Some more promises made, promises kept.
- Launched campaign to lower prescription drug prices; as a result, a dozen drug manufacturers enacted price freezes, reductions, or rollbacks
• Last year, drug prices realized the single biggest decline in 46 years
- Benefited our senior population extraordinarily
- The FDA approved record number of generic drugs expected to bring nearly $9 billion in savings
- Provided Medicare with new negotiating tools to drive down drug costs
- Implemented reforms lowering the amount Medicare pays hospitals for drugs purchased under the 340B program; saved seniors $320 million in 2018
- Signed “Right to Try” legislation expanding access to experimental treatments for terminally ill patients
- USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 states
- Increased coal exports by 60 percent
- Oil production has significantly increased
- 100,000 new oil and natural gas jobs have been created
- Oil exporter for the first time in 75 years
- Natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957
- Enhanced national security
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- Increased vetting and screening for refugees and immigrants
- Increased refugee overseas resettlement
- Established agreement with Mexico to curb illegal immigration in the U.S.
- Signed safe third country agreement with Guatemala
- Tightened immigration asylum rules
- Released an immigration framework to enhance the system; through a merit-based vetting process
- Provided resources to secure sovereign borders
- Closed legal loopholes that enable illegal immigration, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery
- Deployed the military to assist in securing the southern border
- Action requiring aliens seeking asylum to go to a port of entry to make their claim
- Baghdadi and Soleimani are dead
- Changed rules for engagement for fighting ISIS
- Defeated ISIS
- Historic diplomacy with North Korea:
- Summit with Kim Jong-Un, beginning a new era of peace and denuclearization for the Korean Peninsula
- POW/MIA service member remains from the Korean War are being returned to the US
And there is a lot more to come.