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PolitiFact is live fact-checking the U.S. Senate’s confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s picks for FBI director, Kash Patel, and director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. We’ll also be listening to the second day of hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee for health secretary. To suggest a claim for us to fact-check from the hearings, email […]

During the first round of his Senate confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, appeared to be at odds with his past self. Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee grilled Kennedy on his past positions and comments on topics ranging from abortion to […]

PolitiFact is live fact-checking U.S. Senate hearings for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, met with members of the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 29.  Hearings for Kennedy, FBI director nominee Kash Patel and former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for national intelligence […]

Imposing tariffs is one of the constants linking Donald Trump’s first and second presidencies. During his first term, Trump applied tariffs to imported solar panels, washing machines, steel and aluminum, and billions of dollars of Chinese goods. Then, during his 2024 presidential run, he offered an even more aggressive trade agenda, promising a 10% to […]

School meals for low-income students. Cancer treatment trials. Housing assistance for veterans. These are among the federal programs that might — or might not — be on the chopping block after the White House issued a sweeping, but vague, Jan. 27 late-night memo that ordered a temporary pause on all grants, loans and financial assistance.  […]

After billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk sparked controversy for a gesture he made at President Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, many social media users defended Musk by posting images of Democrats with their hands raised in a similar position.  The posts argued it was hypocritical for Musk’s detractors to call his gesture a Nazi salute when […]

As President Donald Trump’s administration increased deportation efforts in its first week in office, a Fox News host claimed that federal officials had already found up to 80,000 missing migrant children. In a Jan. 24 segment about Trump’s deportation efforts, Harris Faulkner, co-host of “Outnumbered,” a Fox News talk show, said border czar Tom Homan […]

President Donald Trump’s administration has begun its mass deportation campaign, carrying out raids and arrests in cities across the U.S. But a crucial part of Trump’s promise to carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history — the deportations — has faced hurdles.  To deport the people immigration agents arrest and detain, deportees’ home […]

Una publicación en Facebook dice que a partir del 30 de enero las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos se complicaran aún más bajo la nueva administración del presidente Donald Trump.  La publicación dice que Trump suspenderá: las remesas a Cuba, las licencias de comercio entre empresas estadounidenses y cubanas, vuelos comerciales directos a Cuba […]

It’s been a week since President Donald Trump took office and began issuing a flurry of executive orders aimed at keeping his 2024 campaign promises. PolitiFact is tracking 75 campaign promises Trump made for his second term using our new MAGA-Meter. We’ve previously tracked promises from former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well […]

For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in office that may signal the end of that era, health policy experts said. Trump’s order to withdraw from the World Health Organization means the […]

President Donald Trump set in motion some of his most controversial immigration promises during his first week back in office, declaring a national emergency at the U.S. southern border, ordering his administration to reinstate some of his first-term policies and ending programs that allowed people to legally enter the U.S.  Some of Trump’s actions took […]