As president, Donald Trump had a mixed record in keeping his promises. Since Trump’s inauguration in 2017, PolitiFact has tracked 102 pledges Trump made to voters during the 2016 campaign. As he leaves office, our final report on the Trump-O-Meter shows he kept 25 promises, compromised on 23 and broke 54. Here’s a look at […]
“Promises made, promises kept.” That’s what President Donald Trump told his supporters at rally after rally — in Greenville, N.C., Montoursville, Penn., Green Bay, Wisc., Des Moines, Iowa, and on and on, from coast to coast. It was a stock phrase in his pitch to hold the presidency. By our count of his campaign promises, […]
President-elect Joe Biden laid out a $1.9 trillion dollar plan Thursday night to address what he’s calling the “twin crises” of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy. Biden proposed that Congress allocate funds for implementing a national vaccination program, reopening schools, sending $1,400 checks to Americans who need them, providing support for small businesses and […]
In the wake of the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, Detroit Police Chief James Craig questioned whether law enforcement’s treatment of the pro-Trump insurrectionists stands in stark contrast to Black Lives Matter protesters. Black Lives Matter supporters, Democratic lawmakers and President-elect Joe Biden have claimed that the police response to the two groups points […]
Just days away from his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden proposed a $1.9 trillion plan to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic recession. “It’s not hard to see that we are in the middle of a once-in-several-generations economic crisis, with a once-in-several-generations public health crisis,” Biden said on Jan. 14. “A crisis of […]
Just days into her new job as a congresswoman from Colorado, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert has drawn attention for her tweets, her resistance to some security protocols at the Capitol, and her intent to carry her firearm into the Capitol building. Democratic lawmakers have also chastised Boebert for tweeting about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s movements […]
A week after supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol, Trump became the first president to be impeached twice. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump a “clear and present danger” to the nation. The final vote was 232 to 197. While most Republicans rejected impeachment as unnecessary, vindictive or rushed, 10 of them broke with […]
Facebook and Instagram posts are spreading false claims that President Donald Trump is set to impose martial law ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Many of them allude to QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that’s banned on the platforms. On Jan. 6, Trump fans stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress counted electoral votes from the 2020 […]
A week after supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol — and one week before the inauguration of a new president — the U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump for a second time. Trump is the only president to be impeached twice in U.S. history, and 10 Republicans joined Democrats in approving the measure by […]
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds took the podium in the House of Representatives chamber at the Iowa Statehouse Tuesday night, Jan. 12, and summed up 2020. “It’s been a year,” she told the joint House-Senate session to kick off her annual Condition of the State address. “And I’ll let you fill in whatever adjective you want. […]
As the United States continues to set daily record highs for COVID-19 cases and deaths, the Trump administration is embracing a new vaccine distribution strategy: Give states all available doses instead of holding back supply reserved for second doses. “We are now making the full reserve of doses we have available for order,” Health and […]
Democratic legislators in the House of Representatives have introduced a single article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” following violence in the U.S. Captiol. Read the article of impeachment, in full: RELATED STORY: The second Trump impeachment: Questions and answers