The Patriot Post® · Trump's Novel Political Ideal: Keep Your Promises
Donald Trump is almost one month into his presidency and one characteristic is fast becoming his most definitive one. Trump is a man of his word. This fact is so obvious that even the Leftmedia has conceded it, albeit with hyperbolic angst coupled with warnings of imminent disaster should he continue to implement his campaign promises. Our friends at the Heritage Foundation have done an excellent job in detailing 13 specific campaign promises Trump has acted on thus far.
These could be categorized under the following three broad areas of the economy, security and the cleaning up and reforming the government to once again serve Americans.
On the economy, Trump has created the Manufacturing Job Initiative, which, for example, has so far resulted in the creation of 3,000 jobs in Chandler, Arizona, with an estimated increase of 10,000 “indirect” jobs coming to the city. The two pipeline projects Barack Obama stopped or stalled, the TransCanada Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines, have been given the green light by Trump, bringing thousands of jobs and cheaper energy. Trump has issued executive orders to roll back unnecessary regulations that have crippled businesses especially in the energy sector. He has also issued EO’s to aggressively cut regulations by requiring two regulations removed for every new one created.
On security, Trump ordered the “immediate construction” of a wall on the southern border. He has scaled back government funding of “sanctuary” cities and has rescinded restrictions Obama put on immigration enforcement, freeing the DHS to better do its job. He called for the “rebuilding of the U.S. Armed Forces” and signed a memorandum on it. He imposed 25 sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile tests.
On cleaning up and reforming government, Trump put a temporary freeze on government hires. He issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to demand “ethics commitments” from all employees hired since he entered office and any new hires going forward. He nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, a solid judge who is an originalist in his judicial philosophy.
As a final note, the most significant hurdle yet to Trump fulfilling one of his biggest campaign promises — the repeal of ObamaCare — may ironically be Republicans, as several appear to be getting cold feet. But stay tuned, there’s progress in progress.