11:04 p.m. Trump hits highlights of 2016 campaign promises Trump hit on several policy areas that were a big feature of his 2016 campaign -- supporting American energy independence and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, standing up to China, renegotiating trade agreements with Canada ...
Many of Trump’s campaign promises track closely with the logic of and reasons for attaining national greatness as laid out in The Federalist. This chapter seeks to elaborate Trump’s slogan in light The Federalist’s reflections. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an ...
Heading to Camp David in Maryland for a meeting with White House staff, Trump told reporters that he will not give up the border barrier, which is one of his primary presidential campaign promises in 2016. "There's not going to be any bend there," he said. ...
President Donald Trump has outlined measures to reduce the prices US consumers pay for prescription drugs through a program called American Patients First,1 but he did not follow through on two campaign promises. During his campaign Trump had promised to allow the government to negotiate drug ...
Just hours after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he signed a handful of executive orders fulfilling campaign promises and signaling the priorities of his fledgling administration. Among them: an order to immediately halt construction on former President Donald Trump’s signa...
The idea that Trump's promises can't be taken at face value makes it even harder to analyze what kind of president he'd be. Trump and his supporters have often pointed to the campaign's website to point out that yes, in fact, there is information on there that breaks down the candid...
rules in order to allow a simple majority vote on confirmation if Democrats mount a filibuster. If eventually confirmed as expected, the federal appeals court judge from Colorado would restore a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court, fulfilling one of Trump’s top campaign promises....
Brad Griffin, a blogger who runs the white nationalist website Occidental Dissent using the pseudonym “Hunter Wallace,” said he thought Bannon’s hiring showed Trump would be held to his campaign promises. “It makes sense to me,” he said. “Reince [Priebus] can certainly get more done ...
This law gives the agency’s leaders the ability to fire inept employees and protect those who uncover and report wrongdoing at the VA. Its signing represents thecompletion of one of Trump’s campaign promises. It passed both bodies of Congress with broad bipartisan support. ...
Trump has made other, more vague promises about the repeal-and-replace endgame. As he campaigned for the White House that he declared in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes”: “I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’...