“The Digital Equity Act is a handout "based on race,” and “illegal.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“About 20% of households with veterans rely upon” the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: An April 2 study found that 8% of U.S. veterans rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, sometimes referred to as food stamps. No state had a share higher than 14%.
“Headline said, “Pope Leo XIV was a founding member of the 2020 anarchist Portland Autonomous Zone known as CHAZ.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The New York Times didn’t publish a headline saying Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, helped start the “anarchist” zone known as CHAZ.”
“Video shows Trump comment on the India-Pakistan clash.”
Logically Facts rated this: Misleading
“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The White House has publicly disclosed far less than $10 trillion in investments; it cites $2.1 trillion in corporate investments, or $5.1 trillion when including investments countries have promised. There is no guarant…
“Canadian tourism to Florida has declined by 80%.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“In President Donald Trump's first 100 days, "DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl … which saved ... 258 million lives.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“kids had almost no risk for COVID-19.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: It’s true that kids are typically at much lower risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 than adults, and some physicians do not think it’s necessary for healthy children to receive annual updated doses. But the risk …
“Republicans just voted in the House Judiciary Committee to allow Trump to DEPORT U.S. citizens to a foreign country.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The Republicans’ vote against the amendment didn’t hand President Donald Trump the legal right to deport U.S. citizens. Current jurisprudence bars the deportation of U.S. citizens. Overturning that would require the U.S…
“The federal government’s Women, Peace and Security program is a “Biden initiative.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Video shows Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saying effective June 1, “all vehicles manufactured before 2000 will be gradually phased off Canadian roads due to safety and emissions standards.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: AI-generated audio was added to a video of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to push the falsehood that starting June 1, cars manufactured before 2000 would be “gradually phased off Canadian roads due to safety and em…
“California Democrats “block bill to make sex trafficking minors a felony.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Sex trafficking minors is already a felony under California law. Assembly Bill 379, as introduced would have extended felony charges to people who solicit 16- and 17-year-olds for sex. Democrats struck that portion from…
“DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
PolitiFact says: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided no evidence that DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals in jet fuel. The idea builds off the debunked chemtrail conspiracy theories.
“It's estimated” that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will mean “American families would have to pay about $4,000 more a year.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Four of five independent groups with varying political ideologies estimated that the average per-household loss from President Donald Trump’s tariffs will range from $3,100 a year to $4,900 a year. The fifth group estim…
“The U.S. FDA has approved ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.”
Logically Facts rated this: False
“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not 'interpreted.’”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The figures M, S, 1 and 3 and words below the symbols don’t appear in other photographs of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s hand, including one shared by the Salvadoran government.
“Research shows that only a “very, very small portion” of the increase in autism “can be charged to better recognition or better diagnostic criteria.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“The cost of eggs has come down like 93%, 94% since we took office, and they’re pretty much normally priced now.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: As of March, the most recent data available, the average retail price of eggs was up, not down. And there are no states where the price of gasoline has dipped below $2. The national average is $3.11.
“Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia "has been found by two separate Courts to be a member of the violent, killer gang MS-13, was in our Country illegally, and is under a Deportation Order.”
PolitiFact rated this: Skews the facts
“Whatever 'due process' [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] was entitled to, he received.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts