Louis Jacobson | PolitiFact
Louis Jacobson has been with PolitiFact since 2009, currently as senior correspondent.
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Recent polls show that well more than half of younger Americans broadly understand that the Holocaust occurred.
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The year Biden said 2022 produced the third-highest annual disaster costs since recordkeeping began in 1980, which aligns with official federal government statistics. However, that figure excludes smaller weather events.
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How does U.S. aid to Israel generally compare with aid to other countries? Here’s a closer look.
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Blaming the nation’s debt on the lack of following standard appropriations procedures is an exaggeration. Only about one-quarter of federal spending is approved through the annual appropriations process; about three-quarters of spending runs on autopilot, including entitlements and interest payments.
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Much government activity would stop during a shutdown, and the fate of Social Security checks — a lifeline for many older Americans — is top of mind for many people.
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Legal experts said they saw John Lauro’s statements as political positioning rather than a true legal defense.
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The middle school standards approved by the Florida state education board say students should learn about "skills" learned by slaves that could be "applied for their personal benefit." Several historians who have studied slavery cast doubt on this lesson’s educational value.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan largely mirrors promises made by his GOP nomination rival former President Donald Trump. Several of their goals require funding from Congress or an immigration system overhaul.
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The message spoken in the ad accurately reflects what Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, but he did not speak those words himself.
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Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said, "The agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019." By the commonly used outlays measure, his claim is close. We found it half true.
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In a 2015 interview, before he was president, Donald Trump said he was "fine" with affirmative action. Later, when Trump was president, his administration took actions seeking to leverage federal government policy against affirmative action.