The Department of Veterans Affairs was particularly upset about the hiring freeze, and begged Trump in January to exempt their employees, to ensure they could provide critical services to military veterans. But his order excluded federal jobs deemed “necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities,” like uniformed military positions, for instance.Ĭonfusion ensued over which jobs could be considered essential to national security and public safety. One of his first actions, on the Monday after taking office, was to order a federal hiring freeze. Trump can say he kept this promise, at least for a little while. You can read a detailed annotation of Trump’s pledges below. Some, like the Muslim ban and Obamacare repeal, have experienced embarrassing setbacks and unforced errors. Of Trump’s roughly 30 concrete pledges, he has arguably just accomplished three of them, making progress on only a handful more. But with the important exception of immigration, Trump’s first 100 days have been both more conventional and less consequential than he promised or than most Americans would likely have anticipated the morning after the election. The pace of news events has been tremendous, largely because the White House has been so disorganized and frenetic. His ethics pledges have been undercut by loopholes or narrow legalisms, and his promised confrontational attitude toward trade partners and source countries for immigration has largely failed to materialize. But Trump has held off from enacting a broad array of his proposed executive actions as well. That includes a huge quantity of legislation he said he would pass, none of which has become law - and most of which has not even been proposed in anything remotely resembling the form of an actual bill.Īnyone who k nows anything about the legislative process could have predicted most of this, of course, though a Republican Party president being unable to write a real tax bill is odd.
But as you can see from our t horough look at his p romises, Trump has left far more unfulfilled than enacted. Trump has certainly fulfilled some of his first 100 days pledges, including the low-hanging fruit of confirming a Supreme Court justice, formally withdrawing from the already-dead Trans - Pacific Partnership, and taking significant steps to make immigration enforcement harsher and more intimidating.
And anyone who believed it was all going to happen has met a fate that will be familiar to former students of Trump University or former investors in Trump Casino Hotels and Resorts. Donald Trump is not a man inclined toward modesty, understatement, or dreary literalism, so it’s no surprise that his campaign published a list of 30 actionable items to be undertaken during his first 100 days in office that was breathtaking in scope.
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