ACA, The Individual Mandate - If we heard it once, we heard it a dozen times: On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare "on day one." But after intense, months-long debate, the Republican Congress failed to scrap the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, burning precious legislative time along the way. The president did manage by the end of the year to deal the law a devastating blow within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which included a measure that did away with the so-called “individual mandate” that required Americans to have health insurance or face a tax penalty. That provision was critical to Obamacare and was designed to ensure that healthy people as well as sick ones paid into the system. Technically he didn't kill ACA but he weakened it greatly
DACA -On September 17, 2017 President Trump announced he was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era policy that granted legal status to “Dreamers,” childhood immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally and by no choice of their own.
Paris Climate Accord -Perhaps no other move by President Trump was more unexpected and controversial than his decision to yank the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, a United Nations- sponsored deal that created a worldwide commitment to slow global warming. Under the terms of the agreement reached during the Obama administration, the U.S. made a large pledge to cut carbon emissions by more than a quarter. But Trump said the agreement put U.S. business at an economic disadvantage, and forecasted "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production" if the country didn't pull out.
Diplomatic Relations with Cuba-Following three years of easing tensions with Cuba under President Obama, President Trump in June declared he was "cancelling the last administration's completely one-sided deal" with the Caribbean island nation.
Transgender Military Service -In July, President Trump blindsided the Pentagon when he tweeted that the U.S. "will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military," adding that the Defense Department "cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption" that come with trans people's service.
TPP & NAFTA - On his very first day in office, Trump signed an executive order signaling his intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a wide-ranging trade agreement aimed at encouraging trade between 12 countries on either side of the Pacific Ocean, like the U.S., Mexico, Japan, and Australia. The agreement, reached under Obama in October 2016, had yet to be ratified by Congress. Like many others, Trump believed the deal could undercut American workers, forced to compete with cheap labor overseas. But TPP isn’t the only trade deal Trump didn't like. He has also stated his desire to renegotiate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada — and if he can't strike a fair deal, he says he'll consider scrapping the pact.
Iran Nuclear Deal-Days after Obama helped broker an accord designed to reduce Iran's nuclear stockpile and lengthen the country's "breakout time" — the period it would take for Iran to obtain a functioning nuclear bomb — Trump decried the deal as "a direct national security threat."
National Monuments -In December, over objections from several Native American groups, Trump drastically reduced the scale of several national monuments, including Bears Ears in Utah, designated by Obama just a year prior.
Offshore Drilling - In early January, Trump moved to expand offshore drilling in U.S. coastal waters, effectively derailing Obama's five-year plan blocking Atlantic and Pacific drilling, finalized in 2016. Under the Obama administration, the only offshore drilling leases offered were in the Gulf of Mexico and the Cook Inlet of Alaska. Trump's plan opened up more than a billion acres in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic, starting in 2019.
Consumer Protection - In December, the Trump administration quietly announce they would postpone a planned ban of three dangerous household solvents that the EPA says could be carcinogenic. Under Obama, the agency proposed their plan to ban the chemicals, TCE, NMP, and methylene chloride, just a day before Trump took office. The Trump White House later reclassified the proposed rule as "long term," delaying adoption indefinitely.
TRUMPS STUFF
The creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch - But senior military leaders publicly opposed its creation, including Mr. Trump’s secretary of defense, James Mattis, because they argued it would create further complicated bureaucracy and counteract the Air Force’s work to defend the country’s space assets.
Three years into his presidency, Trump's signature legislative achievement remains a Republican tax bill that made sweeping changes to the tax code — the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
First Step Act into law in December 2018, marking the first legislative victory in years for advocates seeking to reform the criminal justice system.
Moved the US embassy to Jerusalem
The Abraham Accord between Israel and Arab countries
there's more but you get the point
DACA -On September 17, 2017 President Trump announced he was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era policy that granted legal status to “Dreamers,” childhood immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally and by no choice of their own.
Paris Climate Accord -Perhaps no other move by President Trump was more unexpected and controversial than his decision to yank the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, a United Nations- sponsored deal that created a worldwide commitment to slow global warming. Under the terms of the agreement reached during the Obama administration, the U.S. made a large pledge to cut carbon emissions by more than a quarter. But Trump said the agreement put U.S. business at an economic disadvantage, and forecasted "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production" if the country didn't pull out.
Diplomatic Relations with Cuba-Following three years of easing tensions with Cuba under President Obama, President Trump in June declared he was "cancelling the last administration's completely one-sided deal" with the Caribbean island nation.
Transgender Military Service -In July, President Trump blindsided the Pentagon when he tweeted that the U.S. "will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military," adding that the Defense Department "cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption" that come with trans people's service.
TPP & NAFTA - On his very first day in office, Trump signed an executive order signaling his intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a wide-ranging trade agreement aimed at encouraging trade between 12 countries on either side of the Pacific Ocean, like the U.S., Mexico, Japan, and Australia. The agreement, reached under Obama in October 2016, had yet to be ratified by Congress. Like many others, Trump believed the deal could undercut American workers, forced to compete with cheap labor overseas. But TPP isn’t the only trade deal Trump didn't like. He has also stated his desire to renegotiate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada — and if he can't strike a fair deal, he says he'll consider scrapping the pact.
Iran Nuclear Deal-Days after Obama helped broker an accord designed to reduce Iran's nuclear stockpile and lengthen the country's "breakout time" — the period it would take for Iran to obtain a functioning nuclear bomb — Trump decried the deal as "a direct national security threat."
National Monuments -In December, over objections from several Native American groups, Trump drastically reduced the scale of several national monuments, including Bears Ears in Utah, designated by Obama just a year prior.
Offshore Drilling - In early January, Trump moved to expand offshore drilling in U.S. coastal waters, effectively derailing Obama's five-year plan blocking Atlantic and Pacific drilling, finalized in 2016. Under the Obama administration, the only offshore drilling leases offered were in the Gulf of Mexico and the Cook Inlet of Alaska. Trump's plan opened up more than a billion acres in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic, starting in 2019.
Consumer Protection - In December, the Trump administration quietly announce they would postpone a planned ban of three dangerous household solvents that the EPA says could be carcinogenic. Under Obama, the agency proposed their plan to ban the chemicals, TCE, NMP, and methylene chloride, just a day before Trump took office. The Trump White House later reclassified the proposed rule as "long term," delaying adoption indefinitely.
TRUMPS STUFF
The creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch - But senior military leaders publicly opposed its creation, including Mr. Trump’s secretary of defense, James Mattis, because they argued it would create further complicated bureaucracy and counteract the Air Force’s work to defend the country’s space assets.
Three years into his presidency, Trump's signature legislative achievement remains a Republican tax bill that made sweeping changes to the tax code — the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
First Step Act into law in December 2018, marking the first legislative victory in years for advocates seeking to reform the criminal justice system.
Moved the US embassy to Jerusalem
The Abraham Accord between Israel and Arab countries
there's more but you get the point
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The hope the democrats have is that they can take the majority in the senate.
