Before donald, no shutdown had occurred when one party controlled the House, Senate and White House since the
1970s. The stock
market fell 6.2 percent in 2018 to notch its biggest one-year decline since the financial crisis. The US Manufacturing Index fell at the end
of 2018 the most in a decade.
donald also eliminated protections for
student borrowers, gutted enforcement of
payday lenders, and let
corporate wrongdoers off
the hook. But Kushner’s family business did fine, buying
$13 million in additional properties after they were designated part of an
“opportunity zone” by Trump’s tax law.
donald and his family also
benefited substantially from massive tax cuts given to the richest Americans, and from
tax breaks given to
“pass-through” entities like the Trump Organization.
On his great tax cut, corporate profit growth hit a
6-year high, and they used their massive tax breaks for a record-high
$1 trillion of
stock buybacks.
Workers did not benefit.
60 percent of voters said they had not seen an increase in their paychecks as a result of the Trump tax law.
The Trump tax law has not created jobs. In fact, the 1,000 largest public companies actually
eliminated nearly 140,000 jobs since it was
passed.
The federal deficit swelled by
more than 40 percent largely because of a sharp decline in corporate tax revenues, and the CBO said the
Trump tax law would add
$1.9 trillion to the debt over the next decade.
The biggest drug companies announced more than
$50 billion in stock buybacks after the Trump tax law, but made no plans to lower
drug prices.
donald
celebrated the court ruling in favor of a lawsuit he backed to overturn the ACA. What he was really celebrating was
potentially taking health care coverage away from around
20 million Americans and risking as many as
130 million Americans with pre-
existing conditions at risk of losing key protections.
donald sought a
$554 billion cut to Medicare and a
$72.5 billion cut to Social Security disability insurance and supplemental security
income.
Global approval of the U.S.
hit a new low under donald
damaging relationships with key allies.
He praised dictators like North Korean Leader
Kim Jong Un and he extended a
warm invitation to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte,
who has openly
defended the murder of journalists and extrajudicial killings.
He
refused to accept U.S. intelligence and
stood by Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He stood on the global stage and
sided with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies.
He
revealed highly classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office.
The lobbying industry has
boomed, while donald
watered down lobbying restrictions and issue broad
ethics exemptions to
members of his administration.
More than a dozen of his top appointees have been forced out amid ethics scandals including three
Cabinet secretaries. His culture of corruption has permeated his administration with an endless string of
misuse of taxpayer
dollars,
conflicts of interest, and
concealing information. donald has continued to
profit off the presidency through numerous conflicts
of interest. Meanwhile, despite his
promises not to take vacations as president, Trump has wasted
tens of millions of dollars traveling to
his own
properties and golf courses.
Yeah, he accomplished a lot!