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On May 26, 2016, candidate Donald Trump told a North Dakota crowd: "I will give you everything. I will give you what you've been looking for for 50 years. I'm the only one."
Four years later, at the Republican National Convention in August 2020, Trump said: "I didn't back down from my promises. I kept every single one."
Every presidential candidate makes promises they can't keep. What makes the last 30 months unique is how many promises broken by his predecessor that .
"I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created." |
Growth of 13,000,000 jobs under his watch through May, after Trump presided over a loss of 2.1 million U.S. jobs. Even before the pandemic, job growth was far slower than under Biden. |
To invest $1 trillion in "transportation, clean water, a modern and reliable electricity grid, telecommunications, security infrastructure, and other pressing domestic infrastructure needs." |
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with $1 trillion to rebuild our infrastructure with high labor standards. "Infrastructure week" is no longer a national punchline. |
To create "thousands of new jobs in construction, steel manufacturing and other sectors" to rebuild infrastructure. |
The American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021. It helped create more than 4 million new jobs and protected millions more. Plus the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Relief Act, and CHIPS and Science Act, which will create 1 million construction jobs. And not for nothing, jobs in coal mining, a key point in the steel value chain, have increased by 8% after plummeting under Trump. |
"My plan includes a pledge to restore manufacturing in the United States." |
Manufacturing construction growth so steep, you'd need your PPE to follow this graph:
Industry experts expect manufacturing employment will grow by at least 800,000 jobs.
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To "unleash an energy revolution that will bring vast new wealth to our country and create at least a half-million jobs a year." |
Plans to electrify nearly everything that runs on gas or coal — ports, buildings, industry, transportation and more — as envisioned in the BIL, IRA and CHIPS Act. Biden is creating. |
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