The Senate plan to slash Medicaid and ACA marketplace funding could lead to nearly 12 million more people without insurance by 2034 and harm the finances of hospitals, nursing homes and community health centers.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

GOP bill’s Medicaid, ACA cuts will raise health care costs

President Donald Trump hasn’t closed U.S. borders indefinitely starting July 1, as viral TikTok posts warned. Presidents have the authority to close the border, but it has to be under emergency or contingent circumstances.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

President Donald Trump signed an executive order for “a total border shutdown with no set reopening date” on July 1.

With the Trump administration under criticism from some of its most ardent supporters for failing to release more files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we looked back at what top White House officials said about the documents since Jan. 20. Here’s the timeline.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

What the Trump admin has said about Epstein files release

Republicans paint a picture of an able-bodied nonworking Medicaid recipient as someone who chooses not to work in favor of leisure time. But few recipients in research studies cite a lack of desire to work.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.”

The Trump administration cut about 600 National Weather Service jobs earlier this year, mostly through buyouts. The administration’s proposed 2026 budget does not reduce NWS funding, but it makes cuts to NOAA.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said, “Tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.” Some breaks aimed at lower- and middle-income earners expire in three years, but the bill made Trump’s 2017 cuts for all taxpayers permanent.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”

Facebook posts claimed multiple celebrities and personalities have donated tens of millions for the Texas flood relief efforts. They weren’t based on any real announcements or reports.

by dap | Jul 11, 2025 | Politifact

Claims about celebrity donations to Texas spread on Facebook

Social media users blamed the deadly flash flooding in Texas on weather manipulation. Meteorologists said intense rain hit a flood-prone region and caused flooding. Cloud seeding couldn’t have caused that, they said.

by dap | Jul 10, 2025 | Politifact

The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.

Local media and a volunteer’s on-the-ground video told a story about two girls on a tree who were rescued after the Texas floods. It was based on unnamed sources and “eyewitnesses.”

by dap | Jul 10, 2025 | Politifact

How a fake story about two girls on a tree in Texas spread

Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, in 2021 used the phrase “seizing the means of production.” He did not elaborate on that and we could not find evidence that it was part of his 2025 New York City mayoral platform.

by dap | Jul 10, 2025 | Politifact

Mamdani referenced ‘seizing the means of production’ in ‘21