Trump signs First Step Act, ending §924(c) stacking for future defendants

President Trump signed the First Step Act, passed 87-12 in the Senate and 358-36 in the House, eliminating mandatory stacking of §924(c) firearm charges for future defendants and expanding the safety valve allowing some drug defendants to avoid mandatory minimums. Jared Kushner championed the bill internally; the Koch brothers and the ACLU jointly lobbied for it. The anti-stacking change was deliberately made non-retroactive to secure Senate votes, leaving thousands of prisoners serving decades-long sentences under the old law.