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The federal deficit has not fallen by 25% during Trump’s second term. The fiscal year 2025 deficit was 2.3% smaller than the fiscal 2024 deficit. When considering only the portions of the fiscal 2025 ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier cited two studies listed on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s label for mifepristone, the first of two pills taken in early pregnancy for medication ...

Trump, who campaigned on a promise to tackle inflation, has pushed back — sometimes misleadingly — against discussions of grocery prices increasing on his watch. His Walmart example misleads by ...

On Truth Social, Trump wrote, "For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn’t take ANY TIME OFF for the ‘Democrat Shutdown Hoax,’ I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per ...

When "60 Minutes" contributing correspondent Norah O’Donnell asked Trump about his administration's immigration enforcement tactics — referring to agents tackling a mother, releasing tear gas in ...

Born in Uganda, Mamdani moved to the U.S. in 1998 when he was 7 and became a U.S. citizen in 2018. For adults to become U.S. citizens, they generally must have lived continuously in the country as a ...

The claim originated from America’s Last Line of Defense, a satirical Facebook page operated by Christopher Blair. He is known for writing satire articles published on Facebook and the Dunning-Kruger ...

Gordon Findlay is a Novo Nordisk manager based in Switzerland who didn’t attend the White House’s Nov. 6 drug pricing announcement. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wasn’t fleeing the scene, a White House ...

As evidence, the White House said California’s system of sending mail ballots to all voters is "ripe for fraud." A spokesperson pointed to one case of a woman charged with voter fraud. In its ...

USDA wrote in its report that while undocumented individuals are ineligible for SNAP, they might live with people who qualify for the program. Only 1.2% of SNAP households had citizen children living ...

Zohran Mamdani has never said he seeks to implement Shariah in New York City, or anywhere in the U.S. An expert told PolitiFact that Mamdani’s support for gay rights and decriminalizing sex work are ...