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PolitiFact says: House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Joe Biden to deliver the State of the Union address on March 7. Biden’s spokesperson said the president never sought to deliver the address in the summer.
PolitiFact says: Trump did win the New Hampshire Republican primary in 2016, 2020 and 2024. But he lost the state in the general election to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to Joe Biden in 2020.
PolitiFact says: Florida has the smallest ratio of state government employees to population of any state. But the numbers change modestly when local government workers are factored in
PolitiFact says: Las publicaciones en redes sociales muestran imágenes captadas en mayo de 2021 después de un incendio en un portacontenedores frente a las costas de Sri Lanka.
PolitiFact says: Police officers have protections against civil suits; Trump seeks protections against criminal prosecution. Also police protections have limits; Trump wants effectively unlimited protection.
PolitiFact says: Claims that tennis journalist Mike Dickson died from COVID-19 vaccines are not supported by available evidence. His family has not released a cause of death, nor has his former employer.
PolitiFact says: El enlace incluido con el post no está afiliado al gobierno federal. El gobierno federal no ha anunciado un nuevo programa que ofrezca $6,400.
PolitiFact says: The state attorney general is investigating the call and said it was "artificially generated based on initial indications."
PolitiFact says: The International Churchill Society, the Churchill Project at Hillsdale College and a Churchill historian have all previously said that Churchill never said that.
PolitiFact says: Trump wrote in his book in 2000 that "we can also raise the age for receipt of full Social Security benefits to seventy" but not for those already retired or near retirement.
PolitiFact says: Theories began circulating in the 1800s, but it took until later in the 20th century for this knowledge to begin to solidify and become widely accepted.
PolitiFact says: Experts say there is no hard evidence that COVID-19 infection is greater in people who have had boosters.
PolitiFact says: Haley left out that this poll result is 6 weeks old, and that no poll since then has come close to matching that margin.
PolitiFact says: Registered Democrats cannot vote in New Hampshire’s GOP primary. Undeclared voters, or people who aren’t affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties, can vote in the primary. Nikki Haley is courting them.
PolitiFact says: On a few occasions while president, Trump said — or was reported to have said — that he was open to the idea raising the federal gas tax by 25 cents. But that falls short of him proposing or publicly backing the idea.
PolitiFact says: Only U.S. citizens may vote in statewide elections in New York. A 2021 New York City law involving local elections gave voting privileges to noncitizens who are in the U.S. legally, but it is not in effect.
PolitiFact says: We found no evidence that President Joe Biden threatened to send F-15 fighter jets to the southern U.S. border to "wage war" with Texas. A White House spokesperson said this claim is false.
PolitiFact says: Florida no ha aprobado un nuevo programa para cubrir los gastos funerarios de personas mayores de 35 años.