Voting: Political event of the year

Voting: Political event of the year

Expiring 2017-the year was full of events that in the United States (and even beyond) of great public interest.

USA.ONE begins to sum up the year. We chose the most popular news on different topics, and ask our readers to choose the ones that made the greatest impression to make the final rating of the most interesting American events.

Voting: Political event of the year

We will start with policy. So, the political event of the year.

The investigation of Russian interference in the election and its consequences

U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, are investigating about a possible Russian intervention in elections, and examine contacts around the President trump with Russia.

Growing tensions with North Korea

In 2017, the tension between the United States and North Korea reached a peak «due to» a constant testing of missile weapons the regime of Kim Jong-UN.

Events in Charlottesville and the dismantling of monuments to Confederates

August 12 city Council Charlottesville, Virginia, had to make a decision about the dismantling of the statue to the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. To rally against this decision of going ultra-right organizations, including neo-Nazis and the ku Klux Klan. The unrest, clashes, one of the neo-Nazis drove into a crowd at the car, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, another 19 people were injured. It marked a new round of demolition of monuments to confederates in the United States.

Several attempts by Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings

For years the Democrats tried several times to start the procedure of impeachment of the President of Donald trump. All attempts can be read here.

The failure of the abolition Obamacare

The attempt to repeal Obamacare repeatedly failed in the Senate. Recall that the abolition of the medical insurance system was one of the main goals trump in his campaign.

U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

Contrary to the warnings of the world community, President Donald trump in December, officially announced the recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This resulted in mass protests in the middle East, which have injured dozens of people

Immigration policy trump

President trump signed the so-called «travel ban», which prohibits entry into the US residents from six Muslim countries, including Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen.

In addition, it approved the closure of the DACA program, which protects some 800,000 immigrants who were born or moved to the United States in early childhood and spent in the country most of my life, and allows them to legally work here.

 

The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement

Summer trump officially announced the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate. According to the President, the Paris agreement is very unfair in the highest degree, for the United States.

The main political event in 2017

  • The investigation of Russian intervention in the 2016 election
  • Tensions with North Korea
  • Charlottesville and the dismantling of monuments to Confederates
  • Attempts to begin impeachment proceedings
  • The failure of the abolition of Obamacare
  • U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
  • Immigration policy trump
  • The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement

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