Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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

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

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

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

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?

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?’

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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

April 18, 2017

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

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