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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on May 24, 2017 a Facebook post
"This year, a majority of states are seeing premiums and costs double" under Obamacare.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2017
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
stated on May 18, 2017 an appearance on CNN
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 a Senate floor speech
"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017
James Risch
James Risch
stated on May 15, 2017 remarks to reporters
"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 an interview with 'The Economist'
The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017
Barry Loudermilk
Barry Loudermilk
stated on May 4, 2017 an email to constituents
In the House Republican health care bill, "we’re expanding women’s access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2017
Raul Labrador
Raul Labrador
stated on May 5, 2017 a town hall event
"Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 4, 2017 remarks in 2009 and actions in 2017
On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel
stated on May 1, 2017 a monologue on his show
"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal last night to not go along with that. They actually increased funding by $2 billion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2017
Margaret Hoover
Margaret Hoover
stated on May 2, 2017 a discussion on CNN
Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 27, 2017 a tweet
"The ‘tax plan’ rolled out by @realDonaldTrump would have cut his taxes by $30 million in 2005 (the only year we have returns for)."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet
"The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017
Steve Mnuchin
Steve Mnuchin
stated on April 27, 2017 a April 26 press conference
Says President Donald Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else."
False
By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
stated on March 30, 2017 a campaign ad
In the federal government, "there’s $16 billion in duplicate programs" that can be cut.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 25, 2017 a White House web page
Says he created "over 500,000 new jobs -- with a surge in female employment last month."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2017
Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider
stated on April 20, 2017 an op-ed
"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a speech in Kenosha, Wis.
"No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2017
Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters
stated on April 18, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
"I have not called for impeachment" of President Donald Trump.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 16, 2017 an interview with CNN's "State of the Union"
"When Trump won, we had the lowest voter turnout in 20 years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017
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