•	Signed the Fix NICS Act to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
•	Signed the STOP School Violence Act and created a Commission on School Safety to examine ways to make our schools safer.
•	Launched the Foster Youth to Independence initiative to prevent and end homelessness among young adults under the age of 25 who are in, or have recently left, the foster care system.
•	Signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which tightened criteria for whether countries are meeting standards for eliminating trafficking.
•	Established a task force to help combat the tragedy of missing or murdered Native American women and girls.
•	Prioritized fighting for the voiceless and ending the scourge of human trafficking across the Nation, through a whole of government back by legislation, executive action, and engagement with key industries.
•	Created the first-ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.

Cherishing Life and Religious Liberty Steadfastly supported the sanctity of every human life and worked tirelessly to prevent government funding of abortion. • Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring that taxpayer money is not used to fund abortion globally. • Issued a rule preventing Title X taxpayer funding from subsiding the abortion industry. • Supported legislation to end late-term abortions. • Cut all funding to the United Nations population fund due to the fund’s support for coercive abortion and forced sterilization. • Signed legislation overturning the previous administration’s regulation that prohibited states from defunding abortion facilities as part of their family planning programs. • Fully enforced the requirement that taxpayer dollars do not support abortion coverage in Obamacare exchange plans. • Stopped the Federal funding of fetal tissue research. • Worked to protect healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights – ensuring that no medical professional is forced to participate in an abortion in violation of their beliefs. • Issued an executive order reinforcing requirement that all hospitals in the United States provide medical treatment or an emergency transfer for infants who are in need of emergency medical care—regardless of prematurity or disability. • Led a coalition of countries to sign the Geneva Consensus Declaration, declaring that there is no international right to abortion and committing to protecting women’s health. • First president in history to attend the March for Life. Stood up for religious liberty in the United States and around the world. • Protected the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, teachers, and groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor. • First president to convene a meeting at the United Nations to end religious persecution. • Established the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative. • Stopped the Johnson Amendment from interfering with pastors’ right to speak their minds. • Reversed the previous administration’s policy that prevented the government from providing disaster relief to religious organizations. • Protected faith-based adoption and foster care providers, ensuring they can continue to serve their communities while following the teachings of their faith. • Reduced burdensome barriers to ensure Native Americans are free to keep spiritually and culturally significant eagle feathers found on their tribal lands. • Took action to ensure Federal employees can take paid time off work to observe religious holy days. • Signed legislation to assist religious and ethnic groups targeted by ISIS for mass murder and genocide in Syria and Iraq. • Directed American assistance toward persecuted communities, including through faith-based programs. • Launched the International Religious Freedom Alliance – the first-ever alliance devoted to confronting religious persecution around the world. • Appointed a Special Envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. • Imposed restrictions on certain Chinese officials, internal security units, and companies for their complicity in the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. • Issued an executive order to protect and promote religious freedom around the world.

Safeguarding the Environment Took strong action to protect the environment and ensure clean air and clean water. • Took action to protect vulnerable Americans from being exposed to lead and copper in drinking water and finalized a rule protecting children from lead-based paint hazards. • Invested over $38 billion in clean water infrastructure. • In 2019, America achieved the largest decline in carbon emissions of any country on earth. Since withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has reduced carbon emissions more than any nation. • American levels of particulate matter – one of the main measures of air pollution – are approximately five times lower than the global average. • Between 2017 and 2019, the air became 7 percent cleaner – indicated by a steep drop in the combined emissions of criteria pollutants. • 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. • In FY 2019 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned up more major pollution sites than any year in nearly two decades. • The EPA delivered $300 million in Brownfields grants directly to communities most in need including investment in 118 Opportunity Zones. • Placed a moratorium on offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. • Restored public access to Federal land at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. • Recovered more endangered or threatened species than any other administration in its first term. Secured agreements and signed legislation to protect the environment and preserve our Nation’s abundant national resources. • The USMCA guarantees the strongest environmental protections of any trade agreement in history. • Signed the Save Our Seas Act to protect our environment from foreign nations that litter our oceans with debris and developed the first-ever Federal strategic plan to address marine litter. • Signed the Great American Outdoors Act, securing the single largest investment in America’s National Parks and public lands in history. • Signed the largest public lands legislation in a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness. • Signed a historic executive order promoting much more active forest management to prevent catastrophic wildfires. • Opened and expanded access to over 4 million acres of public lands for hunting and fishing. • Joined the One Trillion Trees Initiative to plant, conserve, and restore trees in America and around the world. • Delivered infrastructure upgrades and investments for numerous projects, including over half a billion dollars to fix the Herbert Hoover Dike and expanding funding for Everglades restoration by 55 percent.

Expanding Educational Opportunity Fought tirelessly to give every American access to the best possible education. • The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expanded School Choice, allowing parents to use up to $10,000 from a 529 education savings account to cover K-12 tuition costs at the public, private, or religious school of their choice. • Launched a new pro-American lesson plan for students called the 1776 Commission to promote patriotic education. • Prohibited the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Federal government. • Established the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live. • Called on Congress to pass the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act to expand education options for 1 million students of all economic backgrounds. • Signed legislation reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program. • Issued updated guidance making clear that the First Amendment right to Free Exercise of Religion does not end at the door to a public school. Took action to promote technical education. • Signed into law the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, which provides over 13 million students with high-quality vocational education and extends more than $1.3 billion each year to states for critical workforce development programs. • Signed the INSPIRE Act which encouraged NASA to have more women and girls participate in STEM and seek careers in aerospace. • Allocated no less than $200 million each year in grants to prioritize women and minorities in STEM and computer science education. Drastically reformed and modernized our educational system to restore local control and promote fairness. • Restored state and local control of education by faithfully implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act. • Signed an executive order that ensures public universities protect First Amendment rights or they will risk losing funding, addresses student debt by requiring colleges to share a portion of the financial risk, and increases transparency by requiring universities to disclose information about the value of potential educational programs. • Issued a rule strengthening Title IX protections for survivors of sexual misconduct in schools, and that – for the first time in history – codifies that sexual harassment is prohibited under Title IX. • Negotiated historic bipartisan agreement on new higher education rules to increase innovation and lower costs by reforming accreditation, state authorization, distance education, competency-based education, credit hour, religious liberty, and TEACH Grants. Prioritized support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. • Moved the Federal Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative back to the White House. • Signed into law the FUTURE Act, making permanent $255 million in annual funding for HBCUs and increasing funding for the Federal Pell Grant program. • Signed legislation that included more than $100 million for scholarships, research, and centers of excellence at HBCU land-grant institutions. • Fully forgave $322 million in disaster loans to four HBCUs in 2018, so they could fully focus on educating their students. • Enabled faith-based HBCUs to enjoy equal access to Federal support.

Combatting the Opioid Crisis Brought unprecedented attention and support to combat the opioid crisis. • Declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency. • Secured a record $6 billion in new funding to combat the opioid epidemic. • Signed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the largest-ever legislative effort to address a drug crisis in our Nation’s history. • Launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand in order to confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis. • The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a record $9 billion in grants to expand access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services to States and local communities. • Passed the CRIB Act, allowing Medicaid to help mothers and their babies who are born physically dependent on opioids by covering their care in residential pediatric recovery facilities. • Distributed $1 billion in grants for addiction prevention and treatment. • Announced a Safer Prescriber Plan that seeks to decrease the amount of opioids prescriptions filled in America by one third within three years. • Reduced the total amount of opioids prescriptions filled in America. • Expanded access to medication-assisted treatment and life-saving Naloxone. • Launched FindTreatment.gov, a tool to find help for substance abuse. • Drug overdose deaths fell nationwide in 2018 for the first time in nearly three decades.