AMENDMENT FOR PRINTED RESOLUTION
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___________________ moved that SCR 16 be amended as follows:


    On the printed resolution, delete everything after the first WHEREAS clause and insert:

"President Trump's Executive Order to boost apprenticeships has increased job growth, and under his leadership one million seven hundred thousand new jobs have been created; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump's work and dedication to the United States' workforce has been proven by bringing companies back to the United States and ending the war on coal; and

    WHEREAS, under President Trump's policies, the unemployment rate has fallen to four and one one-hundredths percent, the lowest since May 2017; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump signed into law a tax reform plan that provided five billion five hundred thousand dollars in tax cuts, increased the child tax credit, and repealed the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, tax; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump continues to cut government regulation at a twenty-two-to-one ratio, thus saving eight billion one hundred thousand dollars and resulting in a twenty and four one-hundredths percent increase in the S&P 500 since one year ago; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump has issued executive orders to protect police officers and to target drug cartels, creating a safer country; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump appointed and the Senate confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump and his administration have helped to reduce illegal immigration, with forty percent fewer illegal aliens crossing the border; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump has followed through on his campaign promise by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump has announced plans to move the United States' Embassy to Jerusalem; and

    WHEREAS, President Trump's administration promptly placed sanctions on Iran over their missile program and promptly responded to Syria's use of chemical weapons; and

    WHEREAS, with cohesive and effective teamwork with his administration and the brave men and women of our armed forces, President Trump has continued to fight terror, resulting in ISIS losing territory and power:

    NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Senate of the Ninety-Third Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature, expresses gratitude for the work of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, for Making America Great Again."