Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has filed paperwork for a 2024 presidential run, officially kick-starting his bid for the Republican nomination. His candidacy has been widely expected, and for months, he has touted his platform: to make Florida the blueprint for the U.S. DeSantis has emphasized policies he’s enacted that target illegal immigration, limit gender-affirming care […]

In his presidential bid, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sure to court Republican primary voters by touting the socially conservative policies he passed through the legislature. But he also has another story to tell: His stewardship of Florida’s economy over the past four and a half years. When we looked at Florida’s economic performance on […]

In their debt ceiling negotiations with President Joe Biden, Republican leaders have called for budget cuts and framed their efforts in a way most Americans would understand: as kitchen-table family budgeting.  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. — who passed legislation through the House that would raise the debt limit and cap future federal spending — […]

The indictment and arrest of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., on May 10 cast a pall over his political future. But any direct consequences on his service in the House are unlikely to emerge anytime soon. In December, shortly after Santos unexpectedly won a seat representing parts of Queens and Long Island, news reports in The […]

Previous presidents have declined to use the 14th Amendment to prevent a federal default on the national debt. But May 9, President Joe Biden cracked open the door to deploying an untested legal strategy involving the amendment best known for granting citizenship to enslaved Black Americans following the Civil War. Biden faces a standoff with […]

In a raucous town hall where an audience of invited Republicans often cheered him on, former President Donald Trump insisted he didn’t know the woman who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against him, suggested the U.S. might as well default on its debt and dodged questions about whether he would sign […]

Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who told an array of falsehoods about his background on his way to winning a congressional seat in 2022, was arrested May 10 and charged by federal prosecutors with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts […]

With the failure of First Republic Bank, the U.S. banking sector has experienced three massive failures within just a few weeks.  It’s natural to ask questions. What happened? Why did it happen? How unusual is this? And could more failures be coming? We examined the data and interviewed banking experts. Here’s what we found. What […]

On April 26, the Republican-led House passed a bill that would extend the fast-approaching limit on how much debt the federal government can carry, along with other Republican priorities. Although the narrowly divided chamber passed the bill, the inclusion of Republican-friendly provisions means it has no chance of winning approval in the Democratic-controlled Senate, or […]

El presidente Joe Biden se postula para la reelección en 2024, enfrentando una revancha potencial con el ex-presidente Donald Trump.  PolitiFact ha verificado más de 260 declaraciones de Biden desde el 2007, cuando él era un senador de Estados Unidos de Delaware buscando la nominación presidencial Demócrata.  Estas son algunas de nuestras verificaciones más recientes […]

President Joe Biden has reasons to be satisfied with the nation’s economic performance under his watch, including low unemployment rates and efforts he led to help the economy rebound from COVID-19. But his time in the Oval Office has also been consumed by frustration over 40-year-high levels of inflation.  On the occasion of Biden announcing […]

President Joe Biden is running for re-election in 2024, facing a potential rematch with former President Donald Trump. PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 260 statements by Biden since 2007, when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.  See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com We have also tracked Biden’s progress on 99 […]