Congress

Scorecard

True
0% 61 Checks
Mostly True
0% 88 Checks
Half True
0% 0 Checks
Mostly False
0% 104 Checks
False
0% 189 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 85 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Congress

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 11, 2026 in remarks to reporters:
Credit card companies would be “in violation of the law” if they don’t cap interest rates at 10% by Jan. 20.
False
January 12, 2026
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on October 7, 2025 in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
“The FBI tapped my phone” and those of other senators.
Mostly False
October 9, 2025
stated on September 29, 2025 in The People's Cabinet podcast:
“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid. The janitors never get paid.”
Mostly True
September 30, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on September 12, 2025 in social media posts:
Former President Barack Obama eliminated a law that “held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people.”
False
September 17, 2025
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on August 27, 2025 in an X post:
Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”
Half-True
August 28, 2025
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on August 6, 2025 in a Threads post:
The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it.
False
August 7, 2025
stated on June 13, 2025 in an email:
“Democrats have 24 more seats (in Congress) than they would have if illegal aliens were not counted in the census.”
False
August 7, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 29, 2025 in an interview on Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures':
The One Big Beautiful Bill will deliver the promise of “no tax on Social Security.”
Mostly False
June 30, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 in an X post:
“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
Half-True
June 27, 2025
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on June 4, 2025 in an ad:
The Republican tax and spending bill will provide a “tax cut for Social Security recipients.”
Half-True
June 24, 2025
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