JOE BIDEN/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that sets criteria for the government to evaluate the risk of apps connected to foreign adversaries, a move with implications for Chinese-owned sites like TikTok and WeChat. Biden revoked and replaced the three executive orders by then-President Donald Trump that sought to […]
Category: A- Trump Executive Orders
1/20/2021
LOBBYING/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Trump signed an executive order lifting a five-year lobbying ban for members of his administration just hours before he leaves office and Joe Biden is sworn in as the next president of the United States. The order, issued early Wednesday along with a flurry of pardons for former top campaign and […]
1/19/2021
MILITARY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall consider whether to designate veterans who served on active duty in Uzbekistan between October 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005, as veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations pursuant to section 1710(e)(1)(D) of title […]
1/19/2021
LOBBYING/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Executive Order 13770 of January 28, 2017, ‘Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees,’ is hereby revoked, effective at noon January 20, 2021. Employees and former employees subject to the commitments in Executive Order 13770 will not be subject to those commitments after noon January 20, 2021.” -Donald Trump, “Revocation of Executive Order […]
1/19/2021
NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency related to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities… Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) shall propose for notice and comment regulations […]
1/18/2021
STATUES/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “In Executive Order 13934 of July 3, 2020 (Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes), I made it the policy of the United States to establish a statuary park named the National Garden of American Heroes (National Garden)… The National Garden will be built to reflect the awesome splendor of our country’s […]
1/18/2021
GUNS/POLICE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers should not have to choose between public service and subjecting themselves and their families to danger… I am ordering enhanced protections for judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers. Federal law already allows Federal and State law enforcement officers to protect themselves by carrying a concealed firearm, […]
1/18/2021
CRIME/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve transparency with respect to the consequences of violating certain regulations and to protect Americans from facing unwarranted criminal punishment for unintentional violations of regulations, it is hereby ordered as […]
1/18/2021
DEFENSE/DRONES/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional actions are necessary to ensure the security of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) owned, operated, and controlled by the Federal […]
1/18/2021
ELECTIONS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “American democracy operates on the principle of the consent of the governed. Regular elections for the Congress and the President and Vice President of the United States are designed to ensure that the officials responsible for making and executing the law are held accountable to the American people. The President chooses Federal […]
1/14/2021
ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “This order will ensure that agencies effectively work together in coordinating Federal wildland fire management policy to improve funding allocations for hazardous fuel projects, performance measures for suppression operations and hazardous fuels mitigation, procurement, Federal-State cooperation and cost sharing, cross-jurisdictional post-wildfire rehabilitation, monitoring of electric transmission lines and other critical infrastructure, and […]
1/14/2021
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/USPS: Executive Order on Encouraging Buy American Policies For The United States Postal Service […]
1/8/2021
EPA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency […]
1/6/2021
BUSINESS/CHINA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Trump has signed an executive order banning Ant Group’s Alipay, WeChat Pay and 6 other Chinese apps in the US, according to Reuters. A senior administration official explained at a briefing that the order aims to prevent the Chinese government from gathering American users’ data and using it as a ‘mass […]
1/5/2021
BUSINESS/CHINA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and […]
12/31/2020
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay […]
12/28/2020
COVID19/EDUCATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “As part of their efforts to address the public health challenges and uncertainties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, State and local officials shut down in-person learning… A failure to quickly resume in-person learning options is likely to have long-term economic effects on children and their families… To help mitigate these harms, the […]
12/23/2020
LAWSUIT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s executive order restricting the federal government and its contractors from offering diversity training that the president labeled ‘divisive’ and ‘un-American.’ U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman granted a preliminary nationwide injunction in the lawsuit filed by LGBT rights groups in November in the Northern District […]
12/21/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “With a limited number of exceptions, such as the Tuscaloosa Federal Building and Courthouse and the Corpus Christi Federal Courthouse, the Federal Government has largely stopped building beautiful buildings. In Washington, D.C., Federal architecture has become a discordant mixture of classical and modernist designs. It is time to update the policies guiding […]
12/21/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday [Dec. 21, 2020] making classical architecture the preferred style for federal buildings in Washington, a White House official said Monday. The presidential action stops short of mandating that all new federal buildings are built in a classical style, saying merely that they must […]
12/18/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “By law, savings bonds never expire, and there is no deadline for owners to redeem them. It is currently estimated that more than 75 million matured savings bonds, issued as far back as 1935, remain unredeemed. The total value of these unredeemed savings bonds is approximately $27 billion. Above and beyond any […]
12/14/2020
JOBS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Overly burdensome occupational licensing requirements can impede job creation and slow economic growth, which undermines our Nation’s prosperity and the economic well‑being of the American people… My Administration is committed to continuing this important work by partnering with State, local, territorial, and tribal leaders throughout the country to eliminate harmful occupational regulations, […]
12/13/2020
DRUGS/PHARMA/MEDIA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The drug companies are going crazy putting up nasty ads against me asking to ‘withdraw my Favored Nation’s Executive Order’. They don’t want the U.S. to have the lowest drug prices in the world, but we now will. Big reductions coming. No other politician would do this!!!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 13, […]
12/11/2020
HOLIDAYS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, December 24, 2020, the day before Christmas Day. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and […]
12/10/2020
FOREIGN AID/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State (Secretary), in coordination with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Administrator) and the heads of other executive departments and agencies (agencies), as appropriate, shall initiate notice-and-comment rulemaking to brand and mark all United States […]
12/10/2020
DEFENSE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: Executive Order on Providing an Order of Succession within the Department of Defense […]
12/8/2020
COVID-19/NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure every American has priority access to free, safe, and effective COVID-19 vaccines. As part of the Executive Order, President Trump directed his Administration to develop a strategy for giving other nations access to United States Government COVID-19 Vaccines. After […]
12/8/2020
COVID-19/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VACCINES: “It is the policy of the United States to ensure Americans have priority access to free, safe, and effective COVID-19 vaccines. After ensuring the ability to meet the vaccination needs of the American people, it is in the interest of the United States to facilitate international access to United States Government COVID-19 […]
12/7/2020
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I am signing the Federal Mission Resilience Strategy (Strategy), which should be implemented to increase the resilience of the executive branch. Implementing the Strategy will reduce the current reliance on reactive relocation of personnel and enhance a proactive posture that minimizes disruption, distributes risk to the performance of NEFs [National Essential Functions], […]
12/3/2020
TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Agencies are encouraged to continue to use AI, when appropriate, to benefit the American people. The ongoing adoption and acceptance of AI will depend significantly on public trust. Agencies must therefore design, develop, acquire, and use AI in a manner that fosters public trust and confidence while protecting privacy, civil rights, civil […]
11/23/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Last month, President Trump signed an executive order creating a new Schedule F within the excepted service for employees… and instructing agencies to identify and transfer competitive service employees that meet that description into the new job classification, an initiative that could strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their civil […]
11/12/2020
BUSINESS/CHINA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly exploiting United States capital to resource and to enable the development and modernization of its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses, which continues to allow the PRC to directly threaten the […]
11/2/2020
EDUCATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “[I]n recent years, a series of polemics grounded in poor scholarship has vilified our Founders and our founding. Despite the virtues and accomplishments of this Nation, many students are now taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, […]
11/2/2020
EDUCATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I just signed an executive order to teach our students PRO-AMERICAN Values!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 2, 2020 1:36 pm […]
11/2/2020
EDUCATION/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Just signed an order to establish the 1776 Commission. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students, and restore PATRIOTIC EDUCATION to our schools!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 2, 2020 8:22 am […]
10/31/2020
2020 ELECTION/ENERGY/FRACKING/JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/OIL/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VOTING: “Joe Biden has vowed to ABOLISH American Oil and Natural Gas. Today I signed an order to strongly protect Pennsylvania’s energy & fracking industry. If Biden & Harris get in, they will terminate this order and implement the Green New Deal. Get out and VOTE! http://Vote.DonaldJTrump.com“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
10/22/2020
JOBS/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Just signed an order to support the workers of Delphi Corporation and make sure that we protect the pensions of all American workers! Obama-Biden FAILED American workers and FAILED the workers of Delphi. I ALWAYS put American workers FIRST!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 22, 2020 11:04 am […]
10/22/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Trump on Wednesday [October 21, 2020] signed an executive order creating a new classification of ‘policy-making’ federal employees that could strip swaths of the federal workforce of civil service protections just before the next president is sworn into office. The order would create a new Schedule F within the excepted service […]
10/21/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service […]
10/21/2020
GOVERNMENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To effectively carry out the broad array of activities assigned to the executive branch under law, the President and his appointees must rely on men and women in the Federal service employed in positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character. Faithful execution of the law requires that the President have […]
10/13/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Establishing the One Trillion Trees Interagency Council […]
10/13/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Modernizing America’s Water Resource Management and Water Infrastructure […]
10/7/2020
BORDER/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “My highly regarded Executive Order protected 525,000 American jobs during the height of the Chinese Plague. Democrats want to have Open Borders!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 7, 2020 1:33 pm […]
10/5/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Saving Lives Through Increased Support For Mental- and Behavioral-Health Needs […]
9/30/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Addressing the Threat to the Domestic Supply Chain from Reliance on Critical Minerals from Foreign Adversaries […]
9/25/2020
CHILDREN/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Hospitals might refuse to provide treatment to extremely premature infants — born alive before 24 weeks of gestation — because they believe these infants may not survive, may have to live with long-term disabilities, or may have a quality-of-life deemed to be inadequate. Active treatment of extremely premature infants has, however, been […]
9/24/2020
EDUCATION/EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To combat the toxic left wing propaganda in our schools, I announced something last week that was very popular. That we’re launching a new pro-American lesson plan for students called 1776 Commission. We’ll teach our children the truth about America, that we are the most exceptional nation on the face of the Earth. […]
9/24/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HEALTHCARE: On Sep. 24, 2020, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled “An America-First Healthcare Plan.” The order stated, “It has been and will continue to be the policy of the United States to give Americans seeking healthcare more choice, lower costs, and better care and to ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions can […]
9/24/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders on healthcare for Americans that lawyers said will carry little weight… Trump signed the twin orders implementing his ‘America First Healthcare Plan’ in an airport hangar in Charlotte, North Carolina… One of Thursday’s executive orders is aimed at ensuring Americans with pre-existing […]
9/22/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/RACISM: “President Donald J. Trump is taking action to promote unity in the Federal workforce by combating harmful and offensive race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating. The President signed an Executive Order to end training sessions based on race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating in the Federal workforce, the Uniformed Services, and among Federal […]
9/21/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/IRAN/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS: “The United States has now restored UN sanctions on Iran. The Iranian regime has repeatedly lied about its secret nuclear weapons archive and denied access to international inspectors, further exposing the deep flaws of the last administration’s failed nuclear deal from which I withdrew the United States. The world cannot afford to sit […]
9/21/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/IRAN/NUCLEAR: “The Executive Order I am issuing today blocks the property, and interests in property, in the United States of those who contribute to the supply, sale, or transfer of conventional arms to or from Iran, as well as those who provide technical training, financial support and services, and other assistance related to these […]
9/21/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/IRAN/NUCLEAR: “I am taking new actions to restrict Iran’s nuclear, ballistic missile, and conventional weapons pursuits. My Administration will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, nor will we allow Iran to endanger the rest of the world with a fresh supply of ballistic missiles and conventional arms. To ensure this cannot happen, […]
9/18/2020
BUSINESS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/SOCIAL MEDIA: “TikTok will be removed from US app stores from midnight on Sunday as Washington implements executive orders from President Donald Trump that also target WeChat, a Chinese social media app… The removal of TikTok and WeChat from US app stores implements two executive orders issued last month by Mr Trump, which said […]
9/13/2020
DRUGS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HEALTHCARE: “President Trump signed an executive order Sunday [Sep. 13, 2020] that he says lowers prescription drug prices ‘by putting America first,’ but experts said the move is unlikely to have any immediate impact. The action comes nearly two months after the president signed a different executive order with the exact same name but […]
9/13/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “It is the policy of the United States that the Medicare program should not pay more for costly Part B or Part D prescription drugs or biological products than the most-favored-nation price.” -Donald Trump, “Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First,” govinfo.gov, Sep 13, 2020 [Note: Read the full Executive Order signed […]
9/13/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/PHARMA/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES! My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries. The days of global freeriding at America’s expense are over… …and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all rebates […]
8/24/2020
HOUSING/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: Executive Order on Targeting Opportunity Zones and Other Distressed Communities for Federal Site Locations -Donald Trump, “Executive Order on Targeting Opportunity Zones and Other Distressed Communities for Federal Site Locations,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 24, 2020 […]
8/24/2020
DRUGS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “President Trump has made his executive order tying prescription drug prices in the United States to the prices paid in Europe and other developed nations — and the ensuing war that has broken out with the pharmaceutical industry — a centerpiece of his campaign for re-election. The problem: No such executive order has […]
8/10/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “We want to — we want to be able to assure people that pre-existing condition is always taken care of… And pre-existing conditions — the Republicans are 100 percent there. And I’ll be issuing, at some point in the not-too-distant future, a very strong statement on that, probably in the form of […]
8/10/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HOUSING: “While Trump has publicly pushed for Congress to extend the eviction ban put in place by the CARES Act, his housing order does not actually issue an eviction moratorium. Rather, it instructs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to ‘consider’ whether temporarily banning residential […]
8/10/2020
TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Thank you to Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana for his very smart words on the just signed Executive Orders!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 10, 2020 5:00 am […]
8/9/2020
CHUCK SCHUMER/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/NANCY PELOSI: “At a news conference from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump signed four executive orders. Pelosi and Schumer said there were many shortcomings to Trump’s orders. Among their strongest objections were the reduction in weekly federal unemployment benefits from $600 to $400 and language in the executive order that […]
8/9/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., Trump announced he was postponing payroll taxes through the end of the year, extending the unemployment ‘bonus’ at $400 a week (down from $600), helping people ‘stay in their homes’ and waiving student debt payments through the end of 2020… He is ordering a […]
8/8/2020
COVID-19/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HOUSING: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of CDC shall consider whether any measures temporarily halting residential evictions of any tenants for failure to pay rent are reasonably necessary to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 from one State or possession into any other State or possession… The Secretary of […]
8/8/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS: [Reporter: Are you concerned that — about the legality of these executive orders?”] “No, not at all.” [Reporter: “Because there are questions they may be found illegal.”] “No. If somebody — well, you always get sued. I mean, everything you do you get sued. I was sued on the travel ban, and we […]
8/8/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “President Donald Trump said Friday he will be pursuing an executive order requiring health insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions, a stipulation already made by the Affordable Care Act… Trump, who did not specify a date he would sign the order, said such a mandate ‘has never been done before.’ But insurance […]
8/8/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Over the next two weeks, I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers. That’s a big thing. I’ve always been very strongly in favor — we have to cover pre-existing conditions. So we will be pursuing a major executive order, requiring […]
8/8/2020
CONGRESS/COURTS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I’m taking executive action. We’ve had it. And we’re going to save American jobs and provide relief to the American workers, and I’ll be signing these bills in a very short period of time.” […] [Reporter: “Mr. President, though, this is expected to be tied up in the court. So this relief is […]
8/8/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/STUDENT LOANS: “Earlier this year, we slashed student loans’ interest rates to zero percent and suspended student loan payments, and Congress extended that policy through September 30th. Today, I’m extending this policy through the end of the year, and we’ll extend it further than that — most likely, right after December 1st. So we […]
8/8/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a few moments, I will sign a directive, instructing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer payment of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes from September 1st… If I’m victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. So […]
8/8/2020
COVID-19/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a press conference today [Aug. 8, 2020], President Trump announced four actions he is taking to provide the American people Covid-19 relief. He said he is signing directives covering enhanced unemployment benefits, a payroll tax holiday, an eviction moratorium and student loan relief. He also said he is considering income […]
8/6/2020
CHINA/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/SOCIAL MEDIA: “At this time, action must be taken to address the threat posed by one mobile application in particular, TikTok… TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories… The United States must take aggressive action […]
8/6/2020
DRUGS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “It is critical that we reduce our dependence on foreign manufacturers for Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs to ensure sufficient and reliable long-term domestic production of these products, to minimize potential shortages, and to mobilize our Nation’s Public Health Industrial Base to respond to these threats… I am therefore directing […]
8/6/2020
CHINA/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY: “[T]he spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China (China) continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. To protect our Nation, I took action, in an Executive Order of August 6, 2020… to address […]
8/6/2020
OHIO/STUDENT LOANS/TAXES/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Upon departing the Oval Office for Ohio, I’ve notified my staff to continue working on an Executive Order with respect to Payroll Tax Cut, Eviction Protections, Unemployment Extensions, and Student Loan Repayment Options.” ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 6, 2020 5:56 am […]
8/4/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/PROTESTS/STATUES: “In June, I signed an executive order requiring the Department of Justice to prosecute to the full extent — extent allowed under law — anyone who defaces our historic statues or monuments. Under my order, these criminals face 10 years in jail, 10 years in prison. And it was an incredible thing because […]
8/3/2020
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “My Administration is committed to improving the health of all Americans by improving access to better care, including for the approximately 57 million Americans living in rural communities… It is the purpose of this order to increase access to, improve the quality of, and improve the financial economics of rural healthcare, including […]
8/3/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/IMMIGRATION/LABOR: “President Trump is signing an Executive Order to create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts. It would be unfair for Federal employers to replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries… The Department of Labor will also finalize guidance to prevent H-1B employers […]
8/3/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: [Reporter: “Are you considering, at any point, issuing an executive order addressing mail-in ballots?”] “Well, I have the right to do it. We haven’t gotten there yet, but we’ll see what happens.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020 […]
8/3/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/JOBS: “Public service is just that: Those who takes these jobs must be focused on the public good, not on personal profit.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with U.S. Tech Workers and Signing of an Executive Order on Hiring American,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020 [Note: Read the full Executive Order […]
8/3/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/JOBS: “[T]oday I’m signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple rule: Hire American. We’ve been doing it at a level that hasn’t been done maybe ever. I’ll also be taking firm, disciplinary action against the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has sadly and cruelly […]
8/2/2020
DRUGS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/MEDICARE: “A lot of people would go up to Canada to buy their drugs because the prices were — for the exact same drug were much, much less, 50%, 60% much less and people would go there. Other countries have it even better than Canada, where they’re a fraction of the cost. So we […]
7/29/2020
CONGRESS/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “If Congress doesn’t bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. In Washington, it has been ALL TALK and NO ACTION for years, and the people of our Country are sick and tired of it!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “It is the policy of the United States to enable Americans without access to affordable insulin and injectable epinephrine through commercial insurance or Federal programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, to purchase these pharmaceuticals from an FQHC at a price that aligns with the cost at which the FQHC [Federally Qualified Health […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “Permitting the Importation of Safe Prescription Drugs from Other Countries. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, take action to expand safe access to lower-cost imported prescription drugs.” -Donald Trump, “Increasing Drug Importation To Lower Prices for American Patients,” govinfo.gov, July 24, 2020 [Note: […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “One of the reasons pharmaceutical drug prices in the United States are so high is because of the complex mix of payers and negotiators that often separates the consumer from the manufacturer in the drug-purchasing process… It is the policy of the United States that discounts offered on prescription drugs should be passed […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “It is the policy of the United States that the Medicare program should not pay more for costly Part B prescription drugs or biological products than the most-favored-nation price.” -Donald Trump, “Lowering Drug Prices by Putting America First,” govinfo.gov, July 24, 2020 [Note: Read the full Executive Order signed by Donald Trump.] […]
7/24/2020
CANADA/DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “We will finally allow the safe and legal importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries where the price for the identical drug is incredibly lower. It’s a difference like you wouldn’t believe — 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent, 30 percent — but massively lower than the identical drug made […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The four orders that I’m signing today will completely restructure the prescription drug market… The first order will require federal community health centers to pass the giant discounts they receive from drug companies on insulin and EpiPens directly to their patients… The second executive order… will finally allow the safe and legal importation […]
7/24/2020
DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “So today, I’m taking a bold and historic, very dramatic action to reduce the price of prescription drugs for American patients and American seniors… I’m signing four sweeping executive orders that will lead to massive reduction in drug costs. Massive. We’ve already gotten them down a little bit, but that’s not good […]
7/14/2020
CHINA/EXECUTIVE ORDER/HONG KONG: “Today, I also signed an executive order ending US preferential treatment for Hong Kong. Hong Kong will now be treated the same as Mainland China, no special privileges, no special economic treatment and no export of sensitive technologies. In addition to that, as you know, we’re placing massive tariffs and have placed […]
7/14/2020
CHINA/EXECUTIVE ORDER/HONG KONG: “Today, I signed legislation and an executive order to hold China accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which I signed this afternoon, passed unanimously through Congress. This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities […]
7/9/2020
HISPANICS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “While we celebrate the many ways Hispanic Americans have contributed to our Nation, we also recognize that they face challenges in accessing educational and economic opportunities… Today, Americans have more paths to prosperity than any previous generation, and it is necessary to ensure that Hispanic Americans have every opportunity to access these […]
7/3/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDERS/PROTESTS/STATUES: “To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed… These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come […]
7/3/2020
DEMS/EXECUTIVE ORDERS/STATUES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under the executive order I signed last week — pertaining to the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act and other laws — people who damage or deface federal statues or monuments will get a minimum of 10 years in prison… Our people have a great memory. They will never forget the […]
7/1/2020
CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “My Executive Order to protect Monuments, Statues etc., IS IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT. In excess of a 10 year prison term. Please do not put yourself in jeopardy. Many people now under arrest!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 1, 2020 1:12 am […]
6/30/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDER/STATUES: “On June 23, Trump claimed that he had ‘authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue…with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent…’ One of the laws cited in the order is the “destruction […]
6/26/2020
JOBS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “To continue the President’s National Council for the American Worker established by Executive Order 13845 of July 19, 2018, as amended, that Executive Order is further amended by revising section 10 to read as follows: ‘Termination of Council. The Council shall terminate on September 30, 2021, unless extended by the President.’” -Donald […]
6/26/2020
JOBS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “This order directs important, merit-based reforms that will replace degree-based hiring with skills- and competency-based hiring and will hold the civil service to a higher standard — ensuring that the individuals most capable of performing the roles and responsibilities required of a specific position are those hired for that position — that […]