ARTICLES & INFORMATION
-
Fact Check / PolitiFact
FactChecking Trump’s Address to Congress
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term, President Donald Trump distorted the facts on fraud, immigration, aid to Ukraine, the economy, autism and more. Trump claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has “found hundreds…
-
Fact Check / PolitiFact
Video: FactChecking Trump’s Address to Congress
Here’s our fact-check of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, in video form. The video, produced by FactCheck.org Social Media Manager Josh Diehl, is based on our article on the president’s March 4 speech. Our staff found that Trump made exaggerated, misleading or unsupported claims about finding fraud in government spending,…
-
Fact Check / PolitiFact
White House says tariffs are a tax cut. Economists say no
When Associated Press reporter Josh Boak asked about tariffs in the White House press briefing March 11, the exchange with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt quickly became testy. It also produced a sentence that left economists’ heads spinning: “Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people,” Leavitt said. After Leavitt said that, Boak…
-
Fact Check / PolitiFact
Abrams didn’t admit she used $2 billion grant to buy votes
Days after President Donald Trump called out Stacey Abrams in his March 4 speech to Congress, Abrams defended herself in an interview on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” Some social media users shared the March 6 interview as evidence she admitted to wrongdoing. “Stacey Abrams admits the $2 billion Joe Biden’s EPA gave her…