Fact Check Posts – Politifact

Charles Blow
stated on May 5, 2025 in a CNN NewsNight episode:

“China makes 80% of all toys” and “90% of all Christmas goods” sold in the U.S.

By Loreben Tuquero • May 9, 2025

Chris Hayes
stated on July 7, 2020 in a TV segment:

"Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2020

Roy Blunt
stated on August 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"U.S. agricultural & food exports are expected to increase more than $2 billion annually under #USMCA"

By Greta Serrin • September 17, 2019

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2019 in a tweet:

"West Virginia’s exports increased for the second year in a row in 2018, reaching $8.1 billion. Additionally, West Virginia’s export growth rate was 14.2%, nearly double the national average of 7.6%."

By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on September 10, 2018 in a mailer :

"Leah Vukmir OPPOSES Buy American legislation."

By D.L. Davis • October 17, 2018

Ben Sasse
stated on May 31, 2018 in a statement:

"We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression."

By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2018

Rex Tillerson
stated on April 28, 2017 in comments to the UN Security Council:

"China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade."

By John Kruzel • May 1, 2017

John Plumb
stated on August 29, 2016 in an interview on Capital Tonight.:

Tom Reed "has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form."

By Dan Clark • September 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 in an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview:

"Virginia now is the number one exporter of (agricultural) products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one."

By Sean Gorman • March 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 23, 2016 in a campaign speech:

The U.S. "doesn’t make television sets anymore."

By Linda Qiu, Warren Fiske • March 14, 2016

Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2015 in social media posts.:

"The House of Representatives just voted 300-131 to remove ‘country-of-origin labeling’ on chicken, pork, and beef sold in the U.S."

By Linda Qiu • July 2, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of the Union address:

There is "more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that’s happened in nearly 20 years."

By Julie Kliegman • January 29, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on January 16, 2014 in a speech at North Carolina State University:

"For the first time in nearly two decades, we produce more oil here in the United States than we buy from the rest of the world."

By Julie Kliegman • January 17, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on August 6, 2013 in a speech on homeownership:

"We now sell more products made in America to the rest of the world than ever before."

By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2013

Lisa Tomasso
stated on April 5, 2012 in a news release.:

"Rhode Island’s exports have increased by 53 percent in the last two years."

By Alex Kuffner • April 17, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 in the State of the Union speech:

"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."

By James B. Nelson • February 1, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on June 16, 2011 in a Tallahassee press conference:

"Almost 10 percent of Canadians came to visit Florida last year ... (Canadians) buy 7.4 percent of our homes in the state."

By Katie Sanders • June 21, 2011

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