Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 51
Be the champion of American workers
Broken“[paraphrase] I am going to be the greatest champion working people have ever had in the White House.”
- Promised
- , Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Cleveland
- Re-promised
- 20 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The administration rescinded the Obama-era overtime rule expansion and issued a narrower version in 2019, narrowed the joint-employer standard, and rolled back workplace safety and tip-pooling protections. The American Prospect listed the worker-protection record among the broken promises.