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  • Fact-Checking Fauci

    Fact-Checking Fauci0

    In recent congressional testimony Dr. Anthony Fauci, the primary architect of the Trump administration’s COVID response, painted a bleak picture about the United States’ ability to contain the pandemic. According to Fauci’s narrative, the United States is experiencing a resurgence in regional COVID outbreaks because it failed to sufficiently lock down back in March, and

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  • Fact-Checking Eleven of Trump’s Claims in State of the Union

    Fact-Checking Eleven of Trump’s Claims in State of the Union0

    In a night of high emotion, President Donald Trump used his third State of the Union address to tout the “great American comeback” during his first three years in office. Before the night was over, Trump had staged the surprise reunion of a soldier deployed to Afghanistan with his family and announced a scholarship for

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  • Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech

    Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech0

    President Donald Trump made the case Tuesday night for the $5.7 billion he wants Congress to approve for a wall expanding the physical barrier along the southern border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs. The Daily Signal examined five of the president’s claims in his 10-minute speech from the Oval Office. 1. “All Americans

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  • Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout

    Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout0

    President Joe Biden used his home state of Delaware on Friday to promote his “forgiveness” of student loan debt, which he did through executive action in August rather than through Congress. Some of Biden’s assertions during 24 minutes of remarks at Delaware State University in Dover were factual, and some less so. Biden spoke at

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  • Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?

    Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?0

    This morning, a friend sent me a story from a right-wing news site. It claimed that “74 percent of Californians want to end sanctuary cities.” The statistic didn’t seem to smell right. Seventy-four percent of Californians? The state in which Donald Trump won 33 percent of the vote? The poll ostensibly had been conducted by

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  • Fact Check: Did Republicans ‘Essentially’ Repeal Obamacare?

    Fact Check: Did Republicans ‘Essentially’ Repeal Obamacare?0

    President Donald Trump claimed the GOP tax bill that Congress passed Wednesday “essentially” repeals Obamacare. “We—I hate to say this—but we essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate, which was terrible,” said Trump during remarks after passage of the bill. Verdict: False Republicans voted to repeal the individual mandate—the requirement that Americans buy health insurance or face a penalty—but

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