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Latest Fact-Checks On JD Vance

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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on January 22, 2026 in a press conference:
"Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."
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By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2026
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 in en una entrevista:
“Los demócratas están amenazando con cerrar todo el gobierno porque quieren dar cientos de miles de millones de dólares en beneficios de cuidado de salud a los inmigrantes ilegales”.
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 2, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 in an interview:
“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 1, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on April 1, 2025 in a post on X:
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 17, 2024 in comments made at a campaign rally:
“We're bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don't have the legal right to be in our country.”
False
By Sam Whitehead • October 23, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on October 1, 2024 in a debate:
Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 3, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 15, 2024 in a "Meet the Press" interview:
Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)."
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By Julie Appleby • September 20, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 4, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you're ultimately much better off.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 7, 2024 in a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.”
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By Grace Abels, Loreben Tuquero • August 27, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 16, 2024 in a post on X:
“Kamala Harris wants to give $25,000 to illegal aliens to buy American homes.”
False
By Madison Czopek • August 22, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on February 12, 2024 in a memo shared with GOP colleagues:
“The Ukraine supplemental includes a hidden impeachment clause against President Trump.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 16, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on April 5, 2022 in a TV ad:
“Joe Biden’s open border” means that there are “more Democrat voters pouring into this country."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 8, 2022
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad on Facebook:
“Joe Biden uses the ATF to illegally track your gun transactions.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 10, 2022