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Joe Biden, Democratic presidential candidate

“Farm bankruptcies jumped 20% last year due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.”

FactCheck.org rated this: There Were Many Reasons

FactCheck.org says: International trade was a factor, but there were additional reasons — such as years of relatively weak prices, declining incomes and rising farm debt, according to agricultural economists and government reports.

Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker

“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: An EPA science advisory board raised issues with the EPA’s approach and recommended doing a new assessment, but that recommendation wasn’t binding.