As of January 2021
Trump Administration
Accomplishments
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• Lifed nearly 7 million people of of food stamps.
• Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans
reached record lows.
• Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the
largest amount in over a decade.
• The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40
percent increase in net worth.
• Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers
– a 16 percent pay increase.
• African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent
to 46.4 percent.
Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.
• Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and
construction jobs.
• Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from
overseas.
• Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in
2018.
Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.
• The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and
topped 30,000 in 2020.
• The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record
highs.
Rebuilding and investing in rural America.
• Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory
Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology
Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to
market in American farming and
agriculture.
• Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over
$1.3 billion through the Agriculture
Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband
infrastructure to rural America.
Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting
blanket lockdowns.
• An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of
Americans said they were better of during a
pandemic than four years prior.
• During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a
rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP
growth ever recorded.
• Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added
back over 12 million jobs, more than
half the jobs lost.
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• Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous
administration’s recovery.
• Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a
pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April –
beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment
through the end of 2020.
• Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for
the unemployment rate to fall from 10
percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the
Trump Administration.
• Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by
9.6 percent, Asian-American
unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment
by 6.8 percent.
• 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just
53 percent in April.
• Small business confidence hit a new high.
• Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home
sales hit their highest reading since
December 2006.
• Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
• Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112
trillion, an all-time high.
• Home prices hit an all-time record high.
• The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush
the economy and inflict countless public
health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
• Business confidence is higher in America than in any other
G7 or European Union country.
• Stabilized America’s financial markets with the
establishment of a number of Treasury Department
supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.
Tax Relief for the Middle Class
Passed $3.2 trillion in historic tax relief and reformed the
tax code.
• Signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – the largest tax reform
package in history.
• More than 6 million American workers received wage
increases, bonuses, and increased benefits
thanks to the tax cuts.
• A typical family of four earning $75,000 received an
income tax cut of more than $2,000 – slashing their
tax bill in half.
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• Doubled the standard deduction – making the first $24,000
earned by a married couple completely
tax-free.
• Doubled the child tax credit.
• Virtually eliminated the unfair Estate Tax, or Death Tax.
• Cut the business tax rate from 35 percent – the highest in
the developed world – all the way down to
21 percent.
• Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their
business income.
• Businesses can now deduct 100 percent of the cost of their
capital investments in the year the
investment is made.
• Since the passage of tax cuts, the share of total wealth
held by the bottom half of households has
increased, while the share held by the top 1 percent has
decreased.
• Over 400 companies have announced bonuses, wage increases,
new hires, or new investments in the
United States.
• Over $1.5 trillion was repatriated into the United States
from overseas.
• Lower investment cost and higher capital returns led to
faster growth in the middle class, real wages,
and international competitiveness.
Jobs and investments are pouring into Opportunity Zones.
• Created nearly 9,000 Opportunity Zones where capital gains
on long-term investments are taxed at
zero.
• Opportunity Zone designations have increased property
values within them by 1.1 percent, creating
an estimated $11 billion in wealth for the nearly half of
Opportunity Zone residents who own their
own home.
• Opportunity Zones have attracted $75 billion in funds and
driven $52 billion of new investment in
economically distressed communities, creating at least
500,000 new jobs.
• Approximately 1 million Americans will be lifed from
poverty as a result of these new investments.
• Private equity investments into businesses in Opportunity
Zones were nearly 30 percent higher than
investments into businesses in similar areas that were not
designated Opportunity Zones.
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Massive Deregulation
Ended the regulatory assault on American Businesses and Workers.
• Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8 old regulations for
every 1 new regulation adopted.
• Provided the average American household an extra $3,100
every year.
• Reduced the direct cost of regulatory compliance by $50
billion, and will reduce costs by an additional
$50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
• Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the Federal Register –
more than any other president. The
previous administration added over 16,000 pages.
• Established the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory
Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the
state, local, and tribal levels.
• Signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses
to ofer retirement plans.
• Signed two executive orders to increase transparency in
Federal agencies and protect Americans and
their small businesses from administrative abuse.
• Modernized the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
for the first time in over 40 years.
• Reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects
from 10 or more years down to 2 years or
less.
• Helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled
back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
• Established the White House Council on Eliminating
Regulatory Barriers to Afordable Housing to
bring down housing costs.
• Removed regulations that threatened the development of a
strong and stable internet.
• Eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches,
helping to spur commercial investment in space
projects.
• Published a whole-of-government strategy focused on
ensuring American leadership in automated
vehicle technology.
• Streamlined energy eficiency regulations for American
families and businesses, including preserving
afordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads,
and enabling greater time savings with
dishwashers.
• Removed unnecessary regulations that restrict the seafood
industry and impede job creation.
• Modernized the Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology
regulations to put America in the lead to
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develop new technologies.
• Took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed
our response to COVID-19, including
lifing restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce
ventilators.
Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory overreach.
• Rescinded the previous administration’s Afirmatively
Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which
would have abolished zoning for single-family housing to
build low-income, federally subsidized
apartments.
• Issued a final rule on the Fair Housing Act’s disparate
impact standard.
• Eliminated the Waters of the United States Rule and
replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection
Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and
property owners.
• Repealed the previous administration’s costly fuel economy
regulations by finalizing the Safer
Afordable Fuel Eficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will
make cars more afordable, and lower the
price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.
Americans now have more money in their pockets.
• Deregulation had an especially beneficial impact on
low-income Americans who pay a much higher
share of their incomes for overregulation.
• Cut red tape in the healthcare industry, providing
Americans with more afordable healthcare and
saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
• Deregulatory eforts yielded savings to the medical
community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a
reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work
through 2021.
• Removed government barriers to personal freedom and
consumer choice in healthcare.
• Once fully in efect, 20 major deregulatory actions
undertaken by the Trump Administration are
expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220
billion per year.
• Signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that will
result in a $40 billion increase in annual real
incomes.
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Fair and Reciprocal Trade
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Secured historic trade deals to defend American workers.
• Immediately withdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP).
• Ended the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and
replaced it with the brand new United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
• The USMCA contains powerful new protections for American
manufacturers, auto-makers, farmers,
dairy producers, and workers.
• The USMCA is expected to generate over $68 billion in
economic activity and potentially create over
550,000 new jobs over ten years.
• Signed an executive order making it government policy to
Buy American and Hire American, and took
action to stop the outsourcing of jobs overseas.
• Negotiated with Japan to slash tarifs and open its market
to $7 billion in American agricultural
products and ended its ban on potatoes and lamb.
• Over 90 percent of American agricultural exports to Japan
now receive preferential treatment, and
most are duty-free.
• Negotiated another deal with Japan to boost $40 billion
worth of digital trade.
• Renegotiated the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement,
doubling the cap on imports of
American vehicles and extending the American light truck
tarif.
• Reached a written, fully-enforceable Phase One trade
agreement with China on confronting pirated
and counterfeit goods, and the protection of American ideas,
trade secrets, patents, and trademarks.
• China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion worth
of United States exports and opened
market access for over 4,000 American facilities to exports
while all tarifs remained in efect.
• Achieved a mutual agreement with the European Union (EU)
that addresses unfair trade practices and
increases duty-free exports by 180 percent to $420 million.
• Secured a pledge from the EU to eliminate tarifs on
American lobster – the first United StatesEuropean Union negotiated tarif
reduction in over 20 years.
• Scored a historic victory by overhauling the Universal
Postal Union, whose outdated policies were
undermining American workers and interests.
• Engaged extensively with trade partners like the EU and
Japan to advance reforms to the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
• Issued a first-ever comprehensive report on the WTO Appellate
Body’s failures to comply with WTO
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rules and interpret WTO agreements as written.
• Blocked nominees to the WTO’s Appellate Body until WTO
Members recognize and address
longstanding issues with Appellate Body activism.
• Submitted 5 papers to the WTO Committee on Agriculture to
improve Members’ understanding of how
trade policies are implemented, highlight areas for improved
transparency, and encourage members
to maintain up-to-date notifications on market access and
domestic support.
Took strong actions to confront unfair trade practices and
put America First.
• Imposed tarifs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese
goods to protect American jobs and stop
China’s abuses under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act
of 1962 and Section 301 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
• Directed an all-of-government efort to halt and punish
eforts by the Communist Party of China to
steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual
property.
• Imposed tarifs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel to
protect our vital industries and support our
national security.
• Approved tarifs on $1.8 billion in imports of washing
machines and $8.5 billion in imports of solar
panels.
• Blocked illegal timber imports from Peru.
• Took action against France for its digital services tax
that unfairly targets American technology
companies.
• Launched investigations into digital services taxes that
have been proposed or adopted by 10 other
countries.
Historic support for American farmers.
• Successfully negotiated more than 50 agreements with
countries around the world to increase foreign
market access and boost exports of American agriculture
products, supporting more than 1 million
American jobs.
• Authorized $28 billion in aid for farmers who have been
subjected to unfair trade practices – fully
funded by the tarifs paid by China.
• China lifed its ban on poultry, opened its market to beef,
and agreed to purchase at least $80 billion of
American agricultural products in the next two years.
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• The European Union agreed to increase beef imports by 180
percent and opened up its market to
more imports of soybeans.
• South Korea lifed its ban on American poultry and eggs,
and agreed to provide market access for
record exports of American rice.
• Argentina lifed its ban on American pork.
• Brazil agreed to increase wheat imports by $180 million a
year and raised its quotas for purchases of
United States ethanol.
• Guatemala and Tunisia opened up their markets to American
eggs.
• Won tarif exemptions in Ecuador for wheat and soybeans.
• Suspended $817 million in trade preferences for Thailand
under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) program due to its failure to adequately
provide reasonable market access for
American pork products.
• The amount of food stamps redeemed at farmers markets
increased from $1.4 million in May 2020 to
$1.75 million in September 2020 – a 50 percent increase over
last year.
• Rapidly deployed the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program,
which provided $30 billion in support to
farmers and ranchers facing decreased prices and market
disruption when COVID-19 impacted the
food supply chain.
• Authorized more than $6 billion for the Farmers to
Families Food Box program, which delivered over
128 million boxes of locally sourced, produce, meat, and
dairy products to charity and faith-based
organizations nationwide.
• Delegated authorities via the Defense Production Act to
protect breaks in the American food supply
chain as a result of COVID-19.
American Energy Independence
Unleashed America’s oil and natural gas potential.
• For the first time in nearly 70 years, the United States
has become a net energy exporter.
• The United States is now the number one producer of oil
and natural gas in the world.
• Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads
in 2019, following record high production
in 2018 and in 2017.
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• The United States has been a net natural gas exporter for
three consecutive years and has an export
capacity of nearly 10 billion cubic feet per day.
• Withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate
Agreement.
• Canceled the previous administration’s Clean Power Plan,
and replaced it with the new Afordable
Clean Energy rule.
• Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
• Opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in
Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
• Repealed the last administration’s Federal Coal Leasing
Moratorium, which prohibited coal leasing on
Federal lands.
• Reformed permitting rules to eliminate unnecessary
bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.
• Fixed the New Source Review permitting program, which
punished companies for upgrading or
repairing coal power plants.
• Fixed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) steam
electric and coal ash rules.
• The average American family saved $2,500 a year in lower
electric bills and lower prices at the gas
pump.
• Signed legislation repealing the harmful Stream Protection
Rule.
• Reduced the time to approve drilling permits on public
lands by half, increasing permit applications to
drill on public lands by 300 percent.
• Expedited approval of the NuStar’s New Burgos pipeline to
export American gasoline to Mexico.
• Streamlined Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal
permitting and allowed long-term LNG export
authorizations to be extended through 2050.
• The United States is now among the top three LNG exporters
in the world.
• Increased LNG exports five-fold since January 2017,
reaching an all-time high in January 2020.
• LNG exports are expected to reduce the American trade
deficit by over $10 billion.
• Granted more than 20 new long-term approvals for LNG
exports to non-free trade agreement
countries.
• The development of natural gas and LNG infrastructure in
the United States is providing tens of
thousands of jobs, and has led to the investment of tens of
billions of dollars in infrastructure.
• There are now 6 LNG export facilities operating in the
United States, with 2 additional export projects
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under construction.
• The amount of nuclear energy production in 2019 was the
highest on record, through a combination
of increased capacity from power plant upgrades and shorter
refueling and maintenance cycles.
• Prevented Russian energy coercion across Europe through
various lines of efort, including the
Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation, civil
nuclear deals with Romania and Poland, and
opposition to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
• Issued the Presidential Permit for the A2A railroad
between Canada and Alaska, providing energy
resources to emerging markets.
Increased access to our country’s abundant natural resources
in order to achieve energy
independence.
• Renewable energy production and consumption both reached
record highs in 2019.
• Enacted policies that helped double the amount of
electricity generated by solar and helped increase
the amount of wind generation by 32 percent from 2016
through 2019.
• Accelerated construction of energy infrastructure to
ensure American energy producers can deliver
their products to the market.
• Cut red tape holding back the construction of new energy
infrastructure.
• Authorized ethanol producers to sell E15 year-round and
allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be
distributed from existing pumps at filling stations.
• Ensured greater transparency and certainty in the
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
• Negotiated leasing capacity in the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve to Australia, providing American
taxpayers a return on this infrastructure investment.
• Signed an executive order directing Federal agencies to
work together to diminish the capability of
foreign adversaries to target our critical electric
infrastructure.
• Reformed Section 401 of the Clean Water Act regulation to
allow for the curation of interstate
infrastructure.
• Resolved the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries) oil crisis during COVID-19 by
getting OPEC, Russia, and others to cut nearly 10 million
barrels of production a day, stabilizing world
oil prices.
• Directed the Department of Energy to use the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve to mitigate market
volatility caused by COVID-19.
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Investing in America’s Workers and Families
Afordable and high-quality Child Care for American workers
and their families.
• Doubled the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per
child and expanded the eligibility for receiving
the credit.
• Nearly 40 million families benefitted from the child tax
credit (CTC), receiving an average benefit of
$2,200 – totaling credits of approximately $88 billion.
• Signed the largest-ever increase in Child Care and
Development Block Grants – expanding access to
quality, afordable child care for more than 800,000
low-income families.
• Secured an additional $3.5 billion in the Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to
help families and first responders with child care needs.
• Created the first-ever paid family leave tax credit for
employees earning $72,000 or less.
• Signed into law 12-weeks of paid parental leave for
Federal workers.
• Signed into law a provision that enables new parents to
withdraw up to $5,000 from their retirement
accounts without penalty when they give birth to or adopt a
child.
Advanced apprenticeship career pathways to good-paying jobs.
• Expanded apprenticeships to more than 850,000 and
established the new Industry-Recognized
Apprenticeship programs in new and emerging fields.
• Established the National Council for the American Worker
and the American Workforce Policy Advisory
Board.
• Over 460 companies have signed the Pledge to America’s
Workers, committing to provide more than
16 million job and training opportunities.
• Signed an executive order that directs the Federal
government to replace outdated degree-based
hiring with skills-based hiring.
Advanced women’s economic empowerment.
• Included women’s empowerment for the first time in the
President’s 2017 National Security Strategy.
• Signed into law key pieces of legislation, including the
Women, Peace, and Security Act and the
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Women Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
• Launched the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity
(W-GDP) Initiative – the first-ever wholeof-government approach to women’s
economic empowerment that has reached 24 million women
worldwide.
• Established an innovative new W-GDP Fund at USAID.
• Launched the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative
(We-Fi) with 13 other nations.
• Announced a $50 million donation on behalf of the United
States to We-Fi providing more capital to
women-owned businesses around the world.
• Released the first-ever Strategy on Women, Peace, and
Security, which focused on increasing women’s
participation to prevent and resolve conflicts.
• Launched the W-GDP 2x Global Women’s Initiative with the
Development Finance Corporation, which
has mobilized more than $3 billion in private sector
investments over three years.
Ensured American leadership in technology and innovation.
• First administration to name artificial intelligence,
quantum information science, and 5G
communications as national research and development
priorities.
• Launched the American Broadband Initiative to promote the
rapid deployment of broadband internet
across rural America.
• Made 100 megahertz of crucial mid-band spectrum available
for commercial operations, a key factor
to driving widespread 5G access across rural America.
• Launched the American AI Initiative to ensure American
leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), and
established the National AI Initiative Ofice at the White
House.
• Established the first-ever principles for Federal agency
adoption of AI to improve services for the
American people.
• Signed the National Quantum Initiative Act establishing
the National Quantum Coordination Ofice at
the White House to drive breakthroughs in quantum
information science.
• Signed the Secure 5G and Beyond Act to ensure America
leads the world in 5G.
• Launched a groundbreaking program to test safe and
innovative commercial drone operations
nationwide.
• Issued new rulemaking to accelerate the return of American
civil supersonic aviation.
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• Committed to doubling investments in AI and quantum
information science (QIS) research and
development.
• Announced the establishment of $1 billion AI and quantum
research institutes across America.
• Established the largest dual-use 5G test sites in the
world to advance 5G commercial and military
innovation.
• Signed landmark Prague Principles with America’s allies to
advance the deployment of secure 5G
telecommunications networks.
• Signed first-ever bilateral AI cooperation agreement with
the United Kingdom.
• Built collation among allies to ban Chinese Telecom
Company Huawei from their 5G infrastructure.
Preserved American jobs for American workers and rejected
the importation of cheap foreign labor.
• Pressured the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reverse
their decision to lay of over 200 American
workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
• Removed the TVA Chairman of the Board and a TVA Board
Member.
Life-Saving Response to the China Virus
Restricted travel to the United States from infected regions
of the world.
• Suspended all travel from China, saving thousands of
lives.
• Required all American citizens returning home from
designated outbreak countries to return through
designated airports with enhanced screening measures, and to
undergo a self-quarantine.
• Announced further travel restrictions on Iran, the
Schengen Area of Europe, the United Kingdom,
Ireland, and Brazil.
• Issued travel advisory warnings recommending that American
citizens avoid all international travel.
• Reached bilateral agreements with Mexico and Canada to
suspend non-essential travel and
expeditiously return illegal aliens.
• Repatriated over 100,000 American citizens stranded abroad
on more than 1,140 flights from 136
countries and territories.
• Safely transported, evacuated, treated, and returned home
trapped passengers on cruise ships.
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• Took action to authorize visa sanctions on foreign
governments who impede our eforts to protect
American citizens by refusing or unreasonably delaying the
return of their own citizens, subjects, or
residents from the United States.
Acted early to combat the China Virus in the United States.
• Established the White House Coronavirus Task Force, with
leading experts on infectious diseases, to
manage the Administration’s eforts to mitigate the spread of
COVID-19 and to keep workplaces safe.
• Pledged in the State of the Union address to “take all
necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from
the Virus,” while the Democrats’ response made not a single
mention of COVID-19 or even the threat of
China.
• Declared COVID-19 a National Emergency under the Staford
Act.
• Established the 24/7 FEMA National Response Coordination
Center.
• Released guidance recommending containment measures
critical to slowing the spread of the Virus,
decompressing peak burden on hospitals and infrastructure,
and diminishing health impacts.
• Implemented strong community mitigation strategies to
sharply reduce the number of lives lost in the
United States down from experts’ projection of up to 2.2
million deaths in the United States without
mitigation.
• Halted American funding to the World Health Organization
to counter its egregious bias towards China
that jeopardized the safety of Americans.
• Announced plans for withdrawal from the World Health
Organization and redirected contribution
funds to help meet global public health needs.
• Called on the United Nations to hold China accountable for
their handling of the virus, including
refusing to be transparent and failing to contain the virus
before it spread.
Re-purposed domestic manufacturing facilities to ensure
frontline workers had critical supplies.
• Distributed billions of pieces of Personal Protective
Equipment, including gloves, masks, gowns, and
face shields.
• Invoked the Defense Production Act over 100 times to
accelerate the development and manufacturing
of essential material in the USA.
• Made historic investments of more than $3 billion into the
industrial base.
• Contracted with companies such as Ford, General Motors,
Philips, and General Electric to produce
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ventilators.
• Contracted with Honeywell, 3M, O&M Halyard, Moldex,
and Lydall to increase our Nation’s production
of N-95 masks.
• The Army Corps of Engineers built 11,000 beds, distributed
10,000 ventilators, and surged personnel
to hospitals.
• Converted the Javits Center in New York into a 3,000-bed
hospital, and opened medical facilities in
Seattle and New Orleans.
• Dispatched the USNS Comfort to New York City, and the USNS
Mercy to Los Angeles.
• Deployed thousands of FEMA employees, National Guard
members, and military forces to help in the
response.
• Provided support to states facing new emergences of the
virus, including surging testing sites,
deploying medical personnel, and advising on mitigation
strategies.
• Announced Federal support to governors for use of the
National Guard with 100 percent cost-share.
• Established the Supply Chain Task Force as a “control
tower” to strategically allocate high-demand
medical supplies and PPE to areas of greatest need.
• Requested critical data elements from states about the
status of hospital capacity, ventilators, and
PPE.
• Executed nearly 250 flights through Project Air Bridge to
transport hundreds of millions of surgical
masks, N95 respirators, gloves, and gowns from around the
world to hospitals and facilities
throughout the United States.
• Signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production
Act to ensure that Americans have a
reliable supply of products like beef, pork, and poultry.
• Stabilized the food supply chain restoring the Nation’s
protein processing capacity through a
collaborative approach with Federal, state, and local
oficials and industry partners.
• The continued movement of food and other critical items of
daily life distributed to stores and to
American homes went unafected.
Replenished the depleted Strategic National Stockpile.
• Increased the number of ventilators nearly ten-fold to
more than 153,000.
• Despite the grim projections from the media and governors,
no American who has needed a ventilator
has been denied a ventilator.
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• Increased the number of N95 masks fourteen-fold to more
than 176 million.
• Issued an executive order ensuring critical medical
supplies are produced in the United States.
Created the largest, most advanced, and most innovative
testing system in the world.
• Built the world’s leading testing system from scratch,
conducting over 200 million tests – more than all
of the European Union combined.
• Engaged more than 400 test developers to increase testing
capacity from less than 100 tests per day to
more than 2 million tests per day.
• Slashed red tape and approved Emergency Use Authorizations
for more than 300 diferent tests,
including 235 molecular tests, 63 antibody tests, and 11
antigen tests.
• Delivered state-of-the-art testing devices and millions of
tests to every certified nursing home in the
country.
• Announced more flexibility to Medicare Advantage and Part
D plans to waive cost-sharing for tests.
• Over 2,000 retail pharmacy stores, including CVS, Walmart,
and Walgreens, are providing testing using
new regulatory and reimbursement options.
• Deployed tens of millions of tests to nursing homes,
assisted living facilities, historically black colleges
and universities (HBCUs), tribes, disaster relief
operations, Home Health/Hospice organizations, and
the Veterans Health Administration.
• Began shipping 150 million BinaxNOW rapid tests to states,
long-term care facilities, the IHS, HBCUs,
and other key partners.
Pioneered groundbreaking treatments and therapies that
reduced the mortality rate by 85 percent,
saving over 2 million lives.
• The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates
in the entire world.
• The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the
Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program
to expedite the regulatory review process for therapeutics
in clinical trials, accelerate the
development and publication of industry guidance on
developing treatments, and utilize regulatory
flexibility to help facilitate the scaling-up of
manufacturing capacity.
• More than 370 therapies are in clinical trials and another
560 are in the planning stages.
• Announced $450 million in available funds to support the
manufacturing of Regeneron’s antibody
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• Shipped tens of thousands of doses of the Regeneron drug.
• Authorized an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for
convalescent plasma.
• Treated around 100,000 patients with convalescent plasma,
which may reduce mortality by 50
percent.
• Provided $48 million to fund the Mayo Clinic study that
tested the eficacy of convalescent plasma for
patients with COVID-19.
• Made an agreement to support the large-scale manufacturing
of AstraZeneca’s cocktail of two
monoclonal antibodies.
• Approved Remdesivir as the first COVID-19 treatment, which
could reduce hospitalization time by
nearly a third.
• Secured more than 90 percent of the world’s supply of
Remdesivir, enough to treat over 850,000 highrisk patients.
• Granted an EUA to Eli Lilly for its anti-body treatments.
• Finalized an agreement with Eli Lilly to purchase the
first doses of the company’s investigational
antibody therapeutic.
• Provided up to $270 million to the American Red Cross and
America’s Blood Centers to support the
collection of up to 360,000 units of plasma.
• Launched a nationwide campaign to ask patients who have
recovered from COVID-19 to donate
plasma.
• Announced Phase 3 clinical trials for varying types of
blood thinners to treat adults diagnosed with
COVID-19.
• Issued an EUA for the monoclonal antibody therapy
bamlanivimab.
• FDA issued an EUA for casirivimab and imdevimab to be
administered together.
• Launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing
Consortium with private sector and academic
leaders unleashing America’s supercomputers to accelerate
coronavirus research.
Brought the full power of American medicine and government
to produce a safe and efective
vaccine in record time.
• Launched Operation Warp Speed to initiate an unprecedented
drive to develop and make available an
efective vaccine by January 2021.
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• Pfizer and Moderna developed two vaccines in just nine
months, five times faster than the fastest prior
vaccine development in American history.
• Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines are approximately 95
efective – far exceeding all expectations.
• AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson also both have
promising candidates in the final stage of clinical
trials.
• The vaccines will be administered within 24 hours of
FDA-approval.
• Made millions of vaccine doses available before the end of
2020, with hundreds of millions more to
quickly follow.
• FedEx and UPS will ship doses from warehouses directly to
local pharmacies, hospitals, and
healthcare providers.
• Finalized a partnership with CVS and Walgreens to deliver
vaccines directly to residents of nursing
homes and long-term care facilities as soon as a state
requests it, at no cost to America’s seniors.
• Signed an executive order to ensure that the United States
government prioritizes getting the vaccine
to American citizens before sending it to other nations.
• Provided approximately $13 billion to accelerate vaccine
development and to manufacture all of the
top candidates in advance.
• Provided critical investments of $4.1 billion to Moderna
to support the development, manufacturing,
and distribution of their vaccines.
• Moderna announced its vaccine is 95 percent efective and
is pending FDA approval.
• Provided Pfizer up to $1.95 billion to support the
mass-manufacturing and nationwide distribution of
their vaccine candidate.
• Pfizer announced its vaccine is 95 percent efective and is
pending FDA approval.
• Provided approximately $1 billion to support the
manufacturing and distribution of Johnson &
Johnson’s vaccine candidate.
• Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine candidate reached the
final stage of clinical trials.
• Made up to $1.2 billion available to support AstraZeneca’s
vaccine candidate.
• AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate reached the final stage of
clinical trials.
• Made an agreement to support the large-scale manufacturing
of Novavax’s vaccine candidate with 100
million doses expected.
• Partnered with Sanofi and GSK to support large-scale
manufacturing of a COVID-19 investigational
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vaccine.
• Awarded $200 million in funding to support vaccine
preparedness and plans for the immediate
distribution and administration of vaccines.
• Provided $31 million to Cytvia for vaccine-related
consumable products.
• Under the PREP Act, issued guidance authorizing qualified
pharmacy technicians to administer
vaccines.
• Announced that McKesson Corporation will produce store,
and distribute vaccine ancillary supply kits
on behalf of the Strategic National Stockpile to help
healthcare workers who will administer vaccines.
• Announced partnership with large-chain, independent, and
regional pharmacies to deliver vaccines.
Prioritized resources for the most vulnerable Americans,
including nursing home residents.
• Quickly established guidelines for nursing homes and
expanded telehealth opportunities to protect
vulnerable seniors.
• Increased surveillance, oversight, and transparency of all
15,417 Medicare and Medicaid nursing
homes by requiring them to report cases of COVID-19 to all
residents, their families, and the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Required that all nursing homes test staf regularly.
• Launched an unprecedented national nursing home training
curriculum to equip nursing home staf
with the knowledge they need to stop the spread of COVID-19.
• Delivered $81 million for increased inspections and funded
35,000 members of the Nation Guard to
deliver critical supplies to every Medicare-certified
nursing homes.
• Deployed Federal Task Force Strike Teams to provide onsite
technical assistance and education to
nursing homes experiencing outbreaks.
• Distributed tens of billions of dollars in Provider Relief
Funds to protect nursing homes, long-term care
facilities, safety-net hospitals, rural hospitals, and
communities hardest hit by the virus.
• Released 1.5 million N95 respirators from the Strategic
National Stockpile for distribution to over
3,000 nursing home facilities.
• Directed the White House Opportunity and Revitalization
Council to refocus on underserved
communities impacted by the coronavirus.
• Required that testing results reported include data on
race, gender, ethnicity, and ZIP code, to ensure
that resources were directed to communities
disproportionately harmed by the virus.
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• Ensured testing was ofered at 95 percent of Federally
Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which serve
over 29 million patients in 12,000 communities across the
Nation.
• Invested an unprecedented $8 billion in tribal
communities.
• Maintained safe access for Veterans to VA healthcare
throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic and
supported non-VA hospital systems and private and state-run
nursing homes with VA clinical teams.
• Signed legislation ensuring no reduction of VA education
benefits under the GI Bill for online distance
learning.
Supported Americans as they safely return to school and
work.
• Issued the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, a
detailed blueprint to help governors as they
began reopening the country. Focused on protecting the most
vulnerable and mitigating the risk of
any resurgence, while restarting the economy and allowing
Americans to safely return to their jobs.
• Helped Americans return to work by providing extensive
guidance on workplace-safety measures to
protect against COVID-19, and investigating over 10,000
coronavirus-related complaints and referrals.
• Provided over $31 billion to support elementary and
secondary schools.
• Distributed 125 million face masks to school districts.
• Provided comprehensive guidelines to schools on how to
protect and identify high-risk individuals,
prevent the spread of COVID-19, and conduct safe in-person
teaching.
• Brought back the safe return of college athletics,
including Big Ten and Pac-12 football.
Rescued the American economy with nearly $3.4 trillion in
relief, the largest financial aid package
in history.
• Secured an initial $8.3 billion Coronavirus Preparedness
and Response Act, supporting the
development of treatments and vaccines, and to procure
critical medical supplies and equipment.
• Signed the $100 billion Families First Coronavirus Relief
Act, guaranteeing free coronavirus testing,
emergency paid sick leave and family leave, Medicaid
funding, and food assistance.
• Signed the $2.3 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security (CARES) Act, providing
unprecedented and immediate relief to American families,
workers, and businesses.
• Signed additional legislation providing nearly $900
billion in support for coronavirus emergency
response and relief, including critically needed funds to
continue the Paycheck Protection Program.
• Signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare
Enhancement Act, adding an additional $310
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billion to replenish the program.
• Delivered approximately 160 million relief payments to
hardworking Americans.
• Through the Paycheck Protection Program, approved over
$525 billion in forgivable loans to more
than 5.2 million small businesses, supporting more than 51
million American jobs.
• The Treasury Department approved the establishment of the
Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity
Facility to provide liquidity to the financial system.
• The Treasury Department, working with the Federal Reserve,
was able to leverage approximately $4
trillion in emergency lending facilities.
• Signed an executive order extending expanded unemployment
benefits.
• Signed an executive order to temporarily suspend student
loan payments, evictions, and collection of
payroll taxes.
• Small Business Administration expanded access to emergency
economic assistance for small
businesses, faith-based, and religious entities.
• Protected jobs for American workers impacted by COVID-19
by temporarily suspending several jobrelated nonimmigrant visas, including
H-1B’s, H-2B’s without a nexus to the food-supply chain, certain
H-4’s, as well as L’s and certain J’s.
Great Healthcare for Americans
Empowered American patients by greatly expanding healthcare
choice, transparency, and
afordability.
• Eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate – a financial
relief to low and middle-income
households that made up nearly 80 percent of the families
who paid the penalty for not wanting to
purchase health insurance.
• Increased choice for consumers by promoting competition in
the individual health insurance market
leading to lower premiums for three years in a row.
• Under the Trump Administration, more than 90 percent of
the counties have multiple options on the
individual insurance market to choose from.
• Ofered Association Health Plans, which allow employers to
pool together and ofer more afordable,
quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30
percent lower cost.
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• Increased availability of short-term, limited-duration
health plans, which can cost up to 60 percent
less than traditional plans, giving Americans more
flexibility to choose plans that suit their needs.
• Expanded Health Reimbursement Arrangements, allowing
millions of Americans to be able to shop for
a plan of their choice on the individual market, and then
have their employer cover the cost.
• Added 2,100 new Medicare Advantage plan options since
2017, a 76 percent increase.
• Lowered Medicare Advantage premiums by 34 percent
nationwide to the lowest level in 14 years.
Medicare health plan premium savings for beneficiaries have
totaled $nearly 1.5 billion since 2017.
• Improved access to tax-free health savings accounts for
individuals with chronic conditions.
• Eliminated costly Obamacare taxes, including the health
insurance tax, the medical device tax, and
the “Cadillac tax.”
• Worked with states to create more flexibility and relief
from oppressive Obamacare regulations,
including reinsurance waivers to help lower premiums.
• Released legislative principles to end surprise medical
billing.
• Finalized requirements for unprecedented price
transparency from hospitals and insurance
companies so patients know what the cost is before they
receive care.
• Took action to require that hospitals make the prices they
negotiate with insurers publicly available
and easily accessible online.
• Improved patients access to their health data by
penalizing hospitals and causing clinicians to lose
their incentive payments if they do not comply.
• Expanded access to telehealth, especially in rural and
underserved communities.
• Increased Medicare payments to rural hospitals to stem a
decade of rising closures and deliver
enhanced access to care in rural areas.
Issued unprecedented reforms that dramatically lowered the
price of prescription drugs.
• Lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years.
• Launched an initiative to stop global freeloading in the
drug market.
• Finalized a rule to allow the importation of prescription
drugs from Canada.
• Finalized the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that
pharmaceutical companies ofer the same
discounts to the United States as they do to other nations,
resulting in an estimated $85 billion in
savings over seven years and $30 billion in out-of-pocket
costs alone.
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• Proposed a rule requiring federally funded health centers
to pass drug company discounts on insulin
and Epi-Pens directly to patients.
• Ended the gag clauses that prevented pharmacists from
informing patients about the best prices for
the medications they need.
• Ended the costly kickbacks to middlemen and ensured that
patients directly benefit from available
discounts at the pharmacy counter, saving Americans up to 30
percent on brand name
pharmaceuticals.
• Enhanced Part D plans to provide many seniors with
Medicare access to a broad set of insulins at a
maximum $35 copay for a month’s supply of each type of
insulin.
• Reduced Medicare Part D prescription drug premiums, saving
beneficiaries nearly $2 billion in
premium costs since 2017.
• Ended the Unapproved Drugs Initiative, which provided
market exclusivity to generic drugs.
Promoted research and innovation in healthcare to ensure
that American patients have access to
the best treatment in the world.
• Signed first-ever executive order to afirm that it is the
oficial policy of the United States Government
to protect patients with pre-existing conditions.
• Passed Right To Try to give terminally ill patients access
to lifesaving cures.
• Signed an executive order to fight kidney disease with
more transplants and better treatment.
• Signed into law a $1 billion increase in funding for
critical Alzheimer’s research.
• Accelerated medical breakthroughs in genetic treatments
for Sickle Cell disease.
• Finalized the interoperability rules that will give
American patients access to their electronic health
records on their phones.
• Initiated an efort to provide $500 million over the next
decade to improve pediatric cancer research.
• Launched a campaign to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
America in the next decade.
• Started a program to provide the HIV prevention drug PrEP
to uninsured patients for free.
• Signed an executive order and awarded new development
contracts to modernize the influenza
vaccine.
Protected our Nation’s seniors by safeguarding and
strengthening Medicare.
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• Updated the way Medicare pays for innovative medical
products to ensure beneficiaries have access
to the latest innovation and treatment.
• Reduced improper payments for Medicare an estimated $15
billion since 2016 protecting taxpayer
dollars and leading to less fraud, waste, and abuse.
• Took rapid action to combat antimicrobial resistance and
secure access to life-saving new antibiotic
drugs for American seniors, by removing several financial
disincentives and setting policies to reduce
inappropriate use.
• Launched new online tools, including eMedicare, Blue
Button 2.0, and Care Compare, to help seniors
see what is covered, compare costs, streamline data, and
compare tools available on Medicare.gov.
• Provided new Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits,
including modifications to help keep
seniors safe in their homes, respite care for caregivers,
non-opioid pain management alternatives like
therapeutic massages, transportation, and more in-home
support services and assistance.
• Protected Medicare beneficiaries by removing Social
Security numbers from all Medicare cards, a
project completed ahead of schedule.
• Unleashed unprecedented transparency in Medicare and
Medicaid data to spur research and
innovation.
Remaking the Federal Judiciary
Appointed a historic number of Federal judges who will
interpret the Constitution as written.
• Nominated and confirmed over 230 Federal judges.
• Confirmed 54 judges to the United States Courts of
Appeals, making up nearly a third of the entire
appellate bench.
• Filled all Court of Appeals vacancies for the first time
in four decades.
• Flipped the Second, Third, and Eleventh Circuits from
Democrat-appointed majorities to Republicanappointed majorities. And
dramatically reshaped the long-liberal Ninth Circuit.
Appointed three Supreme Court justices, expanding its
conservative-appointed majority to 6-3.
• Appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch to replace Justice Antonin
Scalia.
• Appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice
Anthony Kennedy.
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• Appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Achieving a Secure Border
Secured the Southern Border of the United States.
• Built over 400 miles of the world’s most robust and
advanced border wall.
• Illegal crossings have plummeted over 87 percent where the
wall has been constructed.
• Deployed nearly 5,000 troops to the Southern border. In
addition, Mexico deployed tens of thousands
of their own soldiers and national guardsmen to secure their
side of the US-Mexico border.
• Ended the dangerous practice of Catch-and-Release, which
means that instead of aliens getting
released into the United States pending future hearings
never to be seen again, they are detained
pending removal, and then ultimately returned to their home
countries.
• Entered into three historic asylum cooperation agreements
with Honduras, El Salvador, and
Guatemala to stop asylum fraud and resettle illegal migrants
in third-party nations pending their
asylum applications.
• Entered into a historic partnership with Mexico, referred
to as the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” to
safely return asylum-seekers to Mexico while awaiting
hearings in the United States.
Fully enforced the immigration laws of the United States.
• Signed an executive order to strip discretionary Federal
grant funding from deadly sanctuary cities.
• Fully enforced and implemented statutorily authorized
“expedited removal” of illegal aliens.
• The Department of Justice prosecuted a record-breaking
number of immigration-related crimes.
• Used Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(INA) to reduce the number of aliens
coming from countries whose governments refuse to accept
their nationals who were ordered
removed from the United States.
Ended asylum fraud, shut down human smuggling trafickers,
and solved the humanitarian crisis
across the Western Hemisphere.
• Suspended, via regulation, asylum for aliens who had
skipped previous countries where they were
eligible for asylum but opted to “forum shop” and continue
to the United States.
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• Safeguarded migrant families, and protected migrant
safety, by promulgating new regulations under
the Flores Settlement Agreement.
• Proposed regulations to end the practice of giving free
work permits to illegal aliens lodging meritless
asylum claims.
• Issued “internal relocation” guidance.
• Cross-trained United States Border Patrol agents to
conduct credible fear screenings alongside USCIS
(United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)
adjudication personnel to reduce massive
backlogs.
• Streamlined and expedited the asylum hearing process
through both the Prompt Asylum Claim
Review (PACR) and the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP).
• Launched the Family Fraud Initiative to identify hundreds
of individuals who were fraudulently
presenting themselves as family units at the border,
ofentimes with traficking children, in order to
ensure child welfare.
• Improved screening in countries with high overstay rates
and reduced visa overstay rates in many of
these countries.
• Removed bureaucratic constraints on United States consular
oficers that reduced their ability to
appropriately vet visa applicants.
• Worked with Mexico and other regional partners to
dismantle the human smuggling networks in our
hemisphere that profit from human misery and fuel the border
crisis by exploiting vulnerable
populations.
Secured our Nation’s immigration system against criminals
and terrorists.
• Instituted national security travel bans to keep out
terrorists, jihadists, and violent extremists, and
implemented a uniform security and information-sharing
baseline all nations must meet in order for
their nationals to be able to travel to, and emigrate to,
the United States.
• Suspended refugee resettlement from the world’s most
dangerous and terror-aflicted regions.
• Rebalanced refugee assistance to focus on overseas
resettlement and burden-sharing.
• 85 percent reduction in refugee resettlement.
• Overhauled badly-broken refugee security screening
process.
• Required the Department of State to consult with states
and localities as part of the Federal
government’s refugee resettlement process.
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• Issued strict sanctions on countries that have failed to
take back their own nationals.
• Established the National Vetting Center, which is the most
advanced and comprehensive visa
screening system anywhere in the world.
Protected American workers and taxpayers.
• Issued a comprehensive “public charge” regulation to
ensure newcomers to the United States are
financially self-suficient and not reliant on welfare.
• Created an enforcement mechanism for sponsor repayment and
deeming, to ensure that people who
are presenting themselves as sponsors are actually
responsible for sponsor obligations.
• Issued regulations to combat the horrendous practice of
“birth tourism.”
• Issued a rule with the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to make illegal aliens
ineligible for public housing.
• Issued directives requiring Federal agencies to hire
United States workers first and prioritizing the
hiring of United States workers wherever possible.
• Suspended the entry of low-wage workers that threaten
American jobs.
• Finalized new H-1B regulations to permanently end the
displacement of United States workers and
modify the administrative tools that are required for H-1B
visa issuance.
• Defended United States sovereignty by withdrawing from the
United Nations’ Global Compact on
Migration.
• Suspended Employment Authorization Documents for aliens
who arrive illegally between ports of
entry and are ordered removed from the United States.
• Restored integrity to the use of Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) by strictly adhering to the statutory
conditions required for TPS.
Restoring American Leadership Abroad
Restored America’s leadership in the world and successfully
negotiated to ensure our allies pay
their fair share for our military protection.
• Secured a $400 billion increase in defense spending from
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
allies by 2024, and the number of members meeting their
minimum obligations more than doubled.
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• Credited by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for
strengthening NATO.
• Worked to reform and streamline the United Nations (UN)
and reduced spending by $1.3 billion.
• Allies, including Japan and the Republic of Korea,
committed to increase burden-sharing.
• Protected our Second Amendment rights by announcing the
United States will never ratify the UN
Arms Trade Treaty.
• Returned 56 hostages and detainees from more than 24
countries.
• Worked to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific region,
promoting new investments and expanding
American partnerships.
Advanced peace through strength.
• Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Nuclear Deal
and imposed crippling sanctions on the
Iranian Regime.
• Conducted vigorous enforcement on all sanctions to bring
Iran’s oil exports to zero and deny the
regime its principal source of revenue.
• First president to meet with a leader of North Korea and
the first sitting president to cross the
demilitarized zone into North Korea.
• Maintained a maximum pressure campaign and enforced tough
sanctions on North Korea while
negotiating de-nuclearization, the release of American
hostages, and the return of the remains of
American heroes.
• Brokered economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo,
bolstering peace in the Balkans.
• Signed the Honk Kong Autonomy Act and ended the United
States’ preferential treatment with Hong
Kong to hold China accountable for its infringement on the
autonomy of Hong Kong.
• Led allied eforts to defeat the Chinese Communist Party’s
eforts to control the international
telecommunications system.
Renewed our cherished friendship and alliance with Israel
and took historic action to promote
peace in the Middle East.
• Recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel and
quickly moved the American Embassy in Israel
to Jerusalem.
• Acknowledged Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights
and declared that Israeli settlements in the
West Bank are not inconsistent with international law.
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• Removed the United States from the United Nations Human
Rights Council due to the group’s blatant
anti-Israel bias.
• Brokered historic peace agreements between Israel and
Arab-Muslim countries, including the United
Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Sudan.
• In addition, the United States negotiated a normalization
agreement between Israel and Morocco, and
recognized Moroccan Sovereignty over the entire Western
Sahara, a position with long standing
bipartisan support.
• Brokered a deal for Kosovo to normalize ties and establish
diplomatic relations with Israel.
• Announced that Serbia would move its embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem.
• First American president to address an assembly of leaders
from more than 50 Muslim nations, and
reach an agreement to fight terrorism in all its forms.
• Established the Etidal Center to combat terrorism in the
Middle East in conjunction with the Saudi
Arabian Government.
• Announced the Vision for Peace Political Plan – a
two-state solution that resolves the risks of
Palestinian statehood to Israel’s security, and the first
time Israel has agreed to a map and a
Palestinian state.
• Released an economic plan to empower the Palestinian
people and enhance Palestinian governance
through historic private investment.
Stood up against Communism and Socialism in the Western
Hemisphere.
• Reversed the previous Administration’s disastrous Cuba
policy, canceling the sellout deal with the
Communist Castro dictatorship.
• Pledged not to lif sanctions until all political prisoners
are freed; freedoms of assembly and
expression are respected; all political parties are
legalized; and free elections are scheduled.
• Enacted a new policy aimed at preventing American dollars
from funding the Cuban regime, including
stricter travel restrictions and restrictions on the
importation of Cuban alcohol and tobacco.
• Implemented a cap on remittances to Cuba.
• Enabled Americans to file lawsuits against persons and
entities that trafic in property confiscated by
the Cuban regime.
• First world leader to recognize Juan Guaido as the Interim
President of Venezuela and led a
diplomatic coalition against the Socialist Dictator of
Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
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• Blocked all property of the Venezuelan Government in the
jurisdiction of the United States.
• Cut of the financial resources of the Maduro regime and
sanctioned key sectors of the Venezuelan
economy exploited by the regime.
• Brought criminal charges against Nicolas Maduro for his
narco-terrorism.
• Imposed stif sanctions on the Ortega regime in Nicaragua.
• Joined together with Mexico and Canada in a successful bid
to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with 60
matches to be held in the United States.
• Won bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,
California.
Colossal Rebuilding of the Military
Rebuilt the military and created the Sixth Branch, the
United States Space Force.
• Completely rebuilt the United States military with over
$2.2 trillion in defense spending, including
$738 billion for 2020.
• Secured three pay raises for our service members and their
families, including the largest raise in a
decade.
• Established the Space Force, the first new branch of the
United States Armed Forces since 1947.
• Modernized and recapitalized our nuclear forces and
missile defenses to ensure they continue to serve
as a strong deterrent.
• Upgraded our cyber defenses by elevating the Cyber Command
into a major warfighting command
and by reducing burdensome procedural restrictions on cyber
operations.
• Vetoed the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act, which
failed to protect our national security,
disrespected the history of our veterans and military, and
contradicted our eforts to put America first.
Defeated terrorists, held leaders accountable for malign
actions, and bolstered peace around the
world.
• Defeated 100 percent of ISIS’ territorial caliphate in
Iraq and Syria.
• Freed nearly 8 million civilians from ISIS’ bloodthirsty
control, and liberated Mosul, Raqqa, and the
final ISIS foothold of Baghuz.
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• Killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and
eliminated the world’s top terrorist, Qasem
Soleimani.
• Created the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) in
partnership between the United States and
its Gulf partners to combat extremist ideology and threats,
and target terrorist financial networks,
including over 60 terrorist individuals and entities
spanning the globe.
• Twice took decisive military action against the Assad
regime in Syria for the barbaric use of chemical
weapons against innocent civilians, including a successful
59 Tomahawk cruise missiles strike.
• Authorized sanctions against bad actors tied to Syria’s
chemical weapons program.
• Negotiated an extended ceasefire with Turkey in northeast
Syria.
Addressed gaps in American’s defense-industrial base,
providing much-needed updates to improve
the safety of our country.
• Protected America’s defense-industrial base, directing the
first whole-of-government assessment of
our manufacturing and defense supply chains since the 1950s.
• Took decisive steps to secure our information and
communications technology and services supply
chain, including unsafe mobile applications.
• Completed several multi-year nuclear material removal
campaigns, securing over 1,000 kilograms of
highly enriched uranium and significantly reducing global
nuclear threats.
• Signed an executive order directing Federal agencies to
work together to diminish the capability of
foreign adversaries to target our critical electric
infrastructure.
• Established a whole-of-government strategy addressing the
threat posed by China’s malign eforts
targeting the United States taxpayer-funded research and
development ecosystem.
• Advanced missile defense capabilities and regional
alliances.
• Bolstered the ability of our allies and partners to defend
themselves through the sale of aid and
military equipment.
• Signed the largest arms deal ever, worth nearly $110
billion, with Saudi Arabia.
Serving and Protecting Our Veterans
Reformed the Department of Veterans Afairs (VA) to improve
care, choice, and employee
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accountability.
• Signed and implemented the VA Mission Act, which made
permanent Veterans CHOICE, revolutionized
the VA community care system, and delivered quality care
closer to home for Veterans.
• The number of Veterans who say they trust VA services has
increased 19 percent to a record 91
percent, an all-time high.
• Ofered same-day emergency mental health care at every VA
medical facility, and secured $9.5 billion
for mental health services in 2020.
• Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017,
which ensured that veterans could
continue to see the doctor of their choice and wouldn’t have
to wait for care.
• During the Trump Administration, millions of veterans have
been able to choose a private doctor in
their communities.
• Expanded Veterans’ ability to access telehealth services,
including through the “Anywhere to
Anywhere” VA healthcare initiative leading to a 1000 percent
increase in usage during COVID-19.
• Signed the Veterans Afairs Accountability and
Whistleblower Protection Act and removed thousands
of VA workers who failed to give our Vets the care they have
so richly deserve.
• Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization
Act of 2017 and improved the eficiency
of the VA, setting record numbers of appeals decisions.
• Modernized medical records to begin a seamless transition
from the Department of Defense to the VA.
• Launched a new tool that provides Veterans with online
access to average wait times and quality-ofcare data.
• The promised White House VA Hotline has fielded hundreds
of thousands of calls.
• Formed the PREVENTS Task Force to fight the tragedy of
Veteran suicide.
Decreased veteran homelessness, improved education benefits,
and achieved record-low veteran
unemployment.
• Signed and implemented the Forever GI Bill, allowing Veterans
to use their benefits to get an
education at any point in their lives.
• Eliminated every penny of Federal student loan debt owed
by American veterans who are completely
and permanently disabled.
• Compared to 2009, 49 percent fewer veterans experienced
homelessness nationwide during 2019.
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• Signed and implemented the HAVEN Act to ensure that
Veterans who’ve declared bankruptcy don’t
lose their disability payments.
• Helped hundreds of thousands of military service members
make the transition from the military to
the civilian workforce, and developed programs to support
the employment of military spouses.
• Placed nearly 40,000 homeless veterans into employment
through the Homeless Veterans
Reintegration Program.
• Placed over 600,000 veterans into employment through
American Job Center services.
• Enrolled over 500,000 transitioning service members in
over 20,000 Department of Labor employment
workshops.
• Signed an executive order to help Veterans transition
seamlessly into the United States Merchant
Marine.
Making Communities Safer
Signed into law landmark criminal justice reform.
• Signed the bipartisan First Step Act into law, the first
landmark criminal justice reform legislation ever
passed to reduce recidivism and help former inmates
successfully rejoin society.
• Promoted second chance hiring to give former inmates the
opportunity to live crime-free lives and
find meaningful employment.
• Launched a new “Ready to Work” initiative to help connect
employers directly with former prisoners.
• Awarded $2.2 million to states to expand the use of
fidelity bonds, which underwrite companies that
hire former prisoners.
• Reversed decades-old ban on Second Chance Pell programs to
provide postsecondary education to
individuals who are incarcerated expand their skills and
better succeed in the workforce upon reentry.
• Awarded over $333 million in Department of Labor grants to
nonprofits and local and state
governments for reentry projects focused on career
development services for justice-involved youth
and adults who were formerly incarcerated.
Unprecedented support for law-enforcement.
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• In 2019, violent crime fell for the third consecutive
year.
• Since 2016, the violent crime rate has declined over 5
percent and the murder rate has decreased by
over 7 percent.
• Launched Operation Legend to combat a surge of violent
crime in cities, resulting in more than 5,500
arrests.
• Deployed the National Guard and Federal law enforcement to
Kenosha to stop violence and restore
public safety.
• Provided $1 million to Kenosha law enforcement, nearly $4
million to support small businesses in
Kenosha, and provided over $41 million to support law
enforcement to the state of Wisconsin.
• Deployed Federal agents to save the courthouse in Portland
from rioters.
• Signed an executive order outlining ten-year prison
sentences for destroying Federal property and
monuments.
• Directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate
and prosecute Federal ofenses related to
ongoing violence.
• DOJ provided nearly $400 million for new law enforcement
hiring.
• Endorsed by the 355,000 members of the Fraternal Order of
Police.
• Revitalized Project Safe Neighborhoods, which brings
together Federal, state, local, and tribal law
enforcement oficials to develop solutions to violent crime.
• Improved first-responder communications by deploying the
FirstNet National Public Safety
Broadband Network, which serves more than 12,000 public
safety agencies across the Nation.
• Established a new commission to evaluate best practices
for recruiting, training, and supporting law
enforcement oficers.
• Signed the Safe Policing for Safe Communities executive
order to incentive local police department
reforms in line with law and order.
• Made hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of surplus
military equipment available to local law
enforcement.
• Signed an executive order to help prevent violence against
law enforcement oficers.
• Secured permanent funding for the 9/11 Victim Compensation
Fund for first responders.
Implemented strong measures to stem hate crimes, gun
violence, and human traficking.
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• Signed an executive order making clear that Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to
discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism.
• Launched a centralized website to educate the public about
hate crimes and encourage reporting.
• Signed the Fix NICS Act to keep guns out of the hands of
dangerous criminals.
• Signed the STOP School Violence Act and created a
Commission on School Safety to examine ways to
make our schools safer.
• Launched the Foster Youth to Independence initiative to
prevent and end homelessness among young
adults under the age of 25 who are in, or have recently lef,
the foster care system.
• Signed the Traficking Victims Protection Reauthorization
Act, which tightened criteria for whether
countries are meeting standards for eliminating traficking.
• Established a task force to help combat the tragedy of
missing or murdered Native American women
and girls.
• Prioritized fighting for the voiceless and ending the
scourge of human traficking across the Nation,
through a whole of government back by legislation, executive
action, and engagement with key
industries.
• Created the first-ever White House position focused solely
on combating human traficking.
Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty
Steadfastly supported the sanctity of every human life and
worked tirelessly to prevent
government funding of abortion.
• Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring
that taxpayer money is not used to fund
abortion globally.
• Issued a rule preventing Title X taxpayer funding from subsiding
the abortion industry.
• Supported legislation to end late-term abortions.
• Cut all funding to the United Nations population fund due
to the fund’s support for coercive abortion
and forced sterilization.
• Signed legislation overturning the previous
administration’s regulation that prohibited states from
defunding abortion facilities as part of their family
planning programs.
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• Fully enforced the requirement that taxpayer dollars do
not support abortion coverage in Obamacare
exchange plans.
• Stopped the Federal funding of fetal tissue research.
• Worked to protect healthcare entities and individuals’
conscience rights – ensuring that no medical
professional is forced to participate in an abortion in
violation of their beliefs.
• Issued an executive order reinforcing requirement that all
hospitals in the United States provide
medical treatment or an emergency transfer for infants who
are in need of emergency medical care—
regardless of prematurity or disability.
• Led a coalition of countries to sign the Geneva Consensus
Declaration, declaring that there is no
international right to abortion and committing to protecting
women’s health.
• First president in history to attend the March for Life.
Stood up for religious liberty in the United States and
around the world.
• Protected the conscience rights of doctors, nurses,
teachers, and groups like the Little Sisters of the
Poor.
• First president to convene a meeting at the United Nations
to end religious persecution.
• Established the White House Faith and Opportunity
Initiative.
• Stopped the Johnson Amendment from interfering with
pastors’ right to speak their minds.
• Reversed the previous administration’s policy that
prevented the government from providing disaster
relief to religious organizations.
• Protected faith-based adoption and foster care providers,
ensuring they can continue to serve their
communities while following the teachings of their faith.
• Reduced burdensome barriers to ensure Native Americans are
free to keep spiritually and culturally
significant eagle feathers found on their tribal lands.
• Took action to ensure Federal employees can take paid time
of work to observe religious holy days.
• Signed legislation to assist religious and ethnic groups
targeted by ISIS for mass murder and genocide
in Syria and Iraq.
• Directed American assistance toward persecuted
communities, including through faith-based
programs.
• Launched the International Religious Freedom Alliance –
the first-ever alliance devoted to confronting
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religious persecution around the world.
• Appointed a Special Envoy to monitor and combat
anti-Semitism.
• Imposed restrictions on certain Chinese oficials, internal
security units, and companies for their
complicity in the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
• Issued an executive order to protect and promote religious
freedom around the world.
Safeguarding the Environment
Took strong action to protect the environment and ensure
clean air and clean water.
• Took action to protect vulnerable Americans from being
exposed to lead and copper in drinking water
and finalized a rule protecting children from lead-based
paint hazards.
• Invested over $38 billion in clean water infrastructure.
• In 2019, America achieved the largest decline in carbon
emissions of any country on earth. Since
withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States
has reduced carbon emissions more
than any nation.
• American levels of particulate matter – one of the main
measures of air pollution – are approximately
five times lower than the global average.
• Between 2017 and 2019, the air became 7 percent cleaner –
indicated by a steep drop in the combined
emissions of criteria pollutants.
• Led the world in greenhouse gas emissions reductions,
having cut energy-related CO2 emissions by 12
percent from 2005 to 2018 while the rest of the world
increased emissions by 24 percent.
• In FY 2019 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
cleaned up more major pollution sites than any
year in nearly two decades.
• The EPA delivered $300 million in Brownfields grants
directly to communities most in need including
investment in 118 Opportunity Zones.
• Placed a moratorium on ofshore drilling of the coasts of
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Florida.
• Restored public access to Federal land at Bears Ears
National Monument and Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument.
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• Recovered more endangered or threatened species than any
other administration in its first term.
Secured agreements and signed legislation to protect the
environment and preserve our Nation’s
abundant national resources.
• The USMCA guarantees the strongest environmental
protections of any trade agreement in history.
• Signed the Save Our Seas Act to protect our environment
from foreign nations that litter our oceans
with debris and developed the first-ever Federal strategic
plan to address marine litter.
• Signed the Great American Outdoors Act, securing the
single largest investment in America’s National
Parks and public lands in history.
• Signed the largest public lands legislation in a decade,
designating 1.3 million new acres of
wilderness.
• Signed a historic executive order promoting much more
active forest management to prevent
catastrophic wildfires.
• Opened and expanded access to over 4 million acres of
public lands for hunting and fishing.
• Joined the One Trillion Trees Initiative to plant,
conserve, and restore trees in America and around the
world.
• Delivered infrastructure upgrades and investments for
numerous projects, including over half a billion
dollars to fix the Herbert Hoover Dike and expanding funding
for Everglades restoration by 55 percent.
Expanding Educational Opportunity
Fought tirelessly to give every American access to the best
possible education.
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expanded School Choice, allowing
parents to use up to $10,000 from a 529
education savings account to cover K-12 tuition costs at the
public, private, or religious school of their
choice.
• Launched a new pro-American lesson plan for students
called the 1776 Commission to promote
patriotic education.
• Prohibited the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the
Federal government.
• Established the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast
outdoor park that will feature the statues
of the greatest Americans to ever live.
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• Called on Congress to pass the Education Freedom
Scholarships and Opportunity Act to expand
education options for 1 million students of all economic
backgrounds.
• Signed legislation reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity
Scholarship program.
• Issued updated guidance making clear that the First
Amendment right to Free Exercise of Religion
does not end at the door to a public school.
Took action to promote technical education.
• Signed into law the Strengthening Career and Technical
Education for the 21st Century Act, which
provides over 13 million students with high-quality
vocational education and extends more than $1.3
billion each year to states for critical workforce development
programs.
• Signed the INSPIRE Act which encouraged NASA to have more
women and girls participate in STEM
and seek careers in aerospace.
• Allocated no less than $200 million each year in grants to
prioritize women and minorities in STEM and
computer science education.
Drastically reformed and modernized our educational system
to restore local control and promote
fairness.
• Restored state and local control of education by
faithfully implementing the Every Student Succeeds
Act.
• Signed an executive order that ensures public universities
protect First Amendment rights or they will
risk losing funding, addresses student debt by requiring
colleges to share a portion of the financial
risk, and increases transparency by requiring universities
to disclose information about the value of
potential educational programs.
• Issued a rule strengthening Title IX protections for
survivors of sexual misconduct in schools, and that
– for the first time in history – codifies that sexual
harassment is prohibited under Title IX.
• Negotiated historic bipartisan agreement on new higher
education rules to increase innovation and
lower costs by reforming accreditation, state authorization,
distance education, competency-based
education, credit hour, religious liberty, and TEACH Grants.
Prioritized support for Historically Black Colleges and
Universities.
• Moved the Federal Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU) Initiative back to the White
House.
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• Signed into law the FUTURE Act, making permanent $255
million in annual funding for HBCUs and
increasing funding for the Federal Pell Grant program.
• Signed legislation that included more than $100 million
for scholarships, research, and centers of
excellence at HBCU land-grant institutions.
• Fully forgave $322 million in disaster loans to four HBCUs
in 2018, so they could fully focus on
educating their students.
• Enabled faith-based HBCUs to enjoy equal access to Federal
support.
Combatting the Opioid Crisis
Brought unprecedented attention and support to combat the
opioid crisis.
• Declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health
emergency.
• Secured a record $6 billion in new funding to combat the
opioid epidemic.
• Signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the
largest-ever legislative efort to address a
drug crisis in our Nation’s history.
• Launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce
Drug Supply and Demand in order to
confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis.
• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded
a record $9 billion in grants to expand
access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services to
States and local communities.
• Passed the CRIB Act, allowing Medicaid to help mothers and
their babies who are born physically
dependent on opioids by covering their care in residential
pediatric recovery facilities.
• Distributed $1 billion in grants for addiction prevention
and treatment.
• Announced a Safer Prescriber Plan that seeks to decrease
the amount of opioids prescriptions filled in
America by one third within three years.
• Reduced the total amount of opioids prescriptions filled
in America.
• Expanded access to medication-assisted treatment and
life-saving Naloxone.
• Launched FindTreatment.gov, a tool to find help for
substance abuse.
• Drug overdose deaths fell nationwide in 2018 for the first
time in nearly three decades.
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• Launched the Drug-Impaired Driving Initiative to work with
local law enforcement and the driving
public at large to increase awareness.
• Launched a nationwide public ad campaign on youth opioid
abuse that reached 58 percent of young
adults in America.
• Since 2016, there has been a nearly 40 percent increase in
the number of Americans receiving
medication-assisted treatment.
• Approved 29 state Medicaid demonstrations to improve
access to opioid use disorder treatment,
including new flexibility to cover inpatient and residential
treatment.
• Approved nearly $200 million in grants to address the
opioid crisis in severely afected communities
and to reintegrate workers in recovery back into the
workforce.
Took action to seize illegal drugs and punish those preying
on innocent Americans.
• In FY 2019, ICE HSI seized 12,466 pounds of opioids
including 3,688 pounds of fentanyl, an increase of
35 percent from FY 2018.
• Seized tens of thousands of kilograms of heroin and
thousands of kilograms of fentanyl since 2017.
• The Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted more fentanyl
trafickers than ever before, dismantled
3,000 drug traficking organizations, and seized enough
fentanyl to kill 105,000 Americans.
• DOJ charged more than 65 defendants collectively
responsible for distributing over 45 million opioid
pills.
• Brought kingpin designations against traffickers operating
in China, India, Mexico, and more who have
played a role in the epidemic in America.
• Indicted major Chinese drug traffickers for distributing
fentanyl in the U.S for the first time ever, and
convinced China to enact strict regulations to control the
production and sale of fentanyl.