President Donald Trump’s weekend order to give millions of workers a break on payroll taxes caught many people by surprise, and created a range of reactions, criticism and questions. Each paycheck, employees see 6.2% of their wages go to Washington to help fund Social Security. Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to defer those payments […]
President Donald Trump’s weekend order to give millions of workers a break on payroll taxes caught many people by surprise, and created a range of reactions, criticism and questions. One post on Facebook claimed, “How does a payroll tax cut help millions who are unemployed and have no payroll?” This post was flagged as part […]
A video that was viewed or shared by millions of people on social media shows a group of doctors calling for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, despite warnings from public health experts. The clip shows members of a newly created group called America’s Frontline Doctors at a press conference outside the Supreme Court […]
As thousands of communities wrestle with reopening their schools this fall, President Donald Trump said he would be comfortable sending his son or a grandchild back to school. Pressed on whether he understood why some districts would see that as too risky, Trump had reassuring words about COVID-19 and students. “A lot of people are […]
President Donald Trump came into office vowing to repeal and replace Obamacare. While he successfully neutralized the health care law’s requirement that everyone carry insurance, the law remains in effect. When Fox News host Chris Wallace noted that Trump has yet to put forward a replacement plan, Trump told him to stay tuned. “We’re signing […]
President Donald Trump listed scores of what he called “extreme” recommendations that emerged from weeks of meetings between advisers to Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and Sanders, the leading voice for the most progressive Democrats, released a sweeping 110-page document covering platform positions on immigration, health care, climate […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci might enjoy the trust of most Americans, but in the White House, not so much. President Donald Trump voiced his wariness of Fauci, the head of infectious disease at the National Institutes of Health. Trump told Gray TV host Greta van Susteren that he didn’t agree with Fauci. “Dr. Fauci said don’t […]
As thousands of school districts figure out how and to what degree they will reopen this fall, President Donald Trump railed against the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I disagree with (the) CDC on their very tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools,” Trump tweeted July 8. “While they want them […]
Editor’s note: PolitiFact’s Stump Speech Analyzer looks at the content and accuracy of candidate stump speeches. Following our summary of the speech’s main themes, we present fact-checks of specific talking points. Read our previous stump speech analyzers for Joe Biden and the Democratic primary field. The stump speech: Trump’s 1-hour, 40-minute speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, […]
Juneteenth, a day that speaks to the end of slavery in America, is getting recognition like it’s never seen before. Companies from Lyft, to US Bank, to Target, to Google have made June 19 a paid holiday, as has the National Football League. New York and Virginia just moved to make it a state holiday. […]
President Donald Trump in a Fox News interview criticized local officials who he believes have lost control of protesters, defended his controversial tweet that evoked use of excessive force by police and stood by his decision to stage a Bible-hoisting photo op at a church in Washington, D.C. Host Harris Faulkner told Trump he frightened […]
In the minutes before President Donald Trump made his way from the White House to a neighboring church that had been burned the night before, federal police fired spray canisters and rubber bullets to disperse non-violent protesters in the area. In a Rose Garden speech, Trump pressed the need for decisive force to quell looting […]