Quote:Year One List: 81 major Trump achievements, 11 Obama legacy items repealed

Quote:With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.

And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a tax.

Quote:The unofficial list helps to counter the impression in the mainstream media and among congressional Democrats that outside the approval of Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch and passage of the tax reform bill little was done.

Quote:Below are the 12 categories and 81 wins cited by the White House.

Jobs and the economy

• Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
  
• Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
  
• Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
  
• Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
  
• A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
  
• A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
  
• A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
  
• Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
  

Killing job-stifling regulations

• Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
  
• Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
  
• Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
  
• Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
  
• Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
  

Fair trade

• Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
  
• Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
  
• Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
  
• Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
  
• Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
  
• Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
  

Boosting U.S. energy dominance

• The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
  
• Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
  
• Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
  
• Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
  
• EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
  

Protecting the U.S. homeland

• Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end "chain migration," which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
  
• Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
  
• Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
  
• Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
  
• Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
  
• Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
  
• Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
  
• Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
  
• Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
  
• Added some 100 new immigration judges.
  

Protecting communities

• Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
  
• Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
  
• Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
  
• Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
  
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
  

Accountability

• Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
  
• Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
  
• Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
  
• Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
  
• Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
  

Combatting opioids

• First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.
  
• His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
  
• The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
  
• Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
  
• Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
  
• The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
  
• On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
  

Protecting life

• In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
  
• Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
  
• Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
  

Helping veterans

• Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
  
• Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
  
• Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
  
• Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
  
• Created a VA hotline.
  
• Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
  
• With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
  

Promoting peace through strength

• Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
  
• Worked to increase defense spending.
  
• Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
  
• Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
  
• Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
  
• Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
  
• Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
  
• Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
  
• Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
  
• Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
  
• NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
  
• Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
  
• Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
  
• Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
  
• Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
  

Restoring confidence in and respect for America

• Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
  
• Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
  
• Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
  
• He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
  
• Traveled to Poland for the annual. G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
  

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GO PRESIDENT TRUMP!  

(12-22-2017, 11:04 PM)BIAD Wrote: The thing that puzzled me about the election night was that if Hillary had won -and please don't
think about what might have unfolded during her presidency... but that particular evening.

Would those who voted for Trump behaved in the same fashion...? Would there be people
on the their knees praying that whatever they believed in would change reality?

Quote:So, at this moment near the end of 2017, the ratings-game of the media and a unreasonable hatred
for a non-political figure in the White House continues. If the security agencies were as useless as
this same media portray, then I'm just surprised the North Koreans aren't running through the
streets of America!

(12-25-2017, 11:05 AM)Ninurta Wrote: ...I already had a plan for Hillary to win, and it was the same thing that I was doing leading up to the elections
-sitting around my house in the evenings, sharpening knives and loading magazines.
We just call that "Wednesday" at our house.

(12-25-2017, 11:49 AM)Wallfire Wrote: @ old wood runner wrote
P.S. -  a liberal acquaintance of mine posted the alleged Intelligence reports on Facebook one day, insinuating that those reports were the smoking guns proving everything. I read them. Closely. Combed through them with a fine toothed comb. They did NOT say anything of the sort that he was insinuating - I could not find a single reference to his claims. Either I don't know how to read an intel report, or he don't. I know which way I'm betting on that, but there again I could be wrong - but ain't no one been tossed in the tank for it yet, and it's been long enough that someone should have, by now, if he read 'em right.

Its called "Confirmation Bias", and its very  dangerous when trying to find the truth. The reason is that so very very often the truth is not what we want it to be.

(12-25-2017, 08:28 PM)Grace Wrote: @'Ninurta' 

Here is the problem with trying to tie those Russian ads to Trumps win. The highest monetary figures I've been able to find on Russian spending on Twitter and Facebook advertising in connection to the 2016 election is 100,000 on Facebook and 247,000 on Twitter.  (Those are the highest figures, others claim lower monetary amounts ) 

With Trump and Clinton spending 81 million in Facebook advertising and God only knows how much more on Twitter - how can they say 100,000 worth of Facebook advertising truly caused the democratic party to lose the election. ..

It's so bogus it's unreal... and then when they cry about a 'foreign country' meddling in any capacity with our elections being wrong when speaking of Russia, but are eerily silent on the donations to dems by China and other countries - it screams hypocrisy. ..

(12-25-2017, 09:58 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-25-2017, 08:28 PM)Grace Wrote: @'Ninurta' 

Here is the problem with trying to tie those Russian ads to Trumps win. The highest monetary figures I've been able to find on Russian spending on Twitter and Facebook advertising in connection to the 2016 election is 100,000 on Facebook and 247,000 on Twitter.  (Those are the highest figures, others claim lower monetary amounts ) 

With Trump and Clinton spending 81 million in Facebook advertising and God only knows how much more on Twitter - how can they say 100,000 worth of Facebook advertising truly caused the democratic party to lose the election. ..

It's so bogus it's unreal... and then when they cry about a 'foreign country' meddling in any capacity with our elections being wrong when speaking of Russia, but are eerily silent on the donations to dems by China and other countries - it screams hypocrisy. ..

It would also be interesting to discover the actual impact of the internet on the election.
I mean, did everyone overdose on the alleged deluge of Russian trickery?!!

(12-26-2017, 03:28 AM)Ninurta Wrote:
...Not every one did - I know I didn't go Russian a-tall:

(12-28-2017, 11:52 AM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-26-2017, 03:28 AM)Ninurta Wrote:
...Not every one did - I know I didn't go Russian a-tall:

That picture... why is it I imagine a Soviet MIG covered in camouflage and that creeping weed you mentioned
before, a Russian jet parked in a shadowy grove near your home and another burial mound in the undergrowth
just out of sight?

You shouldn't shoot at aircraft, Ninurta... it's not nice.

(12-28-2017, 07:52 PM)Ninurta Wrote: ...Oh, all right! I'll give 'em back as soon as Putin sends someone round to pick 'em up.

But I'm keeping the hat.

(12-29-2017, 11:31 AM)BIAD Wrote: And we're back to the main problem again...! namely, your resistance to having visitors on your land.

2018 is just around the corner and just like Sweden, France and other European countries, you should
embrace the idea of 'no borders' and let people utilise your land for their own progress.

Quote:Think of the exchange in culture... both sides would benefit and I'm sure with the Russians having a
busy schedule -as reported by many media outlets, their corrupting of America wouldn't impede too much
on your own way of living.

Quote:Boo-ah to fences, we need to understand that invaders aren't real and possessions are just things to be
shared. We should all toil in the fields for the betterment of the State, we should look to our glorious
leaders for guidance and...
Sorry.

Quote:F*ck it, keep the hat and blast anyone or anything that comes to take it.
 MAGA.

(12-31-2017, 04:32 AM)Ninurta Wrote: '...That sounds legit - do you reckon that a 7 foot by 3 foot by 6 foot deep patch of it would be
enough to satisfy 'em? You can push up... erm, I mean grow a lot of daisies on a patch that big...'

Quote:'...Well, if they come, pick up their junk pile, and leave with it, I guess I don't see the harm...
under the watchful eye of guards, of course...'

Quote:'...Izzat you, Che? If you drop by, don't forget the beer and cigars... I mean REALLY, don't forget the beer and cigars!
I mean, sharing is caring, right? Bring them cigars on!'

Quote:BIAD: F*ck it, keep the hat and blast anyone or anything that comes to take it.
MAGA.

Quote:NOW we're talkin'!