Two ministers’ claims last week about the extra amount which will be spent on protecting the triple lock are potentially misleading
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PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – US trade deficit with China is less than $300 billion, not $1 trillion, as Donald Trump said
In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Fact-check: Trump said tariffs collections are ‘almost $2 billion a day.’ Trade experts are doubtful
The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Sell $2.3 Billion Of His Truth Social Stock A Day Before He Announced Tariffs
Did President Donald Trump sell $2.3 billion of his Truth Social stock a day before he announced new tariffs? No, that's not true: Trump cannot yet sell his shares in Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., the company that owns the Truth
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Stacey Abrams didn’t admit to using $2 billion from EPA to buy votes in Georgia
Video shows “Stacey Abrams admits the $2 billion Joe Biden’s EPA gave her was used to buy votes of people in Georgia by purchasing them new appliances.”
PolitiFact→ Can House Republicans cut $880 billion without slashing Medicaid? It’s likely impossible.
Can a House committee cut $880 billion without slashing Medicaid? Experts say that’s impossible. But the cuts are not a done deal.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: South Korea mRNA Warning Story NOT Confirmed By Cited Source — NO Mention Of ‘6 Billion People’ With ‘VAIDS’
Did South Korea issue a warning about mRNA vaccines, saying "6 billion people now have VAIDS" as a viral article claimed? No, that's not true: VAIDS is not a real condition and the story making originated on a notoriously unreliable websi
The Dispatch→ The $2 Billion Dollar Case
Is this judicial hubris?
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Fact-checking Trump’s claim that a group ‘headed up’ by Stacey Abrams received $2 billion
The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”
PolitiFact→ Social Media – No, Elon Musk didn’t say billionaires are tired of ‘subsidizing everyone else’s’ public services
Elon Musk posted on X that billionaires are “tired of subsidizing” public services.
Lead Stories→ House GOP Resolution Did Not Cut $880 Billion From Medicaid — It Directs A Committee To Cut That From Many Programs It Oversees
Does the February 2025 House budget resolution specify an $880 billion unilateral cut in Medicaid funding? No, that's not true: On February 25, 2025, the House passed its proposed budget, a resolution that directs the House Energy a
The Dispatch→ Did Stacey Abrams Receive $2 Billion From Taxpayers?
A nonprofit group that Abrams advises helped form a separate group that in 2023 received a $2 billion federal grant.
Full Fact→ Is the UK’s defence spending set to increase by £13 billion a year?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say On X That ‘Billionaires Are Tired Of Subsidizing Everyone Else’s Schools, Parks, Health Care, Even Food And Entertainment’
Did tech billionaire and Donald Trump's ally Elon Musk go on X to say that "this country's billionaires are tired of subsidizing everyone else's schools, parks, health care, even food and entertainment"? No, that's not true: Neither his l
PolitiFact→ DOGE touts billions in canceled government contracts. Where are the numbers coming from?
DOGE’s website says its estimated savings are $55 billion, but its “wall of receipts” lists savings of about $8.6 billion, 0.1% of last year’s federal budget. PolitiFact dug into what we know about the savings so far.
PolitiFact→ Social Media – Does a ‘US Debt Clock’ prove DOGE has saved $64 billion? Why the clock and that claim lack evidence
“US Debt Clock” numbers prove “DOGE has saved taxpayers $64 billion dollars in just 17 days.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: DOGE Did NOT Uncover $2 Billion Grant To Nonprofit Power Forward Communities, Linked To Stacey Abrams
Did DOGE "uncover" a previously unknown $2 billion federal grant to Power Forward Communities, a nonprofit organization linked to Democratic activist Stacey Abrams? No, that's not true: The Environmental Protection Agency publicly announc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Carrie Underwood Won $1 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Involving ‘The View’ — Originated On Clickbait Channels
Did Carrie Underwood win a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against "The View" or did she even sue them? No, that's not true: The story alleging there was a lawsuit involving comments on "The View" about Underwood's performance at Presid
Full Fact→ The government has not spent £8 billion on ‘woke projects’
The figure of £8 billion represents the total annual budget for UK Research and Innovation. Funding for projects that the TaxPayers’ Alliance has described as “woke” totals £10.4 million.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fox News Reporter Did NOT Ask House Speaker About ‘Unelected Billionaires’ Deciding Policy
Did a reporter ask House Speaker Mike Johnson during a February 5, 2025, news conference if the politician thought "unelected government officials are dangerous, but unelected billionaires making policy decisions is fine"? No, that's not
Full Fact→ Has the UK promised to give Ukraine £3 billion a year for the next 100 years?
The money is part of a 100 Year Partnership Declaration, but has been promised until 2030/31 and for “as long as needed to support Ukraine”.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Sign Executive Order To ‘Purchase 2 Billion Doses Of Covid Shots’ — It Established Sovereign Wealth Fund
Did President Donald Trump sign an executive order on February 3, 2025, announcing the purchase of 2 billion doses of COVID shots from Moderna and Pfizer? No, that's not true: The order established a sovereign wealth fund, a government-ow
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Redirect $2 Billion From ‘Welfare For Illegals’ To NC As Of January 27, 2025 — Originated On Satirical Site
Did President Trump redirect $2 billion meant for welfare programs for undocumented immigrants to the residents of North Carolina during the first week of his second term in 2025? No, that's not true: This claim is from a self-described s
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claims about FEMA, North Carolina, and $2 billion earmarked for migrants originated on parody pages
“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘DOGE Clock’ Did NOT Say $8 Billion-Plus Saved By January 22, 2025, By Cutting Government Spending
Did a running "DOGE Clock" on a website that monitors the national debt say efforts to reduce government waste, fraud and abuse had already saved over $8 billion by January 22, 2025? No, that's not true: The privately run website includes
PolitiFact→ More Perfect Union – Does a billionaire couple own almost all the water in California? Here’s why that’s False.
“One billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California."
PolitiFact→ X posts – FEMA didn’t spend all its money on immigrants. It has billions to respond to California fires.
“FEMA spent billions on illegal immigrants and now has no money for California!”
PolitiFact→ Sara Jacobs – Fact-check: Past government shutdowns cost the U.S. economy billions
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Spend $3 Billion For Just 93 Postal Delivery Electric Vehicles
Did the Biden administration spend $3 billion to procure just 93 electric mail trucks? No, that's not true: A Postal Service spokesperson told Lead Stories that Congress approved $3 billion to purchase 66,000 electric postal delivery vehi
The Dispatch→ Will DOGE Cut Billions From Veterans’ Health Care Benefits?
Elon Musk has proposed defunding programs with expired authorizations, but Congress controls appropriations.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021
REVIEW A Facebook reel from early December 2024 claimed that the math of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing didn’t “add up”, alleging that it would take decades to produce enough vaccine doses to vaccinate the world population. The reel is a repos
The Dispatch→ Did Jared Kushner Take $2 Billion From Saudi Arabia?
The Saudi sovereign wealth fund invested in his private-equity firm, but the money does not belong to Kushner.
PolitiFact→ Michael Rulli – Biden law gave states $7.5 billion for EV charging; 37 stations and 226 ports built, more to come
“Pete Buttigieg will leave his post as Transportation Secretary having spent $7.5 billion to build 8 EV charging stations.”
Full Fact→ No, Elon Musk isn’t investing $1 billion into an ‘un-woke’ film studio
The claim originates from a satirical news website and isn’t true.
Full Fact→ Labour’s ‘£22 billion black hole’ figure is not directly comparable to the deficit in 2010
A number of social media posts seem to compare the forecast overspend in in-year departmental spending which Labour claims to have inherited with the deficit the party left when last in government.
The Dispatch→ Elon Musk, the EPA, and a Decision Worth Billions
Tesla stands to gain if the federal agency extends California’s electric vehicle rules.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Has NOT Spent $7.5 Billion To Build Only 8 EV Charging Stations
Has the Department of Transportation under Secretary Pete Buttigieg spent $7.5 billion on only eight EV charging stations? No, that's not true: Much of the money set aside for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program has yet t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Could NOT Give Everyone On Earth $1 Billion And Still Have $172 Billion Left Over
Is Elon Musk so rich that he could give every person on Earth $1 billion and still have $172 billion left over? No, that's not true: A post that says this on social media puts Musk's wealth at $180 billion, which means he'd be broke after
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pentagon NOT Spending $86 Billion Annually On DEI Initiatives
Is the Pentagon spending $86 billion on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives? No, that's not true: The most recent budget request in April 2024 asked for $162 million. The Fox News guest who originally suggested the much higher num
PolitiFact→ Threads posts – Elon Musk is rich, but not rich enough to give everyone on Earth $1 billion. That claim is False.
“Elon Musk has $180 Billion and there are 8B people on earth. If he gave us each $1B he’d still have $172B left.”