Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Kevin McCarthy at the Capitol, 9-14-2023

Largest share of foreign payments went to Biden associates, not kin, House GOP memos show

September 18, 2023

“We know the bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies.”

Kevin McCarthy meets the Capitol press gaggle, 9-12-2023

Kevin McCarthy’s Full Flop on opening Joe Biden impeachment inquiry with a House vote

September 13, 2023

On moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with a House vote.

Biden at ground zero in New York City, 9-20-2001

Joe Biden visited ground zero nine days after 9/11, not ‘the next day’

September 12, 2023

“Ground zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day.”

Depression soup line

Do Americans make less money now than during the Great Depression? That’s Pants on Fire!

September 7, 2023

Americans “currently are making less than at the height of the Great Depression.”

British grocery store aisle, 8-17-2022

Joe Biden is mostly right that the US inflation rate is the lowest among other leading economies

September 1, 2023

U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."

Biden speaks at White House on Medicare drugs, 8-29-2023

Is Joe Biden right that a new Medicare drug law will save $160 billion over 10 years?

August 31, 2023

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will…

Mike Pence at Milwaukee debate, 8-23-2023

Mike Pence off base about his policies aiding last U.S. debt decrease

August 29, 2023

"I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was…

Pence and Ramaswamy shake at GOP debate, 8-23-2023

Why Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim about what Mike Pence could have done on Jan. 6 is False

August 29, 2023

Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, could have approved the 2020 electoral votes on the condition that Congress pass an overhaul of election…

Biden speaking in Milwaukee

Fact-checking Joe Biden on the murky topic of employment statistics

August 21, 2023

“A higher percentage of American workers are working today than ever before.”

Biden at Grand Canyon, 8-8-2023

Joe Biden says he declared a national climate emergency, but he hasn’t

August 17, 2023

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

Trump pointing in South Carolina

Donald Trump vastly underestimates job gains under Joe Biden

August 8, 2023

“During Biden’s first 30 months in office, just 2.1 million new jobs were created, and by contrast, during my first 30 months in office we…

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