Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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James Lankford
stated on May 24, 2017 in 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
stated on May 18, 2017 in 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
stated on May 18, 2017 in 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
stated on May 15, 2017 in 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
stated on May 11, 2017 in 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
stated on May 4, 2017 in 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
stated on May 5, 2017 in 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
stated on May 4, 2017 in 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
stated on May 1, 2017 in 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
stated on May 2, 2017 in 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
stated on April 27, 2017 in 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
stated on April 26, 2017 in 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
stated on April 27, 2017 in 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
stated on March 30, 2017 in 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
stated on April 25, 2017 in 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
stated on April 20, 2017 in 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
stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech in Kenosha, Wis.:

"No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days."

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2017

Maxine Waters
stated on April 18, 2017 in 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
stated on April 16, 2017 in 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
stated on March 31, 2017 in 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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