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Bedminster, NJ — In a new Agenda47 video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to bring Americans the lowest-cost energy and electricity on Earth.

“As President, I will set a national goal of ensuring that America has the No. 1 lowest cost of energy of any industrial country anywhere on Earth,” President Trump said. “We will not only match China we will be cheaper than China by a lot. And more energy will mean lower inflation that will mean more jobs.” 

“TO LOWER INFLATION, PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS, AND CREATE MILLIONS OF HIGH WAGE JOBS, THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE THE LOWEST COST ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD  

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN FOR THE UNITED STATES TO HAVE THE #1 LOWEST COST OF ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY WILL LOWER INFLATION, RESTORE AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, AND EVEN ENERGY DOMINANCE, AND ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO BECOME THE MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER OF THE WORLD 

President Trump will once again unleash American Energy. 

On Day One, President Trump will rescind every one of Joe Biden’s industry-killing, jobs-killing, pro-China and anti-American electricity regulations. 

To keep pace with the world economy that depends on fossil fuels for more than 80% of its energy, President Trump will DRILL, BABY, DRILL.

President Trump will end Biden’s delays in federal drilling permits and leases that are needed to unleash American oil and natural gas production. Joe Biden has increased the cost of oil and gas leases by 50% and reduced the available acreage for drilling by 80%.

President Trump will free up the vast stores of liquid gold on America’s public land for energy development. 

President Trump will remove all red tape that is leaving oil and natural gas projects stranded, including speeding up approval of natural gas pipelines into the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York. 

President Trump will fill up the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) that Joe Biden wastefully drained to its lowest level in 40 years. 

President Trump will once again exit the horrendously unfair Paris Climate Accords and oppose all of the radical left’s Green New Deal policies that are designed to shut down the development of America’s abundant energy resources, which exceedany country’s in the world, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. 

President Trump will stop the wave of frivolous litigation from environmental extremists that hold up critical energy development projects for years, increase project costs, and discourage future development.   

President Trump will immediately stop all Joe Biden policies that distort energy markets, limit consumer choice, and drive-up costs on consumers, including insane wind subsidies, and DoE and EPA regulations that prevent Americans from buying incandescent lightbulbs, gas stoves, quality dishwashers and shower heads, and much more. 

President Trump will support nuclear energy production, which reached a record high during his administration, by modernizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, working to keep existing power plants open, and investing in innovative small modular reactors. 

The United States should source as much fuel as we can from U.S. mined materials and reduce our reliance on foreign fuel to run our domestic reactors. 

We should ensure a clear and expedient pathway for advanced, micro and modular reactors to reach commercialization. 

President Trump will provide tax relief from Biden’s suffocating tax hikes on America’s oil, gas, and coal producers. 

President Trump will champion America’s great dams and hydroelectric power, which Biden has launched heartless attacks on, threatening to cut off electricity to millions of Americans in Washington.  

On Day One, President Trump will also roll back every Biden administration mandate that is brutalizing the American auto industry and the American consumer with skyrocketing costs. 

President Trump will end Biden’s assault on the internal combustion engine and cancel his harmful April 2023 emission regulations for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles, that are projected to kill 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs.

President Trump will also end Biden’s insane CAFE fuel economy standards that will cost the auto industry an estimated $200 billion and raise the average cost of vehicles by more than $1,000 according to the Biden administration’s own estimates, at a time when the average price of a new car is $49,500.

HAVING THE NO. 1 LOWEST-COST ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY IN THE WORLD WILL LOWER INFLATION, PROPEL THE AMERICAN ECONOMY FORWARD, AND CREATE MILLIONS OF HIGH WAGE JOBS:

Affordable electricity powers economic growth. 

When electricity is inexpensive, it costs less to make products, resulting in money saved for American producers and more affordable products for American consumers. Researchers have found that there is almost a 90% correlationbetween the use of electricity in the U.S. and economic growth. 

When electricity costs are high in America, companies move overseas to countries like China where it is cheaper, taking jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars with them.

American manufacturing relies on inexpensive electricity for everything from keeping power on in factories to making products to shipping those products to consumers. 

America’s high-tech companies, which have led the world in innovation, rely on vast amounts of affordable electricity. Google, for example, consumes more electricity than half of the countries in the world.

With historic innovation in Artificial Intelligence, America’s software industry needs affordable electricity now more than ever. Inexpensive electricity could make the difference in the world-changing race between U.S. and China to develop the most sophisticated AI. 

Across the globe, the high cost of electricity is killing jobs and destroying living standards. 

In 2008, the economy of the European Union was larger than America’s economy. Today, after years of radical climate regulations that have made the EU’s cost of electricity the highest in the world, America’s economy is ONE-THIRD LARGER than the European Union and Britain’s combined. 

In California and Massachusetts, democrat-run states with radical climate regulations, industrial electricity is already TWICE as expensive as the national average and THREE TIMES more expensive as China. 

The average household in California uses only HALF as much energy as the national average, but still pays $1,700 per year for electricity, the second-highest rate in the U.S.

Restrictions of electricity in California have contributed to frequent blackouts and the highest poverty rate in the United States.

Wherever electricity prices are high, American manufacturing recedes, high-tech innovation moves elsewhere, jobs are lost, and consumers suffer from higher inflation. 

The best way to lower inflation and keep and grow jobs in America is to make sure that American industry always has the most affordable, most abundant, and most reliable energy in the world.

JOE BIDEN’S KAMIKAZEE CLIMATE REGULATIONS ARE DRIVING UP INFLATION AND SURRENDERING OUR ECONOMY TO CHINA:

Instead of building on President Trump’s historic energy success, Joe Biden has surrendered to Communist China and the crazed climate crusaders. 

Biden has fulfilled his campaign promise to attack America’s oil, natural gas, and coal producers.

On his first day in office, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. refineries and created thousands of high-paying jobs. 

On his first day in office, Biden stopped all drilling leases in Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), one of America’s largest oil fields, and has refused to publish 5-year lease sale plans, as required by federal law. 

On his first day in office, Biden signed Executive Order No. 13990, which tasked the federal government with measuring the “social cost of carbon” and impose a threshold which would cost as much as $561 billion in regulatory burdens according to a federal court. 

On his first day in office, Joe Biden rejoined the horrendously unfair, pro-China Paris Climate Agreement. 

After a federal judge blocked Biden’s efforts to end all oil and gas leases, Joe Biden increased the cost of oil and gas leases by 50% and reduced the available acreage for drilling by 80%.

In a shocking act of hypocrisy, Biden personally approved of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. 

Joe Biden’s proposed budgets have called for massive tax hikes on oil and gas, $35 billion in FY2022, $43.6 billion in FY2023, and $37 billion in FY2024.

In May 2022, Joe Biden announced the cancelation of three offshore lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, despite federal law that requires Biden to sell leases annually.

Biden’s EPA issued an ultimatum to counties in Texas and New Mexico to reduce oil and natural gas production through ozone restrictions in the Permian Basin, which accounts for 43 percent of U.S. oil production and almost 50 billion barrels of recoverable oil. 

In June 2021, Biden promised foreign nations to reduce methane restrictions by 30% and saddled new rules and monitoring onto the oil and gas industry that will be passed on to consumers through higher prices.  

Biden has even threatened fossil fuel producers with jail time for powering American cars and homes.

While Biden’s White House says that oil companies have a “patriotic duty” to produce more oil, it is gutting them at every turn. 

From their all-time peak under President Trump of 19 million barrels per day (BPD), American oil refineries have fallen below 18 million barrels per day in 2022, their lowest level in eight years. More than 1 million BPD capacity has been lost in the last year under Biden.

Under Joe Biden, refiners are closing their doors, and more are expected to follow. 1.69 million BPD of capacity will be lost in 2023 alone. 

Joe Biden’s war on energy has been a war on American consumers—with record high energy prices and skyrocketing inflation. 

Fueled by Biden’s war on energy, consumer inflation hit a 41-year high in 2022. 

Americans are paying an average of $2,500 more in energy costs under Biden. 

Since Biden took office in January 2021 to July 2023, total energy costs have risen 39%, gasoline has risen 53%, home energy costs have risen 25%, electricity bills have risen 26%, and gas bills have risen 23%.  

Under Biden, a gallon of gas hit a record $4 on average last year and is $3.80 at the beginning of September 2023, $1.41 a gallon (or 58%) higher under Biden than President Trump.

No matter how historically high energy prices have risen, Joe Biden has refused to take his administration’s boot off the necks of American energy companies.

To repair the energy disaster that he created, Joe Biden has begged dictators for more oil and recklessly drained our Country’s emergency energy stockpiles.

Joe Biden has gone hat-in-hand to Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, and likely Xi Jinping in China in the future asking for oil. 

President Biden has depleted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) by 291.24 million barrels of oil (45.6%) from the level achieved under President Trump. Today, the SPR has the lowest reserves in 40 years.

The winner of Joe Biden’s war on energy is Communist China. 

For the first time in history, under Joe Biden, China is refining more oil than the U.S.

While the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is already dangerously low, Joe Biden sold MORE THAN A MILLION BARRELS from the SPR to CHINA. 

Because China possesses near monopolies on the minerals needed to make EV batteries, Biden’s insane emissions mandates will make the American auto industry dependent on China. 

Biden’s clean energy czar John Podesta confirmed that Chinese companies will be “big players” in the Biden energy agenda.

Joe Biden’s new electricity emission rules will send American companies overseas to China, where electricity costs are the cheapest in the world. 

In May 2023, Joe Biden’s EPA issued new emission rules that will strangle American electricity production, while blackouts and soaring electricity prices plague Americans across the country.

The EPA proposal would require power plants to use untested technologies, like hydrogen blending and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

According to two 2022 studies, the vast majority of CCS projects have underperformed or failed to date and hydrogen blending is plagued with safety and effectiveness concerns.  

The rule is part of Biden’s push to install as much as 60,000 miles of carbon capture pipeline into the American countryside by 2050. 

The rule would expose 45 million people in 15 states living in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) power grid to increased risks of blackouts and cost an estimated $246 billion by 2055. 

This rule comes after electricity prices under Biden have already soared since he took office. Last summer, industrial electricity costs in the U.S. were almost twice as high as they were in China. 

In April 2023, Joe Biden’s radical left EPA proposed new emissions regulations that are so strict it is physically impossible for gas-powered cars to meet them. As a result, the regulations would require EV sales to increase from 6% to 67% of all U.S. auto sales by 2032. 

Biden’s new emissions regulations are projected to eliminate AT LEAST 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs throughout the U.S. 

America’s heartland, which produces more than two-fifths of U.S.-built vehicles and three-fifths of U.S.-built transmissions will be hit the hardest, with Michigan projected to lose an estimated 25,000 jobs, Indiana losing 16,000 jobs, and Ohio losing 14,000 jobs. 

Automotive manufacturing would seriously suffer in the South as well, with Tennessee losing 7,000 jobs, South Carolina losing 5,600 jobs, and Alabama losing 5,200 jobs. 

Job losses as a result of Biden’s insane EV mandates have already begun with GM announcing the termination of 14,000 jobs and five assembly plants, Ford announcing the firing of 3,000 jobs in its shift to EVs, and Stellantis (owner of Chrysler) announcing the firing of 3,500 employees as it moves to EVs. 

Because EVs cost an average of TWICE as much as gas-powered vehicles, take longer to fully charge, and have shorter ranges, almost two-thirds of Americans prefer their next car purchase to be a gas-powered vehicle, nearly halfof all car dealerships would never sell an EV, and about half of current EV owners plan to switch back to a gas-powered car. 

Communist China, not the U.S., produce the EV batteries needed for Biden’s insane mandate. 

China controls 70 PERCENT of global EV battery production, while the U.S. controls less than 10 percent. 

The vast majority of nickel, cobalt and lithium used in EV batteries is mined outside the U.S.

In 2022, Joe Biden stripped mining licenses from the U.S. mineral industry in the Midwest, preventing the domestic production of minerals used to make EVs, forcing the U.S. to rely on China for MORE THAN HALF of its EV battery supply needs.

EV’s rely on America’s aging electrical grid that has experienced blackouts in the summer. Accommodating for mandated increases in EVs will cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars in modifications to the electrical grid. 

Joe Biden’s betrayal of auto manufacturing threatens not only the 1 million auto manufacturing workers nationwide, but the 10 million workers whose jobs rely on cars and car parts, including energy industries, dealerships, mechanics, and car part suppliers.

Joe Biden’s mandates for electric vehicles and his May 2023 electricity emission rules are on a collision course. Biden is forcing the production of EVs but restricting the ability for Americans to power them efficiently. The result will be higher energy costs for vehicles that Americans do not want but will be coerced to buy.

Joe Biden is working with ESG climate activists in corporate America to strongarm the oil and gas industries out of business. 

In May 2021, Biden issued an Executive Order that required federal agencies to define “climate-related financial risk to the financial stability of the… U.S. financial system” which led the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require private companies to publicly disclose climate-related risks.

This ruling will force companies to share with investors their estimated impact on the environment, which will allow climate crusaders in investment firms to punish companies that do not conform to their radical environmental agenda. 

The Biden administration has been completely complacent about nuclear power. There is no advocacy to support the advanced nuclear industry. The Biden administration has failed to champion a cheap reliable emissions free power source and instead has stood by and watched as the established nuclear industry dwindles and the advanced nuclear industry is blocked from a commercialization pathway.

Biden has filled the ranks of his administration with environmental zealots that have put ideology before the needs of American families for affordable, accessible, and reliable energy. 

UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE UNITED STATES ACHIEVED ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, AND SOON WOULD HAVE GAINED ENERGY DOMINANCE, WITH LOW-COST ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP FUELING THE GREATEST ECONOMY IN HISTORY WITH NO INFLATION:

For the first time in history, President Trump achieved AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE and would have soon gained ENERGY DOMINANCE. 

During the Trump presidency, America’s low electricity and energy costs were the envy of the world. 

America had the cheapest and most reliable electricity of any major industrial economy in the world, allowing American manufacturing to add six times more jobs in Trump’s first two years than in President Obama’s last two years.

Because electricity under President Trump was so much cheaper than in Germany and Japan, American workers were crushing German and Japanese workers in the competition for industry. 

Under President Trump, electricity prices even kept pace with China. America was the only major industrial economy that could compete with China in the production of cheap and abundant electricity. 

For the first time in nearly 70 years, President Trump made the United States a net energy exporter.

The United States was the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, producing over 12 million barrelsof oil a day in 2019. 

Natural gas production reached a record-high of 34.9 quads in 2019, following record high production in 2018 and in 2017.

The United States was a net natural gas exporter for three consecutive years and had an export capacity of nearly 10 billion cubic feet per day.

Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump’s unleashing of American energy allowed the U.S. to stand up to dictators without any concern for their energy markets.

When President Trump left office, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) containing more than 638 million barrels of oil. 

President Trump withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.

President Trump canceled ridiculous Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan and replaced it with the new Affordable Clean Energy rule.

President Trump approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and expedited approval of the NuStar’s New Burgos pipeline to export American gasoline to Mexico.

President Trump issued the Presidential Permit for the A2A railroad between Canada and Alaska, providing energy resources to emerging markets.

President Trump fought against suffocating regulations to unleash America’s vast natural resources. 

The Trump administration opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, one of the Nation’s largest oil fields,  to oil and gas leasing.

President Trump repealed Obama’s Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium, which prohibits coal leasing on Federal lands.

President Trump overhauled permitting rules to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and speed approval for mines.

President Trump updated the New Source Review permitting program, which had punished companies for upgrading or repairing coal power plants.

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fixed its steam electric and coal ash rules.

President Trump signed legislation repealing the harmful Stream Protection Rule.

The Trump administration reduced the time to approve drilling permits on public lands by half, increasing permit applications to drill on public lands by 300 percent.

Under President Trump, American families paid less on their energy bill. 

The average American family saved $2,500 a year in lower electric bills and lower prices at the gas pump.

The Trump administration streamlined energy efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.

Under President Trump, gas prices hit a record low of $1.87 and average gas prices were under $3 every year during the Trump administration. Gas prices were $2.39 when President Trump left office. 

President Trump’s energy revolution put the U.S. among the top three Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters in the world.

The Trump administration streamlined Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal permitting and allowed long-term LNG export authorizations to be extended through 2050.

President Trump granted more than 20 new long-term approvals for LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries.

LNG exports increased five-fold since January 2017, reaching an all-time high in January 2020.

LNG exports reduced the American trade deficit by over $10 billion.

The development of natural gas and LNG infrastructure in the United States provided tens of thousands of jobs and has led to the investment of tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure.

In 2019, under President Trump’s leadership, U.S. nuclear energy production was the highest on record.

President Trump helped finance the construction of Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the first new nuclear reactors to begin construction in the United States in more than 30 years, which will create 800 permanent jobs, provide electricity to 1.6 million American homes, and avoid 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. 

President Trump’s Department of Energy supported the siting of a 12-module small modular reactor, the first of its kind in the U.S., at Idaho National Laboratory. 

President Trump established the National Reactor Innovation Center, which allows private sector innovators to test their nuclear reactors concepts to assess their safety and effectiveness. 

President Trump’s Department of Energy worked with the Department of Defense to build microreactors for use by the U.S. military. 

President Trump stood up to Putin and Russian energy coercion across Europe through various lines of effort, including the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation, civil nuclear deals with Romania and Poland, and opposition to Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Under President Trump, without sacrificing any economic gains, American energy became cleaner than ever before.

The United States led the world in greenhouse gas emissions reductions, having cut energy-related CO2 emissions by 12 percent from 2005 to 2018 while the rest of the world increased emissions by 24 percent.

President Trump cut red tape holding back the construction of new energy infrastructure.

President Trump authorized ethanol producers to sell E15 year-round and allowed higher-ethanol gasoline to be distributed from existing pumps at filling stations.

President Trump ensured greater transparency and certainty in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

President Trump signed an Executive Order directing Federal agencies to work together to diminish the capability of foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.

The Trump administration clarified Section 401 of the Clean Water Act so that it could only be used to ensure water quality, not push radical climate agendas.”

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“Bedminster, NJ — In a new Agenda47 video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to end Joe Biden’s pharmaceutical shortages and return the manufacture of life-saving drugs to the United States.

“This is not just a public health crisis, it’s a national security crisis,” President Trump said. “As part of my plan to obtain total independence from China, we will phase in tariffs and import restrictions to bring back production of all essential medicines to the United States of America where they belong. I signed an executive order to begin this process in 2020 but Biden has shamefully failed to follow through.””

“President Trump took historic action in 2020 to ensure essential medicines were produced in the United States but Joe Biden reversed the order in 2021. Now, there are severe shortages of over 295 medications—a record five-year high.

“This is a matter of tremendous urgency. American lives are on the line, and it will be one of my top priorities as President. It will also create countless new American jobs.”

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’S PLAN TO END JOE BIDEN’S SHORTAGE OF LIFE SAVING CANCER DRUGS AND OTHER ESSENTIAL PHARMACEUTICALS BY RETURNING THE MANUFACTURE OF CRITICAL MEDICINES TO THE UNITED STATES

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN WILL ENSURE A SAFE AND RELIABLE SUPPLY OF LIFE SAVING CANCER DRUGS AND OTHER CRITICAL MEDICINES MADE IN AMERICA

– President Trump will restore his Executive Order 13944, dated August 6, 2020, on Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures, and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States.

– This Essential Medicines EO sought to ensure sufficient and reliable, long-term domestic production of essential medications, minimizing potential shortages by reducing our dependence on foreign manufacturers.

– The EO required federal agencies to “Buy American” by facilitating the domestic production of medicines and medical devices that the FDA determined “essential” to public health. It did so by requiring federal agencies to buy medicines and medical devices that are entirely “produced in the United States.”

– The EO also required the U.S. Trade Representative to modify our international trade agreements so that drugs deemed “essential” to public health by the FDA can no longer be purchased by federal agencies from any of the 120 countries that has a trade agreement with the U.S. that authorizes the manufacture of such “essential” drugs for the U.S. market. 

– President Trump’s August 2020 Essential Medicines EO reflected critical lessons learned from the national response to the COVID19 pandemic, including the extreme national vulnerability caused by the lack of an adequate domestic manufacturing capability for critical pharmaceuticals.  This vulnerability was compounded by the severely UNDERFUNDED and DEPLETED Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) left by the Obama-Biden administration.  As a result, between March 2020 and January 2021, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act over 100 times to rapidly replenish the SNS with medicines and medical equipment to fight the pandemic. As a part of this effort, large-scale and long-term government contracts were awarded to American manufacturers to produce life-saving essential medicines and medical equipment for public health emergencies. For example, Phlow Corporation in Richmond, Virginia, was awarded a $354 million contract—with an additional $458 million available for long-term stockpiling purposes—to manufacture over a dozen kinds of USA-made medicines and their precursor ingredients to treat patients hospitalized with the COVID19 virus.

– Restoring President Trump’s August 2020 Essential Medicines EO will kickstart the domestic production of lifesaving drugs.

– American doctors should never have to give a patient a drug from an unapproved facility in China or India. We can and must produce these essential medicines at home. 

– A recent survey conducted by Washington University in St. Louis found that 30 percent of U.S. pharmaceutical companies utilize 50 percent or less of their facility capacity, meaning U.S. companies could already produce millions more doses of medication every year. 

JOE BIDEN GUTTED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ESSENTIAL MEDICINES EXECUTIVE ORDER TO “BUY AMERICAN”, ALLOWING FEDERAL AGENCIES TO BUY ESSENTIAL MEDICINES FROM UNSAFE FOREIGN COUNTRIES

– On April 20, 2021, Biden withdrew a proposal to put President Trump’s EO into effect by removing essential drugs and medical devices from coverage under the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement (WTO GPA). 

– By ripping up the proposal, the U.S. government can continue to buy foreign-made medicines and medical devices.

– With federal agencies still permitted under current law to purchase medicines “essential” to public health from any of America’s 120 trading partners, there is no incentive for federal agencies to buy from domestic companies. As a result, the United States will continue to be dependent on foreign countries for its most critical medical needs.

JOE BIDEN’S DRUG SHORTAGE CONSTITUTES AN URGENT PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS

– Under Biden, shortages of essential medications have grown astronomically. 

– Between 2021 and 2022, new drug shortages increased by 30 percent, with a record five-year high of 295 active drug shortages at the end of 2022. 

– The U.S. is at a near-10 year high in drug shortages. 

– There is currently a shortage of at least 14 cancer drugs in the U.S.

– A June 2023 survey by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) found that 93 percent of U.S. cancer centers have shortages of carboplatin and 70 percent have shortages of cisplatin, essential medicines that treat a wide array of cancers. 

– A study published in 2020 in The British Medical Journal found that every month delayed in cancer treatment can raise the risk of death by around 10%.

JOE BIDEN’S DRUG SHORTAGE IS FUELED BY OVERRELIANCE ON FOREIGN-MADE MEDICINES AND, IN SOME CASE, POTENTIALLY UNSAFE MANUFACTURERS

– Instead of building a domestic manufacturing capability, Biden’s FDA is building up foreign manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and putting American lives at risk. 

– India accounts for the majority of FDA-approved active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) facilities sending drugs into the United States as of 2021.

– China accounts for 445 FDA-approved API manufacturers.

– In 2021, China was the top exporter of pharmaceutical to the U.S. measured by weight, accounting for 190 million kilograms (418 million lbs.) or 23% of total pharma imports.

– Chinese imports to the U.S. now account for 95 percent of ibuprofen, 91 percent of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of acetaminophen, and 40 to 45 percent of penicillin.

– China and India account for 90 percent of all prescriptions written in the U.S. 

– Chinese and Indian drug companies present a substantial risk to the health of Americans.

– In June 2023, the Biden FDA considered temporarily importing cancer drugs, cisplatin and carboplatin, from unapproved foreign companies because of domestic shortages. 

– The shortages were exacerbated by Intas Pharmaceuticals, an Indian drug companies that shut down production after it shredded documents and dowsed trashcans in acid when the FDA began to investigate them. 

– The Biden FDA allowed Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, an Indian drug company, to export into the U.S. even though it was under an import ban because of significant violations of current good manufacturing practices at its facility in Baddi. “

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“Bedminster, NJ — In an Agenda47 policy video, President Donald J. Trump pledged to end the scourge of human trafficking and defend the dignity of human life.

“I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately,” President Trump said. 

As President, Donald J. Trump took historic action to combat human trafficking and will reinstate his successful policies once he returns to the White House.

“Under my leadership, we did more than any administration in history to combat human trafficking and to end modern day slavery,” President Trump said. “In one of my first acts in office, I signed an executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations that traffic and exploit innocent people. I signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.””

“Earlier this week, President Trump hosted a screening of the new film Sound of Freedom at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. 

Sound of Freedom grossed $41.7 million in the first week of its release and opened at No. 1 in Texas, Florida, and Arizona theaters. The feature has taken the nation by storm, beating out Disney’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in July 4th movie ticket sales despite appearing in far fewer theaters, securing the top position in the box office for the day. The film which is being distributed by Angel Studios, was produced by Mexican filmmaker Eduardo Verástegui and stars Jim Caviezel. 

Verástegui who was previously appointed a member of President Trump’s Advisory Commission on Hispanic Prosperity and who has continuously advocated for a strong and vital bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, emphasized the importance of coming together as a society to address this pernicious evil and eradicate child trafficking. 

The film is based on the true story of federal agent Tim Ballard’s mission to save children from child sex traffickers in Colombia.

On Thursday morning, Caviezel and Verástegui appeared on Fox & Friends to highlight the film’s success and President Trump’s impressive screening at Bedminster.

In the interview, Caviezel called President Trump “the new Moses” and said, “he’s got to be in there because he’s going to go after the traffickers.””

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“Bedminster, NJ – In a new Agenda47 policy video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to save America’s auto industry from Joe Biden’s radical Green New Deal policies.

“Joe Biden is waging war on the U.S. auto-industry with a series of crippling mandates designed to force Americans into expensive electric cars, even as thousands of electric cars are piling up on car lots all unsold,” President Trump said. “This ridiculous Green New Deal crusade is causing car prices to skyrocket while setting the stage for the destruction of American auto production.”

““If Biden’s assault is not stopped, American auto-production will be totally DEAD. That’s why I am going to terminate these Green New Deal atrocities on Day One. In my first term, I fought for autoworkers like never before, canceling TPP, which was a disaster, ending the NAFTA nightmare, the NAFTA trade deal was the worst deal ever negotiated on trade, and renegotiating Obama’s horrendous Korea trade deal. Made it a great deal from a horrible deal.”

“I saved the American auto industry once, and now, I will save it again.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO SAVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL REVERSE EVERY AUTO-JOB KILLING POLICY OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

– On Day One, President Trump will roll back every Biden policy that is brutalizing American autoworkers.

– President Trump will end Biden’s assault on the internal combustion engine and cancel his harmful April 2023 emission regulations for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles, that are projected to kill 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs.

– President Trump will also end Biden’s insane CAFE fuel economy standards that will cost the auto industry an estimated $200 billion and raise the average cost of vehicles by more than $1,000 according to the Biden administration’s own estimates, at a time when the average price of a new car is $49,500.

– President Trump will secure the USMCA’s protections for American auto workers from globalist assault. 

– In January of this year, international bureaucrats on the USMCA Panel—at the direction of Canada and Mexico and unopposed by Joe Biden—changed the terms of USMCA to reducethe amount of regional auto parts content in North American cars by up to 33%, directly benefiting China and other foreign producers.

– President Trump will communicate to Canada and Mexico that FULL compliance with the terms of the USMCA is not optional. 

– President Trump will work to stop the flow of American tax dollars that are subsidizing Chinese electric vehicle battery companies through Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act.   

– President Trump will end Joe Biden’s war on American energy that is raising the price of gas. 

– President Trump will once again achieve American energy independence, and energy dominance, and rapidly reduce the price of energy through more domestic production.  

– President Trump will end Biden’s delays in federal drilling permits and leases that are needed to unleash American oil and natural gas production. Joe Biden has increased the cost of oil and gas leases by 50% and reduced the available acreage for drilling by 80%.

– President Trump will once again exit the horrendously unfair Paris Climate Accords and oppose all of the radical left’s efforts for a Green New Deal that are designed to shut down the development of America’s energy resources that exceed any country’s in the world, including Russia and Saudi Arabia.    

– President Trump will create a special team of warrior lawyers to identify every unnecessary federal regulation hampering the American auto industry and immediately eliminate them. 

– President Trump will restore the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) that Joe Biden wastefully drained to its lowest level in 40 years. 

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL ENACT A NATIONAL TARIFF POLICY TO PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS AND STOP THE EXPORT OF AMERICAN WEALTH AND JOBS 

– Rather than raising taxes on American producers like Joe Biden is proposing, President Trump will impose tariffs on FOREIGN producers through a system of universal baseline tariffs on most imported goods.

– President Trump’s universal baseline tariffs will create millions of new jobs, increase real household income, boost GDP, increase domestic manufacturing output, and generate hundreds of billions of dollars in new government revenue.

– As tariffs on foreign countries go up, taxes on American workers, families, and businesses can come down.

– Raising tariffs on foreign producers while lowering taxes for domestic producers will help generate jobs and wealth in the United States.

– These tariffs will restore a level playing field for American businesses worldwide and slash the trade deficit.

– To further defend the American auto industry from foreign onslaught, President Trump will pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act.

– Under this Act, if any foreign country imposes a tariff on American-made goods, such as cars or car parts, that is higher than the tariff imposed by the U.S. for the same goods, President Trump will have the authority to impose a reciprocal tariff of the same amount on that foreign country’s goods. 

– To ensure fairness, the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act will empower President Trump to negotiate the reduction of tariffs on foreign automotive goods if foreign countries agree to reduce their tariffs on the same American products.

– The Trump Reciprocal Trade Act advances the views of 91 percent of conservatives and even 75 percent of Democrats, who support placing reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports to protect American workers.

– A national tariff policy will put AMERICA FIRST and continue President Trump’s successful first term trade policies that reduced America’s trade deficit, grew wages, and created 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. 

– Unfair and unbalanced trade policies have hurt American businesses, including in the auto industry. The result has been a decrease in demand for U.S. domestic production, leading to a loss of manufacturing jobs and lower wages. 

– Since the moment he took office, Joe Biden’s globalist trade policies have caused the annual trade deficit to skyrocket to $1 trillion, its highest point ever

– Real wages have sharply declined over 28 months under Biden’s weak trade policies that flood the American market with cheap foreign goods produced by cheap foreign labor. 

– The $4 trillion in foreign imports in 2022 under Biden was the highest EVER.

JOE BIDEN’S GLOBAL WARMING FANATICISM IS CONDEMNING AMERICA’S AUTO INDUSTRY AND CAUSING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN WORKERS TO LOSE THEIR JOBS

– For 36 years in the Senate, Joe Biden sat idly by and did nothing as the U.S. auto industry was devasted by a flood of cheap foreign imports from Japan and Korea, destroying entire towns and cities in the American Heartland. Auto workers asked for protection and Washington ignored them.  

– The United States ISM Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which measures increases in American manufacturing production, reached its lowest levels since the pandemic with blue-collar manufacturing workers losing their jobs. 

– Job creation under Joe Biden is millions of jobs short of President Trump’s job creation levels pre-pandemic. 

– Automobile manufacturing accounts for over $1 trillion (or nearly 6%) of total US GDP and approximately 11.4% of U.S. manufacturing output.

– The largest contributors to Biden’s nearly $1 trillion trade deficit are cars and car parts from Europe, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and Korea.

– In 2022, the U.S. automotive industry reported its worst sales year in more than a decade. 

– As a result of Biden’s inflationary economy, new car prices increased 11.1% to an average of $49,500and used car prices shot up to 31.4% at the end of 2021.

– The U.S. has gone from once being the largest manufacturer of automobiles, to producing only half as many as China does. 

– Biden’s environmental mandates will devastate the American auto industry.

– In April 2023, Joe Biden’s radical left EPA proposed new emissions regulations that are so strict it is physically impossible for gas-powered cars to meet them. As a result, the regulations would require electric vehicles (EV) sales to increase from 6% to 67% of all U.S. auto sales by 2032. 

– Biden’s new emissions regulations are projected to eliminate AT LEAST 117,000 auto manufacturing jobs throughout the U.S. 

– America’s heartland, which produces more than two-fifths of U.S.-built vehicles and three-fifths of U.S.-built transmissions will be hit the hardest, with Michigan projected to lose an estimated 25,000 jobs, Indiana losing 16,000 jobs, and Ohio losing 14,000 jobs. 

– Automotive manufacturing would seriously suffer in the South as well, with Tennessee losing 7,000 jobs, South Carolina losing 5,600 jobs, and Alabama losing 5,200 jobs. 

– Job losses as a result of Biden’s insane EV mandates have already begun with GM announcing the termination of 14,000 jobs and five assembly plants, Ford announcing the firing of 3,000 jobs in its shift to EVs, and Stellantis (owner of Chrysler) announcing the firing of 3,500 employees as it moves to EVs. 

– Because EVs cost an average of TWICE as much as gas-powered vehicles, take longer to fully charge, and have shorter ranges, almost two-thirds of Americans prefer their next car purchase to be a gas-powered vehicle, nearly half of all car dealerships would never sell an EV, and about half of current EV owners plan to switch back to a gas-powered car. 

– Because China possesses near monopolies on the minerals needed to make EV batteries, Biden’s insane emissions mandates will make the American auto industry dependent on China. 

– In 2022, Joe Biden stripped mining licenses from the U.S. mineral industry in the Midwest, preventing the domestic production of minerals used to make EVs, forcing the U.S. to rely on China for MORE THAN HALF of its EV battery supply needs.

– EV’s rely on America’s aging electrical grid that has experienced blackouts in the summer. Accommodating for mandated increases in EVs will cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars in modifications to the electrical grid. 

– Joe Biden’s betrayal of auto manufacturing threatens not only the 1 million auto manufacturing workers nationwide, but the 10 million workers whose jobs rely on cars and car parts, including dealerships, mechanics, and car part suppliers.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAVED THE AUTO INDUSTRY ONCE BEFORE

– On his first day in office, President Trump stopped the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership backed by Joe Biden and Ron DeSantis that would have decimated U.S. automakers. 

– President Trump ended the disastrous trade deal known as NAFTA and replaced it with the USMCA.

– The Biden-endorsed NAFTA cost approximately 305,000 American auto workers their jobs—nearly a third of the entire American auto manufacturing industry. 

– The USMCA is projected to produce $34 billion in new automotive manufacturing investments in the U.S., $23 billion in new annual purchases of U.S.-made automotive parts, and 76,000 U.S. automotive jobs with strict requirements that ensure more cars are made in AMERICAN factories by AMERICAN workers. 

– President Trump renegotiated Obama and Biden’s globalist Korea Trade Deal which would have cost the U.S. 80,000 jobs by flooding our market with foreign pickup trucks. Instead, President Trump secured the 25% “Chicken Tax” tariff on light trucks and DOUBLED the amount of U.S. automotive exports to Korea. 

– President Trump’s tariffs on China protected the American auto industry, decreasing imports of Chinese auto parts by 50%, increasing American production, and keeping Ford, GM, Volvo, and other auto manufacturing plants  in the U.S. 

– President Trump ended Obama and Biden’s insane CAFE fuel economy standards, saving $200 billion in total costs, improving vehicle affordability, and reducing traffic fatalities by an estimated 3,300, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

– President Trump took executive action to address overdependence on Chinese minerals for electric vehicle production leading to a surge in the mining of rare earth minerals.

– While Obama and Biden LOST 500 auto and auto parts factories, President Trump ADDED over 200 new auto and auto parts plants in just four years.

– Ford and General Motors collectively invested over $2 billion in domestic auto-manufacturing in plants across Michigan, creating approximately well over 4,000 new auto-manufacturing jobs.

– In August 2017, Toyota and Mazda announced their plan to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in Huntsville, Alabama, creating 4,000 jobs. 

– In March 2019, Ford invested an additional $850 million in Flat Rock, creating 900 jobs.  

– GM announced expansions as part of an over $1 billion investment in March 2020 for making the Chevrolet Traverse, the Buick Enclave, and the Cadillac CT4 and CT5 in its Lansing plants, creating approximately 1,200 jobs.  

– About $750 million of the GM investment went to Wayne, Michigan, where 2,700 jobs are being added over the next several years.”

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“Bedminster, NJ— Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to restore executive branch impoundment authority to cut waste, stop inflation, and crush the Deep State.

“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the President had the Constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as Impoundment,” President Trump said.

“Very simply, this meant that if Congress provided more funding than was needed to run the government, the President could refuse to waste the extra funds, and instead return the money to the general treasury and maybe even lower your taxes, although we did give you the biggest tax reduction in history, and the biggest regulation reduction in history, two things I am very proud of.”

President Trump’s plan will naturally lead the Executive and Legislative Branches to work together to negotiate and gain better control of federal spending.

“I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly to stop inflation and slash the deficit.””

“PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO RESTORE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IMPOUNDMENT AUTHORITY TO CUT WASTE, STOP INFLATION, AND CRUSH THE DEEP STATE

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL RESTORE THE IMPOUNDMENT POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH:

– President Trump will restore the Impoundment Power, reestablishing the balance of power between the Legislative and the Executive branches.

– On Day One, President Trump will direct federal agencies to identify portions of their budgets where massive savings are possible through the Impoundment Power, while maintaining the same level of funding for defense, Social Security, and Medicare.

– President Trump will take action to challenge the constitutionality of limits placed on the Impoundment Power by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBA), the source of Congress’s usurpation of Executive Branch powers.

– President Trump will also work with Congress to overturn the limits of the CBA.

– In passing the CBA, Congress handcuffed the president from preventing wasteful spending.

– The CBA dramatically limited impoundment, the power of the president to choose not to unnecessarily spend taxpayer dollars, forcing the executive branch to spend every penny of congressionally appropriated funds.

– Under current law, the president can request rescissions of funds, but those requests must be approved by both houses of Congress. The president can only defer the use of funds in limited instances.

– Leading constitutional scholars agree that impoundment is an inherent power of the president.

– Congress has the “power of the purse,” so its appropriations necessarily set a ceiling on federal spending for a particular purpose, but it should not set the floor.

– Article II of the Constitution vests the president with the inherent authority to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” which has historically been understood to mean that the president can impound funds when doing so allows him to enforce the law more effectively and efficiently.

– In defense of the president’s impoundment power against attacks from Congress, Joseph Sneed, Deputy Attorney General under President Richard Nixon, explained that the use of executive impoundment “to promote fiscal stability is not usurpation; rather it is in the great tradition of checks and balances upon which our Constitution is based.”

– Restoring the Impoundment Power will naturally lead the Executive and Legislative Branches to have to work together to negotiate and gain better control of federal spending.

– Although Congress has the power to appropriate funds, inherent within the president’s power to execute the law is a measure of discretion on how funds are spent, because spending decisions often depend on how laws are executed in practice.

– The CBA placed crippling burdens on the use of impoundment authority and on the president’s negotiating leverage with Congress over how taxpayer dollars are spent, leaving Congress with virtually unchecked budget authority.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH’S USE OF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL IMPOUNDMENT POWER DATES BACK TO THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC:

– The Executive Branch Impoundment Power traces its roots to the Jefferson Administration and the earliest days of the American Republic.

– In 1803, after France refused the U.S. access to the Port of New Orleans, Congress appropriated funding for 15 gunboats. President Jefferson refused to spend the money after determining that the purchase of the gunboats would jeopardize negotiations with the French.

– In his third annual message to Congress explaining why he had not purchased the gunboats as authorized by Congress, President Jefferson declared that a “favorable and peaceable turn of affairs on the Mississippi rendered an immediate execution of that law unnecessary.” President Jefferson used his power as the Chief Executive to impound congressionally appropriated funds based on his foreign policy and national security judgment that the use of the funds would be unwise and unnecessary.

– For 170 years, from President Jefferson to President Nixon, the chief executive routinely used the Impoundment Power to further national interests.

– In the 19^th century, presidents James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant used impoundment in the context of domestic policy to prevent the use of funds to build post offices in Illinois and construct river and harbor improvements.

– Democratic administrations, such as those of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, also exercised the Impoundment Power.

– Today, the Impoundment Power is regularly used by 43 governors across the U.S.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RESTORATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IMPOUNDMENT POWER WILL BE AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN FIGHT AGAINST WASTEFUL SPENDING:

– Since the CBA, wasteful overspending has exploded out of control.

– Congress has run deficits in all but four years since 1974.

– In 1974, the national debt was $475 Billion and 31 percent of the GDP. Today, it is $30.8 trillion and 123 percent of the GDP.

– Since the CBA was enacted, the federal debt has never gone below its 1974 level.

– Improper payments, payments made incorrectly by the federal government, cost the U.S. $247 billion in 2022.

– The U.S. government has lost nearly $2.4 trillion in simple payment errors over the last two decades.

– For 50 years, Congress has used the CBA to force the passage of gigantic, wasteful spending packages.

– Since the CBA, Congress has adopted a budget resolution on time only 6 times, missing the deadline by an average of 40 days.

– Congress has almost never met the CBA deadline for its 12 annual appropriations bills, often resorting to omnibus spending bills to rush appropriations through.”

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“Bedminster, NJ— President Donald J. Trump released his new Agenda47 plan to take on Big Pharma and end global freeloading on American consumers.

“Crooked Joe Biden likes to pretend he stands up to Big Pharma—but in fact, I was the only President in modern times who EVER took on Big Pharma, and I took it head on,” President Trump said. “Biden canceled my tough-on-pharma policies the moment he had a chance.”

President Trump issued unprecedented reforms that lowered drug prices for the first time in 51 years, ended costly kickbacks, and finalized the Most Favored Nation Rule to ensure that pharmaceutical companies offer the same discounts to the United States as they do to other nations— resulting in an estimated $85 billion in savings over seven years.”

On Day One, President Trump will sign an Executive Order to end global freeloading on American consumers once and for all. 

“Under my policy, the United States government will tell Big Pharma that we will only pay the best price they offer to foreign nations, who have been taking advantage of us for so long— the United States is tired of getting ripped off.”

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“Bedminster, NJ— In a new Agenda47 video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to return jobs and wealth to the United States, launch an economic boom that will lift our middle class, and eliminate our dependence on China and other countries, known as the “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act.”

“Under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, other countries will have two choices—they’ll get rid of their tariffs on us, or they will pay us hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will make an absolute FORTUNE,” President Trump said.

“If India, China, or any other country hits us with a 100 or 200 percent tariff on American-made goods, we will hit them with the same exact tariff. In other words, 100 percent is 100 percent. If they charge US, we charge THEM—an eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff, same exact amount.”

RESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO ENSURE RECIPROCAL AND FAIR TRADE

“PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL WORK WITH CONGRESS TO PASS THE TRUMP RECIPROCAL TRADE ACT:

– As one of his top economic priorities, President Trump will stop the flow of American jobs overseas by passing the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act.

– Under the landmark legislation, if any foreign country imposes a tariff on American-made goods that is higher than the tariff imposed by the U.S., President Trump will have the authority to impose a reciprocal tariff on that country’s goods. 

– To ensure fairness, the Act will empower President Trump to negotiate the reduction of tariffs on foreign goods if foreign countries agree to reduce their tariffs on American goods.

– The Trump Reciprocal Trade Act will put AMERICA FIRST and continue President Trump’s unparalleled trade success that reduced America’s trade deficit, grew wages, and created more than half a million new manufacturing jobs. 

– President Trump’s landmark legislation advances the views of 91 percent of conservatives and even 75 percent of Democrats, who support placing reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports to protect American workers.

THE TRUMP RECIPROCAL TRADE ACT WILL RESTORE FAIRNESS TO TRADE, BOOSTING AMERICAN INDUSTRY:

– The Trump Reciprocal Trade Act has a wealth of precedent in American history. 

– America historically imposed tariffs on over 95 percent of all imports, with an average tariff of 37 percent on imports during America’s economic climb between 1816 and 1947. 

– For decades, the U.S. government received over 80% of its revenue through tariffs on foreign goods, instead of taxes on Americans. 

– However, U.S. tariffs are now among the lowest in the world, making America the most import-pressured country in the world. 

– The current China tariff average is 341 percent higher than the United States, and the European Union tariff average is 50 percent higher than the U.S. The world average tariff rate is more than twice that of the U.S.

– For example, food items like cereals or other preparatory goods are tariffed at 32.9 percent by India, 19.5 percent by China, and only 3.1 percent by the U.S. India applies a tariff of 25.3 percent on transportation equipment, while the U.S. only tariffs those goods at 2.9 percent.

– When the U.S. set low tariffs on foreign goods, foreign countries generally did not reciprocate, allowing them to flood the American market with cheap goods while keeping high, protective tariffs on their own markets. 

– These unfair and unbalanced trade policies have hurt American businesses which cannot compete against their tariff-protected foreign rivals. The result has been a decrease in demand for U.S. domestic production, leading to a loss of manufacturing jobs and lower wages. 

– President Trump’s return to common sense, reciprocal trade protections under the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act will strengthen industry in the United States. 

– Matching the tariff practices of our foreign rivals will help protect American jobs, end our reliance on foreign competitors, and generate hundreds of billions of dollars in government revenue from foreign companies. 

JOE BIDEN’S “AMERICA LAST” TRADE POLICIES HAVE GUTTED AMERICAN JOBS AND INDUSTRY: 

– While President Trump plans to tax foreign rivals, Joe Biden stands by and does nothing while our foreign rivals tax American industry. 

– Since the moment he took office, Joe Biden’s globalist trade policies skyrocketed the deficit, sending jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars overseas.

– Last year, the U.S. trade deficit increased to nearly $1 trillion, its highest point ever. 

– The agricultural deficit shot up to more than $2 billion last year and is projected to increase to a record $14.5 billion in 2023. 

– Under Joe Biden, the trade deficit with China has risen almost 10 percent to $383 billion just last year. 

– The results of Joe Biden’s increases in the U.S. trade deficit are lower wages and fewer jobs for American workers. 

– Real wages have sharply declined over 28 months under Biden’s weak trade policies that flood the American market with cheap foreign goods produced by cheap foreign labor. 

– The $4 trillion in foreign imports in 2022 under Biden was the highest EVER.

– President Trump’s policies shrank the trade deficit with China during his administration. 

THE TRUMP RECIPROCAL TRADE ACT IS AN ADDITIONAL TOOL, ALONG WITH UNIVERSAL BASELINE TARIFFS, TO SHRINK THE TRADE DEFICIT AND BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS AND WEALTH:

– President Trump previously announced a plan to replace the Biden system of punishing domestic producers and rewarding outsourcers with a new system that rewards domestic production while taxing foreign companies.

– Rather than raising taxes on American producers, President Trump will impose tariffs on FOREIGN producers through a system of universal baseline tariffs on most imported goods.

– Higher tariffs will increase incrementally if other countries manipulate their currency or otherwise engage in unfair trading practices.

– As tariffs on foreign countries go up, taxes on American workers, families, and businesses can come down.

– Raising tariffs on foreign producers while lowering taxes for domestic producers will help keep jobs and wealth in the United States.

– Higher tariffs create millions of new jobs, increase real household income, boost GDP, increase domestic manufacturing output, and generate hundreds of billions of dollars in new government revenue.

– President Trump’s universal baseline tariffs will restore a level playing field for American businesses worldwide.

– President Trump will also REVOKE China’s Most Favored Nation trade status. It is long past time China stops getting preferential treatment as they undermine American national security interests around the world.

– Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. will once again become a manufacturing powerhouse and attain economic independence from China.”

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“Mar-a-Lago, FL— In a new Agenda47 video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to address the sharp rise in chronic illnesses and health problems, especially among children.

“Every year, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to treat these chronic problems rather than looking at what is causing them in the first place,” President Trump said. “Too often, our public health establishment is too close to Big Pharma—they make a lot of money, Big Pharma—big corporations, and other special interests, and does not want to ask the tough questions about what is happening to our children’s health.”

“If Big Pharma defrauds American patients and taxpayers or puts profits above people, they must be investigated and held accountable.”

“Once President Trump returns to the Oval Office, he will establish a special Presidential Commission charged with investigating what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic illnesses. 

President Trump will order the commission to then publish recommendations for how every American child can have a safe and healthy childhood.”

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“Mar-a-Lago, FL— In a new Agenda47 video, President Trump announced his plan to eradicate the drug addiction crisis in America.

“We will not rest until we have ended the drug addiction crisis,” President Trump said. “For three decades before my election, drug overdose deaths increased every single year. Under my leadership, we took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than thirty years.”

President Trump proudly signed the SUPPORT Act—the largest investment EVER in combatting the opioid epidemic.

Once President Trump returns to the White House, he will forge new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training for former addicts and will expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs. 

SAVING AMERICAN LIVES: President Trump has pledged that he will not rest until we end this crisis. President Trump will: 

– Impose a full naval embargo on the drug cartels and deploy military assets to inflict maximum damage on cartel operations. 

– Insist on the full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the trafficking and smuggling networks in our region. 

– Ask Congress to ensure that drug dealers and human traffickers receive the death penalty. 

– Direct U.S. federal law enforcement to take down the gangs and organized street crime that distribute these deadly narcotics on a local level. 

– Permanently designate fentanyl as a federally controlled substance. 

– Tell China that if they do not clamp down on the export of fentanyl’s chemical precursors, they will pay a steep price. 

– Strengthen the pillars of work, faith, and family which give life meaning and hope for those struggling with addiction. 

– Make it easier for those suffering from addiction to seek treatment without losing their jobs.

– Forge new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training to former addicts. 

– Expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs. 

– Ensure that if a parent, child, spouse, or relative needs to take time to care for a family member fighting to overcome addiction, they can take advantage of a family leave program. 

ADDRESSING THE DRUG OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC: President Trump’s new plan builds on the historic actions he took during his administration to combat the drug addiction crisis in America. 

– President Trump’s efforts to combat the drug crisis led to the first reduction in drug overdose deaths in 30 years. 

– Between 2017 and 2019, drug overdose deaths declined by 16.8% in Ohio, 18.7% in Pennsylvania, and 10.6% in West Virginia.  

– Drug overdose deaths declined by 15% in New Hampshire between 2017 and 2020.

– Under Biden, overdose deaths in New Hampshire have risen by 12%.  

– In 2017, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency and began an all-of-government effort to combat it. 

– President Trump signed the SUPPORT Act—the largest investment EVER in combatting the opioid epidemic. 

– By October 2018, President Trump had secured $6 billion to fight the epidemic.

– The Trump administration awarded state and local communities a record $9 billion in federal grants to increase access to treatment and prevention services.  

– President Trump provided a fivefold increase in funding to help communities prevent and treat addiction, issuing 8,000 grants to over 1,800 new state and local partners. 

– President Trump launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand to confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis.

– The Trump Administration partnered with the Truth Initiative and Ad Council to launch a media campaign to educate Americans about opioid abuse. The campaign reached 58% of young American adults.

– President Trump negotiated a deal with China to crack down on the production and export of fentanyl’s chemical precursors. 

– Under Biden, cooperation between China and the U.S. on drug trafficking has nearly come to a halt. 

– During the Trump administration, the Department of Justice prosecuted more fentanyl traffickers than ever before and dismantled 3,000 drug trafficking organizations.  

– From 2017 to 2019 the Trump Administration oversaw a 34% decrease in total amount of opioids being prescribed across the country.

– The DEA’s National Take Back Days recovered a record 4.7 million pounds of unused prescription drugs. 

BIDEN’S FAILURE TO STOP THE DRUG ADDICTION CRISIS: Biden’s reckless open-border policy has allowed deadly drugs to pour into our country, making it impossible to properly combat the drug overdose epidemic. 

– President Trump’s hard-won progress on the drug overdose crisis has been squandered because Biden surrendered our southern border to the cartels. 

– Hundreds of thousands of pounds of deadly drugs are now pouring across Biden’s wide-open border and claiming the lives of over 100,000 Americans every year. 

– Over two-thirds of these deaths involve the ultra-lethal fentanyl, which is primarily smuggled into our country through Mexico. 

– Biden has terminated nearly every one of Trump’s successful border policies, including the end of catch-and-release, Remain in Mexico, Title 42, and Trump-era asylum cooperation agreements. Under Biden, the construction of the wall was halted and interior enforcement has effectively been abolished. 

– The amount of fentanyl seized at the border more than tripled from 2020 to 2022. 

– In the first five months of this year alone, border patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill 100 million people. 

– Federal agents estimate that they are only able to seize 5 to 10 percent of all drugs being smuggled through the border from Mexico. 

– Drug cartels and human smugglers are profiting from Biden’s open border, earning $13 billion in revenue last year—a 2,500% increase compared to 2018. 

– Fueled in large part by Biden’s border disaster, fentanyl deaths have increased 94% since 2019, and fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. “

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“Mar-a-Lago, FL— In a new video, President Donald J. Trump pledged to honor America’s founding in 1776 with “Salute to America 250,” a one-year celebration of 250 years of American independence with Iowa at the center of the action.  

“Three years from now, the United States will celebrate the biggest and most important milestone in our country’s history — 250 years of American Independence,” President Trump said. “That’s why as a nation, we should be preparing for the most spectacular birthday party. We want to make it the best of all time.”

“Once back in the White House, President Trump will work with America’s 50 governors to create the “Great American State Fair” in Iowa, host major sporting events with American high school athletes, and sign an executive order to construct a National Garden of American Heroes.

To showcase our great country, President Trump will invite leaders and citizens from around the world to visit the United States, and President Trump will ask America’s courageous religious communities to pray for our great nation.

CELEBRATING AMERICA WITH IOWA AT THE CENTER OF THE ACTION: President Trump pledges to honor America’s founding in 1776 with a full year of celebration. President Trump will:

– On Day One, convene a White House task force called “Salute to America 250,” responsible for coordinating with state and local governments to ensure an entire year of festivities across the country from Memorial Day 2025 to July 4th, 2026. 

– Work with all 50 governors to create the Great American State Fair, a unique one-year exhibition featuring pavilions from all fifty states. 

– “My hope is that the amazing people of IOWA will work with my administration to open up the legendary Iowa state fairgrounds to host the Great American State Fair and welcome millions and millions of visitors from around the world to the heartland of America for this special one-time festival.”

– Host major sporting contests for high school athletes to allow young Americans from every state to show off the best of American skill, sportsmanship, and competitive spirit. 

– Sign an Executive Order on Day One to bring back the National Garden of American Heroes and commission artists for the first 100 statues to populate the new park. 

– Invite the leaders and citizens of nations around the world to visit the United States in honor of the 250thanniversary. 

– Ask America’s great religious communities to pray for our nation and our people as we prepare for this momentous occasion.

– Ask Americans to come together and rededicate ourselves as one nation under God as we chart a course toward the next 250 years of American history.  

OFFERING AN INSPIRING AND UNIFYING VISION OF A SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN FUTURE: This plan builds on President Trump’s longstanding commitment to honor our nation’s 250th anniversary and offers Americans from every state in the Union the chance to come together and share innovative visions for a successful American future: 

– In his first address to a joint session of Congress in February 2017, President Trump noted, “in 9 years the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding – 250 years since the day we declared our Independence.” 

– In his remarks, President Trump outlined an optimistic vision for America grounded in a renewal of the American Spirit and expressed hope that “the 250th year for America will see a world that is more peaceful, more just, and more free.” 

– President Trump stated, “When we fulfill this vision—when we celebrate our 250 years of glorious freedom—we will look back on tonight as when this new chapter of American Greatness began.” 

– President Trump has promised to finish what he started and is once again proposing a bold, forward-looking agenda to restore American greatness. 

– President Trump believes that the Great American State Fair will showcase the glory of every state in the Union, promote pride in our history, and put forth innovative visions for America’s future.

HONORING AMERICA’S HISTORY: Throughout his time in office, President Trump has consistently celebrated the glory of American Independence. 

– During his time in office, President Trump honored our country’s founding in special remarks to the American people on Independence Day. 

– On July 4, 2019, President Trump delivered “Salute to America” remarks at the Lincoln Memorial where he said, “With a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures, America began the greatest political journey in human history.” 

– In his 2020 “Salute to America” Independence Day remarks, President Trump stated, “Two hundred and forty-four years ago in Philadelphia, the 56 signers of our Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to boldly proclaim this eternal truth: that we are all made equal by God.” 

– The President added, “Thanks to the courage of those patriots of July 4th, 1776, the American Republic stands today as the greatest, most exceptional, and most virtuous nation in the history of the world.” 

– In his remarks at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020, President Trump noted, “Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity… It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence.  They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: ‘…all men are created equal.'” 

– President Trump added, “1776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization and the triumph not only of spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.”          

– In July 2020, the President took action to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a statuary park that will memorialize our American heroes for generations to come.

– On September 17, 2020, Constitution Day, the President convened the first White House Conference on American History to address ongoing attempts to distort America’s history. 

– During the conference, President Trump declared, “To grow up in America is to live in a land where anything is possible, where anyone can rise, and where any dream can come true — all because of the immortal principles our nation’s founders inscribed nearly two and a half centuries ago.” 

– In November 2020, President Trump also created the 1776 Commission to improve understanding of the history and principles of our nation’s founding among America’s rising generations. 

– In its “1776 Report”, the Commission stated, “As we approach the 250th anniversary of our independence, we must resolve to teach future generations of Americans an accurate history of our country so that we all learn and cherish our founding principles once again.” “

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