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'Phenomenal' health care plan 'in about two months. Maybe less.'
Never delivered“We're going to produce phenomenal health care. And we already have the concept of the plan... we'll be announcing that in two months, maybe less.”
- Promised
- , ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, aired June 16, 2019
- Stated deadline
- “in about two months, maybe less” → August 15, 2019
- Overdue by
- 7 years, 1 month as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 12 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Health care
- Era
- First term
What happened
Senior White House officials told ABC at the time that no bill existed, only 'high-level principles.' Two months came and went. By October 2019 Trump had shifted to saying the plan would come after the 2020 election. This was the opening move of the sequence that ran through the July 2020 'two weeks' pledge.