“President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.”
What PolitiFact found
The bill, and its deficit impact, are changing as Congress negotiates. However, multiple independent analyses project that if implemented, the bill would increase deficits by $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next decade.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Karoline Leavitt (White House press secretary) made this claim around 19 May 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 May 2025, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Karoline Leavitt has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-conference-briefing-kar…
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