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Elon Musk, el multimillonario asesorando al presidente Donald Trump sobre como cortar el presupuesto federal, está apuntando hacia la Administración del Seguro Social y da la impresión de que millones de personas de edades irreal podrían estar recibiendo pagos de beneficios. “Según la base de datos del Seguro Social, estos son los números de personas […]

A midair collision between a passenger jet and a helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. A medevac jet that hurtled toward the ground and exploded in Philadelphia. A commercial flight that flipped upside down while landing in Toronto. In recent weeks, videos of planes crashing and burning have populated social media and news […]

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing […]

As the Department of Government Efficiency roots through federal computer systems for taxpayer-funded programs to cut, billionaire Elon Musk said his team is working toward a $1 trillion target. “The overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit, and if the deficit is not brought under control, America will […]

In an ongoing effort to highlight what he says is waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump recently reeled off a list of government funded initiatives: $19 million for biodiversity in Nepal; $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique; $14 million for social cohesion in Mali.  “Forty-two million for Johns Hopkins, great place, to research […]

Elon Musk, the billionaire advising President Donald Trump how to cut federal spending, is taking aim at the Social Security Administration and giving the impression millions of implausibly old people may be getting benefits payments. “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field […]

One month since President Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the White House is touting the administrations’ successes, including a sharp drop in illegal immigration.  “Daily illegal alien encounters plummet 95% under President Trump,” read a graphic posted Feb. 15 on the White House’s Instagram account.  An accompanying bar graph showed the number “20,086” […]

President Donald Trump made a series of dubious claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to negotiate an end to the country’s three-year war with Russia. Trump’s relationship with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly soured as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the country’s war with Russia, a claim we […]

With the 2028 Summer Olympics approaching, President Donald Trump plans to enforce a ban on transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports — and he’s relying in part on a fraud-related immigration law. Trump’s Feb. 5 order, in keeping with a campaign promise, primarily centers on school sports while also directing the secretaries […]

President Donald Trump’s first actions of his second presidential term have included executive orders to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, repeal DEI rules and encourage private companies to do the same. A PolitiFact reader saw social media posts saying that Trump’s second-in-command, Vice President JD Vance, benefited from DEI programs. “Was Vance a […]

Adding work requirements for people on Medicaid was a hot topic of debate during President Donald Trump’s first administration — and it may be again in Trump’s second term. Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican known for his folksy one-liners, is among those pushing for such reform. But when he went on Fox News Feb. […]

In a closely watched Oval Office event, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk shared some of the findings and rationale behind his Department of Government Efficiency, which President Donald Trump has tasked with cutting spending across the government. As an example of his work so far, Musk cited some “crazy things” that had emerged in just the […]