Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 63

Add $20 billion in federal funding for school choice

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] I am proposing to redirect $20 billion in existing federal dollars to school choice.”
Promised
, Education speech, Cleveland, Ohio
Re-promised
6 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Education
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

Congress did not appropriate the $20 billion. Federal charter school program funding rose only modestly, and a proposed federal tax-credit scholarship never passed. PolitiFact rated the promise broken, finding increases were minimal.

Sources

  1. Add additional federal investment of $20 billion toward School Choice PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020