Tracking politicians' promises

The Promise:

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

Update: House bill includes provision ending taxes on tips

The Promise:

"We will end all taxes on overtime." 

Update: House tax draft would end taxation of overtime pay

The Promise:

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

Update: Car loan interest deduction included in House’s tax legislation draft

The Promise:

"I will provide record funding for our military just as I did four great years. If you think about what we were able to do, four great years of rebuilding our military, and we rebuilt it bigger and better and stronger than ever before."

Update: Combination of budget proposal, reconciliation bill would increase military funding 13.4%

The Promise:

"I will restore the Trump ban on transgender in the military. I had it stopped, totally stopped, and then they approved it."

Update: SCOTUS allows trans military ban to go into effect as courts review cases

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: President Trump’s order to end federal funding for NPR, PBS could face legal challenge

The Promise:

“If I were president, the Russia-Ukraine War would never have happened, never in a million years. But even now, if I were president, I’d be able to negotiate an end to this horrible and rapidly escalating war in 24 hours.”

Update: At 100 days, Trump’s administration struggles to achieve the Russia-Ukraine peace he promised

The Promise:

"We want to have proof of citizenship."

Update: Judge blocks part of Trump order to require proof of citizenship for voter registration

The Promise:

"I will immediately re-issue my 2020 executive order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively."

Update: President Trump could more easily fire workers under proposed rule

The Promise:

"If they charge US, we charge them—an eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff, same exact amount."

Update: The now-paused tariffs Trump touted as reciprocal actually weren’t

The Promise:

Asked about whether he would impose tariffs of 60% on Chinese goods, he said, “Maybe it’s going to be more than that.”

Update: Trump blows past 60% tariff promise on China, setting 145% rate

The Promise:

"I think when companies come in and dump their products in the United States, they should pay automatically, let's say a 10% tax."

Update: Despite pausing some tariffs, Trump’s 10% baseline global tariff is in force

The Promise:

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

Update: President Trump said he’ll sign another executive order to extend TikTok ban pause again

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: Trump order takes steps toward closing Education Department, but only Congress can end it

The Promise:

"I will restore the Trump ban on transgender in the military. I had it stopped, totally stopped, and then they approved it."

Update: Judge blocks Defense Department policy banning transgender troops