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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 14, 2025 a podcast interview
“California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 15, 2025 comments to reporters
The Jeffrey Epstein files “were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by Biden.”
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels • July 18, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on July 12, 2025 una publicación en TikTok
El sheriff del condado Kerr, Texas dijo, “que se debe solicitar la residencia permanente para el equipo de rescate mexicano que rescató a su familia”.
False
By Maria Briceño • July 16, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 30, 2025 a TikTok post
"People tracking the ICE deportation flights have found” the agency is throwing migrants into the middle of the ocean.
Pants on Fire!
By Maria Briceño • July 15, 2025
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X posts
stated on July 12, 2025 an X post
The Kerr County, Texas, sheriff “said he would apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family.”
False
By Maria Briceño • July 14, 2025
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 27, 2025 a press briefing
There is “zero impact” from Alligator Alcatraz on the Florida Everglades.
False
By Gabrielle Lazor • July 11, 2025
stated on July 6, 2025 an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation"
A Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2025
stated on July 8, 2025 Pod Save America
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2025
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X posts
stated on July 8, 2025 an X post
Former Gov. Roy Cooper is scheduled to speak at a Winston-Salem coffee shop July 18 at 11 a.m. about the “future of North Carolina.”
False
By Paul Specht, Will Doran • July 10, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 8, 2025 a Cabinet meeting
China doesn’t “have a lot of wind farms. … Very, very few.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2025
stated on July 1, 2025 an episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • July 9, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 6, 2025 a TikTok video
The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore, Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on July 2, 2025 a House floor speech
President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 5, 2025 posts on social media
The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.
False
By Madison Czopek • July 7, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on July 6, 2025 una publicación en TikTok
“Si dios fuera ilegal lo deportariamos palabras del gobernador de Texas”.
False
By Maria Briceño • July 7, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 20, 2025 una publicación en TikTok
“Donald Trump acaba de firmar una nueva orden que pone al país en alerta máxima y sella las fronteras para todos los residentes” el 1 de julio.
False
By Maria Briceño • July 3, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 24, 2025 una publicación en TikTok
Una nueva ley permite aplicar a “la residencia permanente de forma directa, rápida y sin salir del país” si los migrantes han vivido al menos siete años en EE.UU.
False
By Maria Briceño • July 2, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 28, 2025 a TikTok post
President Donald Trump signed an executive order for “a total border shutdown with no set reopening date” on July 1.
False
By Maria Briceño • July 2, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 24, 2025 a TikTok post
A new “community recognition” law allows people to apply for “permanent residency directly, quickly, and without leaving the country” if they have “resided continuously in the United States for at least seven years, regardless of their current immigration status.”
False
By Maria Briceño • July 1, 2025
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X posts
stated on June 30, 2025 X posts
Idaho shooting suspect Wess Roley faced criminal charges and had a no-contact order from his family.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • July 1, 2025
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