Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Tim Scott mangles false GOP talking point on IRS hounding average taxpayers

August 17, 2022

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and…

Bob Good makes misleading comments about ‘army’ of IRS agents

August 17, 2022

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits…

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Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’

August 12, 2022

"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"

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Kevin McCarthy’s mostly false claim about an army of 87,000 IRS agents

August 11, 2022

“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”

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Fact-checking Blake Masters: Mark Kelly voted to legalize abortion ‘up until the moment of birth’

August 1, 2022

Sen. Mark Kelly “voted to legalize abortion up until the moment of birth.”

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Kevin McCarthy said domestic oil is more affordable than imported oil. It costs more

June 24, 2022

“American oil is … more affordable” than foreign oil.

No, government data does not say that defensive gun use saves lives

June 6, 2022

The U.S. Justice Department “conservatively estimated that guns are used 1.5 million times per year to save lives.”

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Joe Biden said mass shootings tripled when the assault weapon ban ended. They did

May 25, 2022

"When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled."

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Does JD Vance profit from Russia propaganda?

May 24, 2022

“J.D. Vance profits off Russia propaganda.”

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No, the US is not backing a WHO takeover of national health policies

May 19, 2022

“The Biden administration is bringing amendments that would propose that all nations of the earth cede their sovereignty over national health care decisions to the…

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Factchecking Arizona’s Blake Masters’ claim of open borders and Democratic amnesty plans

May 16, 2022

“Democrats want open borders so they can bring in and amnesty tens of millions of illegal aliens — that’s their electoral strategy.”

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