Several days ago I was walking through the hall at work and a fellow colleague asked, “What are you thankful for?” Without hesitation I said… I have a list in my journal, so I’ll share it with you.
- Lowest Inflation Rate in 50 Years
- Lowest Unemployment Rate (Job Available for Every American)
- Lowest Unemployment Rates for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Women
- Women’s Unemployment Rate at a 65 Year Low
- Highest Employment Rate in History for Non-High School Graduates (Particularly Black Males)
- Youth Unemployment Rate at a 50 Year Low
- Highest Job Creation Rate in History
- Record Number of People off Unemployment
- Record Number of People Off Food Stamps
- 10 Million People Off Welfare
- Lowest Interest Rates
- Lowest Poverty Rate Since 1959
- Lowest Poverty Rates for African- Americans and Hispanics-Americans Since US Began Data Collection
- Trump Signed Welfare Reform Act Requiring Able-Bodied Adults that Don’t have Children to Work and Not Collect Welfare
- Increased Home Ownership of 5% / Equal to Highest Home Ownership EVER
- Approved and Passed the Keystone Pipeline
- Approved and Passed the Dakota Pipeline
- Made Agreement Favorable to the US with Saudi Arabia Regarding the Oil Reserves
- After Two Years in Office US surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia as World’s Largest Oil Producer America Totally Energy Independent – First Time Ever (Lowest Gas Prices)
- Made the United States a Natural Gas Exporter for the first time since 1957.
- Cleanest Air and Drinking Water in 40 Years Trump’s USDA committed $124,000,000.00 to rebuild Rural Water Infrastructure.
- One TRILLION Trees Forum (Planted)
- Lowest Carbon Emissions in 30 Years (Better After Leaving Paris Climate Accord)
- With the United States Paying Most of Funds and Getting No Benefit and China Paying NOTHING, Trump Pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and Appropriated Money for US Environment
- Largest Tax Cuts in History (Average American $5,000.00 Per Year)
- New Child Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – Doubled Maximum Amount of Child Tax Credit Available to Parents and Lifted Income Limits so that More Could Claim Deduction
- Created New Tax Credit for Dependents Other Than Children
- In 2018 Trump Signed into Law 2.4 Billion Funding Increase for Child Care and Development Fund, Providing a Total Amount of 8.1 Billion to States to Fund Child Care for Low Income Families. The CDCTC Provides a Tax Credit Equal to 20-35% of Child Care Expenses, $3,000. Per Child and $6,000. Per Family with Flexible Spending Accounts to Set Aside up to $5,000. In Pre-Tax Dollars.
- In 2019, Trump Signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Supports Act (CARES) Into Law. This allocates 1.8 Billion in funding over the next five years to help those with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families.
- In 2019, Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly 19 Million Dollars in new funding for LUPUS Specific Research and LUPUS Educational Programs, as well as an additional 41.7 Billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most LUPUS Funding EVER.
- Trump signed the first major Anti-robocall Law called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence) The TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch and punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires Voice Service Providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach you.
- Trump Signed Tax Bill Giving Small Businesses Lowest Top Marginal Tax Rate in 80 Years
- Record Number of Regulations Eliminated that Obstructed Numerous Businesses
- Median Household Income Highest in History
- Low Wage Workers Benefiting from Corporations Increasing Entry Level Pay
- Gain of 12,000 New Factories Created Under Trump’s Leadership, After Losing 60,000 Factories Under the Obama / Biden Administration
- Brought Back More Than 400,000 Manufacturing Jobs in Coal, Steel, and Natural Gas While in Office (Fastest Rate of Increase in 30 Years)
- Signed TCJ Act Brought back over a Trillion Dollars to the United States from Companies Overseas
- Record Stock Market
- Paid Family Leave for Government Employees
- Paternal Leave for Couples Making Less Than $72,000. Per Year
- Signed Bill (Native Americans) Compensation to Spokane Tribe for Loss of Land Mid 1900’s
- Native American Language Program Funding
- Federal Recognition for Chippewa Indians in Montana
- Signed a Law to Make Cruelty to Animals a Felony
- Signed a Bill to Make CBD and Hemp Legal
- Approved EPA Funding to Give $100,000,000.00 to fix the Water Infrastructure in Flint, Michigan
- Signed Gag Order Preventing Pharmacies from Not Sharing Money Saving Information to Patrons
- Signed Bill (FOSTA) Fight On-line Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) Stop Enabling -Gives Victims New Tools
- Trump ACTeam Initiative – Doubled Convictions of Human Traffickers and Increased Those Charged By 75% in ACTeam Districts
- Dismantled Organization Responsible for Prostitution and Human Sex Trafficking
- Trump’s DOJ Provided Grants to Organizations Supporting Victims (9,000 in One Year)
- Department of Homeland Security Hired More Victim Assistance Specialists Providing Resources
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Arrested 1,588 Trafficking Criminals
- Department of Health and Human Services Provided Funding for a National Trafficking Hotline (This Hotline Identified 16,862 Potential Human Trafficking Cases)
- Signed Bill Requiring Airports to Provide Space for Breastfeeding Moms
- Signed Biggest Wilderness Protection and Conservation Bill Designating 375,000 acres as Protected
- Signed Save Our Seas Act – Funds $10,000,000.00 Per Year to Clean Plastic and Garbage from Ocean
- Pulled Out of the World Health Organization, after the WHO gave the United States incorrect information and supported lies coming out of China. This saved the United States Taxpayers 3.5 Billion Dollars.
- Bill That Allows Drug Imports from Canada for Prescription Prices to Go Down
- Executive Order Forces Health Care Providers to Disclose Costs for Comparison Costs
- Signed Law Ending Gag Orders (Pharmacists) Preventing them from sharing money saving information to the public
- Initiated “Right to Try” Medications for the Terminally Ill
- Signed the Most Comprehensive Childhood Cancer Legislation Ever Into Law -Advances Childhood Cancer Research and Improves Treatment
- Hospitals Now Required to Post Standard Charges and Discounted Price
- Prescription Drug Prices Increased an Average of 3.6% per Year Under Obama, Under Trump they have Declined Each Year to Historic Lows (Check Council of Economic Advisors) Not Media Opinion
- Trump approved more Affordable Generic Drugs than ever before in history.
- Reformed Medicare to stop hospitals from overcharging low income seniors on their medication, saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars in one year alone.
- Secured 6 Billion Dollars in new funding to fight the Opioid Epidemic
- Signed Legislation to Improve National Suicide Hotline
- Created VA Hotline for Veterans Staffed with Veterans and Their Family Members
- Signed Funding Allocating Money for Programs Preventing Veteran Suicide
- VA Employees Held Accountable (4,000 Removed, Suspended, or Demoted)
- Revamped Entire Veteran’s Administration with Veteran Choice
- Made Available to Veterans- Telehealth Services, Walk-In Clinic Services, Same Day Urgent and Primary Health Care, and Same Day Mental Health Care
- Issued Executive Order Requiring Secretary of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to Submit a Joint Plan to Provide Access to Mental Health Treatment
- Bill for Federal Employee Pay Increase Averaging 3.1% (Largest Raise in 10 Years)
- Signed Law Giving 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave for Millions of Federal Workers
- TRUMP Administration Will Provide HIV Prevention Drugs FREE to 200,000 Uninsured for 11 Years
- All Time Highest Record – Holiday Spending (2019)
- Small Business Paycheck Protection Program
- Order Allowing Small Businesses to Group Together When Buying Insurance for Better Pricing
- Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act providing funding for states to review maternal complications and identify solutions to reduce mortality rates for Black women.
- First Step Act – Criminal Justice Bill (This makes our justice system fairer and helps former inmates successfully return to society. It expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violet crimes. The First Step Act addresses inequalities in sentencing law that disproportionately harmed Black Americans. 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentence reductions are Black Americans.
- Invested Over 10 Billion Dollars in Opportunity Zones for Distressed Communities, with a Projected Plan to Invest 47.2 Billion Total (8,764 Communities Already Identified)
- Provides Rehabilitative Programs to inmates helping them successfully Rejoin Society
- Received Bipartisan Justice Award at Historically Black College for Reform Accomplishments
- Promoting Second Chance Hiring – Gives Former Inmates Better Chances of Employment
- Launched Board of Prisons “Ready to Work Initiative” – Connecting Employers
- President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
- Trump Appointed 5 Openly Gay Ambassadors (Anti-Discrimination)
- Trump placed Ric Grenell, openly gay Ambassador to Germany, to lead the global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
- Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
- Trump created and prioritized an HBCU Executive Director of the White House initiative for HBCUs.
- Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
- Trump Created the Prison Reform Act
- Created PLATUIM PLAN – Opportunity and Fairness for Black Americans
- Created Hispanic Prosperity Initiative Giving Hispanics Educational and Economic Opportunities
- New Single-Family Home Sales up from October 2018 to 2019 Comparing Just One Year at 31.6%.
- Appointed 300 Qualified Judges after Obama left 142 Openings when he left office.
- Appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices
- Made Trade Deals with China where all excess proceeds went to our farmers. (12 Billion)
- Imposed Tariffs on China in Response to Forced Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Theft
- Breakthrough Agreement with European Union to Increase U.S. Exports
- Creation of Space Force (Sixth Military Branch)
- Initiated Focus on Reviving the NASA Space Program
- Increased Boarder Security by building 400 miles of new boarder wall. (Goal is 500 Miles)
- Agreement with Mexico to stop caravans by Mexico guarding the boarder.
- Rebuilt and Refunded our Military
- Deregulation of thousands of loopholes in Government that held up progress and saved billions.
- Tariffs Implemented to Change Unfair Trade Deals
- Moved the Capital of Israel to Jerusalem (As Promised)
- Initiated the first PEACE DEAL in history in the Middle East (Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain) (More countries are currently joining this effort.)
- Recognized and Established the Plateau of Golan Heights as part of Israel not Syria.
- Pulled Troops out of Afghanistan
- NO WARS During the TRUMP Presidency
- Dismantled most of the Territory Controlled by ISIS.
- Took Out Al Baghdadi – Islamic (Iraqi) Leader that Executed Hundreds of American Soldiers
- Ordered Attack on Soleimani -Iranian General (Islamic Revolutionary)
- Rescued 55 Hostages from Various Countries Around the World
- Trump was Nominated – By Three Separate Countries for the Noble Peace Prize (Three Separate Accomplishments)
- Ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Initiated the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) which has saved our country billions of dollars.
- Pulled Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal After Obama Sent 1.7 Billion Dollars On Pallets in the Middle of the Night – US had no proof that they had stopped production of nuclear weapons.
- Violent Crime Has Risen in Every Democratic Run State, while it has Declined in Republican States (For Every Riot, Trump offered Democrat Mayors and Governors Access to National Guard to Stop the Problem. All declined any help and allowed the rioting to continue.)
- Provided School Choice Legislation so that No Child is Trapped in a Failing School- Funding 42 Million
- Trump Signed First Perkins CTE Reauthorization since 2006 Giving a Billion Dollars for States Each Year to Fund Vocational and Career Education Programs
- Executive Order Expanding Apprenticeship Opportunities for Students and Workers
- Ended Common Core
- Executive Order Prohibiting the United States Government from Discriminating Against Christians or Punishing Expressions of Faith
- Signed Executive Order Allowing Government to Withhold Money from College Campuses that are deemed to be Anti-Semitic or Those Who Fail to Address Such Discrimination
- Trump Ordered Halt to US Tax Money Going to International Organizations Funding Abortions
- Trump Imposed Sanctions on Socialists in Venezuela Who Have Killed Their Own Citizens
- Finalized New Trade Agreement with South Korea
- Trump Made Agreement with the European Union to Increase US Energy Exports to Europe
- Withdrew from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Detrimental to American Jobs
- Secured 12 Billion in New Trade from Vietnam.
- Trump’s Pressure Campaign – Almost ALL Allies to NATO Increased Defense Spending
- Signed Music Modernization Act – Biggest Change to Copyright Laws in Decades
- Signed 911 Victim Compensation Fund into Law (Continued Support for 911 Victims)
- Greatest Supporter of OUR POLICE and FIREFIGHTERS
- Since the Pandemic Hit – Unemployment 14.7% in April – It has now gone down to 6.9%
- Economic Growth Since Pandemic Hit – Highest Gain History 33.1%
- Beginning of Pandemic Immediate Shut Down of People Entering the United States from China / Asia and Europe (Called Prejudice and Xenophobic as a Result)
- Turned Thousands of Factories into Producers of Personal Protective Equipment and Ventilators (No Stockpile from Previous Administrations) Shared Stockpile with the World
- Provided PPE to Hospitals Around the Country
- Project WARP SPEED – FASTEST VACCINE CREATED in HISTORY
- President TRUMP Never Collected His Salary While in Office (Approximately 2 Million Dollars)