Why President Trump will be the greatest civil rights president in a generation

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His actions in the first 500 days of his presidency have included supporting prison reform to empower millions of Americans to have a better chance after their incarceration, moving away from Clinton-era "superpredator" policies that imprisoned low-level drug offenders, and overturning a 105-year-old mistake by pardoning Jack Johnson.

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President Trump believes this money would be better spent on rebuilding America's infrastructure and communities. That's why he has embraced bipartisan legislation such as the FIRST STEP Act (H.R. 5682), and worked with Democrats such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York to pass the bill in the U.S. House last month.

The FIRST STEP Act is a total game-changer for prison and sentencing reform -- curbing mass incarceration, empowering inmates to get their lives back on track, and saving taxpayers money.

This bill does so by helping individuals reintegrate back into their communities and expanding evidence-based re-entry programs, including drug treatment, job training, and counseling. Also, offering prisoners time credits for good behavior incentivizes them to do the right thing, speeds up the judicial process, saves taxpayer dollars, and, most importantly, gives people a second chance.

If you combine the FIRST STEP Act with President Trump's vocal leadership on the national stage, his success lowering minority unemployment to record-setting lows, and his executive actions to right historical wrongs, no president in recent memory has been this ambitious to help communities impacted by mass incarceration.

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