Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Did Paul Ryan flip-flop on how to pass a big health care bill?

By Louis Jacobson

May 4, 2017

On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score

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Jimmy Kimmel largely right about cuts, additions to NIH budget

By Louis Jacobson

May 3, 2017

"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal…

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CNN’s Margaret Hoover corrects claim on Jimmy Kimmel’s son’s surgery, Medicaid

By Louis Jacobson

May 2, 2017

Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."

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Nancy Pelosi on target about what Donald Trump might save under his tax plan

By Louis Jacobson

April 28, 2017

"The ‘tax plan’ rolled out by @realDonaldTrump would have cut his taxes by $30 million in 2005 (the only year we have returns for)."

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Did trade deficit cause slow growth in 2016, as Donald Trump tweeted?

By Louis Jacobson

April 27, 2017

"The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly."

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Has Trump ‘given more financial disclosure than anybody else?’

By Allison Graves , Louis Jacobson

April 27, 2017

Says President Donald Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else."

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Checking Jon Ossoff on $16 billion in government waste

By Louis Jacobson

April 27, 2017

In the federal government, "there’s $16 billion in duplicate programs" that can be cut.

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Has Donald Trump overseen a gain of 500,000 jobs so far?

By Louis Jacobson

April 26, 2017

Says he created "over 500,000 new jobs -- with a surge in female employment last month."

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Are there three times as many solar energy jobs as coal jobs?

By Louis Jacobson

April 25, 2017

"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."

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How do Donald Trump’s first 100 days rate historically?

By Louis Jacobson

April 24, 2017

"No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days."

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Maxine Waters wrong to say she has ‘not called for’ Trump’s impeachment

By Louis Jacobson

April 19, 2017

"I have not called for impeachment" of President Donald Trump.

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Bernie Sanders wrong that voter turnout hit 20-year low in 2016

By Louis Jacobson

April 18, 2017

"When Trump won, we had the lowest voter turnout in 20 years."

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