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Elon Musk at CPAC 02-20-25

Elon Musk’s PAC is paying Wisconsin petition signers before Supreme Court election. Is it legal?

March 28, 2025

Days before a hotly contested Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk announced that he will give a talk in Wisconsin Sunday night and pay two voters $1 million. “Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election,” stated the early morning March 28 X post. […]

ICE agent 01-27-25

Ask PolitiFact: What evidence does the government need to deport green card, visa holders?

March 26, 2025

A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the U.S., have recently been detained by immigration authorities or denied entry to the U.S. at […]

NOAA firings came just before a U.S. tornado outbreak. Did public warning systems work?

March 26, 2025

After severe storms swept across the U.S. in mid March, killing more than 40 people, social media posts blamed the Trump administration’s recent firings for weakening emergency communication systems. “Catastrophic tornadoes rip through the southeast and warning systems were not operational because of the Ketamine Kid disbanding the National Weather Service warning system through DOGE!” […]

Tren de Aragua: Que sabemos sobre la pandilla venezolana que Trump designó como terrorista

March 25, 2025

El Presidente de El Salvador Nayib Bukele publicó un video de cientos de migrantes de EE.UU. llegando en aviones a El Salvador, esposados, en grilletes, con la cabeza agachada y bajo alta vigilancia. El video muestra que ellos rápidamente fueron llevados por oficiales a la prisión de máxima seguridad, el Centro de Confinamiento Terrorista, donde […]

AOC and Bernie Sanders at Fighting Oligarchy rally in Tempe

Fact-check: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘fighting oligarchy tour’

March 21, 2025

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have drawn large crowds during their “fighting oligarchy” tour criticizing President Donald Trump and Democratic Party leaders as out of touch with Americans. “We are witnessing an oligarchy in America,” Ocasio-Cortez said March 20 before a crowd of 10,000 in an Arizona State University arena […]

Trump wants to close the Education Department. Here’s what to know.

March 20, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order “to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Trump acknowledged at the March 20 event that he can’t close the department on his own — he needs the help of Congress, which passed a 1979 law to create the department.  Trump’s order says, “The […]

Trump at Kennedy Center March 17, 2025

Ask PolitiFact: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says? Legal experts say no.

March 19, 2025

As justification for deporting some immigrants in the country illegally without due process, President Donald Trump said the U.S. is under invasion.  “Evidence irrefutably demonstrates that (Tren de Aragua) has invaded the United States,” a March 15 White House proclamation said. Tren de Aragua is a Venezuela-based gang with some U.S. presence. The proclamation says […]

Trump Oval Office economic remarks Mar 7 2025

President Donald Trump called for a judge’s impeachment. It’s unlikely to happen.

March 19, 2025

President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who ordered a halt to deportation flights of Venezuelans to El Salvador, but it’s highly improbable the judge will be ousted.  Trump didn’t call James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, by name in a March 18 […]

Pregúntale a PolitiFact: ¿Quién puede contraer sarampión? ¿Es la vacuna segura y efectiva?

March 14, 2025

Muchas personas seguro se están preguntando si están protegidas contra el sarampión, la enfermedad contagiosa que este año ha enfermado a por los menos 301 personas en 15 jurisdicciones, incluyendo Texas y Florida. Hasta el 13 de marzo, por lo menos una persona murió debido al sarampión y otra muerte está bajo investigación, según los Centros para […]

The facts behind the 19 programs President Donald Trump described as ‘waste’

March 12, 2025

Ten million dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, $8 million to make “mice transgender,” and $20 million for “the Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.” For three minutes during his 100-minute address to Congress March 4, President Donald Trump ticked off 19 government spending items that he described as “appalling waste” rooted out by […]

Elon Musk claims ‘massive’ Social Security fraud. How much money is actually lost to fraud, waste?

March 12, 2025

Elon Musk, the billionaire driving force behind President Donald Trump’s budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, broached the sensitive issue of Social Security cost-savings on Fox Business. Musk told host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump economic adviser, that the Government Accountability Office estimated in 2024 that federal government fraud was “half a trillion dollars.” While referring […]

Democrats hearing on Medicaid 3/6/2025

Can House Republicans cut $880 billion without slashing Medicaid? It’s likely impossible.

March 11, 2025

The prospect of deep Medicaid cuts has become a flashpoint in Congress, with leaders of both parties accusing their counterparts of lying. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Feb. 27 that a Republican budget measure would “set in motion the largest cut to Medicaid in American history,” and Republicans are hiding the consequences. “The […]

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