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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Will buying American cars help shoppers avoid tariff costs?
President Donald Trump and his allies have offered a solution for avoiding price hikes because of his car tariffs: buy American. Trump told NBC News March 29 that he “couldn’t care less” if foreign car manufacturers raise prices in response to tariffs. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are going…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Why Trump’s ‘$2 billion a day in tariffs’ is doubtful
Before pausing country-by-country tariffs for 90 days, President Donald Trump repeatedly said tariffs were bringing in immense revenue. At an April 8 executive order signing, Trump said, “We’re taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs. Two billion a day.” He repeated the $2 billion figure during an April 8 speech to the National…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Graphic Cites FactCheck.org in Misleading Biden, Trump Economy Comparison
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. A graphic circulating on social media compares Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic records as president and cites FactCheck.org as the source. But two of its figures are way off, and others are out of date— creating a more unfavorable comparison for Trump. The graphic…
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Fact Check / PolitiFact
Targeting Chris Krebs, Trump repeats 2020 election falsehood
As President Donald Trump targeted one of his first-term government officials, he also repeated the long debunked falsehood that the “2020 election was rigged and stolen.” In an April 9 memo, Trump directed his administration to strip security clearance from Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and investigate Kreb’s time…