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Latest Promises

Repeal Hyde Amendment

Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood

Help state and local governments prevent budget shortfalls

End the defense sequester

Make no cuts to Social Security

Make no cuts to Medicaid

Add additional federal investment of $20 billion toward School Choice

Adopt the penny plan

Dramatically scale back the U.S. Education Department

Eliminate wasteful spending in every department

Administer Medicaid through block grants

Balance the federal budget 'fairly quickly'

Cut another $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion in spending

Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps

Include humanitarian international missions in long-term budgeting

Modernize ships and invest more in small vessels

Support wetlands protection

Double U.S. spending on foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012

Create a system of incentives and penalties for defense contracts

Fund proposals to help fish and game survive climate change

Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion

Increase funding for progams that conserve lands, habitat for species like Osceola turkey

Increase special operations forces and civil affairs

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