Tracking politicians' promises

The Promise:

“We will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

Update: Trump promised mass deportations. Where does that stand six months into his administration?

The Promise:

"No more funding for NPR, a total scam! Editor said they have no Republicans, and is only used to 'damage Trump.' They are a liberal disinformation machine. Not one dollar."

Update: Trump cancels $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting

The Promise:

“We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C. We're going to close it up – all those buildings all over the place and people that in many cases hate our children. We're going to send it all back to the states,”

Update: Supreme Court rules to allow Trump to continue with mass Education Department layoffs

The Promise:

Trump "looks forward to working with other states, as well as the U.S. Congress, to provide for universal school choice for every American family."

Update: Trump signs legislation introducing federal tax credit for school choice

The Promise:

"We're going to work with them to build a state-of-the-art, next-generation missile defense shield. Just as Israel is now protected by the Iron Dome, a dream once thought impossible, America must have an impenetrable dome to protect our people. We worked with Israel to develop that Dome."

Update: Trump’s megabill includes nearly $25 billion for Golden Dome

The Promise:

"We will end all taxes on overtime." 

Update: Overtime pay receives tax break in megabill

The Promise:

I will "get SALT back."

Update: Trump megabill temporarily increases state and local tax break

The Promise:

"President Trump will also make clear that Title IX prohibits men from participating in women’s sports."

Update: Trump administration tries to enforce trans athletes ban, with mixed results

The Promise:

"I will sign an executive order to bring back our National Garden of American Heroes, which we want to build very badly, and commission artists for the first 100 statues to populate this new statuary park honoring the greatest Americans of all time."

Update: Trump’s spending package has $40 million for Garden of Heroes

The Promise:

"As part of our tax cuts, we will make interest on car loans fully deductible."

Update: Trump megabill includes tax break for car loans

The Promise:

"We are going to not charge taxes on tips."

Update: Trump’s tax bill includes broad exclusion for tip income. It expires in 2028

The Promise:

We will reduce the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% “solely for companies that make their products in America.”

Update: Trump megabill includes benefits for domestic investment, but no corporate rate cut

The Promise:

"I’ll give you a Trump middle-class, upper-class, lower-class, business-class big tax cut."

Update: Trump signs extension of 2017 tax law, plus new cuts

The Promise:

"We want to have proof of citizenship."

Update: Trump administration overhauls database for election officials to check voters’ citizenship status

The Promise:

"Do you think China would let us go in and buy their land and do what they do? I don’t think so, okay. It won’t happen."

Update: New USDA plan seeks to crack down on Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, advancing Trump’s promise