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Threads posts stated on July 28, 2025 in a Threads post:

“Home Depot signed a deal that pays them $250 million with DHS, allowing ICE agents to stake out their parking lots and arrest immigrants.”

By Maria Briceño • August 5, 2025

Facebook posts stated on May 5, 2021 in a Facebook post:

An ongoing audit of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona “showed Trump ahead by 250,000” votes, and “nearly 950,000 ballots are declared illegal, nearly all for Biden.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 7, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 21, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The NFL agreed to give the domestic terror group, BLM, 250 million dollars.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 30, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The FBI uncovered "256 texts between Adam Schiff and Jeffrey Epstein"

By Samantha Putterman • July 20, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Florida drivers who have their cell phones "in hand" can be ticketed $250 and sent to "driving school."

By Samantha Putterman • March 18, 2019

Bloggers stated on April 8, 2018 in in a blog:

The "moon has more than 250 million citizens."

By John Kruzel • April 13, 2018

Americans for Prosperity stated on August 22, 2016 in a web ad:

Says Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold "voted over 250 times to raise taxes."

By Eric Litke • October 27, 2016

David A. Clarke Jr. stated on June 13, 2016 in a speech:

"Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries."

By Tom Kertscher • June 29, 2016

Bill Maher stated on February 10, 2016 in an essay in The Hollywood Reporter:

"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016

Donald Trump stated on November 14, 2015 in a rally in Beaumont, Texas:

President Barack Obama "wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria."

By Fauzeya Rahman • December 1, 2015

Sean Hannity stated on October 19, 2015 in a segment of Fox News' "Hannity":

"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."

By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Tim Lee stated on June 30, 2015 in mass email:

Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.

By Nancy Badertscher • July 14, 2015

Tom Coburn stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN:

The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014

Scott Walker stated on October 22, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:

Says his promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a "big goal."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 30, 2014

Wendy Davis stated on September 17, 2014 in a TV ad:

"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.

By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014

Daniel Harrop stated on December 15, 2013 in an appearance on WPRI-TV's Newsmakers:

"We see a quarter-billion dollars in a pension fund that needs to be funded at $1.2 billion."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 9, 2014

Bill Maher stated on June 21, 2013 in a roundtable section of the HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher":

If it is enacted, the Senate immigration bill is "going to make the Border Patrol bigger than the FBI -- you could put one agent every 250 feet."

By Louis Jacobson • July 1, 2013

Leticia Van de Putte stated on May 1, 2013 in remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.:

Says only about 250 Texans have been killed in action since 9/11.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2013

MacIver Institute stated on April 9, 2013 in a web posting:

"Gov. Scott Walker (is) more than halfway to (his) 250,000 jobs goal."

By James B. Nelson • April 17, 2013

Bob King stated on September 5, 2012 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:

Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, "since June 2009, (the auto) industry has added a quarter of a million jobs."

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2012

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Fact-checking the Trump administration’s count of 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2026

Declaration of Independence on display April 24, 2026, National Archives

‘Let facts be submitted to a candid world’: Thoughts on journalism, fact-checking and the US at 250

By Rebecca Catalanello • July 1, 2026

America 250: Why do Florida officials call the state ‘the 14th colony’?

By Samantha Putterman • June 29, 2026

America’s 250th anniversary compared with its 200th: Measuring the mood in 1976 and now

By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2026

Trump’s Freedom 250 concert on the National Mall: What happened? What’s next?

By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2026

Mike Johnson interviewed at 250th rededication on mall

America’s 250th: How long has the US used the phrases ‘In God We Trust’ and ‘Under God’?

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2026

Not so: Donald Trump’s claim that Barack Obama plans to import 250,000 Syrian refugees

By Fauzeya Rahman • December 2, 2015

MOSTLY FALSE: Martin O’Malley’s claim that immigration reform raises U.S. household incomes $250

By Emma Hinchliffe • November 27, 2015

Final Scott Walker jobs tally shows 250,000 first-term promise far from met

By James B. Nelson • May 22, 2015

With measles surging, the US is likely to lose ‘elimination’ status. Vaccines offer best hope

By Madison Czopek • November 12, 2026

FL’s Amendment 3: Will it lead to higher sales taxes, rent? Could local governments absorb the loss?

By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • November 6, 2026

PACs, campaigns spent $3 billion on ads. What were the most misleading messages to voters?

By Caleb McCullough • November 3, 2026

Llamada dice que María Elvira Salazar ‘votó’ por lo que Trump quería en inmigración. ¿Es cierto?

By Maria Briceño • October 30, 2026

A robocall said Maria Elvira Salazar ‘voted for everything Trump wanted’ on immigration. Is it true?

By Maria Briceño • October 27, 2026

Vitamin C if you’re feeling sick: Evidence-based life hack? Or dated superstition?

By Madison Czopek • October 16, 2026

Is Abdul El-Sayed a doctor? Fact-checking Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race

By Caleb McCullough • October 14, 2026

FL’s Amendment 3 would cut property taxes. Could it gut local police, fire, emergency money?

By Samantha Putterman • October 13, 2026

Fact-check: El-Sayed and Rogers level personal attacks in first Michigan Senate race debate

By Caleb McCullough, Loreben Tuquero • October 8, 2026

Fact-checking Maura Healey, Mike Minogue in first Massachusetts gubernatorial debate

By Samantha Putterman • October 8, 2026

Fact-checking Ashley Hinson and Josh Turek in first Iowa US Senate debate

By Caleb McCullough • October 8, 2026