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A Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment Step-By-Step Doctors’ Plan That Could Save Your Life
Source: Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
A Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Overview: SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus and COVID-19
Illness
What is a Coronavirus?
How Deadly is COVID?
Chapter 2: I Have Flu-Like Symptoms: What Should I Do?
What Should I Do First?
Symptoms of COVID
Immediate Home Care Recommendations
Should I Get A COVID Test?
Early Treatment Is Key to Success
What to Expect At Your Physician Consultation?
Chapter 3: The Experts Guide to Early Home Treatment
Advantages of Home-Based Treatment
Available Medicines, New Uses: Rationale for the Combination
in COVID
Antivirals and Antibiotics
Anti-Inflammatories - Corticosteroids: Oral and Nebulized
Prescription Anticoagulants (“Blood Thinners”): Why Crucial
in COVID
Vitamins, Supplements, and Oxygen
Chapter 4: Emerging Prevention and Treatment Options
Monoclonal Antibodies
Convalescent Plasma
Prevention Options: Prophylaxis and Vaccines
READ @ https://aapsonline.org/CovidPatientTreatmentGuide.pdf
Related articles @ https://www.todayville.com/calgary/theres-another-way-to-end-the-pandemic-doctors-can-knock-covid-out-with-treatment/
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Saturday, March 27, 2021
$49.6 Billion for Debt-Interest Costs by Federal & Provincial Governments
The Fraser Institute and authors Jake Fuss, a senior economist and Steve Lafluer, a senior policy analyst on February 25, 2021, published their research report on the combined interest payments for debt annual for the federal and provincial Canadian governments.
Summary- In recent years, deficit spending and growing government debt have become a trend for many Canadian governments. Like households, governments are required to pay interest on their debt.
- In aggregate, the provinces and federal government are expected to spend $49.6 billion on interest payments in 2020/21.
- Residents in Newfoundland & Labrador face by far the highest combined federal-provincial interest payments per person ($2,604). Quebec, Canada’s second-most populous province, is the next highest at $1,417 per person.
- The federal government alone will spend $20.2 billion on debt servicing charges in 2020/21, which is roughly equivalent to what the government expects to spend on Equalization ($20.6 billion) and collect in Employment Insurance Premiums ($21.5 billion).
- Ontarians are projected to spend $20.3 billion on combined federal and provincial interest costs in 2020/21, which is more than the province will spend on infrastructure this year.
- Meanwhile, total expenditures on interest costs for Albertans ($4.8 billion) is close to the expected spending on advanced education in the province. Combined federal-provincial interest costs for British Columbians ($5.5 billion) are more than what the province expects to spend on its Medical Services Plan this year.
Please read the full report @
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Cancel Culture and Censorship Manipulation by Teck Corporations Have Forgotten History!
North America’s youth
(Canada and the USA) are being used as pawns, guided and directed by Academia Political
Operatives combined with the selective use of censorships by the insidious techniques
of algorithms conceived by social media tech corporations in their attempt to
dominate world politics.
Such electioneering
of the education system and intimidation techniques used by previous totalitarian
methods in the 1900 hundreds by the Fascist, and Nazi political parties, use of
youth for full control of all phases of life throughout North America is
nothing new as it led to war back in 1933. Remember?
Political Party’s
today, thanks to the Chinese Covid19/21 continue to maintain their power over
the lives of the people they were supposedly elected to work for, NOT CONTROL
THEM, by fear, coercion, and mass manipulation.
Today's media has
become the propaganda arm of their respective political party, namely the
socialist progressive liberal platform philosophy and the theory for a
Socialist World System of alliance and domination of the masses in my opinion.
As this theory,
throughout history, has been proven to be nothing more than deceptive rhetoric based
solely on a curious mixture of doctrine, theory, and dogma.
Much like and very similar
to that of the now redefined Cancel Culture theory used today by BLM; MeToo;
Cancel Culture; Antifa and other such groups. All of course
directly and fully supported by the media and the Political Democratic Party,
the Liberal Party or Progressive Socialist Liberal Party etc.
Further for me, it
is history repeating itself and designed once again, today, to convey to the
masses supremacy of one political party’s theory and philosophy.
Using the new tools
of social media’s deceptive and one-sided political rhetoric propaganda and combined
with the insidious techniques of algorithm
censorship, their attempt is to portray all those with different views, thought
or religion the new symbol of all that is hated and feared as the enemy of all
classes of society, except, of course, their own chosen class of those who bow
down to the whims of mob rule, BLM, Antifa, Cancel Culture, etc.
Throughout 2020 and
now continuing into 2021 we have witnessed large numbers of ordinary people,
including women, involved in looting, rioting, burning, plundering, stealing goods
by picking them, up after they have been thrown out of stores onto the streets in
Cities and Towns across North America.
All of these ordinary
people, the vast majority of them POC, from all the pictures, benefited from
the destruction, theft, and burning of other ordinary peoples property and livelihood
destroyed and ruined by these other ordinary people who claim to be entitled to
such uncivilized behaviour etc.
Further many of
these rioters including, some egged on by organized peer pressure groups, are
of the belief that “White people and Republicans are our misfortune” and “Time
to put them in their place and give black people preferred justice.”
It is long past the time that we must all ask “Why have so few people to date stood up to protest or
speak out against these continued riots, looters, and violent protesters?
Why
has our elected representative remained largely silent, passive to date?
These non-responses by our elected officials and
the wider population has also made it possible to continue and this is what
must still give us cause for thought today, in my opinion, as history is
repeating itself, NOT in Europe or Germany yet rather here in North America.
As in the past, specialty in Germany in The ’30s, elected leaders have by their silence condoned and introduced a hostile
environment and initiated practical measures, through legislation or appeasement
of violence, to establish an ethnically defined “people’s community.”
By being largely compliant, for whatever reasons, those who were not excluded helped to create an even more hostile environment – one in which it was possible to carry out looting, burning and riots in broad daylight without significant intervention on behalf of the persecuted. WHY?
Defund the Police is the whipped-up cry from
these active Minorities, Anarchists, Black lives matter, MeToo, Antifa, and Cancel Culture
members. They are not only prepared to engage in violence but also have the
physical means weaponry to do so against their fellow humans. These people are infused
with hatred, anti-white, and NOT peaceful.
Finally, and in my humble opinion, all people as
individuals have lives, believes, opinions, relationships, families have the inherent
right, constitutionally and legally, to reject or accept legal social trends
and have that right and freedom to make choices without being bullied, coerced,
intimidated or censured by either side of any issue.
FACT IN LAW: “Private corporation" like the tech companies of today does not always mean absolute dominion. Because the more these private tech companies (owners), for their own advantage or the advantage of a specific political party, opened up their platforms, forums, and media communities (property) for use by the public in general and worldwide, the more has their so-called private corporation rights become circumscribed by the statutory, legal, and constitutional rights of those who use it.”
And for all you Trump haters out there keep these facts in mind:
Biden said the Trump administration “had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”
While Trump was still in office, his administration had agreements in place to buy 400 million doses of authorized vaccine, or enough to inoculate about 200 million people. That wouldn’t cover the U.S. adult population.
However, KHN-PolitiFact reviewed the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed contracts and found those included enough vaccine doses that, once cleared for use by the FDA, would inoculate about 550 million people — more than double the U.S. adult population.
Here’s what the Trump team’s contracts called for drugmakers to supply to the U.S. government:
Pfizer-BioNTech: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Moderna: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Johnson & Johnson: 100 million doses (one-dose regimen)
AstraZeneca: 300 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Novavax: 100 million doses (two-dose regimen)
Sanofi-GlaxoSmithKline: 100 million doses (one- or two-dose regimen)
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Historical Facts of the Trump Administration Accomplishments-As of January 2021
Unprecedented Economic Boom
Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built
the world’s most prosperous economy.
- America gained 7 million new
jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
- Middle-Class family income
increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire
previous administration.
- The unemployment rate
reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
- Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
- More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
- Jobless claims hit a nearly
50-year low.
- The number of people
claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest
on record.
- Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
Delivered a future of greater promise and
opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.
- Unemployment rates for
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans,
veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
- Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
- Lifted nearly 7 million people off 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 off 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.
- 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.
- 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 lifted 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.
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 offer 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 Affordable 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
efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including
preserving affordable 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
develop new technologies.
- Took action to suspend
regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including
lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.
Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory
overreach.
- Rescinded the previous
administration’s Affirmatively 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
Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more
affordable, 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 affordable healthcare
and saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
- Deregulatory efforts 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 effect, 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.
Fair and Reciprocal Trade
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 tariffs 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 tariff.
- 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 tariffs remained in
effect.
- 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 tariffs on American lobster – the first United
States-European Union negotiated tariff 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 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 tariffs 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 effort to halt and punish efforts by the Communist Party
of China to steal and profit from American innovations and intellectual
property.
- Imposed tariffs on foreign
aluminum and foreign steel to protect our vital industries and support our
national security.
- Approved tariffs 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 tariffs paid by China.
- China lifted 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.
- The European Union agreed to
increase beef imports by 180 percent and opened up its market to more
imports of soybeans.
- South Korea lifted its ban
on American poultry and eggs, and agreed to provide market access for
record exports of American rice.
- Argentina lifted 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 tariff 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.
- 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 Affordable
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 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 effort, 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.
Investing in America’s Workers and Families
Affordable 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, affordable 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 Women
Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act.
- Launched the Women’s Global
Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative – the first-ever
whole-of-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 Office 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 Office 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.
- 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 off 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.
- Took action to authorize
visa sanctions on foreign governments who impede our efforts 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 efforts 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 Stafford 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
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 officials and
industry partners.
- The continued movement of
food and other critical items of daily life distributed to stores and to
American homes went unaffected.
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.
- 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 different 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
cocktail.
- 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 efficacy 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
high-risk 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 effective vaccine in record time.
- Launched Operation Warp
Speed to initiate an unprecedented drive to develop and make available an
effective vaccine by January 2021.
- 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 effective – 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 effective 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 effective 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
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 staff regularly.
- Launched an unprecedented
national nursing home training curriculum to equip nursing home staff 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.
- Ensured testing was offered
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 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 job-related
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 affordability.
- 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.
- Offered Association Health
Plans, which allow employers to pool together and offer more affordable,
quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30 percent lower cost.
- 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 offer 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.
- 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 affirm that it is the official 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 effort 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.
- 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 Republican-appointed
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.
- 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
traffickers, 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.
- 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, oftentimes with
trafficking 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 officers 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-afflicted 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.
- 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-sufficient 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.
- 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 efforts to defeat
the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts 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.
- 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 lift
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 traffic 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.
- Blocked all property of the
Venezuelan Government in the jurisdiction of the United States.
- Cut off 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 stiff 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 efforts 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.
- 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
efforts 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 Affairs (VA) to
improve care, choice, and employee 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.
- Offered 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 Affairs
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 efficiency 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-of-care 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.
- 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 re-entry.
- 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.
- 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 offenses 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 officials 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 officers.
- 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 officers.
- Secured permanent funding
for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund for first responders.
Implemented strong measures to stem hate crimes,
gun violence, and human trafficking.
- 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 left, the foster care
system.
- Signed the Trafficking
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which tightened criteria for
whether countries are meeting standards for eliminating trafficking.
- 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 trafficking 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 trafficking.
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.
- 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 off 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 religious persecution around the world.
- Appointed a Special Envoy to
monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
- Imposed restrictions on
certain Chinese officials, 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
offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Florida.
- Restored public access to
Federal land at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 effort 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.
- 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 affected 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 traffickers than ever before, dismantled
3,000 drug trafficking 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.