Trump's 100-days Vows: Hits, Misses, Unfinished Business

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sure enough, the big trans-Pacific trade deal is toast, climate change action is on the ropes and various regulations from the Obama era have been scrapped. How about the trillion-dollar public works plan and huge tax cut that were supposed to be at the finish line by now? Trump's road to the White House, paved in big, sometimes impossible pledges, has detoured onto a byway of promises deferred or left behind, an Associated Press analysis has found. Of 38 specific promises Trump made in his 100-day "contract" with voters — "This is my pledge to you" — he's accomplished 10, mostly through executive orders that don't require legislation, such as withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Don't hold your breath waiting for alleged Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl to be dropped out of an airplane without a parachute, as Trump said he'd do at many of his campaign rallies. China's leader got a fancy dinner, complete with "beautiful" chocolate cake at Trump's Florida resort in April, not the promised "McDonald's hamburger" and humble pie. Efforts to provide paid maternity leave, to make college more affordable and to invest in urban areas have been all but forgotten. An AP reporter who followed Trump throughout the presidential campaign collected scores of promises he made along the way, from the consequential to the fanciful. —Lift restrictions on mining coal and drilling for oil and natural gas. Trump has unraveled a number of Obama-era restrictions and initiated a review of the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to restrict greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. "Just think about what can be accomplished in the first 100 days of a Trump administration," he told his supporters again and again in the final weeks of the campaign. —Designate China a currency manipulator, setting the stage for possible trade penalties because we're like the piggy bank that's being robbed. —Direct his commerce secretary and trade representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly hurt American workers. The Homeland Security Department is considering a number of measures, such as asking for visitors' phone contacts and social media passwords. —End federal funding to "sanctuary cities" — places where local officials are considered by Washington to be insufficiently cooperative in arresting or detaining people who are in the U.S.