Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 65
Adopt the penny plan: cut 1 percent of spending a year
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Cut 1 percent of non-defense discretionary spending every year.”
- Promised
- , Campaign economic plan
- Stated deadline
- “1 percent per year”
- Re-promised
- 4 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Economy & prices
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Federal spending rose in every year of the term. Trump signed budget deals in 2018 and 2019 that raised discretionary spending caps, and fiscal 2020 outlays reached $6.55 trillion. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, finding Trump abandoned the pledge.