[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 26, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S2541]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                 The President's First One Hundred Days

  Mr. President, as we approach the 100-day mark of the Trump 
administration, we Democrats have been highlighting the litany of 
broken and unfulfilled promises that President Trump made to working 
families. It is our job as the minority party to hold the President 
accountable to the promises he made to voters, particularly the ones he 
made to working families who are struggling out there. Many of these 
folks voted for the President because they believed him when he 
promised to bring back their jobs or get tougher on trade or drain the 
swamp. So it is important to point out where the President has gone 
back on his word and where he has fallen short in these first 100 days.
  On the crucial issues of jobs and the economy, this President has 
made little progress in 100 days. His party hasn't introduced a major 
job-creating piece of legislation to date, and he has actually 
backtracked on his promises to get tough on trade and outsourcing, two 
things which have cost our country millions of jobs. I was particularly 
upset to see the President consider repealing President Obama's law 
that prevented corporate inversions that allowed big corporations to 
locate overseas to lower their tax rates.
  Instead of draining the swamp and making the government more 
accountable to the people, President Trump has filled his government 
with billionaires and bankers and folks ladened with conflicts of 
interest. Amazingly enough, he was going to clean up Washington and 
make it transparent. The White House has decided to keep the visitor 
log secret and, even worse, allowed waivers to lobbyists to come to 
work at the White House on the very same issues they were just lobbying 
on, and those waivers are kept secret. We will not even know about 
them.
  These reversals aren't the normal adjustments that a President makes 
when transitioning from a campaign to the reality of government; these 
are stunning about-faces on core promises the President made to working 
Americans.