Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Joe Biden’s boast about Social Security inflation adjustment is Pants on Fire

November 2, 2022
"On my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks."
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Rick Scott Oct 2022

Rick Scott repeats false claim that Democrats cut $280 billion from Medicare

October 31, 2022
“All Democrats in the Senate and House voted to cut $280 billion out of Medicare just two months ago.”
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Lancaster PA election workers with mail ballots 11-4-20

Ted Cruz’s misleading claim that only Democratic cities take days to count votes

October 28, 2022
Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”
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Biden in Syracuse

Gas prices hit $5 a gallon more than a year after Joe Biden took office, not when he was inaugurated

October 28, 2022
The price of gas is “down from over $5 when I took office.”
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Joe Biden’s false claims about student loan forgiveness

October 25, 2022
Student loan forgiveness is “passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect.”
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Social security card

Debunking a fake claim about cuts to Social Security if Republicans win the House

October 21, 2022
A House Republican plan says that if the GOP wins the majority, “Retirees who have a pension, IRAs, 401k, disabled veteran benefits will be ineligible…
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Warnock early voting

Is the Black-white disparity in maternal mortality as big as Raphael Warnock said?

October 17, 2022
“Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die (from maternal mortality) even when they have the insurance and the income.”
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Biden in Colorado

Un-spinning a White House chart on Biden’s job gains

October 13, 2022
The Biden administration has “created” more than double the number of jobs per month, on average, than any other administration going back to George H.W.…
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JD Vance at Youngstown Ohio rally

Fact-checking J.D. Vance on Tim Ryan’s record on fracking

October 11, 2022
“Tim Ryan when he ran for president two years ago … supported banning fracking both on public lands and generally speaking.”
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Warnock in front of church

The misleading claim that Raphael Warnock ‘called police thugs, then cut their funding’

September 30, 2022
Raphael Warnock "called police thugs, then cut their funding."
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Warnock closeup

Democratic bill didn’t ‘slash’ Medicare spending. It would get the same drugs, cheaper

September 29, 2022
Sen. Raphael Warnock "voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending.”
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Biden for 60 mins

Joe Biden leaves out context in ‘60 Minutes’ comment on debt reduction

September 20, 2022
“This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt."
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