Policy

• abruptly ordered the withdrawal of US forces from a base in Syria, abandoning Kurdish allies to be attacked by Turkey?
• announced a “patriotic education” commission?
• appointed a CDC Director who had claimed AIDS was God’s judgement?
• appointed Mike Pence to lead the COVID-19 task force?
• attacked John McCain repeatedly for voting against Obamacare repeal?
• avoided responsibility for the disbanding of the White House pandemic office?
• blamed Democrats for child separation at the border and claimed that only Congress could change it, days before changing it?
• claimed that he “saved Pre-Existing Conditions”?
• created a commission to expose mass voter fraud, which then found none?
• dismissed COVID-19 across another month? (timeline pt. 2)
• dismissed COVID-19 across two months? (timeline pt. 1)
• ignored a group of physicians who offered to provide free flu shots to detained immigrants?
• limited COVID-19 reporting requirements to the healthcare industry?
• ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC and report COVID-19 information directly to his administration?
• promised healthcare that would provide “insurance for everybody”?
• promised to end payroll taxes, which funds Social Security and Medicare?
• railed against new aircraft carriers and their digital deck propulsion system, demanding that they return to “goddamned steam”?
• refused to allow a special enrollment period for health insurance amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
• removed 1 million children from a food stamps program with free school lunches?
• restricted immigration amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
• rolled back Obama-era fuel economy rules?
• rolled back Obama-era healthcare and housing protections for transgender people?
• rolled back offshore drilling regulations?
• rolled back regulations on coal pollution?
• said initiatives for easier voting meant no Republican would be elected again?
• said that he directed the EPA to investigate low-flow fixtures because people needed to flush toilets 10 to 15 times?
• said that his tweets are sufficient notice to Congress for military strikes?
• said the government should “take the guns first, go through due process second”?
• said the US should prevent forest fires by “raking and cleaning and doing things”?
• said, “I support the Great Lakes. Always have. They’re beautiful. They’re big. Very deep. Record deepness”?
• said, “nobody knew that health care could be so complicated”?
• scrapped a USPS plan to send free masks to all Americans amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
• scuttled a deal to lower drug prices because he wanted pharmaceutical companies to mail cash cards ahead of the election?
• shut down the government over funding for the border wall?
• signed an Executive Order that rolled back Obama-era protections for transgender students?
• suggested selling Puerto Rico?
• threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria?
• took $9.8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s funding to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
• took credit for Obama’s Veteran’s Choice bill?
• weakened protections for endangered species?
• withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement?
• withheld relief aid from Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria?