Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Ivanka Trump on target with figures on women in STEM fields

June 12, 2017

"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."

Story that Donald Trump will split Marines from Navy is unfounded

June 7, 2017

"Trump Removing Marines From the Navy."

Scott Pruitt on Meet the Press

Are coal mining jobs up by 50,000 since last year? Not exactly

June 5, 2017

"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone,…

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Is ISIS ‘infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it’?

June 1, 2017

"ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it."

Trump and King Salman

Did Donald Trump’s trip create or save ‘millions’ of jobs?

May 26, 2017

Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."

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Did Obamacare premiums double in most states this year? No

May 25, 2017

"This year, a majority of states are seeing premiums and costs double" under Obamacare.

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Were two people responsible for virtually all anti-Semitic incidents after the election?

May 22, 2017

"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the…

Schumer Sessions floor speech

Did federal inmate population drop under Obama for first time since Carter?

May 18, 2017

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

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Does the president have ‘the ability to declassify anything at any time’?

May 16, 2017

"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."

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Donald Trump mentions tax deductions ‘for birds flying across America,’ and he should know

May 15, 2017

The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."

Trump meets GOP lawmakers after health care bill

Would GOP bill expand women’s health care by curbing Planned Parenthood?

May 9, 2017

In the House Republican health care bill, "we’re expanding women’s access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly…

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Raul Labrador’s claim that no one dies from lack of health care access: Pants on Fire

May 8, 2017

"Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care."

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