In March 2019, after five years of effort, the ISIS caliphate was finally defeated. The French government stepped in to force trading firm Engie, in which it owns a stake, to reject a proposed contract to import U.S. gas, citing reputational risk. Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives on December 18, 2019. Defense policy documents are so abundant they could wallpaper the Pentagon. The move: The smallest banks won relaxed mortgage regulations and streamlined capital requirements while escaping restrictions intended to discourage risky bets in bank trading. — Rebecca Rainey, Trump impeded regulation — even though Republicans wanted it. The 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, had given EPA new teeth to go after well-known dangerous chemicals, like asbestos and methylene chloride, in a bid to boost public confidence in the safety of consumer products. The department even stopped the release of a plan on how to respond to the climate change crisis. — Tanya Snyder, Trump's White House took quiet steps to promote U.S. development of AI, Director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Nand Mulchandani (C), Chief of Joint Warfighting Operations of JAIC Army Colonel Brad Boyd (L) and Chief of Testing and Evaluation of JAIC Jane Pinelis (R) participate in a news conference at the Pentagon. Biden also has expressed support for bolstering U.S. drone manufacturing, which could translate to further actions that would reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese technology. For years the federal government made little headway against the plague of unwanted automated phone calls that have annoyed Americans — 19 billion such calls last year alone. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the Obama administration’s approach was too lenient, akin to allowing borrowers to access “free money” at taxpayer expense. In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh ... The move: The 2018 strategy rewired the Defense Department’s vast bureaucracy away from a focus on fighting insurgents and terrorists in the Middle East toward a long-term strategic competition with China and Russia. But Trump did have success in dismantling parts of the law. The upshot: The provisions are, broadly speaking, popular and flow from bipartisan work beginning in the Obama administration. While it is likely the Biden administration will take a more holistic look at future chemicals EPA reviews, it is unclear whether it will have time to re-analyze the chemicals the Trump administration already finished reviewing. Top public health experts have repeatedly urged Americans to wear a mask or face covering, touting the practice as the best tool available in fighting the virus. | Rahmat Gul/AP Photo. Another telling comparison is how the approval ratings through 100 days of all three presidents stack up. Trump’s attempts to roll back Obama-era rules aimed at cracking down on methane emissions had major implications for not only the near-term warming caused by this potent greenhouse gas, but also shrunk the United States’ stature on the global stage. But it was a niche issue until Trump escalated the attacks over allegations that social media companies are biased against conservatives. After weeks of rejecting the election result and attempting to overturn the outcome, the president provoked an attempted coup at the US Capitol on the day lawmakers met to certify Biden's Electoral College victory. Trump’s biggest achievement as president so far was set in motion before he was elected. Trump's relentless dissemination of disinformation on an array of topics, particularly the electoral process, led historians and experts on fascism to compare him to dictators like Benito Mussolini. — Bryan Bender, Trump failed to provide workplace guidance, making safety harder for workers, People suit up in personal protective equipment before conducting coronavirus testing in Malibu, Calif. | Mario Tama/Getty Images. The strike led Iran to retaliate and fire on US troops in the region, and dozens were seriously injured. But the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy stands out as one of the most important defense policy shifts of the last generation, reorienting the American military to confront rising and increasingly aggressive powers Russia and China. What’s more, the audit effort is helping Pentagon managers make their programs more efficient and minimize waste. Supporters inside and outside the Trump administration still insist the cuts will pay for themselves in the long run through economic growth — though many economists are skeptical, or outright dismissive, of that prediction. — Alex Guillén and Annie Snider, The anti-monopolists started winning — despite Trump at first, then with his help, Life-sized cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are displayed by an advocacy group on Capitol Hill on April 10, 2018. For the past decade, politicians on both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns about the growing size, power and influence of tech giants including Facebook, Google and Amazon, but rarely took action against them. Government payments are forecast to be at their highest level ever and account for nearly 40 percent net farm income this year. since. The Education Department estimates that the Trump policy will reduce federal loan forgiveness by hundreds of millions of dollars each year. For that reason, it’s unlikely a Biden administration will be looking to reverse course. By December 2019, Trump nominees made up roughly 25% of all US circuit court judges, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. Lawmakers furious at Silicon Valley have for years taken aim at Section 230, a crucial 1996 legal provision that shields online platforms from lawsuits over the user content they host or decide to restrict. — Ben Lefebvre, Trump imposed a near-ban on government use of Chinese drones, A DJI Mavic Pro Quadcopter drone is seen in flight. To put this in perspective, former President Barack Obama appointed 55 circuit judges in his two terms in the White House. About 70 percent of white households own their homes, compared with about 40 percent of Black households — a disparity the ongoing and lopsided economic crisis is expected to exacerbate. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died, and millions are unemployed. David Frum shows how—and inspires all readers of all points of view to believe again in the possibilities of American life. Trumpocalypse is both a warning of danger and a guide to reform that will be read and discussed for years to come. Arguably the most consequential decision Trump made involving American workers was something it chose not to do: It declined to implement a so-called “emergency temporary standard” when the coronavirus pandemic hit. The move: The Department of Homeland Security has pushed through restrictions and changes to the H-1B visa program that allows U.S. businesses to hire high-skilled foreign workers for “specialty“ jobs. The march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. This meant that premiums for these “silver” plans spiked and as a result, the premium subsidies the government had to pay for low-income enrollees vastly increased. The upshot: The Biden administration is expected to laser in on the auto rules for reconsideration, but the multiyear lead time manufacturers need to design and test their vehicles means the gains mandated under the Obama-era rules but scaled back by Trump are all but forfeited. Automakers took advantage of Trump’s election to ask for moderate changes to those targets, but Trump instead completely scrambled the regulatory scheme, attacked California’s special regulatory authority and created a schism among automakers. A Biden administration might use the Commerce Department’s blacklist as a “bargaining chip” with the Chinese government, meaning DJI might stay on the list for some time. Read more: Mass firings, frozen funding, and midnight rules: Inside the Democrats' operation to fight back against Trump going scorched-earth in a Biden transition. The president routinely flouted public health recommendations before getting infected. In 2017, Trump finally did it through administrative means after the GOP effort to replace the law fell apart — and he immediately drew intense outcry from Democrats and policy experts who called the move “sabotage.”. 25 Top accomplishments of President Donald J. Trump Executive order enacted Jan. 1, 2021 requiring hospitals to provide medical prices to patients upfront so they can shop around. — John Hendel. Polls showed the tax bill was never very popular, with the Democrats doing a good job of convincing voters it mainly benefited the wealthy. A number of large lenders escaped Federal Reserve rules targeted at the biggest “systemically important” banks. The bill also offered modest changes to the federal prison system. The upshot: One of the first things a Biden administration will likely move to do is instruct OSHA to step up worker safety enforcement — including by enacting an emergency standard and ramping up penalties on violators. The impact: Borrowers seeking to have their loans wiped out because of the misconduct of their college — such as misleading or deceiving students about their job prospects — will have a tougher time proving their claims. Did Trump keep his promises? Is he the right person to Keep America Great? This book answers some critical questions on the eve of the 2020 election. In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama. He lists several accomplishments for our country that Trump has under his belt. The administration’s rules have several targets but they focus on practices like “information blocking,” whereby companies or providers might not release necessary data for competitive advantage, and require companies to use standardized recipes to exchange information. If the Biden EPA leaves the laxer evaluations intact, its subsequent regulations will not be able to limit certain ways people are exposed — meaning Americans may not get comprehensive protection. The upshot: Cannabis has become a massive business, generating billions in state revenues. Trump officials have tried to mend food producers’ finances by doling out billions in assistance in order to keep the industry afloat. The move: House Republicans had tried for years to cut off subsidies that helped low-income Obamacare enrollees with the co-pays, co-insurance and deductibles that come with their health plans. — Liz Crampton, Trump took a big swing at finally fixing health-care technology, A sign for a medical records department is seen. House Democrats complained that Interior, in responding to written questions, would flood the zone with thousands of documents that had little relation to the topic at hand and even include pages containing nothing but Wingdings font. The former president failed to thwart Iran's aggressive behavior in the region through a maximum pressure campaign, meant to squeeze Tehran into negotiating a more stringent version of the pact. Even though Trump was not reelected in 2020, his presidency will continue to have an influence on the direction of the US because of the sheer number of conservative federal judges he's installed. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead.". The move: Interior Secretary David Bernhardt showed up for Congressional hearings that decided the fate of the department’s budget, but otherwise refused invitations from the House Natural Resources Committee to defend its policy actions under Trump. The impact: 755,000 Americans have lost their access to food aid under SNAP, according to the USDA’s own estimates. In his third year in office, President Trump continued to deliver an extraordinary list of accomplishments. The move toward legalization is likely to accelerate under a Biden administration, which is expected to pressure Congress to pass legislation fixing some legal problems for cannabis companies, such as access to banking, and might even move to change its illegal status under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The bill also addressed mass incarceration at the federal level. In Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck surveys these and other recent presidential failures to understand why Americans have lost faith in their leaders—and how they can get it back. Biden has vowed to roll back much of the tax cut, particularly for high earners, by boosting the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent and raising the top individual income tax rate to 39.6 percent from 37 percent for those earning more than $400,000 annually. Though nearly half of those jobs have been recovered, the unemployment rate is still at 7.9% (estimated to be about 12 million people). The upshot: Trump leaves office with a mixed record on trade. But some of the effect was mitigated when the state of California brokered a deal with five major auto manufacturers to meet standards similar to the Obama-era ones. Under the Trump administration, the unborn have the ultimate advocate. Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. The impact: In the end, as widely expected, the Pentagon failed the audit overall; too much paperwork was missing or incomplete. Then barely a week before election day, Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice. The impact: The agency’s backseat approach to workplace safety means Americans still face a dangerously unpredictable range of safety conditions when they show up to work. "Capturing or killing him has been the top national security priority of my administration," he added. But he didn't deliver on that as president. In addition, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave small banks an exemption from data collection requirements that help track racial discrimination in the mortgage market. — Liz Crampton, Trump rolled back rules on banks designed to prevent another financial crisis. — Leah Nylen, Leo Wang, whose H-1B visa was denied in 2019, packs a suitcase at his home in San Jose, Calif. | Ben Margot/AP Photo. The bill also makes retroactive a 2010 federal sentencing law reducing the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. "President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist, neo-Nazis and KKK members," Graham added. Meanwhile, supporters of the tax cuts. The upshot: Biden promised during his campaign that he would support expanding the number of high-skilled visas available, but after first reforming the temporary visa system to prevent favoring “only entry level wages and skills.” That’s likely to be a heavy lift; Congress hasn’t been able to pass comprehensive immigration reform since 1986. The attitude flowed down to sub-agency heads as well. The move: In March 2017, Trump signed a Congressional Review Act resolution to revoke a regulation enacted under Obama the previous year that required businesses to publicly disclose any sexual harassment or labor law violations over the previous three years whenever they bid on large federal contracts. These efforts built on work already underway at the FCC and among state attorneys general to ward off the unwanted calls and crack down on the perpetrators, many of whom were slapped with record-setting fines in recent years under FCC Chair Ajit Pai. Trump didn't repeal Obamacare — he accidentally bolstered it, Pedro Rojas holds a sign directing people to an insurance company where they can sign up for the Affordable Care Act. Businesses seeking these non-immigrant worker visas also saw an increase in requests to provide more evidence in their applications and a higher rate of visa denials. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin personally negotiated the anti-money laundering safeguards with Republicans and Democrats who crafted the deal. President Trump made significant accomplishments throughout his term. In follow-up audits conducted in 2019 and 2020, meanwhile, a few more defense agencies and military components were added to the clean column. One of the most controversial provisions in the legislation shields small lenders from mortgage disclosure requirements intended to help fight discrimination. as well as other partner offers and accept our, Michael Gruber/Getty Images; Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider, Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Trump exiled climate scientists from Washington—literally. The Accomplishments of President Trump IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country. In Audacity, New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait makes the unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Obama will be viewed as one of America’s best and most accomplished presidents. The move: Trump’s USDA steered billions in subsidies to farmers suffering from tariffs imposed by foreign countries as a consequence of the president’s trade wars, an amount that far outpaced the massive auto bailout in 2008. Trump's refusal to concede breaks from a democratic tradition in the US that dates back to its earliest days when President John Adams lost the 1800 election and peacefully stepped aside for Thomas Jefferson, a member of another political party, to take over. The upshot: Criminals will keep finding ways to operate in the shadows. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images, The Trump administration succeeded on several fronts in rolling back Obama's efforts to combat racial segregation in housing. With just a week left in office, Trump was impeached for inciting a violent insurrection at the US Capitol. Critics argued it was a windfall for massive corporations at the expense of the middle class. Washington is consumed with beating China in the race for technological supremacy on artificial intelligence. What’s more, Congress may soon put even more restrictions on use of Chinese-made technology because of security concerns. The administration’s most recent rules sought to limit the types of jobs foreign workers can apply for, while also requiring employers to pay them more. Obama used his stimulus leverage over the auto manufacturers to negotiate landmark federal rules to curb carbon dioxide pollution from new vehicles through 2025 — a central component of his work to fight climate change. But the new disclosure rules could give law enforcement leverage over their frontmen and may make it harder for bad guys to find lawyers willing to help hide their money because of the new paper trail. 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