Leaders in both parties make false and misleading claims about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cut plan.
GOP, Democrats Spin Tax Plan
A Tax Hike or Benefit for the ‘Middle Class’?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that the Republican tax cut plan “raises taxes on middle class,” while President Donald Trump claimed that “everybody’s gonna benefit” from a plan that “is for the middle class.”
Natural Born Bunk
Q: Have Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Keith Olbermann introduced a bill that would do away with the requirement that the U.S. president be a natural born citizen?
A: No. Pelosi’s office confirmed that she has not, and Olbermann is not even a member of Congress.
Phony Pelosi Drug Arrests
Q: Were Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s daughters arrested for smuggling cocaine into the U.S.?
A: No. That story and several spin-offs were intended as satire.
Deaths from a Health Care Bill?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has said “hundreds of thousands of people will die” if the Senate health care bill becomes law. But what does the research say about the impact of health insurance on mortality rates?
Pelosi’s Partisan Pick on Jobs Analysis
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cites research from two partisan groups to claim that the Republican health care bill would result in the loss of 1.8 million jobs by 2022. But a recent independent study put the expected job loss at 413,000 by that year.
The 24 Million Talking Point
Democrats say the House Republican health care bill would throw 24 million people off their health insurance. But the Congressional Budget Office said that figure includes some who would choose not to have insurance and some who would have had coverage in the future under current law.
Pelosi’s False ‘Wall Street’ Denial
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a nationally televised town meeting on Jan. 31: “No, we [Democrats] don’t get much support from Wall Street.” That’s not so.
Pelosi Stretches ACA Claims
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made some misleading claims this week on the Affordable Care Act.
FactChecking Clinton’s Big Speech
The Democratic presidential nominee made claims on income inequality, job growth, spending and more.