Bill Lutz

Bill Aldern Lutz (Born April 25, 1968) is an American politician who is the 45th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 46th Governor of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2015.

## Biography

### Early Life

Bill Aldern Lutz was born on April 25, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to John and Helen Lutz. John served in the European front of WW2 against the Axis Powers and his mom was an activist. Growing up, Lutz was outspoken on many political and social topics.

### Education and Entry into Politics

After graduating from Hampton High School in 1987, he enrolled in Columbia University and earned a major in political science. After Graduating from Columbia, he became a political analyst. In 1994, he ran for the Pennsylvania house of Representatives as a Democrat and was elected. He served until 2001. In 2001 he ran for mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and won. He ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 2006 and won in a landslide. During his tenure came the 2008 financial crisis. His policies after the crisis helped Pennsylvania become one of the first countries to recover from the Crisis and towards the end of his term, Poverty and unemployment reached an all time low in the states history. He left office in January of 2015

### Presidential Campaign

On June 8th, 2015, Lutz officially announced his candidacy for President of the United States. In 24 hours, he received the most donations raised in the day following an announcement. More than 35,000 people attended his formal campaign launch event in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania according to a police estimate. Lutz was different then other presidential candidates as he did not accept donations from Major corporations. He ran his campaign policies included reduced military spending, more spending on infrastructure and science education jobs, removing government and politicians from abortion, fighting climate change, government transparency, and an end to imperialism overseas. This gained him massive support within the Democratic party and won the nomination.

After winning the nomination, he choose Illinois senator Charlie Roan to be his running mate. Roan was the third woman to ever be nominated for vice president of the United States.

Lutz was elected the 45th President of the United States defeating Republican Texas senator, Ellie Cunningham

## Presidency

### First Term

On January 20th 2017, Lutz was sworn in as President become the first Jewish President, and the second President from Pennsylvania (First being James Buchanan).

#### First Year in Office

On January 23rd, Lutz announced he would withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership which he received high phrase from both Democrats and Republicans. Lutz stated that "The Trans-Pacific Partnership has undermined hard working American by failing to implement limits to the fundamental rights of the state, it has granted monopolistic privileges to powerful corporations, and a biased and self-serving dispute-resolution system."

On February 1st, 2017, Lutz announced America would be ending it's military intervention in Libya and unveiled his plans to cut over $250 billion from military spending and overall reduce government spending. Over $25 Billion taken from Military spending would go towards public services aimed at reducing homelessness and hunger.

On March 6th 2017, Unveiled the Anti-Hate and protection act of 2017, this is a 10 point plan for Combating Hate Crimes across the United States and abroad which passed congress and was signed on May 26th 2017.

On April 30th, 2017, Lutz delivered his 100 day address in which he laid out his plan to combat climate change which would include a promise to replace all nuclear power plants with clean energy plants, and to make half of motor vehicles in the U.S. electric. He also laid out plants to invest over $100 Billion in infrastructure and create millions of new Jobs.

In May of 2017, Lutz signed the American jobs act of 2017 which would increase wages and make jobs more accessible to those without a high level education. This lead to a decrease in unemployment from 4% in 2017 to 1.5% in 2019. And a decrease in homelessness from 400,000 in 2017 to 50,000 in 2019.

In June of 2017 came the Clean Energy act of 2017 which would achieve his pledge of eliminating nuclear power plants and begin the mass transfer to electric vehicles. It was signed on July 27th 2017.

#### Foreign Policy

Throughout his First Term, Lutz got the US out of foreign conflicts across the globe and took strides to stop the outsourcing of American jobs. Further acts included reducing $250 Billion from Military spending and redistributed the spending on education, jobs, and healthcare. Lutz began an extensive program of rebuilding Afghanistan following the brutal war on terror, sending Afghanistan $20 billion annually in foreign aid. Bill Lutz’s Presidency is often held to be the beginning of a period in which America began to end its policies of interventionism.

#### Parkland School Shooting

On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. In response, Lutz signed the Gun Reform act of 2018. It provided more strict background checks for people looking to buy any firearms. It also mandated in all 50 states that anyone who wants to purchase a gun must own a license. Over the years, it helped drop the rate of Gun Violence in the U.S.

#### Coronavirus Pandemic

In response to the COVID-19, All borders and entry ports of the U.S. were closed to non-residents on 14 March 2020, with returning citizens and residents being required to self-isolate. From 10 April 2020, all people arriving by air had to go into two weeks of managed isolation in adapted commercial hotels. A nationwide lockdown took place from March 25 to April 25 took place with exceptions for essential workers. In the following months, President Lutz had deployed a record number of vaccines to other countries, and America was seen as a key force in taking down COVID-19 levels. Domestically, President Lutz was able to get America reopening to nearly full capacity before the fall 2021 school year. Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic, Poverty, Unemployment, and crime reached an all-time low of under 1% across the board. The Lutz administration had proven to be among one of the more popular in contemporary U.S history.

#### Police reform act of 2019

In response to countless police incidents with civilians, Lutz signed the Police reform act of 2019. This mandated that all recruiting police officers are given 2 years of academy training before entering duty, Create National Use of Force Guidelines, Screening for Implicit Bias and Aggression, Focus on Collaborative Approaches to Policing, Use of Video Recording to Promote Accountability, Enhance Legal Accountability, Keeping Immigration and Policing Systems Separate, and demilitarization of Law Enforcement.

### Second Term

Lutz easily won Re-Election in November of 2020 and was sworn in for his second term on January 20th 2021.

#### Build Back Better Act of 2021

This is a COVID-19 relief package which includes funding for COVID-19 relief, social services, welfare, and infrastructure.

#### Immigration reform 2022

Due a rise in immigration at the southern border, there were calls for large scale immigration reform which included, making sure the U.S. had more secure borders, Established Regional Refugee Processing Centers, Modernizing the Ports of Entry, Using Existing Funding to Hire Child Welfare, Medical, and Language Professionals at the Border, and Fund Community-Based Support Services and Proven, Humane Alternatives to Detention.

#### Healthcare reform 2023

Due to the Covid Pandemic exposing flaws in the U.S. healthcare system, Large Scale healthcare reform was enacted.