The Historic Results of President Donald J. Trump's First Two Years in Office | Eastern NC Now

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    This year, President Trump filed a withdrawal notification with the Universal Postal Union, launching a one-year negotiation to secure fair international postal rates for American mailers.

    President Trump has expanded market access for American agricultural producers.

    Argentina has opened to American pork and beef, Brazil to American beef, Japan to lamb and Idaho chipping potatoes, South Korea to American poultry, and more.

    The Administration authorized $12 billion to aid farmers affected by unfair retaliatory tariffs.

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    The Trump Administration has begun the process to expand the sale of E15, or gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol, to year round.

    Under President Trump, the United States will no longer accept bad trade deals and unfair trade practices that harm American workers and industries.

    One of the President's first actions after taking office was withdrawing the United States from the terrible Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incentivized outsourcing.

    In 2017, the Administration oversaw 82 antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.

    President Trump is holding China accountable for its unfair trade practices, such as the theft of intellectual property, by imposing tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods.

    Following President Trump's successful meeting with President Xi in Buenos Aires, both agreed to conduct negotiations over 90 days to address the United States concerns.

    American steel and aluminum jobs are coming back following President Trump's tariffs to protect domestic industries that are vital to national security.

    President Trump imposed tariffs to protect American-made washing machines and solar products that were hurt by import surges.

    UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY: President Trump is rolling back costly and burdensome regulations to unleash America's incredible energy resources.

    After years of stifling regulation under the last Administration, President Trump is unleashing America's energy potential.

    America is the largest crude oil producer in the world and production has hit a record high.

    President Trump's policies are helping to boost American energy exports.

    The Administration has streamlined Liquefied Natural Gas terminal permitting.

    In 2017, the United States became a net natural gas exporter for the first time in 60 years.

    American coal exports increased by more than 60 percent in 2017.

    President Trump is expanding access to our country's abundant natural resources.

    The President signed legislation to open up energy exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

    In July 2018, the Department of the Interior announced it would hold the largest oil and gas lease sale in history.

    In 2017, the Administration approved construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and the cross border permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

    The Administration issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will export American petroleum products to Mexico.

    The President has ended the war on coal, cutting Obama-era regulations such as the "Stream Protection Rule" which was estimated to cost industries $81 million a year.

    President Trump is replacing the Clean Power Plan, a flawed Obama-era regulation that the Supreme Court ordered halted.

    President Trump rescinded the hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the oil and gas industry $32 million per year.

    The Trump Administration curbed the burdensome Obama-era rule on methane, saving American energy developers hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory costs.



    EXPANDING OPTIONS FOR QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE: President Trump is expanding access to affordable healthcare choices and taking action to lower drug prices.

    President Trump's Administration is working to provide Americans with affordable alternatives to Obamacare.

    The Administration expanded short-term, limited duration health insurance plans that are expected to be nearly 50 percent cheaper than unsubsidized Obamacare plans.

    President Trump has expanded association health plans, allowing more employers to join together across State lines and affordably offer coverage to their employees.

    The Administration proposed a reform to Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) regulations that will give consumers more freedom to purchase benefits that fit their needs.

    Roughly 800,000 employers are expected to provide HRAs for more than 10 million employees once the rule finalized.

    Americans have more healthcare freedom thanks to the President signing legislation that ended Obamacare's individual mandate penalty.

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    While healthcare premiums had been steadily increasing as a result of Obamacare, the average benchmark exchange premium will decline for the first time in 2019 thanks to President Trump's policies.

    Next year, Americans will benefit from more insurer participation on the exchanges.

    Medicare Advantage plans offer more benefit options than ever before, and average premiums in 2019 will be 6 percent lower than in 2018.

    President Trump launched an unprecedented campaign to drive down drug prices, leading more than a dozen drug manufactures to enact price freezes, reductions, or rollbacks.

    In 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a record number of generic drugs, breaking the previous record set by the Administration in 2017.

    The FDA's Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 generic drug approvals are expected to bring nearly $9 billion in savings in 2017 alone.

    President Trump signed legislation eliminating contractual gag clauses that stopped pharmacists from informing patients about lower drug prices.

    The President put forth an initiative to stop global freeloading that drives up prices for American patients.

    The Administration provided Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans with new negotiating tools to drive down drug costs for American patients.

    The Administration implemented reforms to the amount Medicare pays hospitals for drugs that are purchased under the 340B program, saving seniors $320 million in 2018.

    President Trump signed "Right to Try" legislation to expand access to experimental treatments for terminally ill patients.

    FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THE CRISIS NEXT DOOR: President Trump mobilized his entire Administration to combat the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across the country.

    President Trump launched an Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to confront the driving forces behind this crisis.

    The President signed the landmark SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest and most comprehensive legislative package addressing a single drug crisis in history.

    The President helped secure a record $6 billion in funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

    The Administration provided more than $2 billion in grants in 2018 to help States, territories, tribes, and local communities prevent and treat opioid abuse.

    The Administration pursued scientific solutions to prevent and treat addiction through the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative.

    The President launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction and youth opioid usage.

    Last year, President Trump created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which recommends ways to tackle the opioid crisis.

    The Administration declared the opioid crisis a nationwide Public Health Emergency in 2017.

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    President Trump is working to cut off the flow of deadly opioids into our country and to disrupt the networks that distribute them to our communities.

    The Administration secured first-ever indictments against Chinese nationals for fentanyl trafficking.

    The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a surge to target fentanyl and heroin dealers in the districts with the most severe overdose death rates.

    The DOJ formed a Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team and shut down the biggest Darknet distributor of drugs.

    Last year, the DOJ announced the largest healthcare fraud takedown in history, arresting more than 120 defendants with opioid-related crimes.

    The President launched a Safer Prescribing Plan that seeks to cut nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third within three years.

    The Administration has led four National Prescription Drug Take-Back Days, collecting a record-breaking 1,837 tons of expired and unneeded prescription drugs.
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