After one month in office, President Donald J. Trump is already working on jobs for the American people. By any standard of measurement he is achieving more in his first month than many Presidents achieve in their entire term. And he’s just getting started. Just look at what he’s done so far:
TPP Out – America In: President Trump knows that Washington has left the American Worker behind. He is already making jobs one of his highest priorities. He has signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering the United States to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and agreement. If the United States had continued in the TPP it would have been disastrous for American jobs. President Trump wants to negotiate trade deals with countries on a one on one basis. Being in the TPP once again gave great benefits to other countries by generally taking advantage of America. President Trump is tired of countries taking advantage of us. He wants trade deals that are in the best interest of America.
Intel Factory: President Trump Hosted the CEO of Intel to announce Intel’s plan to invest $7 billion in a United States factory that will create 10,000 American jobs. The CEO of Intel told President Trump that the high-tech firm is moving forward with plans to build a $7 billion manufacturing plant in Arizona that will create at least 3,000 jobs.
“It’s really in support of the tax and regulatory policies that we see the administration pushing forward,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, calling the proposed policies “advantageous.” Mr. Krzanich met with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office and showed him the 7-nanometer semiconductor chips that will be manufactured in Chandler, Arizona. Mr. Trump called the plan “a great thing for Arizona.”
“You’ve never seen so much paper on a president’s desk,” Mr. Trump said, gesturing to his paperwork. “That’s because we’re negotiating lots of deals for our country, which will be tremendous. We’re very happy, and I can tell you the people of Arizona are very happy.”
Mr. Krzanich confirmed that Intel had been planning the project for about four years but held off “doing this investment until now.” Mr. Krzanich is confident that the planned policies of the Trump administration are such that will allow the new plant to operate with confidence in the future.
Keystone XL Pipeline: President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to clear roadblocks to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. “We’re going to put a lot of … steel workers back to work,” Trump said. “We’ll build our own pipelines, we will build our own pipes.”
Builder TransCanada said Tuesday afternoon it was “preparing the application” for the Keystone XL pipeline. “We appreciate the President of the United States inviting us to re-apply for KXL,” TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha said in a statement. “KXL creates thousands of well-paying construction jobs and would generate tens of millions of dollars in annual property taxes to counties along the route as well as more than $3 billion to the U.S. GDP,” Cunha added. ”
Dakota Access Pipeline: He Signed a Presidential Memorandum declaring that the Dakota Access Pipeline serves the national interest and initiating the process to complete construction. In an Oval Office ceremony, President Trump said the actions would create new jobs in the United States, and that the pipeline should be built with U.S. steel and labor. “We will build our own pipeline, we will build our own pipes, like we used to, in the old days,” Trump said as he held up one of his actions to television cameras brought into the Oval Office to broadcast the event.
Related to both pipelines, President Trump also signed a Memorandum ordering that all new pipeline construction and repair work use materials and equipment from the United States.
House Joint Resolution 38: This legislation blocks the burdensome Stream Protection Rule from causing further harm to the coal industry.Regulators finalized the stream protection rule in December, but they spent most of Obama’s tenure writing it.
The rule is among the most controversial environmental regulations the former administration put together. The coal mining industry said it would be costly to implement and lead to job losses across the sector, which is already suffering from a market-driven downturn in demand for its production.
House Joint Resolution 41: The President Signed this legislation to eliminate a costly regulation that threatened to put domestic extraction companies and their employees at an unfair disadvantage. At the small ceremony President Trump said, “This is a big signing, a very important signing. And this is H.J. Resolution 41, disapproving the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule on disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers. It’s a big deal.”