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Trump said ‘a couple states’ have $1.98 gas. He’s wrong
Twice in recent days, President Donald Trump has touted the lows he says gas prices have reached during his presidency. “You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states,” Trump said April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He repeated that statistic in another White House event April 22.…
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FEMA still funding Helene relief for North Carolina
A widely-shared social media post lacks important context about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s recent decision about disaster relief in North Carolina. President Donald Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it ‘unwarranted,’” liberal pundit Brian Tyler Cohen said in an April 12 X post. The post — which…
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RFK Jr.’s explanation for autism rates clashes with science
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insists an environmental toxin is responsible for increased autism prevalence in the U.S. “This is a preventable disease,” he said April 16, dismissing an HHS agency report’s explanation for the increase. “We know it’s an environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics.…
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Are other countries ‘cheating’ the U.S. on trade?
If you listen to President Donald Trump and his allies discuss his sweeping tariff plans, one word pops up a lot: “Cheating.” During his April 2 announcement of what he called “liberation day,” Trump released a list of new tariffs of up to 50% on virtually every country — a plan that took effect at…
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Did Biden grow the agriculture trade deficit to $49 billion?
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blamed former President Joe Biden for the rising agricultural trade deficit, while defending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on nearly every country. “In the last four years, we had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion,” Rollins said in an April 6 CNN…
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Fentanyl misinformation threatens to roil overdose response
Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation. False and misleading narratives on social media, in news reports and even in popular television dramas suggesting people can overdose from touching fentanyl — rather than ingesting it — are now informing policy and spending decisions. In an…
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Will buying American cars help shoppers avoid tariff costs?
President Donald Trump and his allies have offered a solution for avoiding price hikes because of his car tariffs: buy American. Trump told NBC News March 29 that he “couldn’t care less” if foreign car manufacturers raise prices in response to tariffs. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are going…
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Why Trump’s ‘$2 billion a day in tariffs’ is doubtful
Before pausing country-by-country tariffs for 90 days, President Donald Trump repeatedly said tariffs were bringing in immense revenue. At an April 8 executive order signing, Trump said, “We’re taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs. Two billion a day.” He repeated the $2 billion figure during an April 8 speech to the National…
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Graphic Cites FactCheck.org in Misleading Biden, Trump Economy Comparison
Este artÃculo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. A graphic circulating on social media compares Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic records as president and cites FactCheck.org as the source. But two of its figures are way off, and others are out of date— creating a more unfavorable comparison for Trump. The graphic…
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Targeting Chris Krebs, Trump repeats 2020 election falsehood
As President Donald Trump targeted one of his first-term government officials, he also repeated the long debunked falsehood that the “2020 election was rigged and stolen.” In an April 9 memo, Trump directed his administration to strip security clearance from Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and investigate Kreb’s time…
