PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP HAS DELIVERED RECORD BREAKING RESULTS FOR THEAMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS FIRST THREE YEARS IN OFFICE
“We are making America stronger, prouder, and greater than ever before.” – President Donald J.Trump
PROMOTING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY FOR ALL: President Trump’s pro-growth policies haveled to an economic boom that is lifting up Americans of all backgrounds.
Since President Trump’s election, more than 7 million jobs have been added to the economy.
For the first time on record there are more job openings than unemployed Americans.
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There are more than 7 million job openings, outnumbering job seekers by more than 1million.
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Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job,empowering more Americans with rewarding careers.
This year, the unemployment rate reached its lowest level in half a century.
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The unemployment rate has remained at or below 4 percent for the past 21 months.
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The unemployment rate for women reached its lowest rate in 65 years under PresidentTrump.
Under President Trump, jobless claims hit their lowest level in half a century.
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population is thelowest on record.
American workers of all backgrounds are thriving under President Trump.
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The unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans,veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma have allreached record lows under President Trump.
The booming economy is putting more money in Americans’ pockets.
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Wages are growing at their fastest rate in a decade, with year-over-year wage gainsexceeding 3 percent for the first time since 2009.
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November 2019 marked the 16th consecutive month that wages rose at an annual rateof at or over 3 percent.
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Median household income surpassed $63,000 in 2018 – the highest level on record.
President Trump’s policies are helping forgotten Americans across the country prosper, drivingdown income inequality.
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Wages are rising fastest for low-income workers.
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Middle-class and low-income workers are enjoying faster wage growth than high-earners.
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When measured as the share of income earned by the top 20 percent, incomeinequality fell in 2018 by the largest amount in over a decade.
Americans are being lifted out of poverty as a result of today’s booming economy.
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Since President Trump took office, over 2.4 million Americans have been lifted out ofpoverty.
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Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans have reached record lows.
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Since President Trump’s election, nearly 7 million Americans have been lifted off of foodstamps.
Americans are coming off of the sidelines and back into the workforce.
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The prime age labor force has grown by 2.1 million under President Trump.
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In the third quarter of 2019, 73.7 percent of workers entering employment came fromout of the labor force rather than from unemployment, the highest share since the seriesbegan in 1990.
President Trump’s pro-growth policies are helping businesses of all sizes thrive like neverbefore.
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Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018 and remains historicallyhigh.
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The DOW, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all repeatedly notched record highs underPresident Trump.
President Trump is following through on his promise to revitalize American manufacturing, withmore than a half million manufacturing jobs added since the election.
President Trump has prioritized workforce development to ensure American workers areprepared to fill high quality jobs.
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The President has worked to expand apprenticeship programs, helping Americans gainhands-on training and experience with no student debt.
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Since President Trump took office, over 660,000 apprentices have been hired acrossthe country.
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President Trump established the National Council for the American Worker, tasked withdeveloping a workforce strategy for the jobs of the future.
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Over 370 companies have signed the President’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,”pledging to provide more than 14.4 million employment and training opportunities.
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President Trump signed an Executive Order prioritizing Cyber Workforce Developmentto ensure that we have the most skilled cyber workforce of the 21
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President Trump signed the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act in 2017 – the largest tax reform package inhistory.
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More than 6 million American workers received wage increases, bonuses, andincreased benefits thanks to the tax cuts.
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$1 trillion has poured back into the country from overseas since the President’s tax cuts.
President Trump is revitalizing distressed communities through Opportunity Zones, whichencourage investment and growth in underserved communities.
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More than 8,760 communities in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and 5 Territorieshave been designated as Opportunity Zones.
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The White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council has taken more than 175actions to encourage investment and promote growth within Opportunity Zones.
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The White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council is engaging all levels ofgovernment to identify best practices and assist leaders, investors, and entrepreneursin using the Opportunity Zone incentive to revitalize low-income communities.
The President is ensuring that America is prepared to lead the world in the industries of thefuture, by promoting American leadership in emerging technologies like 5G and AI.
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The Administration named artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and 5G,among other emerging technologies, as national research and development priorities.
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President Trump launched the American AI Initiative to invest in AI research, unleashinnovation, and build the American workforce of the future.
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President Trump signed an Executive Order that established a new advisory committeeof industry and academic leaders to advise the government on its quantum activities.
President Trump has made supporting working families a priority of his Administration.
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President Trump signed legislation securing historic levels of funding for the Child Careand Development Block Grant, helping low-income families access child care.
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During his Joint Address to Congress and each State of the Union Address, thePresident called on Congress to pass a nationwide paid family leave plan.
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The President signed into law 12-weeks of paid parental leave for federal workers.
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President Trump’s tax reforms provided a new tax credit to incentivize businesses tooffer paid family leave to their employees.
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The President’s historic tax reforms doubled the child tax credit, benefitting nearly 40million American families with an average of over $2,200 dollars in 2019.
LIFTING THE BURDEN OF OVERREGULATION: President Trump’s historic deregulationefforts are driving economic growth, cutting unnecessary costs, and increasing transparency.
President Trump has delivered on, and far exceeded, his promise to slash two existingregulations for every new regulation.
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Since taking office, President Trump has rolled back nearly 8 regulations for every newsignificant one.
The Trump Administration’s deregulatory efforts have slashed regulatory costs by more than$50 billion.
In the coming years, the average American household is projected to see an income gain of$3,100 per year thanks to President Trump’s historic regulatory reform.
Once fully in effect, 20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Administration areexpected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
President Trump signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that are expected to result in a$40 billion increase in annual real incomes.
President Trump established the Governors Initiative on Regulatory Innovation.
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This initiative is working to reduce outdated regulations at the State, local, and triballevels, advance occupational licensing reform, and align Federal and State regulation.
The President signed legislation eliminating regulatory barriers that made offering retirementbenefits difficult for small businesses.
The President took action to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans from administrative abuse.
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This year, President Trump signed two Executive Orders to guard against secretive orunlawful interpretations of rules and prevent Americans from being hit with unfair andunexpected penalties.
President Trump has followed through on his promise to repeal the Obama-era Waters of theUnited States Rule, lifting a burden off American farmers.
President Trump ended the previous Administration’s war on coal.
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President Trump signed legislation repealing the harmful Obama-era Stream ProtectionRule.
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President Trump replaced the overreaching Obama-era Clean Power Plan with the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which respects States’ rights and promotes economicgrowth while lowering power-sector CO2 emissions.
In 2017, the President announced the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have killed millions of American jobs.
The Administration has worked to undo the Obama-era fuel economy regulations by proposingthe SAFE Vehicles Rule to lower the cost of new and safer cars.
President Trump helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled back costlyprovisions of Dodd-Frank.
President Trump established the White House Council on Reducing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing Development to bring down the costs of housing across the country.
The President’s deregulatory actions are removing government barriers to personal freedomand consumer choice in healthcare.
In 2017, President Trump corrected Obama Administration overreach by right-sizing BearsEars National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
FIGHTING FOR FAIRER TRADE: President Trump is negotiating better trade deals for theAmerican people after years of our country being taken advantage of.
President Trump negotiated the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) to replace theoutdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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USMCA includes tremendous wins for American workers, farmers, and manufacturers,generating over $68 billion in economic activity and creating 176,000 new jobs.
President Trump negotiated two tremendous deals with Japan to boost America’s agriculturaland digital trade with the world’s third largest economy.
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Thanks to President Trump’s efforts, Japan will open its market to approximately $7billion in American agricultural exports.
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The President’s negotiations will boost the already approximately $40 billion worth ofdigital trade between our two countries.
President Trump fulfilled his promise to renegotiate the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, providing a boost to American auto exports.
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These efforts doubled the number of American autos that can be exported to SouthKorea using United States safety standards.
President Trump reached a historic phase one trade agreement with China that will beginrebalancing our two countries’ trade relationship.
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As a result of President Trump’s leadership, China has agreed to structural reforms inareas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, andcurrency and foreign exchange.
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China will be making substantial purchases of American agricultural products, marking amonumental win for American farmers.
President Trump fulfilled his promise to withdraw from the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership(TPP).
President Trump achieved a mutual agreement with the European Union to work togethertowards zero tariffs, non-tariff barriers, and subsidies on certain goods.
President Trump has worked to prepare for post-Brexit trade and made Congress aware of hisintent to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK).
President Trump imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our vital industriesand support our national security.
President Trump imposed tariffs to protect American-made washing machines and solarproducts that were hurt by import surges.
The United States scored an historic victory by overhauling the Universal Postal Union (UPU),whose outdated policies were undermining American interests and workers.
President Trump has expanded markets for American farmers to export their goods worldwide,for example:
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The European Union has opened up to more American beef and increased imports of American soybeans.
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China lifted its ban on American poultry and opened up to American beef.
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South Korea lifted its ban on American poultry and eggs and agreed to provide marketaccess for the greatest, guaranteed volume of American rice.
The Trump Administration has authorized a total of $28 billion in aid for farmers who havebeen subjected to unfair trade practices.
SECURING THE BORDER: President Trump has taken historic steps to confront the crisis onour Nation’s borders and protect American communities.
President Trump is following through on his promise to build a wall on our southern border.
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The Administration expects to have approximately 450 miles of new border wall by theend of 2020.
The President struck new agreements with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras tohelp stop the flood of illegal immigration.
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The President worked with Mexico to ensure they would improve their border security.
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The United States is working with Mexico and others in the region to dismantle thehuman smuggling networks that profit from human misery and fuel the border crisis byexploiting vulnerable populations.
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The Administration negotiated agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Hondurasto stem the surge of aliens arriving at our border.
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President Trump negotiated the Migrant Protection Protocols, requiring certain migrantsto wait in Mexico during their immigration proceedings instead of allowing them todisappear into our country.
Thanks to the President’s swift action, border apprehensions fell by more than 70 percent fromMay – the peak of the crisis – to November.
The Trump Administration is stopping deadly drugs and violent criminals from flowing acrossour borders and into our communities.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized more than 163,000 pounds of cocaine,heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl at the southern border in FY 2019.
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The United States Coast Guard seized more than 458,000 pounds of cocaine at sea inFY 2019 and referred nearly 400 suspected drug smugglers for prosecution.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations(HSI) seized over 1.4 million pounds of narcotics and made more than 12,000 narcotic-related arrests in FY 2019.
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized over 50,000 kilograms ofmethamphetamine and over 2,700 kilograms of fentanyl in FY 2019.
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CBP apprehended 976 alien gang members in FY 2019, including 464 aliens affiliatedwith MS-13.
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ICE HSI made over 4,000 arrests of gang members in FY 2019, including over 450arrests of MS-13 members.
RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW: President Trump is upholding the rule of law, restoringintegrity to our asylum system, and promoting immigrant self-sufficiency.
President Trump released an immigration plan to fully secure our border, modernize our laws,and promote an immigration system based on merit.
President Trump is working to combat the abuse of our asylum system that drives illegalimmigration.
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The Administration took action to close the
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The President released an order that makes aliens ineligible for asylum if they passedthrough another country in transit to our border and did not apply for asylum in thatcountry first.
Since taking office, President Trump has stepped up enforcement to ensure there areconsequences for breaking our laws.
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In FY 2019, the Department of Justice prosecuted a record breaking number ofimmigration related crimes.
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ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 143,099 aliens in FY 2019,86 percent of whom had criminal records.
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ICE ERO removed more than 267,000 illegal aliens from the United States in FY 2019.
The Trump Administration is cracking down on sanctuary cities and increasing cooperation atthe local level on immigration enforcement.
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The Administration has more than doubled the number of jurisdictions participating inthe 287(g) program, enhancing local cooperation on immigration enforcement.
The Administration took action to protect taxpayers by ensuring that aliens wishing to enter orremain in our country are able to support themselves and not rely on public benefits.
The President issued a proclamation to ensure immigrants admitted to America do not burdenour healthcare system.
The President has taken action to reduce nonimmigrant visa overstays, a problem thatundermines the rule of law, impacts public safety, and strains resources needed for the border.
President Trump made our country safer by ordering the enhanced vetting of individualsattempting to come to America from countries that do not meet our security standards.
The President is taking a responsible approach to refugee admissions, prioritizing refugeeresettlement in jurisdictions where both State and local governments consent to receive them.
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This order is designed to ensure that refugees are placed in an environment where theywill have the best opportunity to succeed in their new homes.
CREATING SAFER COMMUNITIES: President Trump’s policies are supporting our brave lawenforcement officers and making America’s communities safer.
Violent crime fell in 2017 and 2018, after rising during each of the two years prior to PresidentTrump taking office.
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Since 2016, the violent crime rate in America has fallen nearly 5 percent and the murderrate has decreased by over 7 percent.
President Trump signed the First Step Act into law, making our criminal justice system fairerfor all while making our communities safer.
President Trump has promoted second-chance hiring to give former inmates theopportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment, all while making ourcommunities safer.
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The Department of Education is expanding an initiative that allows individuals in Federaland State prisons to receive Pell Grants to better prepare themselves for the workforce.
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The Department of Justice and Bureau of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work”Initiative to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
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The Department of Labor awarded $2.2 million to states to expand the use of fidelitybonds, which underwrite companies that hire former prisoners.
President Trump has revitalized Project Safe Neighborhoods, bringing together Federal, State,local, and tribal law enforcement officials to develop solutions to violent crime.
The President is standing up for our Nation’s law enforcement officers, ensuring they have thesupport they need to keep our communities safe.
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The President established a new commission to evaluate best practices for recruiting,training, and supporting law enforcement officers.
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The Administration has made available hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of surplusmilitary equipment to local law enforcement.
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President Trump has signed an Executive Order to help prevent violence against lawenforcement officers.
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The President also signed legislation permanently funding the 9/11 Victim CompensationFund, aiding our Nation’s brave first responders.
The President has taken action to combat the scourge of hate crimes and anti-Semitism risingin America.
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President Trump signed an Executive Order making it clear that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism.
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The Administration launched a centralized website to educate the public about hate crimesand encourage reporting.
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Since January 2017, the Civil Rights division at the DOJ has obtained 14 convictions incases involving attacks or threats against places of worship.
The President signed the Fix NICS Act to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
President Trump signed the STOP School Violence Act and created a Commission on SchoolSafety to examine ways to make our schools safer.
The Trump Administration is fighting to end the egregious crime of human trafficking.
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In FY 2019, ICE HSI arrested 2,197 criminals associated with human trafficking andidentified 428 victims.
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The President signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, whichtightened criteria for whether countries are meeting standards for eliminating trafficking.
President Trump established a task force to help combat the tragedy of missing or murderedNative American women and girls.
ADVANCING AMERICA’S INTERESTS ABROAD: President Trump is putting America first andadvancing our interests across the world.
President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign is countering Iran’s influence and pressuring thecorrupt regime to abandon its malign activities.
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The President removed the United States from the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear dealand re-imposed all sanctions that were lifted by the deal.
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In response to Iran’s aggression and gross human rights violations, the Presidentauthorized crippling sanctions on the regime’s leadership, including the Supreme Leader.
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President Trump is working to vigorously enforce all sanctions to bring Iran’s oil exports tozero and deny the regime its principal source of revenue.
President Trump has held two historic summits with North Korea and earlier this year became thefirst President to cross the DMZ into North Korea.
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The Administration has maintained tough sanctions on North Korea while negotiations havetaken place.
Since taking office, President Trump has taken historic steps to support and defend our cherishedally Israel.
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This year, President Trump acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights anddeclared Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not inconsistent with international law.
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The President made good on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the true capital ofIsrael and move the United States Embassy there.
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The President removed the United States from the United Nations (U.N.) Human RightsCouncil due to the group’s blatant anti-Israel bias.
President Trump has successfully urged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members toincrease their defense spending and to focus on modern priorities.
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NATO Allies will increase defense spending by $130 billion by the end of next year.
The Administration has worked to reform and streamline the U.N., cutting spending and makingthe organization more efficient.
Earlier this year, the President took action to protect our Second Amendment rights byannouncing the United States will not join the misguided Arms Trade Treaty.
President Trump has promoted democracy throughout the Western Hemisphere and imposedheavy sanctions on the regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
The President reversed the previous Administration’s disastrous Cuba policy.
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President Trump has enacted a new policy aimed at stopping any revenues from reachingthe Cuban military or intelligence services, imposed stricter travel restrictions, andreaffirmed the focus ensuring the Cuban regime does not profit from U.S. dollars.
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Earlier this year, the Trump Administration put a cap on remittances to Cuba.
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President Trump is enabling Americans to file lawsuits against persons and entities thattraffic in property confiscated by the Cuban regime, the first time that these kind of claimshave been available for Americans under the Helms-Burton Act.
President Trump has stood with the democratically elected National Assembly and theVenezuelan people and worked to cut off the financial resources of the Maduro regime.
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President Trump recognized Juan Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela and ralliedan international coalition of 58 countries to support him.
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Earlier this year, President Trump blocked all property of the Venezuelan Government inthe jurisdiction of the United States.
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President Trump has sanctioned key sectors of the Venezuelan economy exploited by theregime, including the oil and gold sectors.
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The Administration sanctioned Maduro’s key financial lifelines, including the VenezuelanCentral Bank, the Venezuelan Development Bank, and Petroleos de Venezuela.
The Trump Administration has secured the release of Americans unjustly imprisoned abroad,including Kevin King, Xiyue Wang, Danny Burch, and more.
The President and his Administration have worked to advance a free and open Indo-Pacificregion, promoting new investments and expanding American partnerships.
The President negotiated the return from Finland of approximately 600 tribal ancestral remainsand other sacred objects for the American Indian and Pueblo communities from which they came.
The Trump Administration released an economic plan to empower the Palestinian people andenhance Palestinian governance through private investment.
The President created the first-ever whole-of-government approach to women’s economicempowerment through his Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.
In June of 2019, the President released the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security, whichfocuses on increasing women’s participation to prevent and resolve conflicts.
REBUILDING OUR NATION’S DEFENSE: President Trump is investing in our military andensuring our forces are able to defend against any and all threats.
President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year (FY)2020, authorizing a historic $738 billion in defense spending.
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President Trump continued to invest in rebuilding our military, after signing legislation toprovide for $700 billion in defense spending in FY18 and $716 billion in FY19.
President Trump signed a 3.1% pay raise for our troops, the largest increase in a decade.
The President signed legislation establishing the Space Force as a new branch of the ArmedForces, the first new branch since 1947.
The United States Space Command was relaunched in August 2019.
The President is modernizing and recapitalizing our nuclear forces and missile defenses toensure they continue to serve as a strong deterrent.
The President upgraded our cyber defenses by elevating the Cyber Command into a majorwarfighting command and reducing burdensome procedural restrictions on cyber operations.
President Trump is protecting America’s defense-industrial base, directing the first whole-of-government assessment of our manufacturing and defense supply chains since the 1950s.
Under the President’s leadership, the United States is taking the fight to terrorists all aroundthe globe.
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ISIS’ territorial caliphate has been defeated and all territory recaptured in Iraq and Syria.
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The United States has brought Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, to justice.
The President has taken decisive military action to punish the Assad regime in Syria for thebarbaric use of chemical weapons on its own people.
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The President also authorized sanctions against those tied to Syria’s chemicalweapons program.
HONORING OUR VETERANS: President Trump is standing up for America’s veterans byensuring they receive the proper care and support they deserve.
President Trump signed the VA MISSION Act, revolutionizing the VA system, increasingchoice, and providing quality care for our veterans.
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This legislation reformed and expanded many of the existing programs to give veteransimproved access to healthcare providers and offered entirely new options such asallowing veterans to get urgent care in their local communities.
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The VA MISSION Act put veterans at the center of their healthcare decisions, notbureaucracy.
The Trump Administration has expanded veterans’ ability to access telehealth services,including through the “Anywhere to Anywhere” VA health care initiative.
President Trump has brought accountability to the VA, as promised.
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President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and WhistleblowerProtection Act to ensure VA employees are held responsible for poor performance.
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Over 8,000 VA employees have been relieved of their duties at the VA since thebeginning of the Administration.
Veterans are seeing an improvement in quality of care under President Trump.
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In the last year, the VA saw its highest patient experience ratings in history.
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars found in its annual survey that more than 90 percent ofrespondents would recommend VA care to other veterans.
President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 toexpedite the veteran appeals process.
The Administration is working to seamlessly align the VA’s and DoD’s electronic healthrecords.
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This new electronic health record system is on pace to launch next year in select areas.
Under President Trump, the VA launched a new tool that provides veterans with online accessto average wait times and quality-of-care data.
Just as he promised, President Trump opened up a 24/7 White House VA Hotline to provideveterans access to help at all times.
President Trump has committed his Administration to addressing the horrible tragedy ofveteran suicide.
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President Trump signed the PREVENTS Initiative, which created a task force to developa revolutionary roadmap to tackle the problem of veteran suicide.
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President Trump signed an executive order to improve access to suicide preventionresources for veterans.
President Trump is expanding educational resources, promoting economic opportunity, andmaking sure our veterans have the support they need when they return home.
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This year, the veteran unemployment rate reached its lowest level since 2000.
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President Trump signed an executive order that paves the way for veterans to moreeasily join the Merchant Marine, providing quality job opportunities.
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President Trump signed the Forever GI Bill, allowing veterans to use their educationalbenefits at any point in their lives.
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President Trump expedited the process of discharging Federal student loan debt for ourNation’s totally and permanently disabled veterans.
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President Trump signed the HAVEN Act to ensure that veterans who’ve declaredbankruptcy don’t lose their disability payments.
President Trump signed legislation providing a pathway for Alaska Natives who served inVietnam to receive the land allotments to which they are legally entitled.
COMBATING THE OPIOID CRISIS: President Trump has made battling the opioid crisis a toppriority for his Administration, and the results couldn’t be clearer.
President Trump brought attention to the opioid crisis by declaring it a nationwide public healthemergency.
To address the many factors fueling the drug crisis, President Trump launched an Initiative toStop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.
Thanks to the President’s efforts, landmark new Federal funding and resources have beendedicated to help end this crisis.
President Trump signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest andmost comprehensive piece of legislation to combat the opioid crisis in history.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded nearly $9 billion over2016 to 2019 in grants to address the opioid crisis and improve access to prevention,treatment, and recovery services in partnership with State and local officials.
Nearly $1 billion in grants were recently awarded for the HEAL Initiative to supportdevelopment of scientific solutions to help prevent and treat addiction.
President Trump announced a Safer Prescriber Plan that seeks to decrease the amount ofopioids prescription fills by one third within three years.
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From January 2017 to September 2019, the total amount of opioids prescriptions filledin America dropped by 31%.
This year, the President launched FindTreatment.gov, a newly designed website that makes iteasier to find substance abuse treatment locations.
The President implemented new efforts to educate Americans about the dangers of opioidmisuse.
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These efforts include an ad campaign on youth opioid abuse that reached 58 percent ofyoung adults in America.
President Trump and his Administration aggressively worked to cut off the flow of deadly drugsinto our communities.
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In FY 2019, ICE HSI seized 12,466 pounds of opioids including 3,688 pounds offentanyl, an increase of 35% from FY 2018.
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The Administration shut down the country’s biggest Darknet distributer of drugs, seizingenough fentanyl to kill 105,000 Americans in the process.
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Under President Trump, a DOJ strike force charged more than 65 defendantscollectively responsible for distributing over 45 million opioid pills.
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The Administration has brought kingpin designations against traffickers operating inChina, India, Mexico and more who have played a role in the epidemic in America.
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The Administration secured the first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyltraffickers.
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This year, President Trump convinced China to enact strict regulations to control theproduction and sale of all types of fentanyl.
Evidence suggests that President Trump’s efforts are making a real difference across theNation.
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Preliminary data shows overdose deaths fell nationwide in 2018 for the first time indecades.
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Many of the hardest hit states – including Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia – saw drugoverdose deaths drop in 2018.
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Since 2016, there has been a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of Americansreceiving medication-assisted treatment.
PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST: President Trump is working hard to give Americans better qualitycare at a lower cost.
The Administration is delivering quality healthcare and promoting innovative treatment optionsfor American patients.
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Earlier this year, President Trump signed an order to protect and improve Medicare forour seniors, encouraging even more competition and promoting innovative benefits.
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President Trump signed and implemented the Right to Try Act, which has expandedtreatment options for terminally ill patients.
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The President has taken action to combat childhood cancer, initiating an effort toprovide $500 million over the next decade to improve pediatric cancer research.
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The President signed legislation providing an additional $1 billion in Alzheimer’s diseaseresearch funding.
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The Administration launched a plan to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America in thenext decade.
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President Trump took action to increase the availability of organs for patients in need oftransplants and provide more treatment options and improve care for patients sufferingfrom kidney disease.
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The President signed an order to modernize the influenza vaccine.
The Administration is making healthcare more affordable and transparent.
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The Administration is requiring hospitals to make their prices negotiated with insurerspublicly and easily available online.
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The President is working to expand Association Health Plans, which would make iteasier for employers to join together and offer more affordable health coverage to theiremployees.
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President Trump extended access to short-term, limited-duration health plans, giving Americans more flexibility to choose plans that suit their needs.
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The Administration expanded the use of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).Now, HRAs allow employers to help their employees pay for the cost of insurance thatthey select in the individual market.
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The Administration has successfully worked to reduce Medicare Advantage and Part Dpremiums to their lowest in years.
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The Administration has improved access to health savings accounts for individuals withchronic conditions.
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The President has worked to reduce the burden felt by Americans due to Obamacareand eliminated Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty.
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President Trump released legislative principles to end surprise medical billing and isworking with Congress to give patients the control they deserve.
President Trump is following through on his pledge to combat high drug prices.
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President Trump released a blueprint to reduce drug prices and expand affordability for American patients.
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The Administration’s efforts to lower drug prices led to the largest year-over-yeardecrease in drug prices ever recorded.
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The President has advanced efforts to import prescription drugs from Canada inpartnership with several states, including Florida and Colorado.
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The President launched an initiative to stop global freeloading in the drug market,proposing a new way for Medicare to pay for certain drugs based on prices otherdeveloped nations pay.
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The President signed legislation to end pharmacy gag clauses, which preventedpharmacists from letting patients know when it would be cheaper to buy drugs withouttheir insurance.
SAFEGUARDING LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: President Trump has made it a priority ofhis Administration to uphold the sanctity of life and safeguard religious liberty for all.
President Trump is unequivocally committed to protecting the sanctity of every human life.
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The Administration issued a rule preventing Title X family planning funds fromsupporting the abortion industry.
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President Trump has called on Congress to end late-term abortions.
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The Trump Administration cut all funding to the U.N. population fund, due to the fund’ssupport for coercive abortion and forced sterilization.
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HHS rescinded an Obama-era guidance that prevented states from taking certainactions against abortion providers.
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President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy in 2017, ensuring thattaxpayer money is not used to fund abortion globally.
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The President has taken action to end federal research using fetal tissue fromabortions.
President Trump is protecting healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights—ensuringthat no medical professional is forced to participate in an abortion in violation of their beliefs.
The Administration provided relief to American employers like Little Sisters of the Poor,protecting them from being forced to provide coverage that violate their conscience.
President Trump has taken unprecedented action to support the fundamental right to religiousfreedom.
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In 2018, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the White HouseFaith and Opportunity Initiative.
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In 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order upholding religious liberty and theright to engage in religious speech.
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The Department of Justice created a Religious Liberty Task Force in 2018.
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The Trump Administration continues to vigorously defend religious liberty in the courtsat every opportunity.
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President Trump reversed the Obama-era policy that prevented the government fromproviding disaster relief to religious organizations.
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The Administration is preserving a space for faith-based adoption and foster careproviders to continue to serve their communities consistent with their beliefs.
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The Administration reduced burdensome barriers to Native Americans being able tokeep spiritually and culturally significant eagle feathers found on their tribal lands.
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The Administration has allowed greater flexibility for Federal employees to take time offwork for religious reasons.
The Trump Administration has stood up for religious liberty around the world.
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The Administration has partnered with local and faith-based organizations to provideassistance to religious minorities persecuted in Iraq.
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President Trump hosted the Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom at the 2019 U.N.General Assembly, calling on global and business leaders to bring an end to religiouspersecution and stop crimes against people of faith.
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The Administration dedicated $25 million to protect religious freedom, religious sites andrelics.
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The State Department has hosted two Religious Freedom Ministerials, with the 2019Ministerial becoming the largest religious freedom event of its kind in the world.
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In 2019, the Administration imposed restrictions on certain Chinese officials, internalsecurity units, and companies for their complicity in the persecution of Uighur Muslimsand other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
TRANSFORMING THE COURTS: President Trump is transforming the Federal judiciary byappointing a historic number of Federal judges who will interpret the Constitution as written.
Working with the Senate, President Trump has now had 187 judicial nominees confirmed tothe Federal bench.
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President Trump’s remaking of the judiciary is only accelerating with 103 Federal judgesconfirmed in 2019, more than 2017 and 2018 combined.
The President named Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,fulfilling his promise to appoint justices who will uphold the constitution as written.
President Trump has appointed 50 Circuit Court judges – more than any other President at thispoint in their Administrations.
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More than a quarter of all active Circuit Court judges were appointed by PresidentTrump.
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The average age of Trump-appointed circuit judges is less than 50 years old, ensuringthat these qualified jurists will continue to have an impact for decades to come.
President Trump has flipped the Second, Third, and Eleventh Circuits from Democrat-appointed majorities to Republican-appointed majorities.
USHERING IN AN ERA OF ENERGY DOMINANCE: President Trump’s policies are ushering in anew era of American energy dominance.
President Trump has rolled back the burdensome regulations of the past Administration andimplemented policies that are unleashing American energy.
The United States is the largest oil and natural gas producer in the world.
American oil production reached its highest level in history in 2019.
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The United States became a net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products in September2019, the first time this has occurred since records began in 1973.
Natural gas production is projected to set a record high in 2019, marking the third consecutiveyear of record production.
President Trump is opening up more access to our country’s abundant natural resources inorder to promote energy independence.
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Department of the Interior energy revenues soared in fiscal year FY 2019, nearly doublingsince FY 2016 to $12 billion.
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Applications to drill on public lands have increased by 300 percent since FY 2016, and thetime it takes to complete these permits has dropped by half.
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President Trump signed legislation to open up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge toenergy exploration.
President Trump is promoting energy infrastructure to ensure American energy producers candeliver their products to the market.
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This year, President Trump signed two Executive Orders to streamline processes holdingback the construction of new energy infrastructure, like pipelines.
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In 2017, the Administration took action to approve the Dakota Access pipeline and theKeystone XL pipeline.
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The Administration issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will export Americanpetroleum products to Mexico.
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The Administration has streamlined Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal permitting.
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In 2019, the Department of Energy granted 11 new long-term LNG export approvals.
American energy exports have reached historic highs.
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LNG exports have increased by 247% since 2017, hitting record highs in 2019 and areprojected to continue increasing next year.
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In 2017, the United States became a net natural gas exporter for the first time in 60 years.
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The United States has exported LNG to five continents and 37 countries, marking 19additional countries from the beginning of the Trump Administration.
President Trump strengthened America’s domestic energy production and supported ourNation’s farmers by approving year-round E-15.
President Trump worked to ensure greater transparency and certainty in the Renewable FuelStandard (RFS).
President Trump has promoted domestic energy production and economic growth whileworking to ensure Americans have access to safe drinking water and a clean environment.
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The United States environmental record is one of the strongest in the world and Americacontinues to make environmental progress in clean air and clean water.
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Under President Trump’s leadership, the EPA took action to protect vulnerable Americansfrom lead exposure by proposing changes to the Lead and Copper rule.
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Under President Trump’s leadership, in FY 2019 the EPA completed cleanup on the mostsuperfund sites on the National Priority List in 18 years.
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Emissions of all criteria pollutants dropped between 2016 and 2018.
PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: President Trump is working to ensure allAmericans have access to quality education.
President Trump signed into law a modernization of our country’s career and technicaleducation system to ensure more Americans have access to high-quality vocational education.
This year, the Administration proposed Education Freedom Scholarships to expand educationoptions for students of all economic backgrounds.
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This plan will invest up to $5 billion in students through a tax credit for donations forstate-based, locally-controlled scholarships.
President Trump is expanding education and training opportunities for incarcerated individualsto learn how to make a living before their release.
The President signed legislation reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.
Thanks to President Trump’s historic tax reform, parents can now withdraw up to $10,000 tax-free per year from 529 education savings plans to cover K-12 tuition costs.
President Trump has made supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) apriority of his Administration.
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President Trump signed the Farm Bill that included more than $100 million dollars forscholarships, research, and centers of excellence at HBCU land-grant institutions.
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The Administration has enabled faith-based HBCUs to enjoy equal access to Federalsupport.
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President Trump signed legislation providing $255 million dollars of permanent annualfunding for HBCUs and other Minority Serving Institutions.
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