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Fact-checks (20187)

Donald Trump stated on April 08, 2025 in a speech:
The U.S. is “taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs.”
By Amy Sherman• April 10, 2025
Facebook posts stated on January 22, 2025 in a Facebook post:
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to replace the IRS with the External Revenue Service, eliminating tax returns and income tax.
By Caleb McCullough• January 27, 2025
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."
By Jon Greenberg• March 30, 2016
Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2017 in a speech to Congress:
"Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes — but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or almost nothing."
By Allison Graves• March 2, 2017
Jeff Sessions stated on April 23, 2017 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."  
By Miriam Valverde• April 27, 2017
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2025 in an interview with Newsmax:
“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”
By Louis Jacobson• March 28, 2025
Jared Polis stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• May 17, 2024
Donald Trump stated on August 16, 2015 in a policy plan on immigration.:
"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."
By Linda Qiu• August 18, 2015
Donald Trump stated on May 09, 2019 in remarks at the White House:
Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."
By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2019
Donald Trump stated on September 27, 2023 in a speech in Michigan:
When I took office, “the auto industry was on its knees gasping its last breath.” Trump administration “tariffs and taxes saved the American auto industry from extinction."
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 5, 2023
Bernie Sanders stated on April 30, 2018 in a tweet:
"You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero."
By Manuela Tobias• May 3, 2018
Donald Trump stated on January 02, 2019 in a tweet:
"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."
By Miriam Valverde• January 4, 2019
Donald Trump stated on January 20, 2016 in a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa:
"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."
By Amy Sherman• January 26, 2016
National Taxpayers Union stated on October 10, 2018 in Washington Examiner op-ed:
"The latest round of tariffs now means that the total tax increase on Americans from enacted tariffs exceeds the tax increases from the Affordable Care Act."
By Manuela Tobias• October 12, 2018
Tim Ryan stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
By Jon Greenberg• October 4, 2022
Major Gross Profit stated on January 16, 2026 in an email:
“Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend is live but you must act.”
By Paul Specht• January 23, 2026
Ted Cruz stated on May 01, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."
By Linda Qiu• May 1, 2016
Sonny Perdue stated on July 26, 2018 in a press release:
"America’s hard-working agricultural producers … have taken a disproportionate hit when it comes to illegal retaliatory tariffs."
By Manuela Tobias• August 9, 2018
Donald Trump stated on May 08, 2025 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
“We have now close to $10 trillion” in investments. “We’re talking about essentially two months.”
By Madison Czopek, Louis Jacobson• May 8, 2025
Donald Trump stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:
 "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America."
By Madlin Mekelburg• November 21, 2019

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Donald Trump's campaign promises for the first 100 days

By Linda Qiu• November 10, 2016

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By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 3, 2025

New Trump tariffs could put even more downward pressure on economy because they’re less targeted

By Louis Jacobson• January 29, 2025

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By Manuela Tobias• July 30, 2018

Supreme Court strikes down use of primary law Donald Trump used to impose tariffs

By Louis Jacobson• February 20, 2026

Can President-elect Donald Trump enact tariffs without Congress? And can anyone stop him?

By Louis Jacobson• December 2, 2024

Donald Trump says tariffs will make America rich again. Economists disagree

By Louis Jacobson• December 17, 2018

On International Fact-Checking Day, PolitiFact explains the truth in Trump’s tariffs agenda

By Katie Sanders• April 2, 2025

Donald Trump’s tariff powers face a high-stakes legal test

By Louis Jacobson• July 29, 2025

Trump proposed $2,000 payments for Americans from tariff dividends. Would that work?

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PolitiFact’s guide to understanding tariffs and international trade

By Louis Jacobson• November 18, 2019

Fact-checking President Donald Trump’s address to joint session of Congress

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By Amy Sherman• August 21, 2023

Trump sees a future without federal income taxes, but the tariff math doesn’t add up

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Critics accuse President Donald Trump of insider trading. Experts say that’s a stretch.

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Donald Trump has floated big tariffs. What could the impact be?

By Louis Jacobson• June 21, 2016

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