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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 adds federal contractors onto his DEI ban list

End veteran homelessness

The Promise:

"I will make it a personal mission to totally eradicate Veterans’ homelessness in America by the end of next term."

Update: VA expands legal guardianship for homeless veterans in the courts

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: SAVE America Act amendment to restrict transgender athletes fails in Senate

Restore and expand the travel ban

The Promise:

“On day one, I will immediately restore and expand the Trump Travel Ban.”

Update: Trump restores and expands his first-term travel bans

Increase liability protections for police officers

The Promise:

I will "increase vital liability protections for officers because the Democrats want to take those protections away from our police, because we want them to do their jobs, and we want them to do their jobs right."

Update: Has Trump expanded liability protections for police officers? No legislation passed yet

Mandate that any child identity changes have parental consent

The Promise:

"And we will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender, which is new, and an identity without the parents’ consent. The identity will not be new. And it will not be without parental consent."

Update: Trump policies seek to deliver on parental notification promise for students’ gender transition

Incentivize abolishing teacher tenure for grades K-12

The Promise:

"To reward good teachers, President Trump will implement funding preferences and favorable treatment for states and school districts that abolish teacher tenure for grades K-12."

Update: President Donald Trump stalls on promise to provide incentives to abolish teacher tenure

Add a 60% tariff on goods from China

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: Supreme Court restricts president’s ability to unilaterally set high Chinese tariffs

Add a tariff of 10% to 20% to all nondomestic goods sold in America

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: Supreme Court deals setback to across-the-board tariffs

Institute a reciprocal tariff policy

The Promise:

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

Update: Supreme Court decision throws reciprocal tariff policy for another loop

Seek the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers

The Promise:

“I will be asking for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers."

Update: Trump’s executive order doesn’t change death penalty precedent

Impose the death penalty for selling drugs

The Promise:

"We’re going to ask that everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts."

Update: Trump’s effort to impose death penalty for selling drugs faces legal hurdles

Provide record-breaking military funding

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: Military funding is high, but the specific numbers are murky

Provide $10,000 per child tax-free to homeschoolers

The Promise:

"To support the growing homeschool movement, in my next term, I will immediately fight to allow homeschool parents the same incredible benefit: $10,000 a year per child, completely tax free to spend on costs associated with homeschool education."

Update: Federal law expands 529 expenses to cover homeschool costs, raises withdrawal limit

End veteran homelessness

The Promise:

"I will make it a personal mission to totally eradicate Veterans’ homelessness in America by the end of next term."

Update: President Trump hasn’t ended veteran homelessness, but he signed legislation aimed at doing so