President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. has “large trade deficits with Mexico and Canada,” which isn’t accurate. The U.S. actually runs a small trade surplus with Canada, and the deficit with Mexico isn’t all that large, relatively speaking.
Stories by Brooks Jackson
Director Emeritus, FactCheck.org
NRCC’s Weak Case
Trump’s ‘Deficit Reduction’
FactChecking Trump’s State of the Union
Trump’s Numbers
GOP, Democrats Spin Tax Plan
Trump’s Dubious $4,000 Claim
Obama’s Final Numbers
Trump’s Phoenix Fiction
GOP Medicaid Spin
Republicans are spinning their health care bills’ impact on Medicaid. Sen. Pat Toomey made the questionable claim that under the Senate bill “no one loses coverage” gained under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway claimed there “are not cuts to Medicaid” in the bills that reduce future Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions.








