After 4 years in office, this is what Donold Trump left for Joe Biden to clean up when Biden was sworn in as president on January 20, 2021. https://www. factcheck.org/2021/10/ trumps-final-numbers.
1) The economy lost 2.7 million jobs.
2) The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4% 3) The US trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 (Trump’s last year in office) was the highest since 2008 and increased 36.3% from 2016. Trump swore he would reduce it.
4) The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
5) The murder rate in 2020 rose to the highest level since 1997.
6) Hand gun production rose 12.5% in 2019 compared to 2016, setting a new record.
This fact check.org summary lists 2 of Trump’s accomplishments during his 4 years in office - an increase in home ownership and an increase in average weekly earnings for all workers of 8.4% after inflation.
What happened after Biden took office? Check it here: https://www.factcheck. org/2023/07/bidens-numbers- july-2023-update.
1) The economy added 13.2 million jobs 2) The unemployment rate dropped for a time to the lowest in nearly 54 years 3) The percentage of Americans without health insurance dropped by 1.3 percent 4) Consumer confidence rose in July to 72.6% up from 64.4 in June and 59.2 in May.
5) The S&P was up 20.2% 6) There was an 11.5% drop in the murder rate in major cities compared to 2022.
Fact check.org also lists some of Biden’s mistakes and misstatements. That’s why I trust it. It’s a non-political website devoted to the facts.
What happens if Trump is reelected this November?
Project 2025 is Trump’s plan for ruling America. He claims publicly he knows nothing about it. But “more than half of its authors, editors, and contributors were “Trump administration staffers” – 240 of them, according to CNN.
This is a list of what Trump will do as soon as he takes office if he is elected president. It begins his authoritarian rule of the U.S. government: 1) Institute a national abortion ban 2) Restrict access to STD testing, birth control and IVF.
3) End regulations to stop climate change 4) Eliminate the Department of Education 5) Remove federal LGBTQ+ protections.
6) End the Fair Housing Act.
7) Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security 8) Carry out mass deportations of immigrants Since the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, everything Trump and Project 2025 plan to do cannot be challenged.
Is this what you want for America? It undermines what the founders intended in the U.S. Constitution for America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Stand up. Be brave. Vote against it.
Jodie Sinclair is an award-winning writer who holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and resides in Bandera, Texas.
