As former President Donald Trump embarks on his third campaign as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, he’s been making some promises to his supporters.
While some promises are reflective of policy ideas he promised in his 2016 and 2020 runs, he’s floated some new ideas while on the campaign trail this time around, including eliminating taxes on tipped workers and rolling back some energy regulation from President Joe Biden’s administration.
Here are five promises the former president has made so far as he looks to regain the presidency in November.
Eliminating taxes on tipped workers
At a recent campaign rally in Las Vegas, Trump promised to eliminate taxes on tipped income if he wins a second term.
“Hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips,” Trump said at the rally. “We’re going to do that right away, first thing in office.”
The location of the announcement proves poignant as 1 in 4 workers in Nevada are employed in the hospitality industry, which is reliant on tips.
His campaign later noted that eliminating such a tax would require congressional approval.
Ending offshore wind farms
At a campaign event in New Jersey, Trump promised to halt offshore wind energy projects “on day one,” of his presidency, pointing to reports of wind farms killing whales.
“We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump said. “I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on day one.”
“They destroy everything, they’re horrible, the most expensive energy there is,” Trump continued. “They ruin the environment, they kill the birds, they kill the whales.”
How wind farms and their construction harm whales has been a bipartisan concern, with lawmakers cooperating across party lines to demand answers to questions about spikes in deaths.
Helping out the oil and gas industry
At an April dinner in Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil and gas executives for a combined $1 billion in donations to his campaign in exchange for some energy policies that could benefit them. Executives from oil companies such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Continental Resources, and others were in attendance.
“We’re going to bring our economy back again. Drill baby drill. We’re bringing energy prices way down,” Trump said.
At the dinner, Trump promised to reverse several Biden environmental policies and prevent his administration from enacting more. He said that on the first day of his new administration, he will end the Biden administration’s halt on permits for new liquefied natural gas exports. That was a top priority for the executives, according to those familiar with the talks.
The dinner prompted an investigation from Senate Democrats who said they believe Trump partook in quid pro quo behavior “conferring on how to trade campaign cash for policy changes.”
Rolling back elective vehicle mandates
Trump has promised to roll back many electric vehicle initiatives from the Biden administration. He has previously claimed electric vehicles are a hoax.
“On day one, I will immediately terminate Joe Biden’s insane electric vehicle mandate, and there will be no ban on gas cars or gas trucks,” he said, adding he will put “a 200% tax on every car that comes in” to the U.S., without specifying which countries the tariff would apply to.
In order to do this, Trump will need to find a way to cut off federal funds that are allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act’s federal EV tax credit and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $7.5 billion set aside to build an EV charger network.
“I’m all for electric cars, but you have to have all of the alternatives also,” Trump said in an interview with CNBC earlier this year. “First of all, they don’t go far, they cost too much, and they’re all going to be made in China.”
Defending Christianity
In a taped video to the Danbury Institute’s Life and Liberty Forum, an association of churches and Christian organizations, Trump told the group he will be the president of religious liberty.
In taped remarks, Trump said he will “defend religious liberty, free speech, innocent life, and the heritage and traditions that built America into the greatest nation in the history of the world.”
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While Biden rarely misses Sunday Mass as a Catholic, Trump has vowed to be the president who stands up for Christian groups, claiming Democrats are against religion.
“These are difficult times for our nation, and your work is so important,” Trump said. “We can’t afford to have anyone sit on the sidelines. Now is the time for us all to pull together and stand up for our values and our freedoms. And you just can’t vote Democrat — they’re against religion. They’re against your religion in particular.”