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“Elon Musk “contracted a helicopter and the first DOGE payments are being” dispersed in California.”
“The Philadelphia Eagles have declined their invitation to the White House,” as of Feb. 24.”
“EX-USAID CHIEF SAMANTHA POWER’S NET WORTH SKYROCKETS—FROM $6.7M TO $30M ON A $180K SALARY”
FactCheck.org says: President Trump and Elon Musk echoed social media posts that officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development may have siphoned off taxpayer money for themselves, but there's no evidence to support the claim.
“President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.”
“US Debt Clock” numbers prove “DOGE has saved taxpayers $64 billion dollars in just 17 days.”
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence to support this claim. The posts pointed to USDebtClock.org, but the website provided no source or explanation for its "DOGE Clock" counter. In fact, DOGE’s website reports a much lower number, not …
“The U.S. has given Ukraine “$350 billion” for the war with Russia gave “$200 billion more than Europe.”
FactCheck.org says: Since 2022, Congress has appropriated about $174.2 billion in aid for Ukraine, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. Europe outpaces the U.S., not the other way around, according to the Kiel Insti…
“Judges “want to try and stop us from looking for corruption” and “hold us back from finding all of this fraud.”
FactCheck.org says: Federal judges have temporarily blocked the Trump administration from broadly cutting or freezing federal spending. The court orders don’t stop investigations into corruption or fraud.
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, “I told President (Donald) Trump the best way to make rapists and criminals feel unwelcome in the U.S. is for their citizens to stop electing them.”
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact reviewed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s public statements and found no evidence that she said this. We also found no credible news reports about this purported exchange between Sheinbaum and President …
“Rep. Nancy Pelosi has a $223,000 salary and a $202 million net worth. Sen. Mitch McConnell has a $200,000 salary and a $95 million net worth. Sen. Chuck Schumer has a $210,000 salary and a $75 million net worth. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a $285,000 salary and a $67 million net worth.”
“A 2025 survey says Germans named Donald Trump as the 'greatest threat to world peace.”
“Mel Gibson passes on $100 million Netflix deal to work with Robert De Niro, declares: ‘Keep that woke clown away from me.’”
“We have office space, it’s occupied by 4%. Nobody’s showing up to work because they were told not to.”
FactCheck.org says: More than half of the nearly 2.3 million federal workers are not even eligible to work from home at all, according to an Office of Management and Budget report released in August 2024. As of May of that year, among thos…