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Washington Post→ Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: ‘More people will have coverage’
“I’m sorry he doesn’t understand. Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage.” –Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” Sept. 20, 2017 Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel atta
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Jimmy Kimmel's reaction to the Graham-Cassidy bill
Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel is back in the middle of the health care debate, using his opening monologue to take down the latest move to repeal and replace Obamacare. Kimmel had urged Congress not to throw out the Affordable Care Act a few months
Snopes→ No More Child Support After 2017?
Headlines claiming President Trump and Congress abolished child support were completely false, but massively popular on social media.
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s U.N. Speech
Summary In his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Donald Trump reprised misleading talking points on everything from job growth to defense spending. We’ve written about variations of some of these claims numerous times, but sinc
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – President Donald Trump's Half True claim that support for DACA is as high as '92 percent'
The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | President Donald Trump's Half True claim that support for DACA is as high as '92 percent' President Donald Trump has questioned why undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children should be depo
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Tax Plan and ‘the Rich’
In promoting his plan to overhaul of the nation’s tax system, President Donald Trump claimed “the rich will not be gaining at all with this plan.” But the tax proposal his administration outlined in April would heavily benefit high-income tax
PolitiFact→ What's at stake in the tax debate?
All eyes in Washington have turned toward tax policy after the failure by Congress to replace the Affordable Care Act this summer. President Donald Trump is pressuring Congress to immediately pass adjustments to the tax code and score a major legislati
Snopes→ Bernie Sanders Releases Bill to Make Medicare Available to All Americans
The legislation won't be passed by the Republican-controlled Congress but has the support of some prominent Democratic Senators.
FactCheck.org→ Explaining McCain’s Defense ‘Cut’
Sen. John McCain says the budget deal President Donald Trump reached with Democratic leaders “basically freezes last year’s funding in place, which is a cut of $52 billion” in defense spending. In fact, the deal doesn’t cut the defense
Truth or Fiction?→ Hotels Required to Accept Evacuees With Pets During Natural Disasters-Fiction!
Hotels Required to Accept Evacuees With Pets During Natural Disasters-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Under the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act of 2006, hotels are required to accept evacuees with pets during natural disasters and o
PolitiFact→ Al Franken – Did Reagan and H.W. Bush issue actions similar to DACA, as Al Franken said?
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | Did Reagan and H.W. Bush issue actions similar to DACA, as Al Franken said? Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., took to the airwaves to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy the Obama adminis
FactCheck.org→ Who Benefits From Corporate Tax Cut?
In advocating for a corporate tax cut, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin overstates the consensus when he says “most economists believe that over 70 percent of corporate taxes are paid for by the workers.” In fact, who bears the brunt of co
FactCheck.org→ Obama Didn’t Pardon Wendell Callahan
Q: Did former President Barack Obama pardon Wendell Callahan, who was later accused of killing three people after his early release? A: No. Congress unanimously passed a bill changing drug sentencing laws and Obama signed it. Callahan petitioned for
PolitiFact→ So what is the debt ceiling all about anyway?
President Donald Trump and the bipartisan leadership of Congress have agreed to a must-pass package that, among other things, extends the debt ceiling through Dec. 15. For something that could have a profound effect on the nation’s economy, the d
FactCheck.org→ Spinning the Facts on DACA
In rescinding the Obama-era Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ selective use of facts leaves a misleading impression of the program: Sessions described DACA recipients as “800,000 mostly-adult illeg
Washington Post→ The Trump administration’s claim that DACA ‘helped spur’ the 2014 surge of minors crossing the border
“The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences.” — Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in remarks annou
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the DACA immigration program
President Donald Trump’s administration intends to reverse a major policy that offered relief to immigrants who came to the United States as children, a group often called Dreamers. The policy, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DA
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Tax Speech
In a speech on changing the tax code, President Donald Trump offered some political spin on the facts. Trump claimed “anywhere from $3 trillion to $5 trillion” of profits are left overseas by U.S. companies to avoid U.S. taxes. But his o
PolitiFact→ Liberal Bloggers – Pants on Fire! Mike Pence cited Bible to oppose Hurricane Katrina relief bill, liberal bloggers say
The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Pants on Fire! Mike Pence cited Bible to oppose Hurricane Katrina relief bill, liberal bloggers say Left-leaning bloggers used the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to attack Vice President Mike Pence, saying he
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump repeats false claim about illegal border crossings
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Donald Trump repeats false claim about illegal border crossings A border wall with Mexico is needed for security reasons, even though traffic coming through has stopped significantly, claimed President Donald Trump.
FactCheck.org→ Cruz Wrong on Sandy Relief
Sen. Ted Cruz wrongly claimed that a 2013 Hurricane Sandy relief bill was “filled with pork and unrelated spending,” estimating that “two-thirds of what was spent in that bill had little or nothing to do with Hurricane Sandy.” N
FactCheck.org→ Will Trump’s Wall Stop Drug Smuggling?
President Donald Trump says that his proposed wall along the Mexico border “will stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country.” We cannot predict the future, but the fact is that most illicit drugs pass undetected through legal por
FactCheck.org→ Trump Didn’t Fire 14 Muslim Judges
Q: Did President Donald Trump fire 14 Muslim federal judges? A: No. The satirical website that originally published the story describes itself as “your beacon of something you can kinda rely on sometimes but not really.” FULL ANSWER Presi
FactCheck.org→ No Supreme Court Border Wall Ruling
Q: Did the Supreme Court rule that President Donald Trump can build a border wall without the approval of Congress? A: No. That story comes from a website that “makes no guarantee that anything you find here will be based at all in reality.̶
FactCheck.org→ Flawed Attack on Jeff Flake
A campaign ad attacking Republican Sen. Jeff Flake falsely says that he hasn’t worked with President Donald Trump to “repeal Obamacare.” Flake voted for the three different Senate proposals to repeal parts of the health care legislati
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Phoenix Fiction
Summary President Donald Trump delivered a raucous, error-filled speech in Arizona on Aug. 22, just days after he was uniformly criticized for blaming “both sides” for the deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Vir
FactCheck.org→ Was Driver Acting in Self-Defense?
Q: Does a video corroborate a belief by Charlottesville police officers that the driver in the fatal car attack at a white nationalist rally “was not acting maliciously”? A: No. Police have charged James Alex Fields Jr. with multiple offenses, inc
Snopes→ Maxine Waters Fears a Trump-led War After Nuclear Attack by North Korea?
Right-wing Facebook pages created a meme containing a fabricated quote attributed to the Democratic Congresswoman.
PolitiFact→ The big picture: Where Obamacare stands, August 2017
The failure of efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has left insurance companies, states and consumers in limbo. President Donald Trump repeatedly claims Obamacare is collapsing. Supporters of the health care law say it just needs a li
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Hollow Claim about ‘Inner Cities’
President Donald Trump claimed that his administration is “spending a lot of money on the inner cities.” But there has been little change in spending so far, and his first budget proposes to cut or eliminate funding for some programs that b
FactCheck.org→ Obama Center Not Federally Funded
Q: Did President Trump cancel funding to build Barack Obama’s presidential library? A: No. That story originated on a satirical news site. All presidential libraries have been constructed using private or non-federal funds. FULL ANSWER On Aug.
Truth or Fiction?→ Professor Ray Schneider: List of 59 Trump Accomplishments-Investigation Pending!
Professor Ray Schneider: List of 59 Trump Accomplishments-Investigation Pending! Summary of eRumor: A list of 59 accomplishments by President Trump in the first seven months of his presidency that has been attributed to Ray Schneider, an associate pr
Washington Post→ President Trump’s claim that foreigners are responsible for ‘the vast majority’ of terrorism convictions since 9/11
“According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.” — President Trump, address to Congress, Feb.
FactCheck.org→ Pompeo Distorts China’s Nuclear Policy
CIA Director Mike Pompeo misrepresented the facts when he suggested the Trump administration was responsible for changing China’s policy on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Pompeo said that “the Chinese now … believe the c
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump on U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper and FactCheck.org review the accuracy of President Donald Trump’s tweet about the modernization of the U.S. nuclear weapons program. The president tweeted that his “first order a
Washington Post→ Dear readers, help us fact-check your lawmakers during August recess
When Congress left Washington for the April recess, we asked our readers to help us fact-check their local town halls. We were overwhelmed with submissions from coast to coast. We ended up fact-checking what members of Congress from seven s
PolitiFact→ A Trump nuclear strike against North Korea: constitutional or not?
President Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea and tweets about the United States’ powerful nuclear arsenal have raised the specter -- however small -- of nuclear war. But some members of Congress argue that the current process by whi
FactCheck.org→ Trump Misfires on Nuclear Weapons Boast
A day after he threatened North Korea with “fire and fury,” President Donald Trump distorted the facts when he boasted that his “first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal” and “it is now fa
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump on the RAISE Act
In a segment that aired on several local NBC news stations, FactCheck.org Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley discussed President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claim that the RAISE Act “prevents … new immigrants from collecting welfare.̶