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House gridlock stalls Trump's promise to repeal Obamacare

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Louis Jacobson

By Louis Jacobson March 24, 2017

The U.S. House of Representatives fails to pass a health care bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Read our promise update.

See promise update.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

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stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

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stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.

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stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."

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mostly-true

stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”

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stated on March 30, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”

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stated on March 24, 2024 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”

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stated on March 22, 2024 in an X post:

A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.”

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stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”

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Nicole Shanahan

stated on March 26, 2024 in her vice presidential announcement speech:

If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”

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stated on March 24, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Montana Democrats are "suing to say, ‘You should be allowed to be registered to vote in two states.'”

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stated on March 18, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

The $454 million bond is “unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company.”

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Simon Rosenberg

stated on March 8, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”

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mostly-true

stated on March 16, 2024 in a rally in Vandalia, Ohio:

"Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."

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stated on February 27, 2024 in an interview on CNBC:

Citizens Property Insurance “is not solvent.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Iranian drone sent to Israel stuck in a power line in Iraq.

By Jeff Cercone • April 22, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Video muestra “ataque aéreo de Irán contra Israel".

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in a video:

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"OVNI en Arlington, Texas, avistado durante el eclipse solar".

By Marta Campabadal Graus • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on March 24, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"La diabetes desaparece por sí sola en 3 noches. ¡No se necesitan inyecciones ni medicamentos costosos!...”.

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 22, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:

“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”

By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2024
X posts
stated on April 18, 2024 in an X post:

Video shows hecklers April 16 booing Joe Biden’s motorcade in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

By Jeff Cercone • April 19, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 12, 2024 in a post:

Michelle Obama announced she is "running for President in 2024 as a man."

By Grace Abels • April 19, 2024