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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.


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