White House lists 127 'promises kept' by Trump, claiming India trade deal secured even though only a framework was agreed
Released on the final day of midterm campaigning, the White House document credits Trump with new trade deals and peace in eight conflicts, but the India agreement it cites was only a February framework, not a signed deal.
The White House has released a sweeping account of Donald Trump's second term on the final day of campaigning before the midterm elections, listing 127 promises it says the president has kept, including trade agreements with India and other major partners and a claim of peace in eight conflicts around the world.
The document, titled 'President Trump's Second Term: Promises Made, Promises Kept, Results Delivered', was posted on the White House website on Monday, local time, as Republicans fought to hold control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's vote. It presents the administration's own assessment of its record across trade, the economy, immigration, national security, energy and foreign policy.
On trade, the White House said Trump had secured new and improved trade agreements with major partners covering more than half of global gross domestic product, naming the United Kingdom, the European Union, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. It credited the use of tariffs as leverage for winning better terms for American workers, farmers and manufacturers.
The inclusion of India has drawn particular attention, because the agreement the White House points to has not actually been signed. The link in the document leads to a February fact sheet headlined 'The United States and India Announce Historic Trade Deal', but the joint statement the two governments issued on 6 February announced only a framework for an interim agreement, not a concluded deal.
Under that framework, India was to eliminate or reduce tariffs on all American industrial goods and a range of farm products, while Washington set an 18 per cent reciprocal tariff on Indian goods. The United States also agreed to remove the reciprocal tariff on items including generic pharmaceuticals, gems and diamonds and aircraft parts, but only subject to the successful conclusion of the interim agreement.
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on 15 October that the first tranche of the agreement had been finalised and was going through legal drafting, a step that falls short of a signed and implemented deal. The distinction matters because the White House document describes the trade agreements as secured, while the India arrangement remains, in formal terms, a framework that both sides are still working to finalise.
The document also credits Trump with helping to achieve peace in eight conflicts, listing India and Pakistan alongside Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas.
That claim, too, carries a significant caveat. India has consistently rejected claims of third-party mediation in ending the four-day conflict with Pakistan that followed Operation Sindoor in May 2025, maintaining that no country other than India and Pakistan was involved in the negotiations that ended the fighting.
Beyond trade and foreign policy, the 127-point list covers the administration's claims on border security and immigration, taxation, energy, healthcare, education, technology, law enforcement, government spending and cryptocurrency. On the economy it highlights the Working Families Tax Cuts, including provisions described as no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
The timing of the release was plainly political. It arrived on the last day of campaigning, as polls pointed to a difficult night for Republicans, and as Trump himself urged supporters to turn out in large numbers, warning that his administration's achievements could be reversed if voters failed to back his party.
What the document amounts to, then, is less a neutral audit than a campaign argument: a record the White House wants voters to judge before they cast their ballots. Its trade and peace claims will be tested not by the document itself, but by whether the India agreement is ever signed in the form described, and by how historians and the countries named assess the conflicts it lists.
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