Workers Scorecard true 0% 70 Checks mostly-true 0% 117 Checks Half True 0% 102 Checks mostly-false 0% 92 Checks false 0% 66 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 16 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Workers Donald Trump stated on February 2, 2026 in an interview with Dan Bongino: Among Somalis in Minnesota, “92% of them don’t work.” February 2, 2026 Donald Trump stated on August 26, 2025 in a Cabinet meeting: “The average American worker has already seen a $500 wage increase this year.” September 5, 2025 X posts stated on February 16, 2025 in an X post: The federal workforce grew from 2.1 to 3 million under President Joe Biden, “a 46% increase since Biden took office.” By Caleb McCullough • February 18, 2025 Mike Johnson stated on December 5, 2024 in remarks to reporters: About 1% of federal employees are “actually working in the office.” By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2024 Byron Donalds stated on October 13, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union": “Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The (Black-white) wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump's administration.” By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on "60 Minutes": "Teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations." By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes": "We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people." By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2024 New Hampshire Democratic Party stated on September 27, 2024 in an ad: When New Hampshire gubernatorial nominee Kelly Ayotte served on two companies’ boards, one “laid off 18,000 workers” and the other “laid off 1,200 American workers, moving jobs overseas.” By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2024 Tim Walz stated on September 21, 2024 in an event in Bethlehem, Pa.: “The last union member on a national ticket (was) Ronald Reagan.” By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2024 JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": “Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you're ultimately much better off.” By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024 Joe Biden stated on June 4, 2024 in an interview with Time magazine: “Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation. By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2024 Joe Biden stated on May 12, 2024 in a fundraising event in Seattle: "China's in a situation where they have more retired than working." By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024 Lisa Subeck stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.” By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024 Scott Walker stated on March 3, 2024 in TV interview: “We just had 100% increase in layoffs.” By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024 Carl Weisbrod stated on March 3, 2024 in an op-ed: “The average commute time for people who drive to work in (New York City) is 43 minutes, the longest in the nation.” By Mary McNaughton, Delainey Muscato • March 25, 2024 Donald Trump stated on March 9, 2024 in a rally in Rome, Georgia: "In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared." By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024 Donald Trump stated on February 17, 2024 in a rally: “The biggest threat to your unions is millions of people coming across the border, because you're not gonna have your jobs anymore.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 23, 2024 Linda Rosenthal stated on February 6, 2024 in a quote in a news article: “Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft. By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • February 21, 2024 Nikki Haley stated on January 2, 2024 in a town hall in Rye, N.H.: “Right now, over 70% of federal employees are still working from home three years after COVID." By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2024 Joe Biden stated on July 28, 2023 in a speech in Maine: "Wages are up after being adjusted for inflation." By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023 Load More Latest Articles Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? 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By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2021 Fact-checking Joe Biden’s visit to Kenosha – on Trump, race, taxes and COVID-19 By Eric Litke, Madeline Heim • September 3, 2020 Donald Trump’s payroll tax break not meant to help unemployed By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2020 The Senate stimulus bill: What’s in it for you By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2020 Latest promises about Workers Donald Trump End taxation on tips Donald Trump Empower the president to remove federal workers through Schedule F President Trump could more easily fire workers under proposed rule | April 21, 2025 Donald Trump End taxation on overtime Joe Biden Guarantee 7 days of paid sick leave Joe Biden breaks promise to guarantee seven days of paid sick leave | December 5, 2024 Joe Biden Guarantee 12 weeks paid family and medical leave Joe Biden fails to fulfill promise guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family leave | December 4, 2024 Joe Biden Make union organizing easier for workers PRO Act has stalled, but administration is shaping policy through NLRB | March 19, 2024 Joe Biden End pay discrimination Pay antidiscrimination legislation fails, and gender wage gap persists | December 5, 2024 Joe Biden Increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour No national hike for the minimum wage | December 5, 2024 Donald Trump Guarantee 6-week paid leave Vast majority of workers still don’t have paid leave, though federal workers do | July 15, 2020 Donald Trump Save the coal industry Trump policies have slowed coal’s decline, but strong comeback not evident | July 15, 2020 Donald Trump Bring back manufacturing No overall improvement for manufacturing sector under Trump | July 15, 2020 Barack Obama Restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees Some expansion but not full bargaining rights | June 12, 2012 Latest promises about Workers
Donald Trump Empower the president to remove federal workers through Schedule F President Trump could more easily fire workers under proposed rule | April 21, 2025
Joe Biden Guarantee 7 days of paid sick leave Joe Biden breaks promise to guarantee seven days of paid sick leave | December 5, 2024
Joe Biden Guarantee 12 weeks paid family and medical leave Joe Biden fails to fulfill promise guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family leave | December 4, 2024
Joe Biden Make union organizing easier for workers PRO Act has stalled, but administration is shaping policy through NLRB | March 19, 2024
Joe Biden End pay discrimination Pay antidiscrimination legislation fails, and gender wage gap persists | December 5, 2024
Joe Biden Increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour No national hike for the minimum wage | December 5, 2024
Donald Trump Guarantee 6-week paid leave Vast majority of workers still don’t have paid leave, though federal workers do | July 15, 2020
Donald Trump Save the coal industry Trump policies have slowed coal’s decline, but strong comeback not evident | July 15, 2020
Donald Trump Bring back manufacturing No overall improvement for manufacturing sector under Trump | July 15, 2020
Barack Obama Restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees Some expansion but not full bargaining rights | June 12, 2012
