Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 84
Eliminate wasteful spending in every federal department
Never delivered“[paraphrase] We will go through the budget of every department and eliminate wasteful spending.”
- Promised
- , "Contract with the American Voter," Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Re-promised
- 3 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
A March 2017 executive order directed a government reorganization plan; the resulting June 2018 proposal required congressional action that never came. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, noting the president cannot unilaterally reorganize every department.