“DOGE found former first lady Michelle Obama “has been receiving a monthly $122,000 payment from the (General Services Administration) since 2009.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Deceased InfoWars reporter Jamie White was on a “Ukrainian enemies hit list.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: InfoWars reporter Jamie White, who was fatally shot, is not on a Ukrainian enemies list. White was mentioned in a journalistic project on Russian political rhetoric. It did not call for White to be killed or harmed.
“Girl Scout cookies are “toxic” because a study showed they contain glyphosate and heavy metals.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Video shows “Stacey Abrams admits the $2 billion Joe Biden’s EPA gave her was used to buy votes of people in Georgia by purchasing them new appliances.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Under the previous administration … the cost of a median-price home in America more than doubled, and that was just in four years.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, “31% of U.S. job growth” came from public-sector jobs.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Audio shows a BBC reporter making a vulgar comment about an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, area fires were intentional to build a “smart city.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Photo shows first lady Melania Trump crying.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“Video shows President Donald Trump admitting he became president because of a “rigged” 2024 election.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“$1.9 billion (went) to recently created decarbonization of homes committee," which was "headed up" by Stacey Abrams.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“DOGE stopped an annual payment to Barack Obama for $2.6 million for ‘royalties associated with Obamacare.’”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“President Donald Trump posted on X that “If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Stacey Abrams was senior counsel for a group that was part of a coalition awarded a $2 billion Environmental Protection Agency grant. Abrams did not lead the coalition, nor did she directly receive any of the grant mone…