Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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

By Louis Jacobson

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.”

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

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

September 13, 2023

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

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

By Louis Jacobson

September 12, 2023

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

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

By Louis Jacobson

September 7, 2023

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

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

By Louis Jacobson

September 1, 2023

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

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

By Louis Jacobson

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…

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

By Louis Jacobson

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…

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

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

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…

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

By Louis Jacobson

August 21, 2023

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

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

By Louis Jacobson

August 17, 2023

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

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Mike Pence oversells U.S. ‘energy independence’ under Donald Trump

By Louis Jacobson , Matthew Crowley

August 16, 2023

“In three short years, we achieved energy independence.”

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Donald Trump vastly underestimates job gains under Joe Biden

By Louis Jacobson

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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