Tracking politicians' promises

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

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

The Promise:

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

Update: Trump signs order to facilitate TikTok deal

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

The Promise:

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

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

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

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