Latest Fact-Checks In Trade

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Ritchie Torres
Ritchie Torres
stated on July 20, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2025
stated on July 20, 2025 a social media post
“America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under President Trump's leadership, but that surplus turned into a trade deficit of $40.6 million under President Biden's watch.”
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By Gabrielle Lazor • July 24, 2025
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 27, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“It's estimated” that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will mean “American families would have to pay about $4,000 more a year.”
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By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2025
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on December 12, 2022 an interview
The U.S. "trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
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December 19, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 a campaign ad
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
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By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 an ad
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
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By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2020 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
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By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2019 a speech at the California Democratic Party Convention
President Trump’s tariffs are "taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month."
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By Chris Nichols • June 10, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet
"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."
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By D.L. Davis • January 9, 2019
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 14, 2018 an op-ed
The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."
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By Mary Alice Truitt • December 3, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 1, 2018 a White House press event
"Since NAFTA’s adoption, the United States racked up trade deficits totaling more than $2 trillion."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018
Sonny Perdue
Sonny Perdue
stated on July 26, 2018 a press release
"America’s hard-working agricultural producers … have taken a disproportionate hit when it comes to illegal retaliatory tariffs."
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By Manuela Tobias • August 9, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 31, 2018 a blog post
Says Donald Trump contradicted his own administration when he said the decision to allow blueprints for 3D-printed guns to be distributed "doesn’t seem to make much sense."
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By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2018 a tweet
"Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!"
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By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2018 in a tweet
"When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%."
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By John Kruzel • April 9, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2018 in a press conference
Says the U.S. steel and aluminum industry is "a fraction of what it once was."
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By John Kruzel • March 13, 2018
Angus King
Angus King
stated on March 4, 2018 in an interview
"China, my understanding is, supplies 4 percent of the steel in the U.S."
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By John Kruzel • March 8, 2018
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on April 27, 2017 a tweet
"Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion."
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By Miriam Valverde • April 28, 2017
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