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Modernize and build electric grid systems

The Promise:

"I will fully modernize the electric grid to prepare it for the next 100 years, implement rapid approvals for energy projects, and green light the construction of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of brand new beautiful power plants that actually work."

Update: Trump has moved to modernize the electric grid but faced some criticism

Revoke federal initiatives on diversity, equity and inclusion

The Promise:

President Joe "Biden is weaponizing every tool of government power to push this racism and this Communism and Marxism, or whatever you want to call it. When FEMA, the EPA, and the FAA, and IRS are corrupted and tasked with enforcing 'equity,' freedom and equality under the law are absolutely dead. I will revoke this executive order on my first day back in office."

Update: Trump’s DEI crackdown sparks higher-ed pushback

Save TikTok

The Promise:

“We love TikTok. I'm going to save TikTok.”

Update: Trump signs order to facilitate TikTok deal

Count all votes by election night

The Promise:

"We want all votes counted by election night."

Update: Trump’s promise to count all votes by election night stalls amid court challenges to executive order

Save TikTok

The Promise:

“We love TikTok. I'm going to save TikTok.”

Update: Trump signs fourth TikTok ban extension, says deal close

Ban trans women from participating in women's sports

The Promise:

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

Update: U.S. Olympic Committee changes trans athlete policy in response to Trump order

Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history

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?

Cut off federal funding for NPR

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

Abolish the Education Department

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

Provide universal school choice

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

Construct an Iron Dome-like missile defense system for the U.S.

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

End taxation on overtime

The Promise:

"We will end all taxes on overtime." 

Update: Overtime pay receives tax break in megabill

Restore the state and local tax deduction (SALT)

The Promise:

I will "get SALT back."

Update: Trump megabill temporarily increases state and local tax break

Ban trans women from participating in women's sports

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

Sign an order to construct the National Garden of American Heroes

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