78 People 23251 Fact-checks 7541 Articles People (78) U.S. Trade Representative David Alameel David Axelrod David Brooks David Caton David Bowen David Crowley David Corn David DiPietro David Dooley David Frum David Gill David Ignatius David Hankerson David Lewis David McKinley David Miliband David Porter David Pepper David Plouffe Fact-checks (23251) Henry Cuellar stated on February 22, 2019 in a press conference: Says President Donald Trump "put out a $297 million contract to a vendor to show him how to hire Border Patrol. So, the first payment they made was $14.8 million. You know how many Border Patrol they hired with $14.8 million? Two." By Miriam Valverde• March 1, 2019 Donald Trump stated on January 25, 2017 in remarks at Department of Homeland Security: Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president." By Miriam Valverde• January 26, 2017 Bloggers stated on February 21, 2018 in multiple posts and blogs on the Internet: Say David Hogg is a crisis actor. By Allison Graves• February 21, 2018 Association of Mature American Citizens stated on November 10, 2012 in a direct mail letter: "If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’." By John Hill• December 2, 2012 Donald Trump stated on June 23, 2017 in Fox & Friends: "I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton." By Manuela Tobias• June 26, 2017 Mark Meadows stated on August 31, 2018 in : "Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS – which was the firm hired by the Clinton campaign to write the dossier. Bruce Ohr gave the dossier to the FBI. The FBI then used the same dossier to spy on the Trump campaign." By Bill McCarthy• September 11, 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on December 02, 2009 in a campaign video: Says she has "quadrupled agents to secure our border." By Ciara O'Rourke• January 12, 2010 Tom Price stated on June 29, 2012 in a television interview: Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation. By Willoughby Mariano• July 10, 2012 Hugh Hewitt stated on July 15, 2018 in in a panel discussion: Says FBI agent Peter Strzok’s hearing confirmed Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s theory about how the Justice Department got the Steele dossier. By John Kruzel• July 24, 2018 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stated on January 21, 2014 in a campaign commercial: Says David Jolly’s former firm lobbied "for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan." By Joshua Gillin• January 27, 2014 Facebook posts stated on August 11, 2022 in Facebook post: “With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.” By Michael Majchrowicz• September 8, 2022 Viral image stated on May 26, 2021 in a social media posts and articles: Says ATF chief nominee David Chipman was part of the 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. By Jon Greenberg• June 1, 2021 Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post: "The IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations.” By Jeff Cercone• August 18, 2022 Bob Good stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.: “Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ” By Warren Fiske, Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022 Saxby Chambliss stated on March 28, 2011 in a letter to a constituent: Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul. By Willoughby Mariano• May 4, 2011 Viral image stated on January 21, 2021 in a Facebook post: Photos show Joe Biden with a “Chinese handler.” By Ciara O'Rourke• January 25, 2021 Instagram posts stated on January 27, 2025 in an Instagram post: “1,500 IRS agents have submitted letters of resignation after Trump announced he would put 90,000 superfluous IRS personnel on border patrol.” By Loreben Tuquero• February 3, 2025 Peter Kilmartin stated on September 01, 2010 in a campaign commercial: "When the mayor of Providence's brother wrote over 100 grand in bad checks to the city, Joe Fernandez didn't have the guts to prosecute him. He let him off the hook." By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 10, 2010 Citizens for Sanity stated on October 07, 2022 in an ad: “Every single Senate Democrat voted against hiring more border agents. They voted against deporting felons. And they voted against ending catch and release.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 21, 2022 Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate. By Maryalice Gill• October 13, 2011 Articles (7541) The Trial of the Chicago 7: What the movie gets right, and wrong By Samantha Putterman• April 18, 2021 How pundits defended Trump's ABC interview, and why it's misleading By Bill McCarthy• June 13, 2019 Ad Watch: Florida GOP misleads on Crist’s stance on ‘defund the police,’ IRS By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Yacob Reyes• August 29, 2022 Clinton's not-so-radical past By Robert Farley• February 15, 2008 Trump's pick for health chief rides the Truth-O-Meter By Jim Tharpe• November 30, 2016 Trump rally shooting put scrutiny on Secret Service women, diversity efforts. Here are the facts. By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek• July 22, 2024 On 'This Week': border security and the economy By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson• July 12, 2010 FACT SHEET: Immigration By Adriel Bettelheim• January 15, 2008 David Simpson says agent went through airport scanners undetected By W. Gardner Selby• February 27, 2012 Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026 Deal and Perdue's goals for veterans By April Hunt• November 11, 2014 Fact-checking Greg Abbott’s claims that Biden has ‘open border’ policies By Nusaiba Mizan• April 26, 2022 Digging into Scott Walker’s talk of 17,000 job-producing new businesses By Rick Romell, Dave Umhoefer• May 18, 2014 Biden wants a bite of the Big Apple By Wes Allison• November 2, 2007 Fact-check: What Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul, Alex Pretti at DHS confirmation hearing By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 18, 2026 Readers give us our first report card By Tim Murphy• August 22, 2010 Fact-checking Day 1 of the New Hampshire GOP summit By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 14, 2023 The federal government crackdown in Portland: What you need to know By Bill McCarthy• July 22, 2020 Dewhurst revisits “apples to carburetors” By W. Gardner Selby• June 26, 2012 In Arizona Senate debate, Kelly and Masters spar over immigration, abortion. We fact-checked them. By Jon Greenberg, Tom Kertscher• October 7, 2022
U.S. Trade Representative David Alameel David Axelrod David Brooks David Caton David Bowen David Crowley David Corn David DiPietro David Dooley David Frum David Gill David Ignatius David Hankerson David Lewis David McKinley David Miliband David Porter David Pepper David Plouffe
Henry Cuellar stated on February 22, 2019 in a press conference: Says President Donald Trump "put out a $297 million contract to a vendor to show him how to hire Border Patrol. So, the first payment they made was $14.8 million. You know how many Border Patrol they hired with $14.8 million? Two." By Miriam Valverde• March 1, 2019 Donald Trump stated on January 25, 2017 in remarks at Department of Homeland Security: Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president." By Miriam Valverde• January 26, 2017 Bloggers stated on February 21, 2018 in multiple posts and blogs on the Internet: Say David Hogg is a crisis actor. By Allison Graves• February 21, 2018 Association of Mature American Citizens stated on November 10, 2012 in a direct mail letter: "If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’." By John Hill• December 2, 2012 Donald Trump stated on June 23, 2017 in Fox & Friends: "I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton." By Manuela Tobias• June 26, 2017 Mark Meadows stated on August 31, 2018 in : "Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS – which was the firm hired by the Clinton campaign to write the dossier. Bruce Ohr gave the dossier to the FBI. The FBI then used the same dossier to spy on the Trump campaign." By Bill McCarthy• September 11, 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on December 02, 2009 in a campaign video: Says she has "quadrupled agents to secure our border." By Ciara O'Rourke• January 12, 2010 Tom Price stated on June 29, 2012 in a television interview: Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation. By Willoughby Mariano• July 10, 2012 Hugh Hewitt stated on July 15, 2018 in in a panel discussion: Says FBI agent Peter Strzok’s hearing confirmed Republican Congressman Jim Jordan’s theory about how the Justice Department got the Steele dossier. By John Kruzel• July 24, 2018 Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stated on January 21, 2014 in a campaign commercial: Says David Jolly’s former firm lobbied "for hundreds of millions (of dollars) for a dictator in Pakistan." By Joshua Gillin• January 27, 2014 Facebook posts stated on August 11, 2022 in Facebook post: “With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.” By Michael Majchrowicz• September 8, 2022 Viral image stated on May 26, 2021 in a social media posts and articles: Says ATF chief nominee David Chipman was part of the 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. By Jon Greenberg• June 1, 2021 Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post: "The IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations.” By Jeff Cercone• August 18, 2022 Bob Good stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.: “Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ” By Warren Fiske, Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022 Saxby Chambliss stated on March 28, 2011 in a letter to a constituent: Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul. By Willoughby Mariano• May 4, 2011 Viral image stated on January 21, 2021 in a Facebook post: Photos show Joe Biden with a “Chinese handler.” By Ciara O'Rourke• January 25, 2021 Instagram posts stated on January 27, 2025 in an Instagram post: “1,500 IRS agents have submitted letters of resignation after Trump announced he would put 90,000 superfluous IRS personnel on border patrol.” By Loreben Tuquero• February 3, 2025 Peter Kilmartin stated on September 01, 2010 in a campaign commercial: "When the mayor of Providence's brother wrote over 100 grand in bad checks to the city, Joe Fernandez didn't have the guts to prosecute him. He let him off the hook." By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 10, 2010 Citizens for Sanity stated on October 07, 2022 in an ad: “Every single Senate Democrat voted against hiring more border agents. They voted against deporting felons. And they voted against ending catch and release.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 21, 2022 Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate. By Maryalice Gill• October 13, 2011
The Trial of the Chicago 7: What the movie gets right, and wrong By Samantha Putterman• April 18, 2021 How pundits defended Trump's ABC interview, and why it's misleading By Bill McCarthy• June 13, 2019 Ad Watch: Florida GOP misleads on Crist’s stance on ‘defund the police,’ IRS By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Yacob Reyes• August 29, 2022 Clinton's not-so-radical past By Robert Farley• February 15, 2008 Trump's pick for health chief rides the Truth-O-Meter By Jim Tharpe• November 30, 2016 Trump rally shooting put scrutiny on Secret Service women, diversity efforts. Here are the facts. By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek• July 22, 2024 On 'This Week': border security and the economy By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson• July 12, 2010 FACT SHEET: Immigration By Adriel Bettelheim• January 15, 2008 David Simpson says agent went through airport scanners undetected By W. Gardner Selby• February 27, 2012 Immigration after one year under Trump: Where do mass deportation efforts stand? By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 20, 2026 Deal and Perdue's goals for veterans By April Hunt• November 11, 2014 Fact-checking Greg Abbott’s claims that Biden has ‘open border’ policies By Nusaiba Mizan• April 26, 2022 Digging into Scott Walker’s talk of 17,000 job-producing new businesses By Rick Romell, Dave Umhoefer• May 18, 2014 Biden wants a bite of the Big Apple By Wes Allison• November 2, 2007 Fact-check: What Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul, Alex Pretti at DHS confirmation hearing By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 18, 2026 Readers give us our first report card By Tim Murphy• August 22, 2010 Fact-checking Day 1 of the New Hampshire GOP summit By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 14, 2023 The federal government crackdown in Portland: What you need to know By Bill McCarthy• July 22, 2020 Dewhurst revisits “apples to carburetors” By W. Gardner Selby• June 26, 2012 In Arizona Senate debate, Kelly and Masters spar over immigration, abortion. We fact-checked them. By Jon Greenberg, Tom Kertscher• October 7, 2022
