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Fact-checks (27)

John Thune stated on May 30, 2025 in an interview with KOTA:
“A lot of times, health care comes with a job.”
By Arielle Zionts• June 27, 2025
Russell Vought stated on June 01, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid (payments) is improper.”
By Louis Jacobson• June 4, 2025
Donald Trump stated on May 20, 2025 in remarks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol:
In the House bill, “we’re not changing Medicaid,” only cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”
By Louis Jacobson• May 22, 2025
Gavin Newsom stated on May 14, 2025 in in a press conference:
On California offering affordable health care access for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
By Amy Sherman• May 16, 2025
Rick Scott stated on June 08, 2025 in a television interview:
Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
By Jill Terreri Ramos• June 22, 2025
Bernie Sanders stated on May 12, 2025 in a post on X:
“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• May 16, 2025
Karoline Leavitt stated on January 28, 2025 in a press conference:
“DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.”
By Caleb McCullough, Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 30, 2025
Donald Trump stated on May 11, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”
By Louis Jacobson• May 14, 2025
Donald Trump stated on June 25, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.
By Ella Moore, Amy Sherman• June 26, 2025
Gavin Newsom stated on June 10, 2025 in posts on X:
California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
By Louis Jacobson• June 16, 2025
Liz Oyer stated on April 30, 2025 in a TikTok post:
“President Trump has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1 billion in debts owed by wealthy Americans who have committed fraud and broken the law.”
By Louis Jacobson• June 6, 2025
Threads posts stated on February 25, 2025 in a Threads post:
“The Texas measles outbreak is pure propaganda” because media outlets used stock images.
By Jeff Cercone• February 28, 2025
Donald Trump stated on May 08, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
The Digital Equity Act is a handout "based on race,” and “illegal.”
By Amy Sherman• May 13, 2025
Donald Trump stated on March 04, 2025 in a speech to Congress:
"All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”
By Amy Sherman• March 11, 2025
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America stated on April 17, 2025 in a Threads post:
“Gun violence is the leading killer of college-aged people in the U.S.”
By Loreben Tuquero• April 22, 2025
Mike Lee stated on June 15, 2025 in a post on X:
The suspect in the Minnesota lawmakers’ shootings was driven by “Marxist” ideology.
By Madison Czopek• June 16, 2025
Vivek Ramaswamy stated on August 23, 2023 in a GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee:
“The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman• August 24, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on May 14, 2025 in Senate testimony:
It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris.
By Madison Czopek• May 16, 2025
X posts stated on April 30, 2025 in captions and posts:
A video clip shows Michelle Obama describing herself as “a Black man.”
By Madison Czopek• May 2, 2025
X posts stated on May 20, 2025 in posts:
Former President Joe Biden’s cancer is a form of “turbo cancer” caused by mRNA vaccines.
By Grace Abels, Loreben Tuquero• May 20, 2025

Articles (1664)

Would MO abortion Amendment 3 legalize surgery for trans kids? It's highly unlikely, experts say

By Grace Abels• October 25, 2024

6 things to know about health care and the 2020 campaign

By Julie Rovner• January 30, 2020

GOP candidates' criticisms of ACA premiums leave out key pieces of health care puzzle

By Samantha Putterman• December 8, 2023

Is the fight to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act dead?

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson• March 29, 2017

Did New York's John Faso break his promise to a woman with cancer?

By Stephen Koff• October 18, 2018

What do GOP efforts to undo Affordable Care Act mean for pre-existing conditions?

By Amy Sherman• November 12, 2019

Yes, House budget bill eliminates federal Medicaid dollars for trans adults’ gender-affirming care

By Grace Abels• June 2, 2025

Is new Missouri rule a ‘ban’ on transgender adults? It imposes major health care access barriers

By Grace Abels• April 24, 2023

What's in the Senate health care bill? Here are five key provisions

By Louis Jacobson• June 25, 2017

Did Gavin Newsom get his facts right on universal health care?

By Chris Nichols• August 1, 2017

PolitiFact's guide to the Republican health care bill

By Jon Greenberg• March 22, 2017

Health care in 5 charts: A 2018 midterm report

By Jon Greenberg• October 14, 2018

Read the Senate GOP health care bill 'discussion draft'

By Angie Drobnic Holan• June 22, 2017

Fact-checking the Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders health care debate

By Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu• February 8, 2017

Back to the future: Trump’s history of promising a health plan that never comes

By Victoria Knight• August 13, 2020

Donald Trump's USA Today op-ed, annotated

By PolitiFact Staff • October 10, 2018

‘Medicare for All' emerges as early divide in first Democratic presidential primary debate

By Jon Greenberg, Shefali Luthra• June 27, 2019

Would 'Medicare for All' really double every American's tax bill?

By D.L. Davis• October 11, 2018

What you need to know about Medicare for All

By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2019

Five things to watch in the Senate health care bill

By Louis Jacobson• June 21, 2017