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# Week 12’s Winners: The American People

The White House
April 11, 2025

The American people won big this week following President Donald J. Trump’s historic announcements on restoring fair trade and more great economic news.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 12:

- President Trump brought more than 75 countries to the negotiating table following his bold action on reciprocal trade — and stood up for American workers who have seen their jobs go overseas to China.
- Americans began seeing the early results of President Trump’s commitment to American manufacturing and job growth.
  - Novartis, a Swiss drugmaker, announced a $23 billion investment to build or expand ten manufacturing facilities across the U.S., which will create thousands of new jobs.
  - Amsterdam-based AMG Critical Minerals announced a $15 million investment to build a chrome manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania.
  - NOVONIX Limited, an Australia-based battery technology company, announced a $4.6 million investment to build a synthetic graphite manufacturing facility in Tennessee.
  - Barry Callebaut, a Swiss chocolate company, announced it will increase its U.S.-based production.
  - Guardian Bikes, a leading kids’ bicycle brand, announced it will build the first U.S.-based large-scale bicycle frame manufacturing operation in Indiana.
    - Guardian Bikes CEO Brian Riley: “[President Trump’s trade agenda] is a welcome departure from a trade and economic policy that prioritized offshoring production and cheap consumption.”
  - BMW is considering adding shifts to boost production at its South Carolina plant.
  - Reuters reported: “One of Spain’s leading olive oil producers is pondering an expansion into the U.S.”
- President Trump delivered the first price relief in years as his economic agenda comes into focus.
  - The latest inflation report showed consumer prices declined for the first time in nearly three years.
    - Prescription drug prices saw the largest monthly decline on record.
    - Energy prices fell 2.4% in March, driven by plummeting gas prices across the country.
  - Wholesale inflation dropped for the first time in 17 months.
    - Bloomberg: “A Bloomberg metals index that includes aluminum, copper, nickel and zinc — key inputs for manufacturers — is hovering near the lowest level since 2020. Moreover, crude oil prices have sunk to around $60 a barrel — close to four-year lows. Grains and livestock prices have also cooled.”
- President Trump continued to rid our communities of illegal immigrant criminals and deadly drugs.
  - The Department of Homeland Security announced more than 5,000 illegal migrants have chosen to self-deport over the last month using its CBP Home app.
  - Immigration authorities in Houston deported 174 criminal illegal aliens — with a combined 610 criminal convictions, including rape and murder — to Mexico.
  - Authorities in Alabama arrested six illegal immigrant members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang.
  - Immigration authorities in Phoenix conducted a deportation operation targeting human traffickers, gang members, and drug smugglers.
  - The U.S. Coast Guard announced it seized over $509 million worth of illegal drugs that cartels were attempting to traffic into the country.
- The Trump Administration announced it has reunited nearly 5,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children with a safe relative or guardian.
- President Trump continued his unprecedented deregulatory agenda, which is already estimated to save nearly $11,000 per family of four.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make America’s showers great again.
  - President Trump ordered executive branch agencies to repeal regulations deemed unlawful by recent Supreme Court decisions.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate regulations that stifle competition.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to require the automatic recission of outdated regulations on American energy production and innovation.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to remove unlawful, burdensome state-level impediments to domestic energy production.
- President Trump took action to strengthen America’s defense and industrial base.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to improve speed and accountability in the defense sales system.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to modernize defense acquisitions and spur innovation in the defense industrial base.
- President Trump unleashed America’s beautiful clean coal industry.
  - President Trump signed an executive order to reinvigorate the beautiful clean coal industry after decades of neglect by politicians.
  - President Trump granted two-years of relief from stringent Biden-era rules on coal-fired power plants.
- President Trump created an Maritime Action Plan to revitalize the shipping industry and restore American maritime dominance.
- President Trump signed an executive order to strengthen the reliability and security of the electric grid.
- President Trump signed an executive order eliminating barriers for federal artificial intelligence use and procurement.
- President Trump continued to pursue peace through strength around the world.
  - The Trump Administration secured an agreement from Panama to allow the U.S. troops along the Panama Canal.
  - President Trump continued to direct successful air strikes against Houthi terrorists.
- President Trump secured the release of U.S. citizen Ksenia Karelina from Russia.
- Abu Dhabi announced it will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the U.S. natural gas industry amid President Trump’s pledge to unleash American energy production.
- President Trump signed legislation repealing the overbearing Biden-era “DeFi Crypto Broker Rule,” marking the first time a cryptocurrency bill has ever been signed into law by a president.
- President Trump secured wins in several Supreme Court cases, including over his use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport violent gang members from the country.
- President Trump approved emergency declarations for Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee to support state and local response efforts after severe storms and flooding.
- President Trump’s nominees continued to be confirmed at a rapid pace, with the Senate voting to confirm Dan “Razin” Caine as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel, Kevin Cabrera as Ambassador to Panama, Pete Hoekstra as Ambassador to the Netherlands, and Elbridge Colby as Under Secretary of Defense.
- The Department of Defense welcomed back, with backpay, troops who were discharged for refusing the Biden-era COVID vaccine mandate.
- The Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service reached an agreement to provide immigration officials with data to locate and deport illegal immigrants.
- The Department of Homeland Security relaunched the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office to assist Americans harmed by illegal immigrant crime.
- The Department of Energy took a series of actions to implement President Trump’s executive order on coal production, including reinstating the National Coal Council, deploying new technology to extra critical minerals from coal ash, and making financing available for coal infrastructure.
- The Department of Energy announced it will distribute high-assay low-enriched uranium to five U.S. nuclear developers as part of President Trump’s commitment to unleashing all sources of affordable, reliable, and safe American energy.
- The Department of Justice and the Department of Education formed a Title IX task force to keep men out of women’s sports and protect female athletes from the pernicious effects of radical gender ideology.
- The Department of Justice revoked non-essential funding for the Maine Department of Corrections after they allowed a man to be housed in a woman’s prison.
- The Department of Housing and Urban Development extended foreclosure relief for more than one million borrowers affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton.
- The Office of the Director of National Intelligence established a task force to restore public trust in the intelligence community and end the weaponization of government against Americans.

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