Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

It’s wrong to claim Trump budget cuts $845 billion from Medicare

By Jon Greenberg

March 26, 2019

The Trump budget "cuts $845 billion, almost a trillion dollar cut in Medicare."

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Bad math. Iran nuke deal dollars wouldn’t cover 30 walls with Mexico

By Jon Greenberg

March 22, 2019

"We could build 30 walls with the $150 billion Obama gave to Iran."

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Farmer suicides as high as in the Great Depression? No data says so

By Jon Greenberg

March 21, 2019

"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."

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Airhorn-blasting congressman mostly right about seismic airgun intensity

By Jon Greenberg

March 15, 2019

"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.

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It’s True, Boeing 737 Max 8 still flies in US even as FAA calls for software updates

By Jon Greenberg

March 12, 2019

The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying "software…

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Comparing Manafort’s sentence to life sentence for man who sold pot

By Jon Greenberg

March 11, 2019

"Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and…

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Yep, there’s a guy who flies around on a jet-powered hoverboard

By Jon Greenberg

March 7, 2019

Facebook video purports to show man flying a hoverboard at over 103 miles per hour.

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Bernie Sanders attacks Donald Trump over proposed cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, disability fund

By Jon Greenberg

March 6, 2019

Says President Donald Trump "came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the…

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Recycled rumor: Syrian dead children cast as victims of Asian organ trafficking

By Jon Greenberg

March 4, 2019

Says Thai police found bodies of children with their organs removed.

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Cohen and Abrams: A double standard on lying to Congress?

By Jon Greenberg

March 1, 2019

"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"

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Bernie Sanders has numbers to show Donald Trump wanted to cut health care for 32 million

By Jon Greenberg

February 28, 2019

"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."

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Top reason for having fewer kids? Warren cites child care costs

By Jon Greenberg

February 25, 2019

"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  

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