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Trump Promise Tracker

Updated Jan. 26, 2018
It’s day 372 of the Trump administration with 1,089 days left in his term. We’re tracking the progress of 60 pledges he made during his campaign — and whether he achieved his goals.
Trump promise status totals
Promises kept11
Promises broken15
Launched16
Stuck11
Compromise7
Not yet rated0
What do these ratings mean?
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump made more than 280 promises, though many were contradictory or just uttered in a single campaign event. But on Oct. 22, Trump issued what he called his “Contract with the American Voter.” This was a specific plan of action that would guide his administration, starting from the first day, and listed 60 promises. He even signed it with his distinctive signature. During Trump’s term, The Washington Post Fact Checker will track the progress of each pledge – and whether Trump has achieved his stated goal. Sign up for the weekly Fact Checker newsletter here.
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Jan. 16, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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NATIONAL SECURITY
Pass a law to protect our vital infrastructure from cyberattack
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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EDUCATION
End Common Core
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Make sure the $1 trillion infrastructure plan will be revenue neutral
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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TRADE
Establish tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Impose a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for U.S. elections
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 15, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Enact new ethics reforms to reduce the corrupting influence of special interests
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Establish new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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NATIONAL SECURITY
Expand military investment
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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NATIONAL SECURITY
Eliminate the defense sequester
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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CRIME
Increase funding for programs that train and assist local police
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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CRIME
Reduce surging crime, drugs and violence
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Reform visa rules to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Reform visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Establish a five-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Establish a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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EDUCATION
Make two- and four-year college more affordable
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take back criminal illegal immigrants 
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities
Status: 
Stuck
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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ENERGY
Lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Require that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 1, 2018
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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ECONOMY
Allow trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas to be brought back at a 10 percent tax rate
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Dec. 20, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017
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ECONOMY
Provide matching contributions for low-income families to the dependent care savings accounts
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Create tax-free dependent care savings accounts for young and elderly dependents
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Incentivize employers to provide on-site child-care services
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Allow Americans to deduct child care and elder care from their taxes
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Lower the business tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to three, and likewise greatly simplify tax forms
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Give a middle-class family with two children a 35 percent tax cut
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Propose and pass tax simplification bill in which the largest tax reductions are for the middle class
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Dec. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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HEALTH CARE
Allow the purchase of health insurance across state lines
Status: 
Launched
Updated Nov. 1, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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HEALTH CARE
Provide veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice
Status: 
Launched
Updated Oct. 11, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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HEALTH CARE
Let states manage Medicaid funds
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Oct. 11, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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HEALTH CARE
Replace Obamacare with health savings accounts
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Oct. 11, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ECONOMY
Leverage public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Sep. 27, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Impose “extreme vetting” on all people coming into our country 
Status: 
Launched
Updated Sep. 26, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Sep. 26, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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IMMIGRATION
Make Mexico reimburse the United States for the full cost of the wall
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Aug. 3, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Cut red tape at the FDA to speed approval of new drugs
Status: 
Launched
Updated Jul. 1, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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ENVIRONMENT
Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Jun. 2, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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CRIME
Increase resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated May. 1, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017
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TRADE
Announce the U.S. intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Apr. 27, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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TRADE
Direct the secretary of the treasury to label China a currency manipulator
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Apr. 12, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Impose a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety and public health)
Status: 
Compromise
Updated Apr. 12, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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TRADE
Direct the secretary of commerce and U.S. trade representative to use every tool under American and international law to end foreign trading abuses immediately
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Apr. 1, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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TRADE
Direct the secretary of commerce and U.S. trade representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers
Status: 
Launched
Updated Apr. 1, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017 (Passed)
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EDUCATION
Expand vocational and technical education
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Mar. 16, 2017
Deadline: Jul. 17, 2017
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EDUCATION
Redirect education money to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice
Status: 
Launched
Updated Mar. 16, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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CRIME
Create a task force on violent crime
Status: 
Launched
Updated Feb. 9, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 29, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia (from list of 20 issued during campaign)
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 31, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Impose a five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service
Status: 
Promise broken
Updated Jan. 29, 2017
Deadline: Apr. 13, 2017 (Passed)
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GOVERNMENT PROCESS
Impose a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 28, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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ENERGY
Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 24, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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TRADE
Announce the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Status: 
Promise kept
Updated Jan. 23, 2017
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2017
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Sources: Donald Trump’s “Contract with the American Voter”, Washington Post reporting. Published Dec. 13, 2016.
By Glenn Kessler, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, and Leslie Shapiro.
Illustration by Ben Kirchner (for The Washington Post)
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