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# Week 13 Wins: President Trump’s Relentless Pursuit of Prosperity, Opportunity

The White House
April 18, 2025

Another week of successes for the American people is in the books as President Donald J. Trump continues to deliver on his promises.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 13:

- Americans continued to see early results of President Trump’s commitment to American manufacturing and job growth.
  - Abbott Laboratories announced it will spend $500 million on its Illinois and Texas facilities.
  - NVIDIA announced it will manufacture its AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. as part of its pledge to produce $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years.
  - Honda Motor Co. announced plans to shift production of the Civic from Japan to the U.S. amid plans to boost its U.S. production by up to 30% in the next several years.
  - Ellwood Group – a small manufacturer of forged steel, nickel and aluminum products – announced a sales increase of 35% quarter-over-quarter following President Trump’s steel tariffs.
- President Trump continued to secure our border and rid our communities of illegal immigrant criminals.
  - U.S. Border Patrol recorded the fewest illegal crossings at the southwest border on record in March – down 94% lower over last March.Violent terrorist gang members and criminal illegal immigrants continued to be deported to El Salvador.
  - In just the past several days, ICE arrested a host of depraved criminal illegal immigrants, including a convicted rapist in Brooklyn, a convicted murder in Los Angeles, and a convicted arsonist in Virginia.
- President Trump continued to pursue peace through strength around the world.
  - The Trump administration secured the release of an America missionary held in Tunisia for 13 months.
  - The Trump Administration directed additional successful airstrikes against Houthi terrorists.
- President Trump signed an order aimed at stopping illegal immigrants and other ineligible individuals from obtaining benefits under the Social Security Act and enhancing investigations into fraud.
- President Trump took executive action to expand on the historic efforts of his first term to lower prescription drug prices — delivering lower prices for Medicare, providing massive discounts on lifesaving medications, like insulin, for low-income and uninsured Americans, and helping states save millions on prescription drug costs.
- President Trump opened the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, undoing a nonsensical Biden-era ban and boosting the economy of American Samoa and other Pacific islands.
- President Trump signed an executive order to restore American seafood competitiveness by reducing regulatory burdens, combating unfair foreign trade practices, and enhancing domestic seafood production and exports.
- President Trump took additional action to ensure government remains accountable to the taxpayers who fund it.
  - President Trump signed a memorandum to ensure government is leveraging modern technology to effectively and efficiently conduct environmental reviews and evaluate permits.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to enforce existing law requiring the federal government to utilize the competitive marketplace and the innovations of private enterprise to provide better, more-cost-effective services to taxpayers.
  - President Trump rescinded two longstanding presidential actions that unnecessarily restricted where federal agencies could site their facilities.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to dramatically simplify and streamline the federal procurement process.
- President Trump signed an executive order launching an investigation into the national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.
- The Department of Justice announced a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education over their consistent and willful refusal to protect women and girls in sports and other private spaces.
- The Department of the Treasury continued its crackdown on Chinese facilitation of Iranian oil exports, sanctioning various Chinese companies purchasing from, and providing vessels for, Iran’s shadow fleet.
- The Department of the Interior announced the emergency withdrawal and transfer of jurisdiction of nearly 110,000 acres of federal land along the southern border to support operations in border security.
- The Trump Administration’s joint task force on Title IX launched an investigation into the University of Maryland over allowing a male athlete to compete in women’s fencing and use women’s-only intimate facilities, and launched an investigation into the University of Maryland and Wagner college for penalizing a female athlete for refusing to compete against a male.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released records on the government’s investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- The Department of State canceled 139 grants worth $214 million, including wasteful programs like “Building the Migrant Domestic Worker-Led Movement” in Lebanon or “Get the Trolls Out!” in the United Kingdom.
- The Department of State scrapped its Global Engagement Center, which was at the center of U.S. government-sponsored censorship and media manipulation.
- The Department of Health and Human Services launched new studies on the link between environmental toxins and autism.
- Institutions across the country continued to dissolve their divisive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming in response to President Trump’s executive order.
  - James Madison University ended its DEI programming.
  - Ball State University announced it will end its DEI programming.
  - Rochester Community School District in Michigan eliminated its DEI director position.

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