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In an executive order about medical care for transgender youth, President Donald Trump called to end “reliance on junk science.” But the order itself included claims about gender-affirming care that clash with leading medical research and practice.  The Jan. 28 order declared that the U.S. government “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the […]

President Donald Trump delivers a simple message to voters: he will rescue them from Democratic policies that have imperiled their wallets, safety and freedom. Here’s what he omits: sometimes he promoted those very same policies. Here are six times Trump or his spokesperson called out Democrats for policies that Trump himself supported during his first […]

Even as emergency responders were working to recover the remains of passengers and crew members who died in the Jan. 29 midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, social media users, especially critics of President Donald Trump, pointed to some of Trump’s policies as contributors to the crash. “Just last week, Trump FIRED […]

UPDATE, Jan. 31, 2025, 7 p.m.: President Donald Trump issued a Friday evening proclamation recognizing February 2025 as National Black History Month. “I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities,” he wrote. It was not immediately clear what this […]

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 […]