Tracking politicians' promises

The Promise:

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

Update: Where does President Donald Trump’s mass deportation promise stand one year into his administration?

The Promise:

"To eliminate cheating I will immediately demand ... only paper ballots."

Update: Trump’s promise to require only paper ballots stalls

The Promise:

“To eliminate cheating I will immediately demand voter ID."

Update: Trump’s effort to change voter ID laws stalls

The Promise:

"We're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon.”

Update: Prices at the pump are down, but not to $2 a gallon

The Promise:

“My goal will be to cut your energy costs in half within 12 months after taking office. We can do that.”

Update: Gasoline prices declined, but not by 50%, and electricity and natural gas rose in price

The Promise:

“Groceries, cars – everything. We're going to get the prices down.”

Update: Inflation persists for a wide range of items in first year of second Trump term

The Promise:

"We will ... open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists, and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified."

Update: Trump shifts homelessness pledge toward enforcement, funding changes, but no federal ‘tent cities’

The Promise:

"I will ... ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures, and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states."

Update: RFK Jr. proposing rules to ban gender-affirming surgeries, other care for minors

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 continues shrinking the Education Department, but full closure remains uncertain

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