“I'll be reducing taxes tremendously, from 35 percent to 15 percent for companies, small and big businesses. That's going to be a job creator like we haven't seen since Ronald Reagan.”
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Independently verified. Trump drove and signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Dec 22, 2017), which permanently cut the flat federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% — a large, real, enacted reduction, but short of the specific 15% promised (14 of the 20 promised points, ~70%). PolitiFact's Trump-O-Meter (promise #1425) was re-fetched live and independently confirms a 'Compromise' rating with the exact wording 'Corporate rate drops to 21 percent, but not all the way to 15 percent.' The 35%-to-21% cut is corroborated by the Tax Policy Center's briefing book and GAO. Adversarial fairness check: the outcome is PARTIAL rather than CHAMPIONED because a substantive part of the goal was actually ENACTED (not merely led-but-failed) yet fell short of the numeric target — the same standard that would rate an opposite-party promise (e.g., pledging a $15 minimum wage but enacting $12) as PARTIAL. Confidence held at 0.9; facts are undisputed and the label is well-calibrated and party-neutral.
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