Karoline Leavitt

White House press secretary. 4 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2025 to 2025. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by PolitiFact21 May 2025United States Politics and government

Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary

“President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: 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 dec…

Checked by PolitiFact13 Mar 2025United States Economy and jobs

Karoline Leavitt

“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

Checked by FactCheck.org8 Feb 2025United States

Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary

“In citing "waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years”: “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Some of those projects weren’t described accurately. And only the first was funded by USAID; the rest were funded by the State Department.

Checked by PolitiFact30 Jan 2025United States

Karoline Leavitt

“The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True