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113 checks for “Donald Trump”
FactCheck.org says: Instead of actual tax savings, the president may have been referring to the average amount some tipped workers were able to deduct from their federal taxable income in 2025. The actual savings would be a fraction of tha…
FactCheck.org says: Trump did not inherit the worst inflation in history. And while there was a big one-month drop in the rate of inflation in June, the annualized inflation rate was not lower than when Trump took office.
FactCheck.org says: Energy experts told us that gasoline prices will start to fall when the conflict is resolved, but it could take many months before the national average price is back to where it was before the conflict began.
PolitiFact says: Between May 4 and May 7, gasoline prices rose every day. Crude oil prices decreased, but daily variations aren’t reflected immediately in prices at the pump, experts say. By historical standards, U.S. gasoline prices ar…
FactCheck.org says: Trump’s deals with certain pharmaceutical companies may have lowered drug prices for some consumers buying certain drugs, but there's no guarantee of savings for Americans in general nor evidence Americans are generally…
FactCheck.org says: Economic experts told us that federal data do not support Trump’s claim that there was economic “stagflation” during the Biden administration. Inflation was high during much of Joe Biden’s presidency, but economic growt…
FactCheck.org says: During Trump's first full 10 months in office, the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services decreased 3.9% compared to the same period in 2024. Trump appears to get a 77% reduction by comparing January 2025 and October …
FactCheck.org says: The total amount collected from tariffs in 2025 would be able to pay for only a fraction of one of the president's three proposals.
FactCheck.org says: These specific employment figures can mislead because the reported levels of native- and foreign-born workers are influenced by predetermined population estimates for 2025 that the Census Bureau calculated in 2024. The …
PolitiFact says: President Donald Trump has not reduced the federal deficit by 25%. The deficit for fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30, was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal year 2024 deficit. Considering only the portions of fiscal year…
PolitiFact says: By two measures — the inflation rate and the Federal Reserve’s target for "price stability" — the statement is inaccurate. The inflation rate is not zero; it’s currently at 2.9% year over year. That’s higher than the Fe…
PolitiFact says: The White House cited a quarterly set of federal government wage statistics. This shows that median wages rose by a cumulative $546 during the first two quarters of 2025. A different set of statistics — which economists…
PolitiFact says: Financial research firm Morningstar says the standard metric for measuring the dollar’s strength against other currencies dropped by 11% in the first half of 2025, the biggest decline for a first half of the year since …
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. had not recorded a surplus in June since 2016 – but the country has had several surpluses in other months since that time.
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. has collected more than $80 billion in tariff revenue for the current fiscal year – but not for any two-month period in that time. Economists predict that higher tariffs will increase inflation in the coming mo…
FactCheck.org says: Economists told us that Trump appears to be wrongly comparing a very high – and unlikely – estimate of potential daily revenue from his tariffs with a figure reflecting the average daily U.S. trade deficit during Biden’…