curbed the burdensome Obama-era rule on methane, saving American energy developers hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EXPANDING OPTIONS FOR QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE:President Trump is expanding access to affordable healthcare choices and taking action to lower drug prices.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump\u2019s Administration is working to provide Americans with affordable alternatives to Obamacare.\n<li>The Administration expanded short-term, limited duration health insurance plans that are expected to be nearly 50 percent cheaper than unsubsidized Obamacare plans.\n<li>President Trump has expanded association health plans, allowing more employers to join together across State lines and affordably offer coverage to their employees.\n<li>The Administration proposed a reform to Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) regulations that will give consumers more freedom to purchase benefits that fit their needs.\n<li>Roughly 800,000 employers are expected to provide HRAs for more than 10 million employees once the rule finalized.\n<li>Americans have more healthcare freedom thanks to the President signing legislation that ended Obamacare\u2019s individual mandate penalty.\n<li>While healthcare premiums had been steadily increasing as a result of Obamacare, the average benchmark exchange premium will decline for the first time in 2019 thanks to President Trump\u2019s policies.\n<li>Next year, Americans will benefit from more insurer participation on the exchanges.\n<li>Medicare Advantage plans offer more benefit options than ever before, and average premiums in 2019 will be 6 percent lower than in 2018.\n<li>President Trump launched an unprecedented campaign to drive down drug prices, leading more than a dozen drug manufactures to enact price freezes, reductions, or rollbacks.\n<li>In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a record number of generic drugs, breaking the previous record set by the Administration in 2017.\n<li>The FDA\u2019s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 generic drug approvals are expected to bring nearly $9 billion in savings in 2017 alone.\n<li>President Trump signed legislation eliminating contractual gag clauses that stopped pharmacists from informing patients about lower drug prices.\n<li>The President put forth an initiative to stop global freeloading that drives up prices for American patients.\n<li>The Administration provided Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans with new negotiating tools to drive down drug costs for American patients.\n<li>The Administration implemented reforms to the amount Medicare pays hospitals for drugs that are purchased under the 340B program, saving seniors $320 million in 2018.\n<li>President Trump signed \u201cRight to Try\u201d legislation to expand access to experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE CRISIS NEXT DOOR: President Trump mobilized his entire Administration to combat the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across the country.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump launched an Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to confront the driving forces behind this crisis.\n<li>The President signed the landmark SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest and most comprehensive legislative package addressing a single drug crisis in history.\n<li>The President helped secure a record $6 billion in funding to fight the opioid epidemic.\n<li>The Administration provided more than $2 billion in grants in 2018 to help States, territories, tribes, and local communities prevent and treat opioid abuse.\n<li>The Administration pursued scientific solutions to prevent and treat addiction through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.\n<li>The President launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction and youth opioid usage.\n<li>Last year, President Trump created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which recommends ways to tackle the opioid crisis.\n<li>The Administration declared the opioid crisis a nationwide Public Health Emergency in 2017.\n<li>President Trump is working to cut off the flow of deadly opioids into our country and to disrupt the networks that distribute them to our communities.\n<li>The Administration secured first-ever indictments against Chinese nationals for fentanyl trafficking.\n<li>The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a surge to target fentanyl and heroin dealers in the districts with the most severe overdose death rates.\n<li>The DOJ formed a Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team and shut down the biggest Darknet distributor of drugs.\n<li>Last year, the DOJ announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history, arresting more than 120 defendants with opioid-related crimes.\n<li>The President launched a Safer Prescribing Plan that seeks to cut nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third within three years.\n<li>The Administration has led four National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days, collecting a record-breaking 1,837 tons of expired and unneeded prescription drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STANDING UP FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: The President is committed to defending the right to life and religious liberty.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shortly after taking office, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy.\n<li>President Trump defunded a United Nations (UN) agency for colluding with China\u2019s brutal program of forced abortion and sterilization.\n<li>The Administration withdrew guidance that constrained State\u2019s ability to exclude family-planning providers that provide abortion services from the Medicaid program.\n<li>The Trump Administration proposed new regulations to ensure Title X family planning funding does not go to projects that perform, support, or refer patients for abortion.\n<li>The Trump Administration issued regulations establishing new or expanded exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.\n<li>In 2017, the President issued an executive order to promote free speech and religious liberty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>KEEPING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES SAFE: President Trump has made clear that his first responsibility is to protect the safety and security of Americans.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows violent crime decreased under President Trump\u2019s watch in 2017, following two consecutive years of increases.\n<li>United States Attorneys indicted the most violent criminals on record last year.\n<li>Last year, the DOJ announced nearly $100 million in grant funding to hire hundreds of additional law enforcement officers.\n<li>President Trump is cracking down on the vile MS-13 gang that has brought violence to communities across the country.\n<li>In 2017, the DOJ worked with international partners to arrest and charge approximately 4,000 MS-13 members.\n<li>Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations arrested nearly 800 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.\n<li>President Trump signed an executive order to restore State and local law enforcement\u2019s access to surplus equipment that can be used to help keep our communities safe.\n<li>President Trump enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.\n<li>The DOJ announced the creation of the National Public Safety Partnership in 2017, launching a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crime.\n<li>President Trump signed legislation to improve the Federal firearm background check system and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.\n<li>President Trump signed the First Step Act, which includes bipartisan reforms to make our Federal justice system fairer and our communities safer.\n<li>The First Step Act will help prepare inmates to successfully rejoin society, reducing recidivism and improving community safety.\n<li>This legislation includes commonsense sentencing reforms that will make our Federal justice system fairer while keeping violent criminals and sex offenders off our streets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ENFORCING OUR LAWS AND SECURING OUR BORDERS: From the first day of his Administration, President Trump has worked to uphold the rule of law and secure our borders.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump released an immigration framework that would fix our broken immigration system through merit-based reform and provide the resources needed to secure our border.\n<li>This includes closing the legal loopholes that enable illegal immigration, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery.\n<li>President Trump secured funding to begin building the wall and construction has already begun in areas along the southern border.\n<li>President Trump deployed the military to assist in securing the southern border.\n<li>President Trump and his Administration took action to require aliens seeking asylum to go to a port of entry to make their claim.\n<li>Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 17,256 criminals and 1,019 gang members in FY 2018.\n<li>ICE\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 158,581 aliens in FY 2018, an 11 percent increase from FY 2017.\n<li>90 percent of those arrested had criminal convictions, pending charges, or had been issued final orders of removal.\n<li>ICE ERO increased removals by 13 percent in FY 2018 to 256,086, the majority of whom were convicted criminals.\n<li>Removals of convicted criminal aliens increased by 14 percent from FY 2017.\n<li>Nearly 6,000 known or suspected gang members were removed in FY 2018, a 9 percent increase from FY 2017.\n<li>The Department of Justice prosecuted a record number of criminal immigration offenses in FY 2018, and increased the number of prosecutions for illegal entry by 84 percent over FY 2017.\n<li>Immigration courts are now completing more cases than at any point since 2011\n<li>President Trump kept his promise by launching the office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.\n<li>The Administration has more than doubled the number of jurisdictions participating in the 287(g) program, which enables State and local law enforcement to aid immigration enforcement.\n<li>President Trump has made our country safer by ordering the enhanced vetting of individuals entering from countries that do not meet our security standards.\n<li>These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REBUILDING AMERICA\u2019S MILITARY FORCE: President Trump is rebuilding our military and defending America\u2019s interests across the world.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump ended the devastating defense cuts of the past Administration and has secured historic investments to rebuild our military.\n<li>President Trump signed legislation providing $700 billion for defense in FY 2018 and $716 billion in FY 2019.\n<li>President Trump is supporting America\u2019s men and women in uniform, securing the largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.\n<li>The President issued a new National Security Strategy to keep America safe from all threats.\n<li>The Administration has also released new strategies specific to cybersecurity, biodefense, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction terrorism.\n<li>President Trump directed the first whole-of-government assessment of United States manufacturing and defense supply chains since the Eisenhower Administration.\n<li>President Trump initiated the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, improving United States deterrence policy and existing capabilities to counter nuclear threats.\n<li>President Trump empowered our military commanders with broad authority in order to take the fight to ISIS, and the results are clear.\n<li>ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated since President Trump took office.\n<li>All of ISIS\u2019 territory in Iraq was successfully liberated.\n<li>ISIS\u2019 self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah has been recaptured.\n<li>ISIS\u2019 territorial caliphate has been defeated and President Trump has announced that he is bringing America\u2019s troops in Syria home.\n<li>President Trump announced a new Iran strategy to confront all of Iran\u2019s malign activities and withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal.\n<li>All sanctions that had been lifted or waived under the Iran deal have been reimposed.\n<li>The Administration has sanctioned more than 160 individuals tied to the regime\u2019s support of terrorism, ballistic missile program, human rights abuses, and more.\n<li>President Trump took decisive military action to respond to the barbaric use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.\n<li>President Trump directed strikes in response to the regime\u2019s chemical weapons attacks in April 2017 and April 2018.\n<li>The Trump Administration has also rolled out sanctions targeting those tied to Syria\u2019s chemical weapons program.\n<li>President Trump is strengthening America\u2019s cyber defense and directed the elevation of the United States Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.\n<li>The President announced that the Department of Defense will work to create a Space Force to serve as an independent branch of the United States military.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ABROAD: President Trump is restoring American leadership on the world stage and advancing an America first agenda.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump held an historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.\n<li>Since the summit, the leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both countries have met.\n<li>Because of the President\u2019s actions, North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.\n<li>The remains of POW\/MIA service members from the Korean War are being returned to the United States.\n<li>Prior to the summit, President Trump\u2019s leadership helped secure the passage of historic UN sanctions on North Korea.\n<li>President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there.\n<li>President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council due to its bias against Israel.\n<li>The Administration made clear that it does not accept the International Criminal Court\u2019s jurisdiction over Americans and will continue to protect America\u2019s sovereignty.\n<li>President Trump has successfully advocated for cutting waste at the UN.\n<li>Changes made to the organization\u2019s structure allowed the UN to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their budget, while making the organization more efficient.\n<li>The President\u2019s leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has encouraged members to increase their defense spending and realign the Alliance\u2019s priorities.\n<li>In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending among NATO allies.\n<li>President Trump convinced the Alliance to strengthen counterterrorism activities, and NATO formally joined the coalition to defeat ISIS.\n<li>President Trump\u2019s Administration is working to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific through investments and partnerships.\n<li>President Trump has imposed tough sanctions on the corrupt regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.\n<li>President Trump has taken tough action to combat Russia\u2019s malign activities, including Russia\u2019s efforts to undermine United States elections.\n<li>The Administration has imposed sanctions on more than 200 individuals and entities related to Russia\u2019s destabilizing activities.\n<li>The Trump Administration has enhanced support for Ukraine\u2019s defense by stepping up sales of weapons to its military.\n<li>The Trump Administration has secured the release of numerous American citizens held abroad, including Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Josh Holt from Venezuela, and more.\n<li>President Trump attended G20 summits in Argentina and Germany, where he promoted American First policies and encouraged closer cooperation.\n<li>In 2017, President Trump conducted tours through Asia to promote America\u2019s interests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HONORING AMERICA\u2019S COMMITMENT TO OUR VETERANS: President Trump is honoring America\u2019s commitment to our veterans by ensuring they receive the quality care they have earned.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump secured a record $73.1 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide quality medical care for our veterans.\n<li>This funding included $8.6 billion for mental health services, $400 million for opioid abuse prevention, $206 million for suicide prevention, and more.\n<li>The President signed the VA MISSION Act, revolutionizing that VA healthcare system and reforming numerous services for our veterans.\n<li>This legislation will consolidate and reform existing programs to give eligible veterans better access to healthcare providers in their communities.\n<li>Thanks to this legislation, eligible veterans will have access to walk-in community clinics that offer immediate, local care.\n<li>President Trump and his Administration have expanded access to telehealth services for veterans, including through the \u201cAnywhere to Anywhere\u201d VA health care initiative.\n<li>President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Administration to improve access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for veterans.\n<li>President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.\n<li>Under President Trump, the VA has removed, demoted, or suspended more than 4,300 employees for poor performance.\n<li>President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.\n<li>President Trump fulfilled his promise to create a new White House VA Hotline to provide veterans with 24\/7 support.\n<li>The VA is providing veterans with online access to wait time and quality of care data.\n<li>The President signed the Forever GI Bill, providing veterans, service members, and their families with enhanced education benefits.\n<li>Last year, programs at the VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development helped more than 51,000 veterans find permanent housing and access supportive services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT: President Trump has followed through on his pledge to transform the Federal Government and increase accountability and transparency.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump\u2019s Administration submitted a plan to reorganize the executive branch in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness.\n<li>In a historic show of transparency and accountability, the Trump Administration completed the Department of Defense\u2019s first ever audit.\n<li>The President implemented a five-year ban on lobbying for White House employees and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign countries.\n<li>Each quarter since taking office, President Trump has donated his salary, fulfilling a promise he made to the American people.\n<li>President Trump is reshaping our Federal judiciary, appointing judges who will follow the Constitution as written.\n<li>The President has appointed Circuit Court judges at a record pace.\n<li>President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mar 10, 2019 Keep this list handy for the next time you get into a argument with a Trump hater, or sed this to them: IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump\u2019s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country. 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