Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In several court cases, federal judges have temporarily blocked the Trump administration from broadly cutting or freezing federal spending. President Donald Trump claimed that the judges “want to try and stop us from looking for corruption” and “hold us back […]
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Trump’s Exaggeration of Federal Work from Home
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President Donald Trump made the exaggerated claim that federal office space is “occupied by 4%” of federal workers to bolster his argument for dramatically downsizing the federal workforce and demanding that most workers return to the office full time. In […]
Musk Misleads on FEMA’s Migrant-Related Payments to New York City
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. This week, New York City officials said the city had received two payments from the federal government as reimbursement for expenses the city incurred while providing services to migrants who arrived in New York, including $19 million for hotel expenses. […]
Trump, Online Posts Misrepresent Government Subscriptions to News Services
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Both the Biden and Trump administrations subscribed to Politico and other news services. But President Donald Trump and online posts have misleadingly claimed the media outlets were being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The payments […]
Trump on U.S. Imports of Oil and Lumber
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Days before he ordered, and then paused, new tariffs on U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump argued that the U.S. does not need imported products such as crude oil and lumber from those countries. Experts told us […]
Sorting Out the Facts on ‘Waste and Abuse’ at USAID
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. As President Donald Trump’s administration targets the U.S. Agency for International Development for closure or major downsizing, the White House and social media posts have highlighted four projects as examples of the agency’s “waste and abuse.” But only one was […]
Trump Wrong About U.S. Rank in Education Spending and Outcomes
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. As justification for dismantling the federal Department of Education, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. schools are “ranked 40 out of 40” in educational outcomes compared with other countries, while the U.S. “ranked No. 1 in cost per […]
FactChecking RFK Jr.’s Other Health Claims During HHS Confirmation Hearings
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In our earlier coverage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, we focused on his familiar claims about vaccines and chronic disease, along with his citation of a flawed […]
Social Media Posts Misidentify Pilot Killed in Midair Collision Over D.C.
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take The U.S. Army identified one of the Black Hawk helicopter pilots killed in the midair crash with a passenger jet on Jan. 29 as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach. But social media posts have falsely identified two different women […]
What to Know About Trump’s Executive Order on Wind Energy
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. On his first day in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that attempts to slow the growth in the country’s wind generation capacity. The order paused all leasing of federal waters for offshore wind and paused new or […]