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[Bandito]

Trump is a populist though. He’s not royalty from any sense, definitely not politically speaking. Despite Trump’s immense wealth which he created in the private sector, personifying the American Dream

I'd imagine you're right: Most Americans would dream of inheriting a few hundred million dollars from Daddy, yes.

You're making it sound like he's a self made man. Even YOU aren't that far gone. He inherited it. Which is fine, but don't pretend like he earned it.

Trump is the people’s president. His policies are helping the average American everyday. He’s not part of the Deep State which tried to foil him before the election and is trying to tear him down now. Were you this mad at Trump back in the 70s-80s? Dems rigged an election and still lost. Their policies don’t work, never have, never will.

Really? What new policy has Trump signed into law? You're so into the guy, this should be easy for you to answer.

Take your time. Give me the top five pieces of actual Legislation that Trump signed in the last 2 1/2 years.

Here you go, chief. Happy reading and enlighten yourself

2 Years of Accomplishments

IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country.

Due to President Trump’s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters.
Real GDP grew at annual rates of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter.
More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.
This is the eighth time this year that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent.
Prior to this year, the unemployment rate had fallen below 4 percent only five times since 1970.
The unemployment rate for African Americans in May fell to 5.9 percent, which is the lowest rate on record.
Asian and Hispanic-American unemployment rates have reached record lows this year.
Initial weekly jobless claims have hit a nearly 50-year low under President Trump.
Under President Trump, job openings outnumber the unemployed for the first time on record.
Recently, more than two-thirds of Americans rated “now” as a good time to find a quality job, tying a record high in a poll by Gallup.
Americans are seeing more money in their pockets thanks to the booming economy.
In recent months, workers have seen their largest nominal year over year wage growth in nearly a decade.
In 2017, real median household income rose to a post-recession high.
President Trump’s policies are helping to lift Americans out of poverty.
African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent, respectively, in 2017.
Since the election, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.
Consumer confidence has soared under President Trump, recently reaching an 18-year high.
President Trump is delivering on his promise to bring back American manufacturing.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Outlook Index had the highest annual average in its history over the past year.
Manufacturing added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most added in a year since 1997
Small Business optimism jumped to a record high under President Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
The NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index broke a 35-year record in August.
President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, ushering in the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
These tax cuts are delivering real results for American families and workers.
More than 6 million workers received tax cut bonuses and benefits.
More than 100 utility companies have announced lower rates.
President Trump is ensuring American workers receive the training and education they need to compete in today’s economy.
President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.
More than 185 companies and associations have signed our “Pledge to America’s Workers,” promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.
The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.
President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.
The women’s unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years.
The Small Business Administration lent approximately $500 million more in capital to women-owned businesses in 2017 compared to 2016.
The Administration helped launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which could leverage more than $1 billion to support women entrepreneurs.
ROLLING BACK RED TAPE: President Trump is rolling back costly regulations that have burdened hardworking Americans and stifled innovation.

President Trump has followed through on and exceeded his promise to roll back two regulations for every new one created.
President Trump’s Administration surpassed the 2:1 ratio in 2018, eliminating 12 regulations for every new one in 2018.
In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated 22 regulations for every new one.
Since taking office, President Trump’s deregulation efforts have achieved $33 billion in regulatory savings.
In 2018, these efforts alone delivered $23 billion in benefits to American families and business owners.
President Trump has signed 16 Congressional Review Act resolutions into law, eliminating burdensome Obama-era rules and regulations.
President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have harmed America’s economy and cost American workers millions of jobs.
President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects with a goal of cutting approval time from up to 10 years to an average of 2 years.
President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.
NEGOTIATING BETTER DEALS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is negotiating fair and balanced trade deals that protect American industries and workers.

President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.
Once enacted by Congress, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) will better serve the interests of American workers and businesses.
USMCA will incentivize billions of dollars in auto and auto parts production in the United States and create a freer and fairer market for American agriculture.
USMCA also includes the strongest-ever provisions on labor, environmental, digital, and intellectual property protections to reflect the realities of the 21st century economy.
The President renegotiated the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement to preserve and grow jobs in the American auto industry and increase American exports.
The United States and Japan are set to begin negotiations on a United States–Japan Trade Agreement.
President Trump is establishing a new trade relationship with the European Union (EU), working toward the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to transatlantic trade.
President Trump has established a Trade and Investment Working Group to lay the groundwork for post-Brexit trade with the United Kingdom (UK) and has notified Congress of his intent to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK.
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.
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.
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.
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.
STANDING UP FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: The President is committed to defending the right to life and religious liberty.

Shortly after taking office, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy.
President Trump defunded a United Nations (UN) agency for colluding with China’s brutal program of forced abortion and sterilization.
The Administration withdrew guidance that constrained State’s ability to exclude family-planning providers that provide abortion services from the Medicaid program.
The Trump Administration proposed new regulations to ensure Title X family planning funding does not go to projects that perform, support, or refer patients for abortion.
The Trump Administration issued regulations establishing new or expanded exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.
In 2017, the President issued an executive order to promote free speech and religious liberty.
KEEPING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES SAFE: President Trump has made clear that his first responsibility is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows violent crime decreased under President Trump’s watch in 2017, following two consecutive years of increases.
United States Attorneys indicted the most violent criminals on record last year.
Last year, the DOJ announced nearly $100 million in grant funding to hire hundreds of additional law enforcement officers.
President Trump is cracking down on the vile MS-13 gang that has brought violence to communities across the country.
In 2017, the DOJ worked with international partners to arrest and charge approximately 4,000 MS-13 members.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations arrested nearly 800 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
President Trump signed an executive order to restore State and local law enforcement’s access to surplus equipment that can be used to help keep our communities safe.
President Trump enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
The DOJ announced the creation of the National Public Safety Partnership in 2017, launching a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crime.
President Trump signed legislation to improve the Federal firearm background check system and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
President Trump signed the First Step Act, which includes bipartisan reforms to make our Federal justice system fairer and our communities safer.
The First Step Act will help prepare inmates to successfully rejoin society, reducing recidivism and improving community safety.
This legislation includes commonsense sentencing reforms that will make our Federal justice system fairer while keeping violent criminals and sex offenders off our streets.
ENFORCING OUR LAWS AND SECURING OUR BORDERS: From the first day of his Administration, President Trump has worked to uphold the rule of law and secure our borders.

President Trump released an immigration framework that would fix our broken immigration system through merit-based reform and provide the resources needed to secure our border.
This includes closing the legal loopholes that enable illegal immigration, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery.
President Trump secured funding to begin building the wall and construction has already begun in areas along the southern border.
President Trump deployed the military to assist in securing the southern border.
President Trump and his Administration took action to require aliens seeking asylum to go to a port of entry to make their claim.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 17,256 criminals and 1,019 gang members in FY 2018.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 158,581 aliens in FY 2018, an 11 percent increase from FY 2017.
90 percent of those arrested had criminal convictions, pending charges, or had been issued final orders of removal.
ICE ERO increased removals by 13 percent in FY 2018 to 256,086, the majority of whom were convicted criminals.
Removals of convicted criminal aliens increased by 14 percent from FY 2017.
Nearly 6,000 known or suspected gang members were removed in FY 2018, a 9 percent increase from FY 2017.
The Department of Justice prosecuted a record number of criminal immigration offenses in FY 2018, and increased the number of prosecutions for illegal entry by 84 percent over FY 2017.
Immigration courts are now completing more cases than at any point since 2011
President Trump kept his promise by launching the office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
The Administration has more than doubled the number of jurisdictions participating in the 287(g) program, which enables State and local law enforcement to aid immigration enforcement.
President Trump has made our country safer by ordering the enhanced vetting of individuals entering from countries that do not meet our security standards.
These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling.
REBUILDING AMERICA’S MILITARY FORCE: President Trump is rebuilding our military and defending America’s interests across the world.

President Trump ended the devastating defense cuts of the past Administration and has secured historic investments to rebuild our military.
President Trump signed legislation providing $700 billion for defense in FY 2018 and $716 billion in FY 2019.
President Trump is supporting America’s men and women in uniform, securing the largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
The President issued a new National Security Strategy to keep America safe from all threats.
The Administration has also released new strategies specific to cybersecurity, biodefense, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction terrorism.
President Trump directed the first whole-of-government assessment of United States manufacturing and defense supply chains since the Eisenhower Administration.
President Trump initiated the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, improving United States deterrence policy and existing capabilities to counter nuclear threats.
President Trump empowered our military commanders with broad authority in order to take the fight to ISIS, and the results are clear.
ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated since President Trump took office.
All of ISIS’ territory in Iraq was successfully liberated.
ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah has been recaptured.
ISIS’ territorial caliphate has been defeated and President Trump has announced that he is bringing America’s troops in Syria home.
President Trump announced a new Iran strategy to confront all of Iran’s malign activities and withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal.
All sanctions that had been lifted or waived under the Iran deal have been reimposed.
The Administration has sanctioned more than 160 individuals tied to the regime’s support of terrorism, ballistic missile program, human rights abuses, and more.
President Trump took decisive military action to respond to the barbaric use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
President Trump directed strikes in response to the regime’s chemical weapons attacks in April 2017 and April 2018.
The Trump Administration has also rolled out sanctions targeting those tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
President Trump is strengthening America’s cyber defense and directed the elevation of the United States Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
The President announced that the Department of Defense will work to create a Space Force to serve as an independent branch of the United States military.
RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ABROAD: President Trump is restoring American leadership on the world stage and advancing an America first agenda.

President Trump held an historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
Since the summit, the leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both countries have met.
Because of the President’s actions, North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
The remains of POW/MIA service members from the Korean War are being returned to the United States.
Prior to the summit, President Trump’s leadership helped secure the passage of historic UN sanctions on North Korea.
President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there.
President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council due to its bias against Israel.
The Administration made clear that it does not accept the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over Americans and will continue to protect America’s sovereignty.
President Trump has successfully advocated for cutting waste at the UN.
Changes made to the organization’s structure allowed the UN to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their budget, while making the organization more efficient.
The President’s leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has encouraged members to increase their defense spending and realign the Alliance’s priorities.
In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending among NATO allies.
President Trump convinced the Alliance to strengthen counterterrorism activities, and NATO formally joined the coalition to defeat ISIS.
President Trump’s Administration is working to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific through investments and partnerships.
President Trump has imposed tough sanctions on the corrupt regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
President Trump has taken tough action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including Russia’s efforts to undermine United States elections.
The Administration has imposed sanctions on more than 200 individuals and entities related to Russia’s destabilizing activities.
The Trump Administration has enhanced support for Ukraine’s defense by stepping up sales of weapons to its military.
The Trump Administration has secured the release of numerous American citizens held abroad, including Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Josh Holt from Venezuela, and more.
President Trump attended G20 summits in Argentina and Germany, where he promoted American First policies and encouraged closer cooperation.
In 2017, President Trump conducted tours through Asia to promote America’s interests.
HONORING AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO OUR VETERANS: President Trump is honoring America’s commitment to our veterans by ensuring they receive the quality care they have earned.

President Trump secured a record $73.1 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide quality medical care for our veterans.
This funding included $8.6 billion for mental health services, $400 million for opioid abuse prevention, $206 million for suicide prevention, and more.
The President signed the VA MISSION Act, revolutionizing that VA healthcare system and reforming numerous services for our veterans.
This legislation will consolidate and reform existing programs to give eligible veterans better access to healthcare providers in their communities.
Thanks to this legislation, eligible veterans will have access to walk-in community clinics that offer immediate, local care.
President Trump and his Administration have expanded access to telehealth services for veterans, including through the “Anywhere to Anywhere” VA health care initiative.
President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Administration to improve access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for veterans.
President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.
Under President Trump, the VA has removed, demoted, or suspended more than 4,300 employees for poor performance.
President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.
President Trump fulfilled his promise to create a new White House VA Hotline to provide veterans with 24/7 support.
The VA is providing veterans with online access to wait time and quality of care data.
The President signed the Forever GI Bill, providing veterans, service members, and their families with enhanced education benefits.
Last year, programs at the VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development helped more than 51,000 veterans find permanent housing and access supportive services.
TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT: President Trump has followed through on his pledge to transform the Federal Government and increase accountability and transparency.

President Trump’s Administration submitted a plan to reorganize the executive branch in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
In a historic show of transparency and accountability, the Trump Administration completed the Department of Defense’s first ever audit.
The President implemented a five-year ban on lobbying for White House employees and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign countries.
Each quarter since taking office, President Trump has donated his salary, fulfilling a promise he made to the American people.
President Trump is reshaping our Federal judiciary, appointing judges who will follow the Constitution as written.
The President has appointed Circuit Court judges at a record pace.
President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

[a fan]

That's not legislation. That's just a bunch of made up blather, crediting Trump with anything and everything that happened in America.

It's a simple question you should be able to answer with ease.

What are his top 5 Bills that Trump signed into law? Actual, real, domestic policies.

Or heck, you can add in treaties signed and ratified (ie, are actually acitve).

[old salt]

Memorial Day (Decorations Day) is a day of remembrance for our fallen, started for civil war vets.
Veterans Day (Armistice Day) was started to celebrate the end of WW I
Our last big military parade was to honor Gulf War I vets, on June 8, 1991,
no significance to the June 8 date. Don't know why/if GHWB chose that date.
Maybe if we ever get a vet President like Tulsi or Pete, it will be PC to have a military parade again.
We need to do it before Jane Fonda passes, so she can be the grand marshall.

[Typical Lax Dad]

I don’t see you complaining when FDR had a military parade during his third inauguration.

Uhhhhh. Was anyone here alive for that?

Personally, I think we should do more of these things. As for the military stuff-----so long as they keep the modern in-service stuff out...or things like big rockets? That's really cool. Vietnam vets parading with those helos? WII vets parading with Shermans? Tell THEIR story, and the story of America.

The modern military stuff isn't cool, and sends an entirely different message to our citizens, and the world. Leave that overcompensating small hands stuff to the Dictators.

Independence Day and Memorial Day are two different events. A military parade is more fitting for Memorial Day. July 4th should be about individual freedom of expression. This thing tomorrow is essentially a campaign rally.

Lol. No turd Sherlock. Why are you so offended by it? Why is the left anti America? Why do you hate its greatness? Why does it bother you so much? Does the Betsy Ross flag offend you too?

Who said I was offended Manuelito? Pull that fig out of your teeth my friend.

[tech37]

The modern military stuff isn't cool, and sends an entirely different message to our citizens, and the world. Leave that overcompensating small hands stuff to the Dictators.

It doesn't happen often, but when we agree a fan, I must admit...

I used to play with a really good middie from MD, who when he scored a goal would dance around like a whirling dervish. Major cringe factor for me. Act like you've been there before!...

Same with the U.S. We're a super power, everyone knows it... act like it.

At same time, I'm 100% in on celebrating all service members, any chance we can.

The old weapons are cool, historic. The new stuff is just scary, and although I'm glad we have it, I don't need to see it.

Actually, if you want to see the newer stuff just tune in to the next China military parade...it will all be on display...mother f 'ers

[Bandito]

That's not legislation. That's just a bunch of made up blather, crediting Trump with anything and everything that happened in America.

It's a simple question you should be able to answer with ease.

What are his top 5 Bills that Trump signed into law? Actual, real, domestic policies.

Or heck, you can add in treaties signed and ratified (ie, are actually acitve).

Can you not read? It’s all in there. That backfired on you didn’t it?

[CU88]

Weird; wonder why they thought this was OK?

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4 ... t-posts-in

Sounds like you want a dictatorship....to control people and take away free will. Otherwise, knuckleheads will be knuckleheads.

Really, that's your interpretation, these posters are just "knuckleheads"?

Here in America you can say most anything you want, including some pretty darn hateful, bigoted trash. We protect the right of free speech.
I have no doubt that seacoaster would agree.

But you lose your job if you don't represent the values and code of conduct of your employer. These posts are way outside the bounds of the code of conduct of their organization. Fire them. Period.

They can say anything they want but they no longer get a badge or a paycheck from the American taxpayers. Find another employer.

Otherwise, we're saying that what they have expressed is the within the bounds of conduct that is approved.

Agreed. and they were knuckleheads for saying what they did. You can not control people. One can put AOC in this same knucklehead box with her spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity,. You can not control what people say.

So do you feel her comments are withing the guidlines you prescribe above?

AOC's use of the term "concentration camps" was not intended to suggest an equivalence to Nazi death camps. she's been quite clear that was not her intent. Did you actually read the full article? She certainly was not saying something anti-Semitic, nor, for that matter, bigoted in any sense.

You do realize that the CPD stuff is actually bigoted, racist, and talking about violence towards the migrants in cages? That's the actual intent, not a misrepresentation of the intent.

I do find AOC to be often hyperbolic, and sometimes unwise in her tone, though in this case the Inspector General appears to quite agree on the reality of the situation. Look at the pictures and report and tell us this is not inhumanely cramming people into cages for extended periods of poor sanitation and health care, no hot food for kids, no showers, no beds, separating children from parents...not a 'death camp', but...

Couple this with CPD agents being found to be posting virulently racist comments...

So you will finally admit, like Trump has been saying....it is a crisis on the border. It's okay to agree with him.

Do you think these officers are stressed? Do you think they are so "locked in" emotionally and and wound up so tight because of the chaos they deal with day in and day out....while you get to chill at a pops concert. Sure, what they said in a private chat was uncalled for, but in your essentially stress free life as compared to these officers, you show no empathy or even a morsel of understanding.

It is a manufactured crisis to rile up the deplorables.

Why was nothing done during the first two(2) years of o d term????

[CU88]

That's not legislation. That's just a bunch of made up blather, crediting Trump with anything and everything that happened in America.

It's a simple question you should be able to answer with ease.

What are his top 5 Bills that Trump signed into law? Actual, real, domestic policies.

Or heck, you can add in treaties signed and ratified (ie, are actually acitve).

Can you not read? It’s all in there. That backfired on you didn’t it?

Ha Ha; such a telling response.

[ardilla secreta]

Trump is a populist though. He’s not royalty from any sense, definitely not politically speaking. Despite Trump’s immense wealth which he created in the private sector, personifying the American Dream

I'd imagine you're right: Most Americans would dream of inheriting a few hundred million dollars from Daddy, yes.

You're making it sound like he's a self made man. Even YOU aren't that far gone. He inherited it. Which is fine, but don't pretend like he earned it.

Trump is the people’s president. His policies are helping the average American everyday. He’s not part of the Deep State which tried to foil him before the election and is trying to tear him down now. Were you this mad at Trump back in the 70s-80s? Dems rigged an election and still lost. Their policies don’t work, never have, never will.

Really? What new policy has Trump signed into law? You're so into the guy, this should be easy for you to answer.

Take your time. Give me the top five pieces of actual Legislation that Trump signed in the last 2 1/2 years.

Here you go, chief. Happy reading and enlighten yourself

2 Years of Accomplishments

IGNITING A HISTORIC ECONOMIC BOOM: President Trump’s pro-growth policies are unleashing economic growth and providing opportunities to workers across the country.

Due to President Trump’s pro-growth policies, real gross domestic product (GDP) growth exceeded 3 percent over the last four quarters.
Real GDP grew at annual rates of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 and 4.2 percent in the second quarter.
More than 5 million jobs have been created since President Trump’s election and the unemployment rate remains below 4 percent.
This is the eighth time this year that the unemployment rate has been below 4 percent.
Prior to this year, the unemployment rate had fallen below 4 percent only five times since 1970.
The unemployment rate for African Americans in May fell to 5.9 percent, which is the lowest rate on record.
Asian and Hispanic-American unemployment rates have reached record lows this year.
Initial weekly jobless claims have hit a nearly 50-year low under President Trump.
Under President Trump, job openings outnumber the unemployed for the first time on record.
Recently, more than two-thirds of Americans rated “now” as a good time to find a quality job, tying a record high in a poll by Gallup.
Americans are seeing more money in their pockets thanks to the booming economy.
In recent months, workers have seen their largest nominal year over year wage growth in nearly a decade.
In 2017, real median household income rose to a post-recession high.
President Trump’s policies are helping to lift Americans out of poverty.
African-American and Hispanic-American poverty rates reached record lows of 21.2 percent and 18.3 percent, respectively, in 2017.
Since the election, 4.6 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps.
Consumer confidence has soared under President Trump, recently reaching an 18-year high.
President Trump is delivering on his promise to bring back American manufacturing.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Outlook Index had the highest annual average in its history over the past year.
Manufacturing added 284,000 jobs in 2018, the most added in a year since 1997
Small Business optimism jumped to a record high under President Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
The NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index broke a 35-year record in August.
President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, ushering in the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
These tax cuts are delivering real results for American families and workers.
More than 6 million workers received tax cut bonuses and benefits.
More than 100 utility companies have announced lower rates.
President Trump is ensuring American workers receive the training and education they need to compete in today’s economy.
President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.
More than 185 companies and associations have signed our “Pledge to America’s Workers,” promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.
The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.
President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.
The women’s unemployment rate recently reached its lowest rate in 65 years.
The Small Business Administration lent approximately $500 million more in capital to women-owned businesses in 2017 compared to 2016.
The Administration helped launch the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, which could leverage more than $1 billion to support women entrepreneurs.
ROLLING BACK RED TAPE: President Trump is rolling back costly regulations that have burdened hardworking Americans and stifled innovation.

President Trump has followed through on and exceeded his promise to roll back two regulations for every new one created.
President Trump’s Administration surpassed the 2:1 ratio in 2018, eliminating 12 regulations for every new one in 2018.
In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated 22 regulations for every new one.
Since taking office, President Trump’s deregulation efforts have achieved $33 billion in regulatory savings.
In 2018, these efforts alone delivered $23 billion in benefits to American families and business owners.
President Trump has signed 16 Congressional Review Act resolutions into law, eliminating burdensome Obama-era rules and regulations.
President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have harmed America’s economy and cost American workers millions of jobs.
President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects with a goal of cutting approval time from up to 10 years to an average of 2 years.
President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.
NEGOTIATING BETTER DEALS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is negotiating fair and balanced trade deals that protect American industries and workers.

President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.
Once enacted by Congress, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) will better serve the interests of American workers and businesses.
USMCA will incentivize billions of dollars in auto and auto parts production in the United States and create a freer and fairer market for American agriculture.
USMCA also includes the strongest-ever provisions on labor, environmental, digital, and intellectual property protections to reflect the realities of the 21st century economy.
The President renegotiated the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement to preserve and grow jobs in the American auto industry and increase American exports.
The United States and Japan are set to begin negotiations on a United States–Japan Trade Agreement.
President Trump is establishing a new trade relationship with the European Union (EU), working toward the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to transatlantic trade.
President Trump has established a Trade and Investment Working Group to lay the groundwork for post-Brexit trade with the United Kingdom (UK) and has notified Congress of his intent to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK.
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.
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.
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.
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.
STANDING UP FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: The President is committed to defending the right to life and religious liberty.

Shortly after taking office, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy.
President Trump defunded a United Nations (UN) agency for colluding with China’s brutal program of forced abortion and sterilization.
The Administration withdrew guidance that constrained State’s ability to exclude family-planning providers that provide abortion services from the Medicaid program.
The Trump Administration proposed new regulations to ensure Title X family planning funding does not go to projects that perform, support, or refer patients for abortion.
The Trump Administration issued regulations establishing new or expanded exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive mandate based on religious beliefs or moral convictions.
In 2017, the President issued an executive order to promote free speech and religious liberty.
KEEPING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES SAFE: President Trump has made clear that his first responsibility is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows violent crime decreased under President Trump’s watch in 2017, following two consecutive years of increases.
United States Attorneys indicted the most violent criminals on record last year.
Last year, the DOJ announced nearly $100 million in grant funding to hire hundreds of additional law enforcement officers.
President Trump is cracking down on the vile MS-13 gang that has brought violence to communities across the country.
In 2017, the DOJ worked with international partners to arrest and charge approximately 4,000 MS-13 members.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations arrested nearly 800 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.
President Trump signed an executive order to restore State and local law enforcement’s access to surplus equipment that can be used to help keep our communities safe.
President Trump enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
The DOJ announced the creation of the National Public Safety Partnership in 2017, launching a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crime.
President Trump signed legislation to improve the Federal firearm background check system and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
President Trump signed the First Step Act, which includes bipartisan reforms to make our Federal justice system fairer and our communities safer.
The First Step Act will help prepare inmates to successfully rejoin society, reducing recidivism and improving community safety.
This legislation includes commonsense sentencing reforms that will make our Federal justice system fairer while keeping violent criminals and sex offenders off our streets.
ENFORCING OUR LAWS AND SECURING OUR BORDERS: From the first day of his Administration, President Trump has worked to uphold the rule of law and secure our borders.

President Trump released an immigration framework that would fix our broken immigration system through merit-based reform and provide the resources needed to secure our border.
This includes closing the legal loopholes that enable illegal immigration, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery.
President Trump secured funding to begin building the wall and construction has already begun in areas along the southern border.
President Trump deployed the military to assist in securing the southern border.
President Trump and his Administration took action to require aliens seeking asylum to go to a port of entry to make their claim.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 17,256 criminals and 1,019 gang members in FY 2018.
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 158,581 aliens in FY 2018, an 11 percent increase from FY 2017.
90 percent of those arrested had criminal convictions, pending charges, or had been issued final orders of removal.
ICE ERO increased removals by 13 percent in FY 2018 to 256,086, the majority of whom were convicted criminals.
Removals of convicted criminal aliens increased by 14 percent from FY 2017.
Nearly 6,000 known or suspected gang members were removed in FY 2018, a 9 percent increase from FY 2017.
The Department of Justice prosecuted a record number of criminal immigration offenses in FY 2018, and increased the number of prosecutions for illegal entry by 84 percent over FY 2017.
Immigration courts are now completing more cases than at any point since 2011
President Trump kept his promise by launching the office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) within the Department of Homeland Security.
The Administration has more than doubled the number of jurisdictions participating in the 287(g) program, which enables State and local law enforcement to aid immigration enforcement.
President Trump has made our country safer by ordering the enhanced vetting of individuals entering from countries that do not meet our security standards.
These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court ruling.
REBUILDING AMERICA’S MILITARY FORCE: President Trump is rebuilding our military and defending America’s interests across the world.

President Trump ended the devastating defense cuts of the past Administration and has secured historic investments to rebuild our military.
President Trump signed legislation providing $700 billion for defense in FY 2018 and $716 billion in FY 2019.
President Trump is supporting America’s men and women in uniform, securing the largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.
The President issued a new National Security Strategy to keep America safe from all threats.
The Administration has also released new strategies specific to cybersecurity, biodefense, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction terrorism.
President Trump directed the first whole-of-government assessment of United States manufacturing and defense supply chains since the Eisenhower Administration.
President Trump initiated the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, improving United States deterrence policy and existing capabilities to counter nuclear threats.
President Trump empowered our military commanders with broad authority in order to take the fight to ISIS, and the results are clear.
ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated since President Trump took office.
All of ISIS’ territory in Iraq was successfully liberated.
ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah has been recaptured.
ISIS’ territorial caliphate has been defeated and President Trump has announced that he is bringing America’s troops in Syria home.
President Trump announced a new Iran strategy to confront all of Iran’s malign activities and withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran nuclear deal.
All sanctions that had been lifted or waived under the Iran deal have been reimposed.
The Administration has sanctioned more than 160 individuals tied to the regime’s support of terrorism, ballistic missile program, human rights abuses, and more.
President Trump took decisive military action to respond to the barbaric use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
President Trump directed strikes in response to the regime’s chemical weapons attacks in April 2017 and April 2018.
The Trump Administration has also rolled out sanctions targeting those tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.
President Trump is strengthening America’s cyber defense and directed the elevation of the United States Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
The President announced that the Department of Defense will work to create a Space Force to serve as an independent branch of the United States military.
RESTORING AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ABROAD: President Trump is restoring American leadership on the world stage and advancing an America first agenda.

President Trump held an historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.
Since the summit, the leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both countries have met.
Because of the President’s actions, North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.
The remains of POW/MIA service members from the Korean War are being returned to the United States.
Prior to the summit, President Trump’s leadership helped secure the passage of historic UN sanctions on North Korea.
President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there.
President Trump withdrew the United States from the UN Human Rights Council due to its bias against Israel.
The Administration made clear that it does not accept the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over Americans and will continue to protect America’s sovereignty.
President Trump has successfully advocated for cutting waste at the UN.
Changes made to the organization’s structure allowed the UN to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their budget, while making the organization more efficient.
The President’s leadership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has encouraged members to increase their defense spending and realign the Alliance’s priorities.
In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending among NATO allies.
President Trump convinced the Alliance to strengthen counterterrorism activities, and NATO formally joined the coalition to defeat ISIS.
President Trump’s Administration is working to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific through investments and partnerships.
President Trump has imposed tough sanctions on the corrupt regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
President Trump has taken tough action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including Russia’s efforts to undermine United States elections.
The Administration has imposed sanctions on more than 200 individuals and entities related to Russia’s destabilizing activities.
The Trump Administration has enhanced support for Ukraine’s defense by stepping up sales of weapons to its military.
The Trump Administration has secured the release of numerous American citizens held abroad, including Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey, Josh Holt from Venezuela, and more.
President Trump attended G20 summits in Argentina and Germany, where he promoted American First policies and encouraged closer cooperation.
In 2017, President Trump conducted tours through Asia to promote America’s interests.
HONORING AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO OUR VETERANS: President Trump is honoring America’s commitment to our veterans by ensuring they receive the quality care they have earned.

President Trump secured a record $73.1 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide quality medical care for our veterans.
This funding included $8.6 billion for mental health services, $400 million for opioid abuse prevention, $206 million for suicide prevention, and more.
The President signed the VA MISSION Act, revolutionizing that VA healthcare system and reforming numerous services for our veterans.
This legislation will consolidate and reform existing programs to give eligible veterans better access to healthcare providers in their communities.
Thanks to this legislation, eligible veterans will have access to walk-in community clinics that offer immediate, local care.
President Trump and his Administration have expanded access to telehealth services for veterans, including through the “Anywhere to Anywhere” VA health care initiative.
President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Administration to improve access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for veterans.
President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.
Under President Trump, the VA has removed, demoted, or suspended more than 4,300 employees for poor performance.
President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.
President Trump fulfilled his promise to create a new White House VA Hotline to provide veterans with 24/7 support.
The VA is providing veterans with online access to wait time and quality of care data.
The President signed the Forever GI Bill, providing veterans, service members, and their families with enhanced education benefits.
Last year, programs at the VA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development helped more than 51,000 veterans find permanent housing and access supportive services.
TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT: President Trump has followed through on his pledge to transform the Federal Government and increase accountability and transparency.

President Trump’s Administration submitted a plan to reorganize the executive branch in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
In a historic show of transparency and accountability, the Trump Administration completed the Department of Defense’s first ever audit.
The President implemented a five-year ban on lobbying for White House employees and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign countries.
Each quarter since taking office, President Trump has donated his salary, fulfilling a promise he made to the American people.
President Trump is reshaping our Federal judiciary, appointing judges who will follow the Constitution as written.
The President has appointed Circuit Court judges at a record pace.
President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

This reminds me of Jack Nicholson’s character pecking away at the typewriter in The Shining! We have our very own Jack Torrance.

[a fan]

I can read just fine. My question is still pending.

What are, in Bandito's opinion, Trump five top pieces of legislation that Trump signed?

My bet is that you can't answer this simple question. You don't know. So you send me propaganda from someone else.

Don't have your own opinion on the matter, and you need to be told what to think? Is that it?

Bandito's top 5 pieces of Trump legislation signed into law....you have the floor, sir.

[Bandito]

I can read just fine. My question is still pending.

What are, in Bandito's opinion, Trump five top pieces of legislation that Trump signed?

My bet is that you can't answer this simple question. You don't know. So you send me propaganda from someone else.

Don't have your own opinion on the matter, and you need to be told what to think? Is that it?

Bandito's top 5 pieces of Trump legislation signed into law....you have the floor, sir.

President Trump signed an executive order establishing the National Council for the American worker.
More than 185 companies and associations have signed our “Pledge to America’s Workers,” promising more than 6.4 million new training and career opportunities.
The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.
President Trump has prioritized the economic empowerment of women.
President Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which would have harmed America’s economy and cost American workers millions of jobs.
President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects with a goal of cutting approval time from up to 10 years to an average of 2 years.
President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.
NEGOTIATING BETTER DEALS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: President Trump is negotiating fair and balanced trade deals that protect American industries and workers.

President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.
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.
President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Administration to improve access to mental health treatment and suicide prevention resources for veterans.
President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.
Under President Trump, the VA has removed, demoted, or suspended more than 4,300 employees for poor performance.
President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.
President Trump fulfilled his promise to create a new White House VA Hotline to provide veterans with 24/7 support.

[Bandito]

I can read just fine. My question is still pending.

What are, in Bandito's opinion, Trump five top pieces of legislation that Trump signed?

My bet is that you can't answer this simple question. You don't know. So you send me propaganda from someone else.

Don't have your own opinion on the matter, and you need to be told what to think? Is that it?

Bandito's top 5 pieces of Trump legislation signed into law....you have the floor, sir.

I already posted tons of things he’s done, including signed legislation as well as him rolling back horrible policies enacted under the legacy-less Obama dictatorship regime.
I’m not going to repost it again. Scroll up and read you troll.

[youthathletics]

Weird; wonder why they thought this was OK?

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4 ... t-posts-in

Sounds like you want a dictatorship....to control people and take away free will. Otherwise, knuckleheads will be knuckleheads.

Really, that's your interpretation, these posters are just "knuckleheads"?

Here in America you can say most anything you want, including some pretty darn hateful, bigoted trash. We protect the right of free speech.
I have no doubt that seacoaster would agree.

But you lose your job if you don't represent the values and code of conduct of your employer. These posts are way outside the bounds of the code of conduct of their organization. Fire them. Period.

They can say anything they want but they no longer get a badge or a paycheck from the American taxpayers. Find another employer.

Otherwise, we're saying that what they have expressed is the within the bounds of conduct that is approved.

Agreed. and they were knuckleheads for saying what they did. You can not control people. One can put AOC in this same knucklehead box with her spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity,. You can not control what people say.

So do you feel her comments are withing the guidlines you prescribe above?

AOC's use of the term "concentration camps" was not intended to suggest an equivalence to Nazi death camps. she's been quite clear that was not her intent. Did you actually read the full article? She certainly was not saying something anti-Semitic, nor, for that matter, bigoted in any sense.

You do realize that the CPD stuff is actually bigoted, racist, and talking about violence towards the migrants in cages? That's the actual intent, not a misrepresentation of the intent.

I do find AOC to be often hyperbolic, and sometimes unwise in her tone, though in this case the Inspector General appears to quite agree on the reality of the situation. Look at the pictures and report and tell us this is not inhumanely cramming people into cages for extended periods of poor sanitation and health care, no hot food for kids, no showers, no beds, separating children from parents...not a 'death camp', but...

Couple this with CPD agents being found to be posting virulently racist comments...

So you will finally admit, like Trump has been saying....it is a crisis on the border. It's okay to agree with him.

Do you think these officers are stressed? Do you think they are so "locked in" emotionally and and wound up so tight because of the chaos they deal with day in and day out....while you get to chill at a pops concert. Sure, what they said in a private chat was uncalled for, but in your essentially stress free life as compared to these officers, you show no empathy or even a morsel of understanding.

It is a manufactured crisis to rile up the deplorables.

Why was nothing done during the first two(2) years of o d term????

Probably the same reason under Obama and Bush....

See my back and forth with afan a page or two back and snippet below.

I actually blame Ryan for the most part, but do agree with you. #Knuckleheads

....and Obama had the same two year window of power that Trump did with total D control. And he did nothing about immigration.

The one that makes me the most angry is Bush---and his Congress too, including ol' Hill--- post 9/11 was the PERFECT time to fix our VISA and immigration system. Nothing happened, unless you want to count tweaks.

Unfixable. Our country is broken.

[RedFromMI]

That's not legislation. That's just a bunch of made up blather, crediting Trump with anything and everything that happened in America.

It's a simple question you should be able to answer with ease.

What are his top 5 Bills that Trump signed into law? Actual, real, domestic policies.

Or heck, you can add in treaties signed and ratified (ie, are actually acitve).

And some of it is wrong - Q4 2018 GDP growth = 2.2%, for example (straight from the government Bureau of Economic Analysis). (BTW, Atlanta Fed says 1.3% estimate for Q2 2019...)...

USMCA is not ratified, and it is clear it would be difficult at this time to get through. But it has only minor changes over NAFTA.

Trade policy (?) of Trump is a joke - he clearly does not have a chance of getting what he says he will get, and has already backed down from some of his more outrageous attempts at tariffs (a tax on Americans...)

Farm country is hurting due to his trade nonsense.

The war on coal was primarily waged by the competition of natural gas... There is nothing he can do to counter the trend that coal has become too expensive to use to make power compared to other forms. Most of his regulation rollbacks have direct consequences in terms of worse health/increased deaths due to air pollution...

His attempts to roll back Obamacare have not improved the situation - especially the short term plans which basically are NOT full health insurance. Pretty much all that he has done has actually not made health care more accessible or cheaper...

His administration has done little about the opiate crisis other than talk.

Crime has been for the most part going down for years. Trump has done nothing to make it happen. MS-13 is much more of a problem in Central America - and is part of what is driving increased asylum requests in the US.

NK situation is now that effectively Trump has recognized them as a nuclear power. He has not strengthened NATO but weakened it through his obvious hostility to the post WWII liberal order that has kept major wars from breaking out in Europe and surrounds, and led to the EU - one of the most successful economic partnerships in history between countries. Trump has given de facto recognition to the illegal Russian annexation of Crimea.

VA - he has let a trifecta of buddies from Mar-A-Lago be a shadow power running a lot of the decisions. And BTW, they have no expertise in Veterans Affairs.

He has donated salary while making millions off of the American public (secret service fees from golf carts alone are higher).

Now for some things he has actually done:

1. America/its government are disliked more that at any time in its history abroad.

2. Trump's narcissism and lack of coherent direction have made him one of the most distrusted partners for foreign countries.

3. He has tried many things that keep getting knocked down in the court system, because he has little regard for the law and constitution.

4. He has unsuccessfully tried to kill Obamacare completely, so has settled for damaging it as best he can.

5. He and his administration have been one of the most opaque in terms of information given to Congress.

6. He betrayed the American people by both passively and actively allowing foreign goverments to influence the 2016 presidential election. He has obstructed justice multiple times to try and squash the Mueller investigation.

7. He is in violation of the Emoluments clause of the Constitution.

8. He appears to care only about those who support him - which is basically a minority in the US. He is racist, misogynist, and quite possibly has committed crimes of a sexual nature.

9. In the past, his family has almost certainly committed criminal activity regarding the inheritance from his father. Statute of limitations protects them here, and his sister retired from her judgeship to avoid investigation into this matter only recently.

10. He is perhaps the most dishonest person to hold the office of President. Trusting what he says is quite risky as he has no problem not only telling lies, but changing his lies to suit the situation.

11. He has encouraged a toxic culture in CBP with regard to asylum seekers.

That is just a few - give me some more time and I am sure I can come up with more.

[a fan]

Now we're getting somewhere!

The President signed legislation that reauthorized the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, making more than $1 billion available for career education programs.

Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and now Trump have signed on to this. I'm all for this!

Are you, though? Handouts to citizens? Socialism? Shouldn't they pay their own way through school? I'm surprised you like this, Bandito!

President Trump signed legislation to roll back burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations that harmed community banks.

Dodd Frank framework is still in place, but ok. Jury's out as to whether this is good or not.

President Trump negotiated a new trade agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to replace the disastrous and outdated North American Free Trade Agreement.

Not ratified.

But I'll play along. What part do you like best from this new agreement?

President Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, making it easier to fire failing employees and protect whistleblowers.

That's one. Well done! This is in your top five?

President Trump signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017, streamlining the process used by veterans when appealing benefits claims.

That's two. Well done! This is in your top five?

Not bad! Would've meant a lot more if these were YOUR ideas, and not simply pasted from someone else's page, don't you think?

[MDlaxfan76]

Nah, Manuelito's that far gone.

[jhu72]

I can read just fine. My question is still pending.

What are, in Bandito's opinion, Trump five top pieces of legislation that Trump signed?

My bet is that you can't answer this simple question. You don't know. So you send me propaganda from someone else.

Don't have your own opinion on the matter, and you need to be told what to think? Is that it?

Bandito's top 5 pieces of Trump legislation signed into law....you have the floor, sir.

Most of this list is budget line items that have been in the budget for years before Trump even started running for President. Makes it sound like he actually did something rather than just continuing programs that previously existed.

PS - reading down your posts a little farther it appears you have already picked up on this little ploy. I especially enjoyed the bit about all the great stuff he has done for the VA. My VA management friends will get a kick out of the list.

[old salt]

The modern military stuff isn't cool, and sends an entirely different message to our citizens, and the world. Leave that overcompensating small hands stuff to the Dictators.

It doesn't happen often, but when we agree a fan, I must admit...

I used to play with a really good middie from MD, who when he scored a goal would dance around like a whirling dervish. Major cringe factor for me. Act like you've been there before!...

Same with the U.S. We're a super power, everyone knows it... act like it.

At same time, I'm 100% in on celebrating all service members, any chance we can.

The old weapons are cool, historic. The new stuff is just scary, and although I'm glad we have it, I don't need to see it.

Actually, if you want to see the newer stuff just tune in to the next China military parade...it will all be on display...mother f 'ers

2 BBC reporters who have covered multiple Bastile Day celebrations & RAF fly pasts,
had a good laugh at all the whining about "4 tanks on a flatbed."

[MDlaxfan76]

The modern military stuff isn't cool, and sends an entirely different message to our citizens, and the world. Leave that overcompensating small hands stuff to the Dictators.

It doesn't happen often, but when we agree a fan, I must admit...

I used to play with a really good middie from MD, who when he scored a goal would dance around like a whirling dervish. Major cringe factor for me. Act like you've been there before!...

Same with the U.S. We're a super power, everyone knows it... act like it.

At same time, I'm 100% in on celebrating all service members, any chance we can.

The old weapons are cool, historic. The new stuff is just scary, and although I'm glad we have it, I don't need to see it.

Actually, if you want to see the newer stuff just tune in to the next China military parade...it will all be on display...mother f 'ers

Great to agree with you both on this.
Salty pines for military parades, presumably because he thinks people will respect or appreciate or servicemen and women more? Or they'll feel respected and appreciated more?

I'd have agreed in the Vietnam aftermath, given the deplorable way vets were treated during that era by way, way too many of their fellow citizens, but that was many decades ago. Not at all the way veterans today are treated, as it's commonplace for strangers to thank service folks and vets for their service.

On the other hand,I don't think all the NFL fetishizing of the military is appropriate at all...it seems grossly commercial to me.

But as I said, the kinds of small gestures made last Sunday at the pops concert are commonplace, and quite genuine. Just the right tone.

And it's not as if we don't actually have specific holidays to celebrate our vets.

But showy parades of military might? That's for tin pot dictators or others with inferiority complexes.

[MDlaxfan76]

The modern military stuff isn't cool, and sends an entirely different message to our citizens, and the world. Leave that overcompensating small hands stuff to the Dictators.

It doesn't happen often, but when we agree a fan, I must admit...

I used to play with a really good middie from MD, who when he scored a goal would dance around like a whirling dervish. Major cringe factor for me. Act like you've been there before!...

Same with the U.S. We're a super power, everyone knows it... act like it.

At same time, I'm 100% in on celebrating all service members, any chance we can.

The old weapons are cool, historic. The new stuff is just scary, and although I'm glad we have it, I don't need to see it.

Actually, if you want to see the newer stuff just tune in to the next China military parade...it will all be on display...mother f 'ers

2 BBC reporters who have covered multiple Bastile Day celebrations & RAF fly pasts,
had a good laugh at all the whining about "4 tanks on a flatbed."

Nah, it's Trump's insistence on involving the military armaments that is criticized.
Want to have the band from the Navy play some tunes? Super. Happens every year.

Only those who think they have to prove something about the size of their armaments make a big show of them.
Or is it the size of their hands?