Trump's first 100 days – by the numbers - Fox News

Trump's first 100 days – by the numbers

President Trump hit his 100th day in office on Saturday, with the White House claiming they've accomplished more in the opening stretch than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Fox News took a look at the stats, and broke down the first 100 days by the numbers. From meetings with foreign leaders to golf outings to a flurry of executive orders, here’s what Trump has done in his first 100 days:

Signed 28 bills and resolutions into law

The White House says Trump has signed more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman. It's technically true; Trump signed 28 bills and resolutions into law in his first 100 days, though they generally were not major pieces of legislation. Thirteen of the 28 bills signed were done under the Congressional Review Act to roll back Obama-era regulations.

Here are the other 15 bills Trump signed into law:

· Jan. 20—signed S.84, a bill to allow the appointment of someone for secretary of defense who has not been retired from the Armed Forces for at least seven years. Gen. Jim Mattis had only been retired for three years, requiring a waiver from Congress in order to be confirmed for the Cabinet post—Trump signed this on Inauguration Day.

· Jan. 31—signed H.R.72, the GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017, which authorized the Government Accountability Office to obtain federal agency records required to discharge GAO duties.

· Feb. 28—signed H.R. 255, Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act.

· Feb. 28—signed H.R. 321, Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act.

· March 13—signed H.R. 609, a bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs health care center in Center Township, Butler County, Pa., as the “Abie Abraham VA Clinic.”

· March 21—signed S. 442, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act.

· March 28—signed S. 305, the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act.

· March 31—signed H.R. 1362, a bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based clinic in Pago Pago, American Samoa, the “Faleomavaega Eni Fa’aua’a Hunkin VA Clinic.”

· March 31—signed S.J. Res 1, a joint resolution to approve the location of a memorial to commemorate and honor members of Armed Forces who served in active duty in Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.

· April 3—signed H.R. 1228, a bill to allow the appointment of members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to replace members whose terms expire during 2017.

· April 18—signed H.R. 353, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act.

· April 19---signed S. 544, a bill to amend Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to change the termination date for the Veterans Choice Program.

· April 19—signed S.J. Res 30, a joint resolution to reappoint Steve Case as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents for the Smithsonian Institution.

· April 19—signed S.J. Res 35, a joint resolution to appoint Michael Govan as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents for the Smithsonian Institution.

· April 19—signed S.J. Res 36, a joint resolution to appoint Roger Ferguson as a citizen regent of Board of Regents for the Smithsonian Institution.

Signed 30 executive orders

Trump signed 30 executive orders in his first 100 days. By comparison, during their first 100 days, President Barack Obama signed 19, George W. Bush signed 11, and Bill Clinton signed 13. The last time any president came close to Trump in signed orders was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed 26.

Click here to review Trump's executive orders.

Visited 11 states for events

Trump has traveled to 11 states for 13 events outside of Washington, D.C., since he took the oath of office-- not including weekend trips to Mar-a-Lago, or Saturday's visit to Pennsylvania.

· Pennsylvania: Jan. 26—Trump went to the GOP retreat in Philadelphia

· Delaware: Feb. 1—Trump visited Dover Air Force Base for the arrival of the remains of a U.S Navy SEAL killed in combat.

· Florida: Feb. 6—Trump went to U.S. Central Command in Tampa and gave a speech.

· South Carolina: Feb. 17 –Trump went to North Charleston for the introduction of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

· Florida: Feb. 18—Trump went to Melbourne for his first rally since he became president.

· Maryland: Feb. 24—Trump attended CPAC outside Washington.

· Virginia: March 2—Trump gave a speech aboard the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.

· Florida: March 3—Trump discussed education at St. Andrews Catholic School in Pine Hills.

· Michigan: March 15—Trump gave a speech at the American Center for Mobility in Detroit.

· Tennessee: March 15—Trump held a rally in Hermitage on the 250th birthday of Andrew Jackson.

· Kentucky: March 20—Trump had a rally in Louisville to promote the first GOP plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

· Wisconsin: April 18—Trump signed the “Buy American, Hire American” executive order in Kenosha.

· Georgia: April 28—Trump spoke at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Atlanta.

Had in-person meetings with 15 foreign leaders

Trump has met with 15 foreign leaders in his first 100 days, five of which were leaders of Middle Eastern countries.

· United Kingdom: British Prime Minister Theresa May, held joint press conference

· Jordan: King Abdullah II (twice)

· Japan: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, held joint press conference

· Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, held joint press conference

· Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, held joint press conference

· Peru: President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

· Saudi Arabia: Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud

· Ireland: Prime Minister Edna Kenny

· Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel, held joint press conference

· Iraq: Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

- Denmark: Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen

· Egypt: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

· China: President Xi Jingping

· Italy: Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, held joint press conference

- Argentina: President Mauricio Macri

Held 1 solo press conference, held 8 with foreign leaders

Trump only gave one solo press conference in the first 100 days. The rest were joint press conferences with foreign leaders.

Spent 7 weekends at Mar-a-Lago

Trump has spent seven of the 13 weekends of his presidency at his Palm Beach property, Mar-a-Lago, which many refer to as the ‘southern White House’.

In total, Trump has spent 25 days at Mar-a-Lago—10 full days, 15 half days—that’s an estimated 419 ¼ hours in Palm Beach County as president.

· Feb. 3-6: the weekend included a Super Bowl watch party and the 60th Annual Red Cross Ball at Trump International.

· Feb. 10-12: Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago, went golfing, and had a news conference in response to a North Korean missile launch.

· Feb. 17-20: Trump had a rally in Melbourne, Fla.

· March 3-5: Trump spent the weekend in Palm Beach.

· March 17-19: Trump, the first lady, and their son Barron went to Mar-a-Lago. Trump visited his Trump International Golf Club, and Vice President Pence stopped by on March 18.

· April 6-9: Trump had Chinese President Xi Jinping for a visit -- and ordered missile strikes on Syria from the situation room in Mar-a-Lago.

· April 13-16: Trump and his family spent Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago, got in a couple of rounds of golf, and attended Easter mass at Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea.

Golfed 16 times

Trump has gone on at least 16 golf outings since becoming president—all of which have been on Saturdays and Sundays and at Trump-branded courses.

· 13 have been at Trump International in West Palm Beach

· 1 at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla.

· 2 at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.

Fox News' Bryan Murphy and Amy Leedecke contributed to this report.

Brooke Singman is a Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

It’s Officially Tax Day in the U.S. Here Are Five Things to Know - TIME

It’s Officially Tax Day in the U.S. Here Are Five Things to Know

Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:33 AM PDT

(WASHINGTON) — Tuesday is Tax Day, that dreaded day when millions of procrastinators rush to fulfill their civic duty by filing state and federal tax returns.

But for most, it’s not that bad. Sure, the forms are complicated and yes, there is math. But tax season also generates about $300 billion in refunds, a significant boost to the U.S. economy.

Five things to know about Tax Day:

Most Get Refunds

The IRS so far has processed 101 million tax returns from individuals and about 80% have qualified for refunds. The average refund is $2,851, an increase of $53 over last year.

By the end of filing season, the IRS expects to process 150 million returns. That’s after millions file for automatic six-month extensions.

Chances of Getting Audited Are Slim

The number of people audited by the IRS in 2016 dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. That’s less than 1% of filers.

The last time so few people were audited was 2004. Since then, the U.S. has added about 30 million people.

The IRS blames budget cuts as money for the agency shrank from $12.2 billion in 2010 to $11.2 billion last year.

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But rich people beware. The higher your income, the more likely you are to be audited. Agents audited 5.8% of returns that reported more than $1 million in income.

Returns Down, Refunds Delayed

Tax season got off to a slow start because the IRS delayed refunds for more than 40 million low-income families as part of the agency’s efforts to fight identity theft.

The delays affected families claiming the earned income tax credit and the additional child tax credit. The tax breaks are geared to benefit the working poor, and many families claim both.

The tax filing season started Jan. 23. But a new law required the IRS to delay tax refunds for people claiming these credits until Feb. 15.

The delay was designed to give the agency more time to screen the returns for fraud. Throughout the tax filing season, the number of tax returns processed by the IRS has been lower than last year.

As of April 7, the IRS had received 104 million tax returns and processed 101 million. Both numbers are down about 3.5% from last year.

People Illegally in U.S. Pay Taxes

There is a common myth that people in the U.S. illegally don’t pay taxes. But data from both the IRS and the Social Security Administration says otherwise.

Yes, some work in the underground economy. But in 2015, the Social Security Administration estimated that immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally paid $100 billion in Social Security payroll taxes over the previous decade. They paid the taxes even though few will ever be able to collect benefits.

How does Social Security know when it receives taxes from immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally? One way is by tracking reported wages in which the Social Security number does not match the name the agency has on file.

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Some of these are clerical errors or unreported name changes. But the agency estimates that a majority of the wages come from immigrants who have made-up Social Security numbers or used someone else’s.

Also, the IRS has issued more than 20 million Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to foreigners.

The ITINs are supposed to be used by foreigners who have some form of U.S. income, and therefore owe U.S. taxes. However, the tax agency believes that many of them are used by people who are working in the U.S. illegally.

Tax Day Isn’t Much of a Deadline If You’re Due a Refund

The IRS doesn’t like to talk about it, but penalties for filing late federal tax returns apply only to people who owe money. The penalty is a percentage of what you owe. If you owe nothing, there is no penalty.

But it doesn’t make much sense to file late if you are owed a refund. And beware — if you have unpaid taxes, the late fees add up quickly.

The failure-to-file penalty is generally 5% of your unpaid tax bill for every month, or part of a month, you are late. It kicks in on April 19. In general, the maximum penalty is 25% of your original tax bill.

There also is a penalty for failing to pay your tax bill, separate from the penalty for failing to file at all, but it’s much smaller. That’s because the IRS wants you to file a return even if you don’t have enough money to pay your bill.

The failure-to-pay penalty is 0.5% of your unpaid taxes for every month, or part of a month, you don’t pay.

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Steve Wozniak Says Apple Is Turning Into Microsoft - Fortune

Steve Wozniak Says Apple Is Turning Into Microsoft Posted: 21 Apr 2017 06:38 AM PDT There would be no Apple without Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple over 40 years ago with the late Steve Jobs, remains a revered figure in Silicon Valley. Although he is no longer connected with Apple, he keeps busy making appearances at big tech conferences to inspire inventors, serves as chief scientist for the enterprise data storage startup Primary Data, and even found time to cha-cha-cha on the TV show Dancing With The Stars a few years ago. On Friday, Wozniak returns to the upcoming Silicon Valley Comic Con event where pop culture fans, celebrities, and technologists will celebrate “the nerd side of things,” as he put it. In this edited interview with Fortune, Wozniak discusses how his former company is acting like Microsoft, the influence of money in Silicon Valley, and being an introvert in the social networking era. Fortune: How has the tech landscape changed over the years? Wozniak: When Steve and I started Apple we were so naïve and young. We didn’t know anything about business. We didn’t know that it’s often the case that you start a company and then you get bought out as an exit strategy. We thought that you start at home, you make a product, and become profitable so you have your company forever. As long as it makes a profit, it never goes away. That’s how I thought companies worked. Boy, it’s a different story now in Silicon Valley. I think there are an awful lot of people who have a quick exit plan like selling the business to another big company to get enough money to buy a house in San Francisco. Then they move on to the next one. There are many companies that are started by business people and not engineers. Engineers say, “What would be a cool product? What would make the world greater and better?” That’s where I come from. Engineering is your line of work. I do not invest. I don’t do that stuff. I didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. What are your thoughts on the rise of engineers as rock stars in Silicon Valley? Mostly it’s because of how much money they have—and I went the other way. I did not want to be one of them. I invested early in things like museums in the city I love, San Jose. I was born there, and I have a street named after me there because of it. I really didn’t want to be in that super “more than you could ever need” category. Did you ever think when you were starting Apple that software companies like Facebook would become so dominant? Well, there was Microsoft. I was just on CNBC and they were asking, “Oh, my gosh. Apple wants to make this software and license it for self-driving cars.” Well, Apple’s becoming Microsoft. Microsoft had an operating system that was their crown jewel and they licensed it to everybody. Apple said no—they had to make the hardware. Hardware and software have to go together [in computers], but not so in cars. What is your take on commercial space travel and people like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk getting involved? Nobody expected the iPhone. Nobody expected Google. Nobody expected Facebook and Twitter would be these great things. It is really hard to predict with a spreadsheet what makes sense, otherwise big companies that already existed would have created those things. Of course SpaceX [Musk’s space startup] and Blue Origin [Bezos’ space startup], they’re not coming out of nowhere, but they’re coming out of individuals trying to do something very risky. It is very risky, but it is fascinating to watch what these companies are doing. Yeah, space exploration comes down to engineering and scientific knowledge. It does take a certain amount of funding, but NASA’s budget seems so small for what they bring us. It just seems so small that I’m not surprised that large private players can make a difference too. You recently said that companies like Apple and Google would be even bigger in 2075 than they are now. Do you think these companies will do so by expanding into other areas, like how Google and Apple are moving into healthcare? I don’t know. Every company should do what they’re good at. There are actors who are just good at acting. Everyone shouldn’t try to do every single thing in the world, and Apple’s big thing, really, is more about protecting the brand. Making products a certain way that protects your brand. That’s one role. That’s one key role in the world, and it doesn’t mean making every single product. Everyone who owns Apple shares just says, “No, no, no, you gotta have something new now.” Well that’s Silicon Valley in that you’re always chasing the next new thing and you never get to stop. I mean unless you’re somewhat smart. Why is your Twitter feed essentially a timeline of places you’ve visited and restaurants you’ve eaten at? I am not the right person for social networks. I was never social in my life. I am not good at socializing in person. I skipped Facebook and I skipped Twitter when it came out, because I’d wind up with everybody asking me to be a friend. I have 5,000 Facebook friends I don’t know, and I’m going to scan what they’re doing in their lives everyday? It doesn’t work well for me because I won’t just cut it down to the only 100 people I really know. But I found Foursquare. I was actually in Spain and some young kids introduced me to Foursquare, so I started checking in. I thought, “My wife will be able to see where I am.” But if I check into a restaurant and somebody comments on it, I get that comment in an email from Facebook. So I typically have 100 to 200 Facebook inquires a day, and some of those I go in and answer when I feel my answer’s important. It’s interesting that you prefer Foursquare over other social networks. It’s kind of one directional, and Twitter can be one-directional. To tell you the truth, I admire what Twitter is and what it’s done for the world. And I admire Facebook, but I’m a little scared of the power Facebook and Google get and I avoid them more than most people. My calendar is on Google and about nothing else of me wants to touch Google. When I get these advertisements all over the place and they’re exactly what I’ve been looking at recently, you’re living in my world. You’re making it stale. That’s not the adventurous world of going and watching a new movie with superheroes achieving victory. Well, that’s a realistic application of artificial intelligence today. That’s today’s level of simulated intelligence to kind of knowing you. The funny thing is, everyone in popular culture movies has to be an individual—to be above the others, to be super. And that’s how we think of ourselves as human beings. Well what am I? I’m what’s in my brain. I have my memories, my feelings, my way of thinking of the world. And that’s who I am. This article originally appeared on Fortune.com