Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping
Not even remotely "tired" of all this great winning!
But, I'll guarantee you that the left is sure as hell tired of watching us celebrate all the fantastic winning!! And I'll also surely guarantee you that the left will argue that some of the wins aren't wins, so they can numb the pain a little.
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Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping
The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for re-election on.
As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members.
“Trump’s successes in reducing the cost of taxes and regulations, rebuilding our military, avoiding wars of choice and changing the courts rival those of all previous Republican presidents,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
“Trump has an advantage over Ronald Reagan: He has a Reagan Republican House and Senate while Reagan had a [Democratic Speaker] Tip O’Neill House and a pre-Reagan Republican Senate. Reagan and [former GOP Speaker] Newt Gingrich were the ice breakers that allowed Trump’s victories to grow in number and significance,” he added.
Unlike the Year One list which included many proposals and orders still to be acted on, the new collection includes dozens of actions already in place, signed legislation, and enforced executive orders.
For example, while the Year One list bragged about the administration’s efforts to rewrite the much-maligned NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the Year Two list said: “Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.”
And shockingly the NAFTA achievement is presented as a sidebar to the larger achievement that reads, “President Trump is negotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.” Under that umbrella are eight trade deals cut with Japan, South Korea, Europe and China.
“President Trump is a truly unique leader in American history. He’s a kid from Queens who became an international business leader and made billions by getting things when no one said he could,” said Trump’s 2016 campaign pollster John McLaughlin.
“They told him he couldn’t be president and beat the establishment and he did. For two years the establishment is telling him he can’t do things in Washington and he’s succeeding in spite of them. He never retreats. He doesn’t back up. He’s relentless. He just wins,” he added.
Comparing the two years shows that the latest has an expanded group of economic achievements while the pro-life category was folded into the health care section.
Along the way, there have been some disappointments, such as failing to replace Obamacare, fund a big infrastructure plan, and build the border wall.
But the White House believes that despite a lack of media coverage of his accomplishments, supporters know about them and will head to the voting polls to help the GOP maintain control of the House and keep the president on what CNN dubbed a “winning streak.”
In the Washington Post Friday, former Bush speechwriter and columnist Marc Thiessen agreed and said that Trump has proven to be successful at keeping his campaign promises. He wrote, “The fact is, in his first two years, Trump has compiled a remarkable record of presidential promise-keeping.”
The list:
Economic Growth
-4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
-For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
-4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
-More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.
-Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.
-The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.
-Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.
-Unemployment claims at 50 year low
-African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.
-African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.
-Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.
-Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.
-Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.
-Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.
-Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.
-July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.
-Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.
-July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.
-Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.
-Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.
-Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.
-Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”
-68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.
-Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.
-Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.
-Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.
-Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
-Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.
-100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.
American Income
-Median household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.
-Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.
-Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.
-Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.
-Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.
-Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.
-Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.
-Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.
American Optimism
-Small business optimism has hit historic highs.
-NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.
-SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.
-Manufacturers are more confident than ever.
-95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.
-Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
-12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.
-Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.
American Business
-Investment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.
-Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.
-Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.
-ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.
-Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.
-Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.
-Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.
-Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.
Deregulation
-Achieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.
-Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.
-Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.
-Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.
-Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.
Tax Cuts
-Biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into law
-Provided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.
-Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.
-Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.
-Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.
-Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.
-Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.
-Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.
-Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.
-9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.
-More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.
-Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
-Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.
-Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.
Worker Development
-Established a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.
-Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.
-Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
-Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
Domestic Infrastructure
-Proposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.
-Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.
-Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.
-Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.
Health Care
-Signed an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
-Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
-Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.
-Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.
-FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.
-Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.
-Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.
-Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.
-Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.
-Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”
-USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
-Proposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.
-Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.
-HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.
-Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.
-Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.
Combating Opioids
-Chaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders.
-Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to keep dangerous drugs out of our communities.
-$6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
-DEA conducted a surge in April 2018 that arrested 28 medical professions and revoked 147 registrations for prescribing too many opioids.
-Brought the “Prescribed to Death” memorial to President’s Park near the White House, helping raise awareness about the human toll of the opioid crisis.
-Helped reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent in 2017.
-Opioid Summit on the administration-wide efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
-Launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.
-Created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis which recommended a number of pathways to tackle the opioid crisis.
-Led two National Prescription Drug Take Back Days in 2017 and 2018, collecting a record number of expired and unneeded prescription drugs each time.
-$485 million targeted grants in FY 2017 to help areas hit hardest by the opioid crisis.
-Signed INTERDICT Act, strengthening efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids before they reach our communities.
-DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.
-Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.
-Declared the opioid crisis a Nationwide Public Health Emergency in October 2017.
Law and Order
-More U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever.
-Confirmed more than two dozen U. S. Circuit Court judges.
-Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the Constitution
Nominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
-Signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to develop a strategy to more effectively prosecute people who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.
-Launched an evaluation of grant programs to make sure they prioritize the protection and safety of law enforcement officers.
-Established a task force to reduce crime and restore public safety in communities across Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
-Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.
-Violent crime decreased in 2017 according to FBI statistics.
-$137 million in grants through the COPS Hiring Program to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts.
-Enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime.
-Signed legislation making it easier to target websites that enable sex trafficking and strengthened penalties for people who promote or facilitate prostitution.
-Created an interagency task force working around the clock to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent human trafficking.
-Conducted Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.
-Encouraged federal prosecutors to use the death penalty when possible in the fight against the trafficking of deadly drugs.
-New rule effectively banning bump stock sales in the United States.
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