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The Air Force would put perfectly good ovens on the loading dock then they would buy new ones that were not as good as the older ones!The logic was if we don’t spend our alotment we will not get it next year!The comuter components they threw away were in full sized dumpsters!Mean while back at the ranch one in six children in the UNITED STATES go to bed hungry.24 VETERANS COMMIT SUICIDE EVERY DAY ,40,000 VETERANS ARE HOMELES!US WARS AND MILITARY ACTIONDEFENSE SPENDINGFEATUREJANUARY 7, 2019, ISSUEExclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud ExposedHow US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit.By Dave LindorffNOVEMBER 27, 2018fbtwmailPrintIllustration by Victor Juhasz.Ready To Fight Back?Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week.You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here.On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that they could not complete the job. Congress had ordered an independent audit of the Department of Defense, the government’s largest discretionary cost center—the Pentagon receives 54 cents out of every dollar in federal appropriations—after the Pentagon failed for decades to audit itself. The firms concluded, however, that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tried to put the best face on things, telling reporters, “We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it.” Shanahan suggested that the DoD should get credit for attempting an audit, saying, “It was an audit on a $2.7 trillion organization, so the fact that we did the audit is substantial.” The truth, though, is that the DoD was dragged kicking and screaming to this audit by bipartisan frustration in Congress, and the result, had this been a major corporation, likely would have been a crashed stock.As Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, a frequent critic of the DoD’s financial practices, said on the Senate floor in September 2017, the Pentagon’s long-standing failure to conduct a proper audit reflects “twenty-six years of hard-core foot-dragging” on the part of the DoD, where “internal resistance to auditing the books runs deep.” In 1990, Congress passed the Chief Financial Officers Act, which required all departments and agencies of the federal government to develop auditable accounting systems and submit to annual audits. Since then, every department and agency has come into compliance—except the Pentagon.ADVERTISINGYOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORKTHE PENTAGON SENT $500 MILLION ABROAD FOR INTERNATIONAL DRUG WARS. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS A MYSTERY.Nick TurseMEET THE NEW, SUPER-EXPENSIVE STEALTH BOMBER THE US DOESN’T NEEDWilliam J. AstoreA GUIDE TO TRUMP’S $1 TRILLION DEFENSE BILLWilliam D. HartungNow, a Nation investigation has uncovered an explanation for the Pentagon’s foot-dragging: For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD the following year, according to government records and interviews with current and former DoD officials, congressional sources, and independent experts.“If the DOD were being honest, they would go to Congress and say, ‘All these proposed budgets we’ve been presenting to you are a bunch of garbage,’ ” said Jack Armstrong, who spent more than five years in the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General as a supervisory director of audits before retiring in 2011.The fraud works like this. When the DoD submits its annual budget requests to Congress, it sends along the prior year’s financial reports, which contain fabricated numbers. The fabricated numbers disguise the fact that the DoD does not always spend all of the money Congress allocates in a given year. However, instead of returning such unspent funds to the US Treasury, as the law requires, the Pentagon sometimes launders and shifts such moneys to other parts of the DoD’s budget.Veteran Pentagon staffers say that this practice violates Article I Section 9 of the US Constitution, which stipulates thatNo Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.CURRENT ISSUEView our current issueSubscribe today and Save up to $129.Among the laundering tactics the Pentagon uses: So-called “one-year money”—funds that Congress intends to be spent in a single fiscal year—gets shifted into a pool of five-year money. This maneuver exploits the fact that federal law does not require the return of unspent “five-year money” during that five-year allocation period.The phony numbers are referred to inside the Pentagon as “plugs,” as in plugging a hole, said current and former officials. “Nippering,” a reference to a sharp-nosed tool used to snip off bits of wire or metal, is Pentagon slang for shifting money from its congressionally authorized purpose to a different purpose. Such nippering can be repeated multiple times “until the funds become virtually untraceable,” says one Pentagon-budgeting veteran who insisted on anonymity in order to keep his job as a lobbyist at the Pentagon.The plugs can be staggering in size. In fiscal year 2015, for example, Congress appropriated $122 billion for the US Army. Yet DoD financial records for the Army’s 2015 budget included a whopping $6.5 trillion (yes, trillion) in plugs. Most of these plugs “lack[ed] supporting documentation,” in the bland phrasing of the department’s internal watchdog, the Office of Inspector General. In other words, there were no ledger entries or receipts to back up how that $6.5 trillion supposedly was spent. Indeed, more than 16,000 records that might reveal either the source or the destination of some of that $6.5 trillion had been “removed,” the inspector general’s office reported.SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE JOURNALISMIf you like this article, please give today to help fund The Nation’s work.In this way, the DoD propels US military spending higher year after year, even when the country is not fighting any major wars, says Franklin “Chuck” Spinney, a former Pentagon whistle-blower. Spinney’s revelations to Congress and the news media about wildly inflated Pentagon spending helped spark public outrage in the 1980s. “They’re making up the numbers and then just asking for more money each year,” Spinney told The Nation. The funds the Pentagon has been amassing over the years through its bogus bookkeeping maneuvers “could easily be as much as $100 billion,” Spinney estimated.THE DOD'S MANUFACTURED CONSENTTHE PENTAGON WANTS YOU TO GO SHOPPING WHILE THE EXPERTS GO TO WARWilliam J. AstoreIndeed, Congress appropriated a record amount—$716 billion—for the DoD in the current fiscal year of 2019. That was up $24 billion from fiscal year 2018’s $692 billion, which itself was up $6 billion from fiscal year 2017’s $686 billion. Such largesse is what drives US military spending higher than the next ten highest-spending countries combined, added Spinney. Meanwhile, the closest thing to a full-scale war the United States is currently fighting is in Afghanistan, where approximately 15,000 US troops are deployed—only 2.8 percent as many as were in Vietnam at the height of that war.The DoD’s accounting practices appear to be an intentional effort to avoid accountability, says Armstrong. “A lot of the plugs—not all, but a substantial portion—are used to force general-ledger receipts to agree with the general budget reports, so what’s in the budget reports is basically left up to people’s imagination,” Armstrong says, adding, “Did the DoD improperly spend funds from one appropriated purpose on another? Who can tell?”“The United States government collects trillions of dollars each year for the purpose of funding essential functions, including national-security efforts at the Defense Department,” Senator Grassley told The Nation. “When unelected bureaucrats misuse, mismanage and misallocate taxpayer funds, it not only takes resources away from vital government functions, it weakens citizens’ faith and trust in their government.”This Pentagon accounting fraud is déjà vu all over again for Spinney. Back in the 1980s, he and a handful of other reform-minded colleagues exposed how the DoD used a similar accounting trick to inflate Pentagon spending—and to accumulate money for “off-the-books” programs. “DoD routinely over-estimated inflation rates for weapons systems,” Spinney recalled. “When actual inflation turned out to be lower than the estimates, they did not return the excess funds to the Treasury, as required by law, but slipped them into something called a ‘Merged Surplus Account,'” he said.“In that way, the Pentagon was able to build up a slush fund of almost $50 billion” (about $120 billion in today’s money), Spinney added. He believes that similar tricks are being used today to fund secret programs, possibly including US Special Forces activity in Niger. That program appears to have been undertaken without Congress’s knowledge of its true nature, which only came to light when a Special Forces unit was ambushed there last year, resulting in the deaths of four US soldiers.AMERICA AT NEVER-ENDING WARTHE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS ON CORPORATE WELFAREWilliam D. Hartung“Because of the plugs, there is no auditable way to track Pentagon funding and spending,” explains Asif Khan of the Government Accountability Office, the Congress’s watchdog on the federal bureaucracy. “It’s crucial in auditing to have a reliable financial record for prior years in order to audit the books for a current year,” notes Khan, the head of the National Security Asset Management unit at GAO. Plugs and other irregularities help explain why the Pentagon has long been at or near the top of the GAO’s list of “high risk” agencies prone to significant fraud, waste, and abuse, he adds.The Nation submitted detailed written questions and requested interviews with senior officials in the Defense Department before publishing this article. Only public-affairs staff would speak on the record. In an e-mailed response, Christopher Sherwood of the DoD’s Public Affairs office denied any accounting impropriety. Any transfer of funds between one budgetary account and another “requires a reprogramming action” by Congress, Sherwood wrote, adding that any such transfers amounting to more than 1 percent of the official DoD budget would require approval by “all four defense congressional committees.”The scale and workings of the Pentagon’s accounting fraud began to be ferreted out last year by a dogged research team led by Mark Skidmore, a professor of economics specializing in state and local government finance at Michigan State University. Skidmore and two graduate students spent months poring over DoD financial statement reviews done by the department’s Office of Inspector General. Digging deep into the OIG’s report on the Army’s 2015 financial statement, the researchers found some peculiar information. Appendix C, page 27, reported that Congress had appropriated $122 billion for the US Army that year. But the appendix also seems to report that the Army had received a cash deposit from the US Treasury of $794.8 billion. That sum was more than six times larger than Congress had appropriated—indeed, it was larger than the entire Pentagon budget for the year. The same appendix showed that the Army had accounts payable (accounting lingo for bills due) totaling $929.3 billion.SUBSCRIBE TO THE NATION FOR $2 A MONTH.Get unlimited digital access to the best independent news and analysis.“I wondered how you could possibly get those kinds of adjustments out of a $122 billion budget,” Skidmore recalled. “I thought, initially, ‘This is absurd!’ And yet all the [Office of Inspector General] seemed to do was say, ‘Here are these plugs.’ Then, nothing. Even though this kind of thing should be a red flag, it just died. So we decided to look further into it.”To make sure that fiscal year 2015 was not an anomaly, Skidmore and his graduate students expanded their inquiry, examining OIG reports on Pentagon financial records stretching back to 1998. Time and again, they found that the amounts of money reported as having flowed into and out of the Defense Department were gargantuan, often dwarfing the amounts Congress had appropriated: $1.7 trillion in 1998, $2.3 trillion in 1999, $1.1 trillion in 2000, $1.1 trillion in 2007, $875 billion in 2010, and $1.7 trillion in 2012, plus amounts in the hundreds of billions in other years.In all, at least a mind-boggling $21 trillion of Pentagon financial transactions between 1998 and 2015 could not be traced, documented, or explained, concluded Skidmore. To convey the vastness of that sum, $21 trillion is roughly five times more than the entire federal government spends in a year. It is greater than the US Gross National Product, the world’s largest at an estimated $18.8 trillion. And that $21 trillion includes only plugs that were disclosed in reports by the Office of Inspector General, which does not review all of the Pentagon’s spending.To be clear, Skidmore, in a report coauthored with Catherine Austin Fitts, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development who complained about similar plugs in HUD financial statements, does not contend that all of this $21 trillion was secret or misused funding. And indeed, the plugs are found on both the positive and the negative sides of the ledger, thus potentially netting each other out. But the Pentagon’s bookkeeping is so obtuse, Skidmore and Fitts added, that it is impossible to trace the actual sources and destinations of the $21 trillion. The disappearance of thousands of records adds further uncertainty. The upshot is that no one can know for sure how much of that $21 trillion was, or was not, being spent legitimately.THE COST OF OUR ENDLESS WARSAMERICA’S POST-9/11 WARS HAVE COST $5.9 TRILLIONWilliam D. HartungThat may even apply to the Pentagon’s senior leadership. A good example of this was Donald Rumsfeld, the notorious micromanaging secretary of defense during the Bush/Cheney administration. On September 10, 2001 Rumsfeld called a dramatic press conference at the Pentagon to make a startling announcement. Referring to the huge military budget that was his official responsibility, he said, “According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.” This shocking news that an amount more than five times as large as the Pentagon’s FY 2001 budget of an estimated $313 billion was lost or even just “untrackable” was—at least for one 24-hour news cycle—a big national story, as was Secretary Rumsfeld’s comment that America’s adversary was not China or Russia, but rather was “closer to home: It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.” Equally stunning was Rumsfeld’s warning that the tracking down of those missing transactions “could be…a matter of life and death.” No Pentagon leader had ever before said such a thing, nor has anyone done so since then. But Rumsfeld’s exposé died quickly as, the following morning on September 11, four hijacked commercial jet planes plowed full speed into the two World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Since that time, there has been no follow-up and no effort made to find the missing money, either.Recalling his decades inside the Pentagon, Spinney emphasized that the slippery bookkeeping and resulting fraudulent financial statements are not a result of lazy DoD accountants. “You can’t look at this as an aberration,” he said. “It’s business as usual. The goal is to paralyze Congress.”That has certainly been the effect. As one congressional staffer with long experience investigating Pentagon budgets, speaking on background because of the need to continue working with DoD officials, told The Nation, “We don’t know how the Pentagon’s money is being spent. We know what the total appropriated funding is for each year, but we don’t know how much of that funding gets spent on the intended programs, what things actually cost, whether payments are going to the proper accounts. If this kind of stuff were happening in the private sector, people would be fired and prosecuted.”DoD officials have long insisted that their accounting and financial practices are proper. For example, the Office of Inspector General has attempted to explain away the absurdly huge plugs in DoD’s financial statements as being a common, widely accepted accounting practice in the private sector.When this reporter asked Bridget Serchak, at the time a press spokesperson for the inspector general’s office, about the Army’s $6.5 trillion in plugs for fiscal year 2015, she replied, “Adjustments are made to the Army General Fund financial statement data…for various reasons such as correcting errors, reclassifying amounts and reconciling balances between systems…. For example, there was a net unsupported adjustment of $99.8 billion made to the $0.2 billion balance reported for Accounts Receivable.”SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONHOW BIG WIRELESS MADE US THINK THAT CELL PHONES ARE SAFE: A SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONMark Hertsgaard and Mark DowieThere is a grain of truth in Serchak’s explanation, but only a grain.As an expert in government budgeting, Skidmore confirmed that it is accepted practice to insert adjustments into budget reports to make both sides of a ledger agree. Such adjustments can be deployed in cases where receipts have been lost—in a fire, for example—or where funds were incorrectly classified as belonging to one division within a company rather than another. “But those kinds of adjustments should be the exception, not the rule, and should amount to only a small percentage of the overall budget,” Skidmore said.For its part, the inspector general’s office has blamed the fake numbers found in many DoD financial statements on the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), a huge DoD accounting operation based in Indianapolis, Indiana. In review after review, the inspector general’s office has charged that DFAS has been making up “unsupported” figures to plug into DoD’s financial statements, inventing ledger entries to back up those invented numbers, and sometimes even “removing” transaction records that could document such entries. Nevertheless, the inspector general has never advocated punitive steps against DFAS officials—a failure that suggests DoD higher-ups tacitly approve of the deceptions.Skidmore repeatedly requested explanations for these bookkeeping practices, he says, but the Pentagon response was stonewalling and concealment. Even the inspector general’s office, whose publicly available reports had been criticizing these practices for years, refused to answer the professor’s questions. Instead, that office began removing archived reports from its website. (Skidmore and his grad students, anticipating that possibility, had already downloaded the documents, which were eventually were restored to public access under different URLs.)Click to open the heavily redacted DoD OIG report on a US Navy financial statement for FY 2017.Nation inquiries have met with similar resistance. Case in point: A recent DoD OIG report on a US Navy financial statement for FY 2017. Although OIG audit reports in previous years were always made available online without restriction or censorship, this particular report suddenly appeared in heavily redacted form—not just the numbers it contained, but even its title! Only bureaucratic sloppiness enabled one to see that the report concerned Navy finances: Censors missed some of the references to the Navy in the body of the report, as shown in the passages reproduced here.A request to the Office of Inspector General to have the document uncensored was met with the response: “It was the Navy’s decision to censor it, and we can’t do anything about that.” At The Nation’s request, Senator Grassley’s office also asked the OIG to uncensor the report. Again, the OIG refused. A Freedom Of Information Act request by The Nation to obtain the uncensored document awaits a response.The GAO’s Khan was not surprised by the failure of this year’s independent audit of the Pentagon. Success, he points out, would have required “a good-faith effort from DoD officials, but to date that has not been forthcoming.” He added, “As a result of partial audits that were done in 2016, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines have over 1,000 findings from auditors about things requiring remediation. The partial audits of the 2017 budget were pretty much a repeat. So far, hardly anything has been fixed.”Let that sink in for a moment: As things stand, no one knows for sure how the biggest single-line item in the US federal budget is actually being spent. What’s more, Congress as a whole has shown little interest in investigating this epic scandal. The absurdly huge plugs never even get asked about at Armed Services and Budget Committee hearings.One interested party has taken action—but it is action that’s likely to perpetuate the fraud. The normally obscure Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board sets the accounting standards for all federal agencies. Earlier this year, the board proposed a new guideline saying that agencies that operate classified programs should be permitted to falsify figures in financial statements and shift the accounting of funds to conceal the agency’s classified operations. (No government agency operates more classified programs than the Department of Defense, which includes the National Security Agency.) The new guideline became effective on October 4, just in time for this year’s end-of-year financial statements.SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONSPECIAL INVESTIGATION: THE DIRTY SECRET BEHIND WARREN BUFFETT’S BILLIONSDavid DayenSo here’s the situation: We have a Pentagon budget that a former DOD internal-audit supervisor, Jack Armstrong, bluntly labels “garbage.” We have a Congress unable to evaluate each new fiscal year’s proposed Pentagon budget because it cannot know how much money was actually spent during prior years. And we have a Department of Defense that gives only lip service to fixing any of this. Why should it? The status quo has been generating ever-higher DoD budgets for decades, not to mention bigger profits for Boeing, Lockheed, and other military contractors.The losers in this situation are everyone else. The Pentagon’s accounting fraud diverts many billions of dollars that could be devoted to other national needs: health care, education, job creation, climate action, infrastructure modernization, and more. Indeed, the Pentagon’s accounting fraud amounts to theft on a grand scale—theft not only from America’s taxpayers, but also from the nation’s well-being and its future.As President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who retired from the military as a five-star general after leading Allied forces to victory in World War II, said in a 1953 speech, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” What would Eisenhower say today about a Pentagon that deliberately misleads the people’s representatives in Congress in order to grab more money for itself while hunger, want, climate breakdown, and other ills increasingly afflict the nation?Correction: An earlier version of this article included a mention of $6.5 billion in plugs in 2015. In fact, as cited elsewhere in the story, the correct figure is $6.5 trillion. The article also cited an inaccurate figure for the percentage of federal tax dollars received by the Pentagon. In fact, the Pentagon receives more than half of every dollar of federal discretionary spending, not two out of every three federal tax dollars. The text has been corrected.MOST POPULAR1THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S WHITE WOMEN PROBLEM2IN A MAJOR SHIFT, SOUTH KOREA DEFIES ITS ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN3INDIVISIBLE IS WORKING HARD TO LIVE UP TO ITS NAME4BLACK SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA IS PUTTING ANTI-CAPITALISM ON THE MAP5A SOCCER GAME BECOMES AN ANTI-FASCIST DEMONSTRATION IN PORTLANDDave LindorffNation contributor Dave Lindorff also writes for Salon, London Review of Books, and Counterpunch. He is founder of ThisCantBeHappening.net. Author of four books, he was a 1990s Hong Kong/China correspondent for Business Week.

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Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New PlantUS Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By GallupFour Months into FY 2018, Refugee Admissions Plunge to Lowest Level in 15 YearsUS increases vetting and resumes processing of refugees from 'high-risk' countriesUS Delays Payment to UN for PalestiniansUS Suspends $2 BILLION in security assistance to PakistanGlobal Magnitsky Act Signed: Targeting Global Corruption and Human Rights AbuseNorth Korea Designated as 'State Sponor of Terrorism'United States Announces a New Strategy on IranTrump Administration Announces 'Extreme Vetting' PlansTrump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more Christians than MuslimsNew Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven CountriesUN Security Council unanimously steps up sanctions against North KoreaFewest Monthly Refugee Arrivals in August Since 2002Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help Homeland SecurityAmerica has withdrawn almost $300 million in foreign aid to EgyptTillerson to shutter war crimes focused State Dept. office: reportRex Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs Antiterrorism Pact With QatarCanceled Obama Era special immigration program for foreign entrepreneursCritical milestone in the global fight against ISISTillerson to back up Trump efforts to bolster Eastern Europe against RussiaTillerson Tightens Limits on Filling State Department JobsReport: Trump plans to cut foreign aid, merge State and USAIDUS to make at least $285m cut to UN budgetTillerson on North Korea: Military action is 'an option'It's a bloodbath at the State Department12x More Efficient Than Solar Panels? Prepper's Invention Takes U.S. by Storm!Patriot Advance ReportDHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aidTrump takes 'shackles' off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safeICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern CaliforniaEnd of Year Report: Deportations up 40% - Historically Low CrossingsDHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee AdmissionsDeportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider NetDACA Renewals Drop 21%30-foot concrete slab prototypes erected along borderICE has conducted a MASSIVE raid on sanctuary cities this week - 498 illegal immigrants arrestedTrump has updated his travel ban, includes these 8 countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia - NO EXPIRATION DATECrossing The Border Illegally Is Harder Than It’s Been In 50 YearsWithholding Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities - Must allow ICE access to jails and notify befor release$1.6 billion down payment to start building the wallTrump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported immigrantsExtreme Vetting' for some green cardsDeportation orders up 31% nationwide under TrumpDeportation Orders Up 30%Miami has removed its "sanctuary" statusICE raids targeting families net 650 arrestsDenver To ICE: Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants At Courthouse. ICE To Denver: Not A Chance.17 Texas sheriffs approved to partner w/ICEICE chief wants smuggling charges on leaders of sanctuary citiesNew crackdown on 'so-called' sanctuary citiesRaids to target teenaged suspected gang membersArmy Corps starts pre-construction work on border wallDeportations in LA are up 60% alone80% jump in illegal targetsFeds taking over Texas National Guard mission along borderBorder Patrol Morale at Highest LevelChristian refugees admitted now outnumber Muslim refugees admittedBill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump's border wallICE crackdown scaring some families back to MexicoNo Sanctuary For Criminals Act - deny federal grants to sanctuary cities - Passed House and SenateKate's Law - harsher penalties for previously deported criminals - Passed House and SenateNumber of refugees taken in is down 50%Rescinded DAPAWorkers install final panel in upgrade of border fenceRaids turn Oregon city into ghost townEnding "catch and release" immigration policySilicon Valley Staffing Firm Charged in H1B FraudUnshackling ICE - told that they can take action against ALL illegal immigrants - increasing presence in sanctuary citiesDepartment of DefenseTop 5 ISIS Leaders CapturedTrump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison openUS kills 150 ISIS terrorists in Syria airstrike during government shutdownISIS has lost 98 percent of its territory - due to Trump adminPentagon Announces First-Ever Audit of the Department of DefenseU.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa from ISISISIS facing imminent collapse in Syria's RaqqaGen. Mattis breaks down New Afghanistan StrategyUS-backed fighters 'seize 80% of Raqqa from Islamic State'Mattis sees need for new DOD space programsTrump calls for Increased Military: Senate passes $700 billion defense billUS shares technology with India. Enlisting them to fight in AfghanistanMattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian 'aggression'U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a "Unified Combatant Command"Mattis decides to withhold U.S. cash from key Pakistani military fundMosul liberated from ISISMattis: 'Annihilation Tactics' Being Used Against ISISUS, Gulf countries form new group: 'TFTC' to stem flow of terror financingNATO weighs new 'Counter Terrorism Post' following Trump's demandsISIS leader 'admits DEFEAT in Iraq and orders militants to fleeMattis Gives White House Tentative Plan for Rapid Defeat of ISISJames Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ US backing for Nato over budgetsTrump Blocks Chinese Purchase of Qualcomm due to National SecurityTRUMP SIGNS TARIFF ORDER ON STEEL AND ALUMINUMTrump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels imported from ChinaJapan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s VisitU.S. Trade Deficit falls to 11-month lowTrump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations EndCrude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy PartnershipTrump Blocks China from buying Semi-Conductor company, LatticeCrude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. tiesArgentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 yearsTrump orders probe of China's intellectual property practicesNew memorandum to protect American IPs from China - Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobsCoal exports up 60%China opens rice market for US exports for first time everU.S. makes final finding rebar exports from TaiwanRenegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals - May terminateUnited States and Mexico finalize sugar trade dealFirst U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to PolandSigned an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi ArabiaChina, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gasTrump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements – WTOTrump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber importsIncreased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)China buys more U.S. coal, sends North KoreaTrans Pacific Partnership (TPP) TERMINATEDLetter to PatriotsImportance of Archiving President Trump's AccomplishmentsImportance of archiving President Trump's accomplishmentsTrump supporters are proud of the job President Trump has done so far.Donald J. Trump has achieved more in 1 year than the Obama administration did in 8 despite the lack of help he’s received from the Republican Party and the obstructionists in Congress.With just 1 year in office, President Trump’s accomplishment list is growing and growing, yet you wouldn’t know that if get your news from the “Main Stream Media”.How long do you see Pro Trump news stay in the headlines?It’s almost like seeing a shooting star, you have to be in the right place at the right time and then it’s over just as fast as it began.MAGAPILL was created to preserve President Trump’s Legacy by archiving and listing his accomplishments.Many of President Trump's accomplishments you won't see covered in the news. His achievements are under reported or in many cases, not reported at all.There is one thing that the establishment Republicans, Democrats and the Deep State Media all have in common… They want President Trump to fail.The establishment Republicans, who are basically Democrats at this point, are refusing to implement the MAGA agenda. The Democrats don’t have an agenda, at least not one they can say out loud without getting completely rejected by the American people. The establishment Media has become a political arm of the establishment and real journalism is dead. Together, they are all trying their hardest to paint a picture of failure and disaster.If we don’t capture and archive what’s really going on, we’re leaving it up to the MSM to define Trump’s Presidency and his Legacy.

Heavens no, he is just beginning.GovernmentSenate confirms Trump's 170th Federal Judge with even more to comeTrump signs bill restoring funding for Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesTrump signs bill that makes Extreme Animal Cruelty a FelonyTrump signs executive order protecting MedicareTrump Signs Bill Protecting Disability Payments for Veterans Who Declare BankruptcyTrump signs 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into lawTrump signs bill to fund Autism CARES ActTrump meets Kim Jong Un at DMZ and becomes first sitting US President to enter North KoreaTrump signs measure aimed at Preventing Veteran SuicidesTrump signs Major public lands Conservation bill into lawTrump signs into law Genocide Prevention ActTrump signs legislation enhancing US Leadership in Indo Pacific regionPresident Trump signs Ashanti Alert Act into lawTrump Signs $867B Bipartisan Farm Bill with Welfare Reform Work RequirementsTrump Signs Law Punishing Chinese Officials Who Restrict Access to TibetProduction of Hemp to become Legal in all 50 States with Farm Bill passageTrump Limits Asylum Migrants must come in LegallyTrump Signs New Hezbollah Sanctions Into LawTrump signs Opioids Law at White House eventTrump signs bipartisan Water Infrastructure spending lawTrump signs the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decadesTrump signs bills to Help Patients stop overpaying for MedicineTrump signs law ending Gag Orders against Pharmacists sharing Money Saving informationTrump signs bill requiring Airports to provide spaces for Breastfeeding MomsTrump signs Karis Law on the 50th Anniversary of 911Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Military Prison openTrump signs proclamation directing troops to secure borderPresident Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un sign ‘important document’ at Singapore summitTrump signs law giving Border Patrol better Fentanyl detection toolsTrump signs law expanding Hate Crime protections to Religious InstitutionsTrump signs technical education bill into lawTrump signs law to expand Childhood Cancer ResearchTrump signs bill easing U.S. bank rules into lawTRUMP SIGNS LAW FIGHTING SEX-TRAFFICKINGTrump Cuts aid to PalestineTrump signs law creating national historic park for Martin Luther King Jr.Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab softwareTrump signs Russia sanctions bill into lawDonald Trump signs law aimed at cutting abortion fundingPresident Trump signs law declaring National Vietnam War Veterans DayTrump Signs 3 Executive Actions on Crime Against Police, Drug CartelsTRUMP SIGNS NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL INTO LAWTrump signs Space policy directiveTrump signs First Step Act criminal justice reform into lawTrump signs Historic USMCA trade agreement replacing NAFTAPresident Trump secures release of Pastor Brunson from TurkeyPresident Trump Approval Rating at 51 PercentJustice Kavanaugh SWORN IN to Supreme CourtTrump Shrinks Government by 16000 Jobs since electedUS Cuts 300 Million In Aid To PakistanTrump Cut Off 200 Million in Aid to PalestiniansTrump ends 230 Million Dollar Rebuilding Payments to SyriaTrump has our soldiers remains returned home from Korean WarTrump signs Right to Try drug billUS Embassy moved to Jerusalem by President Donald J TrumpTrump secures release of American Prisoners from North KoreaTrump Negotiates Peace between North and South KoreaTrump Signs Order Calling for Work Requirements for Welfare ProgramsHISTORIC: Trump Nominates First Woman for Head of CIAFeds collect record taxes in first month under Trump’s tax cuts; runs surplus in JanuaryTrump signs sweeping two-year budget deal - MILITARY FUNDEDTrump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years - 'Hire the best and fire the worst'Trump signs bipartisan bill to combat synthetic opioidsTrump Shrinks Federal Bureaucracy by 16000President Trump set a record for lifetime appointed judges in 2017Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017Trump Administration Set to Roll Back $900 Million in Obama-Era Offshore Drilling RegulationsIndividual Mandate of Obamacare REPEALEDSenate Passes Historic Sweeping Tax ReformClimate Change REMOVED from 'Threat List'Trump Admin is a Deregulation Machine: Eliminating 22:1Trump signs $700 billion defense bill, gives troops largest pay raise in 7 yearsNew Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar SystemTrump Declares Jerusalem the Capital of IsraelSenate Passes Sweeping Tax Reform - 20% Corporate rate - Largest in 31 Years.Trump Shuts Down CIA funding of Syrian RebelsHouse Passes Tax Bill in Major Step Toward OverhaulSenate Passes Budget Resolution Clearing the Way to pass Tax Reform with a Simple MajorityTrump's HHS defines life as beginning at conceptionPresident Trump Declassifies and Releases JFK FilesIran Deal: DECERTIFIEDFour Months into FY 2018, Refugee Admissions Plunge to Lowest Level in 15 YearsUS increases security screening measures for vetting refugeesUS Delays Payment to UN for PalestiniansUS Suspends $2 BILLION in security assistance to PakistanGlobal Magnitsky Act Signed: Targeting Global Corruption and Human Rights AbuseNorth Korea Designated as 'State Sponor of Terrorism'United States Announces a New Strategy on IranTrump Administration Announces 'Extreme Vetting' PlansTrump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more Christians than MuslimsTrump: 'We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values'Trump administration abandons the Obama-era clean power plan aimed at reducing global warmingSchool Choice tops the list of Priorities U.S. Education Department GrantsTrump Signs Healthcare Order, Expands Choice and Access through associationsUS and Israel withdraw from UNESCO citing "anti-Israel bias"Trump has written 46 Executive OrdersTreasury Deparment to target companies doing business with North KoreaTrump has signed 53 bills into lawNew Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven CountriesUN Security Council unanimously steps up sanctions against North KoreaFewest Monthly Refugee Arrivals in August Since 2002Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help Homeland SecurityAmerica has withdrawn almost $300 million in foreign aid to EgyptTrump Signs Order Rolling Back Environmental Rules on Infrastructure11,000 government jobs slashed under Trump - downsizing governmentUN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North KoreaSenate confirms 65 Trump nominees for various positionsU.S. Small Business Administration opens assistance center800 Obama regulations cut - Saved over $200 billionEPA's Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental regulations in record timeCut the White House budget - Saved taxpayers $22 millionHaley Tells Congress US Assuming More Assertive Role at UNTrump’s EPA To Repeal Obama’s ‘Waters Of The US’ RuleEliminated 1200 man hours of wasteful paperwork requirements including Y2K preparednessPresident Trump Announces “Massive Permit Reform" PushTrump Lays Out Plan to Privatize Air Traffic Control SystemStatement by President Trump on the Paris Climate AccordTreasury to call for rolling back banking regulationsTrump orders a Voter Fraud Commission to investigate 2016 electionFired corrupt and incompetent FBI Director James ComeyHHS to Rescind Birth Control Mandate in ObamacareAppointed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme CourtBen Carson Finds $500 Billion In Errors during Audit of Obama HUDPresident Trump's executive order will undo Obama's Clean Power Plan ruleU.S. Will have Free but Fair and Balanced Trade: MnuchinExecutive order to reduce operating costs of the Federal GovernmentFired all 46 attorney generals hired by ObamaTillerson to shutter war crimes focused State Dept. office: reportRex Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs Antiterrorism Pact With QatarCanceled Obama Era special immigration program for foreign entrepreneursCritical milestone in the global fight against ISISTillerson to back up Trump efforts to bolster Eastern Europe against RussiaTillerson Tightens Limits on Filling State Department JobsReport: Trump plans to cut foreign aid, merge State and USAIDUS to make at least $285m cut to UN budgetTillerson on North Korea: Military action is 'an option'It's a bloodbath at the State DepartmentPurging the State Department of Obama loyalistsFixing lobbying laws - 5 year lobbying ban on White House officialsPut a regulatory freeze on all federal agenciesCutting regulations in government agencies (add 1, take out 2)45th PRESIDENT of the United States of America, DONALD J. TRUMPEconomyTrump Secures Historic Phase One Trade Agreement with ChinaUS Economy Added 266,000 New Jobs in November smashing expectationsTrump signs Agriculture and Digitial Trade agreements with JapanAfrican-American Unemployment Rate Hits New All Time LowsU.S. Unemployment Rate Falls to 50-Year Low; Trump Economy adding over 6.4 million jobsUS Economy Added 164,000 New Jobs in July; Wages increased 3.2 percentRecord 157,005,000 Employed; 19th Record of Trump EraBoom! America Created 224,000 Jobs in June!Best Economic Optimism in 16 years480,000 Manufacturing Jobs added since President Trump's electionUS job openings rise outnumber the unemployed by 1 millionEconomic Growth Has Reached 3 Percent for the First Time in More than a DecadeOpportunity Zones A New Dawn for Economic OpportunityUnemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Nearly 50 YearsProclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United StatesLARGEST DECLINE IN DRUG PRICES IN NEARLY 50 YEARSTrump Policies Keep Economic Boom Going As Job Gains of 304000 Surpass ExpectationsMORE AMERICANS WORKING NOW THAN EVER BEFORE IN OUR HISTORY250K JOBS ADDED IN OCTOBERManufacturing Confidence at an ALL TIME HIGHConstruction Jobs up more than 300K compared to last yearFood Stamp usage declines for 8 straight monthsMiddle Class income rises to HIGHEST on recordConsumer Confidence 18 YEAR HIGHAmerica is now the worlds largest oil producerFastest growing pace in 14 years for manufacturersBLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD LOWJobless claims lowest level since 1969Trump secures 2026 World Cup for the USAConsumer Confidence Highest in 18 yearsBlack Business Ownership Under Trump JUMPS 400 PERCENT in ONE YEARYouth Unemployment Hits 52 Year LowBlack Support for Trump DOUBLES to 29 percentRECORD Number of Employed - 63 Percent labor participationWorker pay rate hits highest level since 2008Black and Hispanic Unemployment rates hit record low in AprilBusiness Investments up 39 Percent Due to Tax CutsFood Stamp Usage Drops Half Million in Single MonthHighest Ever Manufacturer Optimism over 94 PercentUnemployment claims have fallen to a 45-year lowTrump Economy Explodes Record Number of Americans Employed Stocks SoarFEB JOBS BLOWOUT 313KGREAT AGAIN Household Net Worth Pushes Further Into Record TerritoryU.S. Consumer Confidence Is at 17-Year HighUS homebuilding permits soar to highest level since 2007Economy to grow at 5.4% rate in first quarterRoaring: Economic Optimism Index hits 13-year high, credit to tax cutsU.S. jobless claims drop to near 45-year lowWages jump to highest level since 2009 - up 2.9%U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day, First Time Since 1970Trump Decreases Debt to GDP Ratio - First Time in Over 50 Years!Jobless claims drop to lowest level in nearly 45 yearsApple to Invest $350 BILLION in US citing Trump Tax PlanUtilities cutting rates, cite benefits of Trump tax reformOver 100 companies giving 'Trump Bonuses' after tax victoryBlack unemployment rate falls to record lowTrump adds 184,000 manufacturing jobs and continues growth trendManufacturing in the U.S. Just Accelerated to Its Best Year Since 2004Trump Signs Korean Trade DealTrump Blocks Chinese Purchase of Qualcomm due to National SecurityTRUMP SIGNS TARIFF ORDER ON STEEL AND ALUMINUMTrump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels imported from ChinaJapan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s VisitU.S. Trade Deficit falls to 11-month lowTrump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations EndCrude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy PartnershipTrump Blocks China from buying Semi-Conductor company, LatticeCrude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. tiesArgentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 yearsTrump orders probe of China's intellectual property practicesNew memorandum to protect American IPs from China - Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobsCoal exports up 60%China opens rice market for US exports for first time everU.S. makes final finding rebar exports from TaiwanRenegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals - May terminateUnited States and Mexico finalize sugar trade dealFirst U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to PolandSigned an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi ArabiaChina, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gasTrump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements – WTOTrump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber importsIncreased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)China buys more U.S. coal, sends North KoreaTrans Pacific Partnership (TPP) TERMINATEDNikki Haley negotiates $285M cut in ‘bloated’ UN budgetWIC Welfare Participation Hits 17-Year LowU.S. home sales hit 11-year highManufacturing Optimism Reaches Another All-Time High - 94.6%Economy adds 228K jobs in NovemberMining up 28.6% - Leads the Nation in GrowthBroadcom will move back to U.S. — and bring tax money with itUS private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct - Beats ExpectationsConsumer confidence highest level since December 2000Q3 GDP at 3 Percent – Beats ExpectationsIvanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to foster Entrepreneurship among WomenConsumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High63.1%: Participation Rate Reaches Trump-Era HighUnemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%New entrants from outside the labor market made up 3.2U.S. Factories Expanding at 13 Year highDow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20 yearsHome builder confidence at 12-year highManufacturer confidence at a 20-year highTech giants pledge millions to Trump initiativeQ2 GDP up 3.1%Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in AugustFederal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at record high of $1.7 trillion - Rising property values and Financial gainSurging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2 trillionFood Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under TrumpMedian Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas in the wake of Hurricane HarveyJobless claims drop to 240,000 - hottest streak in 43 yearsU.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in AugustRecovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated WorkersU.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest pace in six yearsDonald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work Requirements for WelfareConsumer confidence strengthens in August, second-highest level since late 2000President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer Period of Time Than Any PresidentPennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal mineSummer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their best earnings in 13 yearsUS trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year highMilestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six monthsNational unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it's been in 16 years)13,000 jobs being created in WI - largest job announcement in WI history (Foxconn)Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 YearsGas prices at a 12-year lowSome states are experiencing their lowest unemployment rates in their historiesTrump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship FundingU.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobsCEO confidence highest since 2014U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 yearsTrump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and TrainingGovernment spending as percentage of GDP down1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi ArabiaExecutive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology CouncilUSA's small business confidence is spurring a hiring and spending spreeAlibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And President Trump's 'One Million U.S. Jobs' PromiseSlashing job-killing regulations left and rightCreating thousands of more jobs for immigration officers and border patrolSigned a resolution encouraging women in entrepreneurship and STEMExecutive ordered all federal agencies to create task forces to cut regulations that hurt the economyUS Manufacturing Index at a 33-year highCoal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New PlantUS Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By GallupNational SecurityThe United States Has Brought the Leader of ISIS to JusticeExecutive Order on Modernizing Sanctions to Combat TerrorismOrders Additional Measures to Enhance Border SecurityThe United States has Liberated All ISIS-Controlled TerritoryTrump signs order directing an increase in Cyber SecurityCombating High Nonimmigrant Overstay RatesICE arrests 364 criminal aliens and immigration violators in enforcement surgeUS signs proclamation against Female Genital Mutilation and CuttingDHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aidICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern CaliforniaEnd of Year Report: Deportations up 40% - Historically Low CrossingsDHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee AdmissionsDeportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider NetDACA Renewals Drop 21%30-foot concrete slab prototypes erected along borderICE has conducted a MASSIVE raid on sanctuary cities this week - 498 illegal immigrants arrestedTrump has updated the travel ban to includes 8 more countriesCrossing The Border Illegally Is Harder Than It’s Been In 50 YearsWithholding Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities - Must allow ICE access to jails and notify befor releaseVA announces Access Standards for Health CareTrump signs VA Mission ActEnhancing Veteran Care ActVA seeks partnerships to build and improve health-care facilitiesVA announces Veterans Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences ActVA, Ginnie Mae create task force to address mortgage refinancing issuesTelemedicine: An important tool for Veterans healthTrump Signs Bill to Streamline VA Disability Claims Appeals ProcessTrump signs ‘Forever GI Bill,’ boosting aid to student vetsVA expands Tele-Health accessVA fires more than 500 feds under Trump, even before new accountability lawTrump signs VA accountability act into law, promises better care for veteransTrump Administration Streamlines Veteran Medical RecordsWhite House to launch veterans' complaint hotlineAccountability and Whistleblower Protection at VA$1.6 billion down payment to start building the wallTrump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported immigrantsRescinded DACAExtreme Vetting' for some green cardsDeportation orders up 31% nationwide under TrumpDeportation Orders Up 30%Miami has removed its "sanctuary" statusICE raids targeting families net 650 arrestsDenver To ICE: Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants At Courthouse. ICE To Denver: Not A Chance.17 Texas sheriffs approved to partner w/ICEICE chief wants smuggling charges on leaders of sanctuary citiesNew crackdown on 'so-called' sanctuary citiesRaids to target teenaged suspected gang membersArmy Corps starts pre-construction work on border wallDeportations in LA are up 60% alone80% jump in illegal targetsFeds taking over Texas National Guard mission along borderBorder Patrol Morale at Highest LevelChristian refugees admitted now outnumber Muslim refugees admittedBill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump's border wallICE crackdown scaring some families back to MexicoKate's Law - harsher penalties for previously deported criminals - Passes HouseNumber of refugees taken in is down 50%Rescinded DAPAWorkers install final panel in upgrade of border fenceRaids turn Oregon city into ghost townEnding "catch and release" immigration policySilicon Valley Staffing Firm Charged in H1B FraudUnshackling ICE - told that they can take action against ALL illegal immigrants - increasing presence in sanctuary citiesTrump signs new defense policy bill that rebuilds military, boosts troop payTop 5 ISIS Leaders CapturedTrump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison openUS kills 150 ISIS terrorists in Syria airstrike during government shutdownISIS has lost 98 percent of its territory - due to Trump adminPentagon Announces First-Ever Audit of the Department of DefenseU.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa from ISISISIS facing imminent collapse in Syria's RaqqaGen. Mattis breaks down New Afghanistan StrategyUS-backed fighters 'seize 80% of Raqqa from Islamic State'Mattis sees need for new DOD space programsTrump calls for Increased Military: Senate passes $700 billion defense billMattis seeks Indian role in AfghanistanMattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian 'aggression'U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a "Unified Combatant Command"Mattis decides to withhold U.S. cash from key Pakistani military fundMosul liberated from ISISMattis: 'Annihilation Tactics' Being Used Against ISISUS, Gulf countries form new group: 'TFTC' to stem flow of terror financingNATO weighs new 'Counter Terrorism Post' following Trump's demandsISIS leader 'admits DEFEAT in Iraq and orders militants to fleeMattis Gives White House Tentative Plan for Rapid Defeat of ISISJames Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ US backing for Nato over budgetsTrump DOJ Sues California For Interference With Immigration EnforcementDOJ Halts Obama's Operation Chokepoint, Which Targeted Firearm DealersMore than 1,000 arrests in sex trafficking operationFour charged with leaks from Trump administrationJeff Sessions announces new crackdown on 'so-called' sanctuary citiesJustice Department announces takedown of AlphaBay, the largest dark web marketSessions's New Civil-Forfeiture Rules400 medical professionals charged in largest health care fraud takedownThe Department of Justice Stands by Texas's Voter ID LawCharges: Sex traffickers took hundreds from Thailand to USAG Sessions is bringing back the harsher sentences for drug dealersSex Trafficking Arrests Soar Under Trump; MSM Completely IgnoresDHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aidTrump takes 'shackles' off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safeICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern CaliforniaEnd of Year Report: Deportations up 40% - Historically Low CrossingsDHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee AdmissionsDeportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider NetLetter to PatriotsImportance of Archiving President Trump's accomplishments:The Mainstream Media news outlets have completely ignored President Trump's accomplishments and all of the positive things he has achieved while in office. They've instead decided to focus all of their time and effort waging a war against President Trump, his supporters and the MAGA agenda.Donald J. Trump has achieved more for America in 3 years than any other President in history. It really makes you wonder if past presidents have even been trying at all!