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“My Treasury Department is planning to pay down the national debt this quarter, which never happened under my predecessor.”

FactCheck.org says: He’s right, but the federal debt held by the public is up 10.2% under Biden so far, and Treasury has said it will resume borrowing next quarter.

“Paying taxes is optional!!”

PolitiFact says: Federal law dictates who owes taxes, how much is owed and when that amount is due; paying those taxes is mandatory, not optional. This claim is linked to a complex, persistent and unfounded conspiracy theory.

“The Democrats control the Senate, House, and White House. They have the power to make legal abortion the law of the land once and for all.”

PolitiFact says: Passing a bill that would protect abortion access would require 60 Senate votes to end a filibuster from those opposed to abortion. This would require all Democrats to be united, plus the support of several Republicans.

“The Red Cross sells your donated blood to hospitals for $150 and then that hospital charges you thousands for a blood transfusion.”

PolitiFact says: The Red Cross charges hospitals for the blood so that it can cover the collection costs. What hospitals charge patients for transfusions varies, but that figure can be in the thousands of dollars.

“There has never been a leak anything like this” draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. “There’s never been a leak of a vote — much less an actual opinion, much less in a case of this significance.”

PolitiFact says: Experts said the public release of a draft majority opinion is unprecedented. Supreme Court leaks happen rarely, but there are times when votes and decisions have been leaked before rulings are publicly announced.

“Tylenol is the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US with 27% of people dying & kills at least 100,000 per year from its use.”

PolitiFact says: Overdoses of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and other medications, are related to about 450 deaths per year, per the FDA. That is nowhere near 100,000 — and there's no reason to blame Tylenol alone.

“Amber Heard plagiarized lines from the movie “The Talented Mr. Ripley” in her opening statement during the Johnny Depp libel trial.”

PolitiFact says: Multiple reviews of the proceedings show that Heard did not make the comments attributed to her online.

“Democrats didn’t speak out against companies buying out competitors and creating monopolies until Musk bought Twitter.”

FactCheck.org says: Democrats have opposed monopoly power and encouraged competition for years, and included a plank in the Democratic Party platform in 2016 calling for "steps to stop corporate concentration in any industry."

“Las vacunas contra el covid-19 son innecesarias”

“Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it.”

PolitiFact says: Tennessee legislation that takes effect in January 2023 imposes restrictions on the dispensing of abortion-inducing pills. It doesn’t address or ban emergency contraceptives like Plan B.

“The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA.”

“A partir de mañana a las 05:27 horas viviremos el FENÓMENO APHELION donde la Tierra estará muy lejos del Sol. No podemos ver el fenómeno, pero podemos sentir su impacto. Esto durará hasta el mes de agosto. Experimentaremos un clima frío, más que el clima frío anterior”

“Multiple Supreme Court Justices lied during their confirmation process about their view of #RoeVWade and stare decisis. Those are the facts.”

FactCheck.org says: Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that Roe was precedent, and should be afforded the weight that that carries, none specifically committed to refusing to consider overturning it.

“When the New York State Senate voted to legalize abortion in 1970, 12 Republican senators voted in favor of it.”

PolitiFact says: In 1970, when New York state legalized abortion, 13 Republican state senators voted in favor of it.

“Contraer maculopatía (cáncer del ojo) significa esperar la pérdida de la vista. El teléfono brillante mirado en la oscuridad, de cerca de alta energía dirigida a los ojos dañará la mácula del ojo”.”

“Joe Biden and the Democrats have and will continue to spread lies about where Republicans stand on abortion and women’s health care …. Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors and women in jail.”

Washington Post says: Republicans have promoted many laws that would jail doctors who perform abortions

“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”

PolitiFact says: Census data shows that New York’s population declined by 1.58% between July 2020 and July 2021, which is the latest population estimate available. That was the largest percentage loss of any state.

“President Joe Biden has "[s]topped abortion.”

FactCheck.org says: A leaked draft opinion suggests that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Shortly after the document was published, a meme began circulating falsely claiming President Joe Biden has "[s]topped abortion."

“Says Gov. Tony Evers "wanted to increase your taxes by $1 billion just for heating your homes Instead, Republicans cut your taxes by more than $2 billion.”

“When there is “a noose on a college dorm of a Black student” or a racial slur “on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a Black student actually did that.”