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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on October 23, 2025 in an X post:
“The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the president’s main priority,” rather than issues such as the cost of living and health care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2025 in remarks to reporters:
A new White House ballroom “won't interfere with the current building.”
Full Flop
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2025
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2025 in an X post:
Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero • October 20, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 17, 2025 in a news conference:
“We’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 17, 2025
Dan Koh
Dan Koh
stated on October 9, 2025 in remarks on CNN:
As the Trump administration pursues mortgage fraud charges against Letitia James, “there are three Cabinet members who committed mortgage fraud that he’s just letting fly.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2025
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on October 7, 2025 in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
“The FBI tapped my phone” and those of other senators.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2025 in a speech to military brass:
“You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2025
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 28, 2025 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
People with insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see a “75% increase in premiums starting Nov. 1” if enhanced subsidies are not extended, including “twice as much in the rural areas.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on September 24, 2025 in remarks to reporters:
"Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2025 in an exchange with reporters in the White House:
The U.S. currently has “no inflation.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 23, 2025 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly:
“I have ended seven unendable wars.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • September 23, 2025
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark
stated on September 12, 2025 in a post on X:
“Republicans are spiking health insurance premiums by 75% for everyday Americans” if they don’t extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2025
U.S. Energy Department
U.S. Energy Department
stated on September 5, 2025 in a post on X:
“Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and when the wind is not blowing.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting:
“Groceries are down. Energy is way down. ... Was $4 and $5 for a gallon of gas.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting:
“The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 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."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 21, 2025 in a speech in Peachtree City, Georgia:
“We had the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 18, 2025 in remarks at the White House:
With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2025 in an interview on CNBC:
Bureau of Labor Statistics employment numbers “were rigged” when the agency revised them “down by almost 900,000 jobs” after the 2024 election.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2025
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