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Jesse Watters

Fox News host. 7 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2020 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Jesse Watters, Fox News host

“Congress' 2024 federal spending bill includes $400,000 for "a group to give clothes to teens to help them hide their gender.”

PolitiFact rated this: This claim is inaccurate

PolitiFact says: The funding is for Briarpatch Youth Services, a Madison, Wisconsin, nonprofit that runs a youth homeless shelter. The earmark can be used only for mental health services and counseling for kids experiencing homelessness.

Jesse Watters, Fox news host

“As Perry [Iowa] residents struggle to cope with mass layoffs, Tyson Foods has its eyes on a different class of workers. The company is now offering new jobs to asylum seekers in other states …. They’re firing Americans and offering perks to illegals. This was the Democrat plan all along.”

Washington Post rated this: False

Washington Post says: Watters took discrete events and conjured a false narrative suggesting that U.S. citizens were being fired in Iowa in exchange for illegal immigrants being hired in New York.