Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Joe Biden blames Donald Trump for one quarter of today’s debt, ignores context

By Louis Jacobson

January 25, 2023

“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.

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GOP congressman oversimplifies claim on classified documents amid Biden investigation

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

January 24, 2023

“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”

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Is Kevin McCarthy right that GOP didn’t raise discretionary spending? It hinges on the metric used

By Louis Jacobson

January 18, 2023

“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.”

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Biden’s claim that take-home pay is going up ignores inflation’s earlier impact

By Louis Jacobson

January 13, 2023

“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”

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Hakeem Jeffries said a U.S. debt limit default would be a historical first. He’s mostly right.

By Louis Jacobson

January 11, 2023

A “default on our debt” would be unprecedented in American history.

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Trump touts one year’s decline in drug overdoses, ignoring three years of increases

By Louis Jacobson

January 9, 2023

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,…

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Fact-checking Joe Biden on wage gains outpacing inflation for several months running

By Louis Jacobson

December 14, 2022

“For the last several months, wages have gone up more than prices have gone up.”

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Trump’s baseless claim about 2020 election fraud and suspending the Constitution

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

December 6, 2022

“The revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception” in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those…

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Fact-checking Kevin McCarthy on what Donald Trump said about Nick Fuentes

By Louis Jacobson

November 30, 2022

"I think President Trump came out four times and condemned” Nick Fuentes.

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Have gasoline prices fallen to pre-Ukraine war levels, as Joe Biden said?

By Louis Jacobson

November 30, 2022

“Gas prices are down back to where they were before Russia invaded Ukraine.”

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No, every vote wasn’t previously counted on election night

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

November 4, 2022

The U.S. “could easily count every vote in every state on election night until a few years ago.”

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Ad comparing spending on Ukraine, US children is ridiculously wrong

By Louis Jacobson

November 3, 2022

President Joe Biden and Democrats "send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children."

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