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ChampionedJobs, Manufacturing & Labor

Support baseline Tariffs on Foreign-made goods, pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, and respond to unfair Trading practices. As Tariffs on Foreign Producers go up, Taxes on American Workers, Families, and Businesses can come down.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Outcome CONFIRMED as CHAMPIONED; rationale and sources revised to drop one unverifiable claim and add an independently verified source. The promise has four components, and I re-checked each against primary documents. (1) Baseline tariff on foreign-made goods: KEPT and personally led. Trump signed Executive Order 14257 on April 2, 2025, subjecting 'all articles imported into the customs territory of the United States' to 'an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 10 percent,' plus higher country-specific reciprocal rates. When those IEEPA duties were ended by Executive Order 14389 (signed Feb. 20, 2026, published Feb. 25, 2026), which states the IEEPA duties across nine prior EOs 'shall no longer be in effect and, as soon as practicable, shall no longer be collected,' he re-established the same 10 percent baseline the same week under a different statute via Proclamation 11012 (signed Feb. 20, 2026, effective Feb. 24, 2026) using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 — a 'temporary import surcharge of 10 percent ad valorem.' A universal 10 percent baseline has therefore been in force nearly continuously from April 2025 to the present. (2) 'Pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act': NOT KEPT. No such statute was enacted. A Federal Register full-text search for 'Reciprocal Trade Act' since Jan. 20, 2025 returns zero documents, and the enacted public laws of the 119th Congress contain no reciprocal trade or tariff act; the program ran entirely on executive authority. (3) 'Respond to unfair Trading practices': KEPT and led, with a sustained stream of actions through July 2026 — Section 232 proclamations on timber/lumber (Jan. 9, 2026), semiconductors and processed critical minerals (Jan. 20, 2026), pharmaceuticals and aluminum/steel/copper (Apr. 9, 2026), further aluminum/steel/copper (June 4, 2026), and commercial aircraft and engine parts (July 15, 2026); continued suspension of de minimis treatment (Apr. 9, 2026); and a Section 301 presidential memorandum of July 15, 2026 directing the Trade Representative to 'impose a tariff of 25 percent on all goods of Brazil.' (4) 'As Tariffs go up, Taxes on American Workers, Families, and Businesses can come down': KEPT. Public Law 119-21, enacted July 4, 2025, contains Sec. 70201 'No tax on tips,' Sec. 70202 'No tax on overtime,' Sec. 70203 'No tax on car loan interest,' and Sec. 70101 extending the reduced individual rates. Short of FULL on two verified points: the specifically named legislative vehicle never passed Congress, and the surviving baseline rests on Section 122 authority that by statute expires at 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 24, 2026 — with no extension, replacement, or congressional ratification appearing in the Federal Register as of July 21, 2026 — rather than the permanent Act promised. CORRECTIONS to the prior rating: its claim of a 'Section 338 (Canada, July 2026)' action could not be substantiated — a Federal Register search for 'Section 338' since Jan. 20, 2025 returns no presidential trade action, and no Canada tariff document exists in the May–July 2026 window; that claim is removed. The prior rating also described both February documents as executive orders and dated them Feb. 25; one is Proclamation 11012 and both were signed Feb. 20, 2026 (Feb. 25 is the publication date). Nonpartisan cross-check: a politician of the opposing party who imposed a signature policy government-wide by executive action, saw it unwound, immediately re-imposed it under a different statute, signed a major law delivering the companion half of the promise, and took a dozen further actions in the same direction — but never got the named bill through Congress — would rate CHAMPIONED rather than PARTIAL under this rubric, because CHAMPIONED expressly covers leading the effort 'even if not fully enacted.' Three of four components were substantively delivered and Trump personally signed every instrument, so the label is not partisan leniency; FULL is nonetheless unwarranted because the named Act failed and the baseline is on expiring temporary authority.

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