Outside groups spent more than $1.6 billion in the 2016 election on TV ads and other forms of communication that urged the election or defeat of federal candidates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Today, we reintroduce our biennial feature on the groups that will now spend hundreds of millions more trying to influence the outcome of the 2018 elections.
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
After FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired, the president made several false and misleading claims about the Russia investigation in a series of tweets.
The GOP tax plan is fodder for campaign ads from both sides in Pennsylvania’s special House election and races across the country.
Facts on background checks, concealed-carry laws, U.S. gun homicide rate, stolen guns
The president exaggerates his accomplishments in his address to Congress.
Statistical measures of the president’s term to date.
President Trump monopolizes our list of the year’s worst falsehoods and bogus claims.
The president’s speech on the Republican tax plan oversold the benefits of tax cuts and strayed from the facts on other issues.
Leaders in both parties make false and misleading claims about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cut plan.