Latest from Nicole Lewis
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Fact-checking the Trump administration’s claims on ‘saving’ coal country
The Trump administration has made a lot of claims about gains in the coal industry, but virtually none of them are true.
- Jan 16, 2018
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Trump’s repeated claim: ‘We don’t have a surplus with anybody’
The president keeps saying the United States doesn't have a trade surplus with any country. That's a Four-Pinocchio claim.
- Jan 8, 2018
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President Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 days
An update on The Fact Checker's year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump.
- Jan 2, 2018
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Comparing the ‘Trump economy’ to the ‘Obama economy’
Sarah Sanders bragged on Twitter about the "booming Trump economy" but most of the upward economic trends began in the Obama-era.
- Dec 14, 2017
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Trump’s claim that West Virginia is ‘sending clean coal’ to ‘China’
Trump claims West Virginia is sending “clean coal” to China, but in 2015 and 2016 essentially no coal left the state en route to China.
- Dec 11, 2017
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Does the Senate tax bill really offer a tax break for private jets, as key Democrats claim?
Several Democratic leaders claim the bill offers a tax write off for private jets, but they're blowing the provision way out of proportion.
- Dec 6, 2017
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Trump’s claim that ‘they just kept cutting, cutting, cutting the military’ until it was ‘depleted’
Trump claims the military budget has been slashed in recent years, but he's forgetting that the U.S. ended two wars overseas.
- Dec 5, 2017
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Pence’s claim that ‘more Americans are working today than ever before in American history’
This economic boast is so mindlessly dumb we can't believe we have to fact check it.
- Nov 28, 2017
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GOP lawmaker uses fuzzy math to make case for small-business tax cuts
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) claims a tax cut on small businesses can help reduce the federal deficit, citing suspect data on revenue
- Nov 27, 2017
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Ivanka Trump touts GOP tax cuts with data borrowed from the Obama administration
Trump claims the U.S. doesn't invest enough in young children, and her figures come from an unlikely source for a Trump official.
- Nov 20, 2017