Taxes

Scorecard

True
0% 199 Checks
Mostly True
0% 339 Checks
Half True
0% 0 Checks
Mostly False
0% 347 Checks
False
0% 345 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 105 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Taxes

stated on January 14, 2026 in a statement:
New York ranks No. 1 in the nation for individual tax burden.
Mostly True
February 17, 2026
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on November 7, 2025 in a television interview:
Gov. Kathy Hochul has raised taxes.
Half-True
December 11, 2025
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 15, 2025 in a speech:
In Florida, “68 to 70% of property tax revenue” is from “second homes, investment properties, commercial properties, Airbnb,” not primary residences.
Mostly True
October 30, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 21, 2025 in a speech in Peachtree City, Georgia:
“We had the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen.”
Mostly False
August 22, 2025
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on July 28, 2025 in X:
“The (Evers) Era locked Wisconsin families into a 400‑year property tax increase.”
Mostly True
August 15, 2025
stated on July 17, 2025 in a post on X:
Under President Donald Trump’s newly signed tax law, “Those making less than $50,000 receive the largest (tax) cuts.”
Mostly False
July 21, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 14, 2025 in a podcast interview:
“California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.”
Mostly True
July 18, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on July 2, 2025 in a House floor speech:
President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”
Half-True
July 8, 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
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