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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on May 19, 2025 in a White House press briefing:
President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2025
Michael Lawler
Michael Lawler
stated on March 21, 2025 in a television interview:
“If we don’t pass the tax bill by the end of the year, we will have the largest tax increase in American history.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 22, 2025
Harriet Hageman
Harriet Hageman
stated on March 16, 2025 in a podcast interview:
The federal Education Department has a “budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2025 in a post on Facebook:
The Department of Government Efficiency “found a $6 million grant awarded to Whoopi Goldberg to ‘promote diversity on The View.’”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 14, 2025
Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer
stated on February 24, 2025 in an X post:
U.S. Agency for International Development subsidized CNN and MSNBC hosts’ salaries.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • March 7, 2025
Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 in on-air remarks:
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2025 in an address to a joint session of Congress:
The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 5, 2025
Kevin O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary
stated on February 24, 2025 in an interview on CNN:
“We've never audited government for 100 years.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 19, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“Stacey Abrams stole $2 BILLION from taxpayers.”
False
By Caleb McCullough • February 26, 2025
Patty Murray
Patty Murray
stated on February 20, 2025 in a Senate floor speech:
“The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 14, 2025 in social media posts:
“DOGE subcommittee discovered $2.7 trillion in improper” Medicaid and Medicare payments to people overseas.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • February 18, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on February 16, 2025 in an X post:
The federal workforce grew from 2.1 to 3 million under President Joe Biden, “a 46% increase since Biden took office.”
False
By Caleb McCullough • February 18, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 10, 2025 in a Fox News interview:
The United States is “last in education out of 40 states … but we're number one in cost per pupil."
False
By Caleb McCullough • February 13, 2025
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 3, 2025 in in a letter to Congress:
On support for U.S. Agency for International Development
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 in a press conference:
“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”
False
By Caleb McCullough, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 30, 2025
Sara Jacobs
Sara Jacobs
stated on December 18, 2024 in an X post:
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2024
Department of Government Efficiency
Department of Government Efficiency
stated on December 18, 2024 in an X post:
Spending plan to prevent a government shutdown includes “a pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year.”
False
By Madison Czopek • December 19, 2024
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on December 5, 2024 in remarks to reporters:
About 1% of federal employees are “actually working in the office.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2024
WinSenate
WinSenate
stated on October 24, 2024 in a Facebook ad:
“Kari Lake is threatening Social Security and Medicare.”
Half-True
By Mia Osmonbekov • November 4, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 30, 2024 in an event in Atlanta:
"Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
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