September 5, 2024: Trump Said He Would Get “Gasoline Below $2 A Gallon.”
March 11, 2026: The National Average For A Gallon Of Gasoline Was $3.58. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.578 on March 11, 2026. The average price was not below $3 in any state. [AAA, visited 3/11/26]
August 2024: Trump Promised To End Inflation On Day One.
November 2025: Inflation Was 2.7 Percent, The Same As It Was In November 2024. According to The Guardian, "US prices rose 2.7% in the year to November, according to federal data released a day after Donald Trump claimed they were falling 'very fast' on his watch. The latest consumer price index, released on Wednesday morning, was down from 3% in September, and short of economists’ expectations of about 3.1% for last month." [The Guardian, 12/18/25]
November 2024: Trump Promised To Lower Grocery Prices.
September 2025: Grocery Prices Kept Climbing While Trump Was President, In Part Due To His Tariffs. According to NPR, "Despite Trump's promise to lower prices, the overall cost of groceries is higher now than when he was sworn in. The president's crackdown on illegal immigration — including targeting people who pick and process our food — could add to upward pressure on prices. Trump's tariffs are also contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee. 'Tariffs are simply a tax on imported goods,' Ortega says. 'So that raises the cost, and ultimately consumers see that at the grocery store.' Coffee prices have jumped more than 20% in the last year. And while some of that is due to weather in coffee-growing countries like Brazil and Vietnam, Trump's double-digit import taxes are not helping." [NPR, 9/18/25]
December 2025: Consumer Prices Increased By 2.7 Percent In November 2025. According to CNBC, "Consumer prices rose less than expected in November, giving investors hope that inflationary pressures may be cooling enough for U.S. monetary policy to be eased more than Wall Street anticipates. The consumer price index rose at a 2.7% annualized rate last month, a delayed report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected the CPI to have risen 3.1%. The core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was also cooler than anticipated, increasing 2.6% over 12 months. It was expected to have risen by 3%." [CNBC, 12/18/25]
February 2025: Trump Promised Not To Cut Medicare.
July 2025: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Would Trigger Almost $500 Billion In Mandatory Cuts To Medicare Without Further Congressional Action. According to the CBO, "The 4 percent maximum reduction in Medicare spending would continue to apply to sequestration orders for years after 2026. If OMB ordered a sequestration of $415 billion for each year through 2029 and $339 billion each year from 2030 through 2034, the ordered reductions in Medicare spending would increase to $76 billion in 2034 and would total $491 billion over the 2027–2034 period (see Table 1)." [CBO, 8/15/25]
July 2025: Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Blocked Improvements To Medicare Savings Programs, Effectively Cutting Medicare By Stopping Beneficiaries From Accessing The Programs. According to the Center for Medicare Advocacy, "The law imposes a nine-year ban on implementing improvements to Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs), which help lower-income Medicare beneficiaries pay for premiums and out-of-pocket costs.[5] The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will save over $66 billion over 10 years.[6] But these 'savings' come from preventing eligible beneficiaries from accessing programs designed to make Medicare more affordable. " [Center for Medicare Advocacy, 7/24/25]
February 2025: Trump Promised Not To Cut Social Security.
November 2025: The Trump Administration Scrapped A Years-Long Plan To Cut Social Security Benefits For Disabled Workers After Pressure From Journalists And Advocates. According to ProPublica, "On Nov. 13, a small team of advocates for people with disabilities stepped through White House security and into the narrow, bustling corridors of the West Wing, unsure what to expect. They’d managed to get a short meeting with James Blair, who is one of President Donald Trump’s deputy chiefs of staff, in the hopes of preventing a planned policy change. In recent weeks, ProPublica and The Washington Post had reported that officials at the Social Security Administration were working on a proposed regulation that could result in at least 830,000 mostly older blue-collar workers being denied disability benefits. [...] After several minutes of dialogue about the disability regulation, according to Turkish and another person present, Vought said, 'I know that this is being written about.' But, he added, the rule change 'isn’t going to be happening.' It was a startling announcement from an often uncompromising senior official in an administration with little history of changing its mind in response to journalistic scrutiny and pressure from advocates for the vulnerable. But that’s what Turkish and three other sources say has happened: The Trump administration has decided not to pursue the disability cuts that it has been working on all year — and in fact since at least 2019, when officials during Trump’s first term were close to finalizing a similar regulation." [ProPublica, 11/20/25]
May 2025: Staffing Cuts Increased Wait Times For Social Security’s Toll-Free Number By 50 Percent, Making It Harder For Seniors To Access Benefits. According to USA TODAY, "Hold times on the toll-free number were [sic] averaged one hour under the Biden administration and are now up to 90 minutes per call, Social Security Administration data shows. The wait times when USA TODAY placed calls to the toll-free number over the past week ranged from 90 minutes to 150 minutes. Several times the line disconnected without reaching a live person." [USA TODAY, 5/9/25]
November 2025: BLS Reported 982,200 Motor Vehicle And Parts Manufacturing Jobs
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were more than 1 million motor vehicle and parts manufacturing employees in November 2024 and 982,200 in November 2025, a decrease of 28,700. [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12/19/25]
September 2024: Trump Promised To Cut The Cost Of Housing “In Half.”
July 2025: The Median Sale Price Of A House In The U.S. Was $410,800, Down 2% From $419,300 At The End Of 2024. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the median sales price of houses sold for the United States was $410,800 as of July 2025, down 2% from $419,300 in the fourth quarter of 2024. [Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, updated 7/24/25]
August 2024: Trump Said Under A Trump Administration, “Your Government Will Pay For, Or Your Insurance Company Will Be Mandated To Pay For, All Costs Associated With Ivf Treatment.” According to CNN, "Donald Trump said Thursday he will implement a policy as president that would pay for in vitro fertilization treatments, without specifying how the treatments would be paid for. 'I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for, all costs associated with IVF treatment,' the former president said at a campaign event in Potterville, Michigan." [CNN, 8/29/24]
October 2025: Trump Unveiled Policies That Would Not Have The Government Pay For Or Insurance Companies Cover The Cost Of IVF Treatment. According to POLITICO, "President Donald Trump unveiled policies to lower the cost of fertility drugs and to create a new pathway for optional employer-based coverage of IVF, arguing the moves would make it easier for couples to have children. But Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to make fertility treatments free for all patients, will not have the government pay for it or require insurance companies to cover the cost. " [POLITICO, 10/25/25]