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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 24, 2023 in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo:
“We have a national debt the size of our nation’s economy for the first time since World War II.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2023
Tommy Tuberville
Tommy Tuberville
stated on March 2, 2023 in a speech at the CPAC conference:
"Half the kids in this country, when they graduate, can’t read their diploma.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2023
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on March 8, 2023 in remarks on ABC's "The View":
"The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2023
George Santos
George Santos
stated on February 20, 2023 in an interview with Piers Morgan:
“I never claimed to be Jewish.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2023 in a speech in Lanham, Maryland:
The “average tax” for billionaires is “about 3%,” which is “a lower tax than a schoolteacher or a firefighter."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 30, 2023 in A speech in Baltimore:
“We used to rank No. 1 in the world in research and development, now we rank No. 9. China used to rank No. 8, now it ranks No. 2.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • February 13, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2023 in his State of the Union address:
"Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2023 in an ad:
President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 3, 2023 in a speech in Philadelphia:
“We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2023
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on January 27, 2023 in an interview with reporters:
“The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:
“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work needing unemployment benefits. Today, that number is under 1.6 million, the lowest in decades.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 20, 2023 in a speech at the White House:
“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2023
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on January 22, 2023 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 in remarks at the White House:
“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on January 8, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
A “default on our debt” would be unprecedented in American history.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2023 in a campaign website:
As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2022 in remarks at the White House:
“For the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2022
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 3, 2022 in a Truth Social post:
“The revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2022
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on November 29, 2022 in remarks to reporters outside the White House:
"I think President Trump came out four times and condemned” Nick Fuentes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 30, 2022
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