Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

Clear
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2025 in an interview with Newsmax:
“We have automobile plants being built at levels we’ve never seen … and they’re going up fast.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025
Harriet Hageman
stated on March 16, 2025 in a podcast interview:
The federal Education Department has a “budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2025
Elon Musk
stated on February 28, 2025 in an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan:
“Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
stated on March 11, 2025 in a White House press briefing:
“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2025
JD Vance
stated on March 10, 2025 in a speech:
“Under the previous administration … the cost of a median-price home in America more than doubled, and that was just in four years.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2025
Rick Scott
stated on March 9, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2025
X posts
stated on March 7, 2025 in on social media:
During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, “31% of U.S. job growth” came from public-sector jobs.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2025
Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 in on-air remarks:
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025
Kevin O'Leary
stated on February 24, 2025 in an interview on CNN:
“We’ve never audited government for 100 years.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2025
Patty Murray
stated on February 20, 2025 in a Senate floor speech:
“The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Pants on Fire!
By Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 19, 2025
Marco Rubio
stated on February 3, 2025 in in a letter to Congress:
On support for U.S. Agency for International Development
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2025
Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:
“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025
Sara Jacobs
stated on December 18, 2024 in an X post:
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2024
Mike Johnson
stated on December 5, 2024 in remarks to reporters:
About 1% of federal employees are “actually working in the office.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on December 1, 2024 in a statement:
On pardoning his son Hunter Biden
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2024
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 10, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on November 7, 2024 in on social media:
“Something stinks” that Donald Trump won in several battleground states while Democrats won Senate or governor races in those states.
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2024 in a social media post:
“I never mentioned” wanting to end the Affordable Care Act.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2024
Previous Next