{"id":65111,"date":"2026-08-21T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65111"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:38:47","slug":"so-exactly-what-has-the-trump-administration-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65111","title":{"rendered":"So Exactly What Has The Trump Administration Accomplished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2026\/08\/20\/trump-administration-accomplishments-october-2025-present-part-one\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT0DXpwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6kNtMMQhQskwMq22bS78IrspWVFpdU9lkKFRCOdtsJtYw-J9mInoTSs4TnyQ_aem_99_qO80RhtGgnOq9lRhAQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Greatness<\/a> posted an article listing the domestic policy accomplishments of the Trump administration from October 2025 to the present.<\/p>\n<p>The major highlight of the list was the One Big Beautiful Bill:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The signature domestic accomplishment of the fall and winter was not a new law, but the rollout of the law already signed\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/1\/text\">H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)<\/a>, which Trump signed on July 4, 2025. Most of its individual-side provisions took effect January 1, 2026, and by the bill\u2019s one-year anniversary the effects were measurable. The law permanently locked in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act rates and the doubled standard deduction, which\u2014absent the OBBBA\u2014would have expired at the end of 2025 and triggered a tax increase on most households. <a href=\"https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/data\/all\/federal\/obbba-average-tax-cuts-impact-map\/\">The Tax Foundation<\/a> estimated the average American taxpayer would see a federal tax cut of roughly $3,752 in 2026, with every state benefiting to some degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The bill also delivered on specific 2024 campaign promises: no tax on tips (roughly 7 million workers claimed the deduction) and no tax on overtime (28 million claimants), an increased SALT deduction cap, a $6,000 senior deduction, and reform of Medicaid and SNAP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other accomplishments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Department of Government Efficiency continued its work despite the litigation and congressional friction noted in that earlier article, with claimed savings pushing toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/doge.gov\/savings\">quarter-trillion-dollar mark<\/a> and continued federal workforce attrition through hiring freezes, return-to-office mandates, and automation of processes like federal retirement filing. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanactionforum.org\/insight\/congress-approves-9-billion-rescissions-package\/\">rescissions package<\/a> and impoundment actions targeted programs the administration deemed wasteful, while fraud investigations expanded into state-level abuse of federal benefit programs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minnesota-medicaid-fraud-indictments\/601847060\">a high-profile Minnesota probe<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s MAHA Commission moved from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/maha-commission-unveils-sweeping-strategy-make-our-children-healthy-again\">September 2025 strategy document<\/a> (120-plus initiatives) into implementation. The FDA continued working with industry toward eliminating petroleum-based synthetic dyes like Red 40 and Yellow 5 from the food supply by the end of 2026 and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/maha\/index.html\">closing the \u201cGRAS loophole\u201d<\/a> that let food companies self-certify novel additives as safe without FDA review. USDA and HHS released updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasizing whole foods, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/press-room\/cms-announces-50-billion-in-awards-to-strengthen-rural-health-in-all-50-states.html\">the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program<\/a> (created in the OBBBA) began funding rural hospitals and MAHA-aligned state policy, including support for regenerative agriculture practices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. Other accomplishments mentioned include gaining control of the southern border, appointing judges who believe in the U.S. Constitution, lowering crime in several major cities, and creating a manufacturing boom in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, American Greatness posted an article listing the domestic policy accomplishments of the Trump administration from October 2025 to the present. The major highlight of the list was the One Big Beautiful Bill: The signature domestic accomplishment of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18486,11800,7736,17390,20000,11137,13903],"class_list":["post-65111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-obbb","tag-american-greatness","tag-border-security","tag-department-of-government-efficiency-doge","tag-eliminating-petroleum-based-synthetic-dyes","tag-tax-cuts","tag-trump-administraiton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65116,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65111\/revisions\/65116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}