Policy • History • ImpactPromise Tracker
Browse tracked promise records across presidents. The default view prioritizes promises with direct or meaningful downstream Black-community impact, with an option to show all records.
Filter by president, status, or topic, or search across titles, summaries, and promise text. Relevance reflects the degree to which a promise is tied to Black-community outcomes.
94 Promise Tracker records
Donald J. Trump
Deliver a major federal tax cutTrump signed a sweeping tax law that cut the corporate tax rate and changed individual tax rules.
Donald J. Trump
Replace NAFTA with a new trade dealTrump renegotiated NAFTA and signed the USMCA, which replaced the older agreement.
Donald J. Trump
Withdraw the United States from TPPTrump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership immediately after taking office.
Donald J. Trump
Exit the Paris climate agreementTrump formally withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement during his term.
Donald J. Trump
Appoint conservative Supreme Court justicesTrump nominated and won confirmation for three Supreme Court justices, strengthening the Court's conservative bloc.
Donald J. Trump
Move the U.S. embassy in Israel to JerusalemTrump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved the U.S. embassy there.
Donald J. Trump
Impose a travel ban on targeted countriesTrump pursued several travel-ban orders. Courts narrowed the policy path, and the final restrictions were country-based rather than a full ban matching the original rhetoric.
In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., the Supreme Court held that disparate-impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act, while also emphasizing limits such as a robust causality requirement and protection against imposing liability based on racial imbalance alone.
Donald J. Trump
Build a southern border wall and make Mexico payTrump pursued barrier construction and emergency funding strategies, but Mexico did not pay and the broader promise was not delivered as stated.
Donald J. Trump
Repeal and replace the Affordable Care ActTrump and congressional Republicans tried to repeal the ACA, but the law remained in place despite several administrative changes.
Donald J. Trump
Make no cuts to MedicaidTrump repeatedly said Medicaid would be protected, but repeal efforts and later budget proposals put major pressure on the program instead.
Tracked as delivered because the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the statutory disparity from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, producing a clear legal change even though it did not eliminate the gap entirely.