FACT CHECK: Where Trump's 2019 State Of The Union Promises Stand
The State of the Union this year may make for a seriously awkward moment.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be seated over President Trump's left shoulder Tuesday, less than two months after the Democratic-controlled House impeached him — and just as the Republican-controlled Senate will be deciding whether to keep or remove him from office. (Trump is widely expected to be acquitted because a two-thirds majority is needed to remove a president, and there is no indication that 20 Republicans would side with the Democrats and independents who caucus with them.)
But what of the substance? What about the policies Trump promised in last year's State of the Union address?
Trump said in last year's address that he campaigned on "core promises" on trade, infrastructure, health care, prescription drug pricing, immigration and an "America First" foreign policy. Related to those core promises, he pledged to do or asked Congress to do more than a dozen specific things in 2019. There's been movement on more than half of his goals in the last year and roughly a third of the specific promises listed below were accomplished.
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With the help of several policy reporters and editors at NPR, here's a progress report on the president's 2019 state of the union promises.
