Fact Checks

Fact check: Can you 'erase' your student debt because DOGE accessed federal loan databases?

By Claire Cranford, PolitiFact

Don’t trust videos saying you can erase your student loans by filing a student privacy law complaint.

Fact-checking Trump's claim that Biden pardons are 'void' because he used an autopen

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.

Fact-checking Trump's 2025 address to Congress

By PolitiFact staff

President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress.

Fact-checking Trump and Vance's attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman, Sara Swann, PolitiFact

During Friday's televised Oval Office fight, Trump and Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Here are the facts about three of them.

Fact-checking the Trump White House's claims about illegal immigration dropping sharply

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

Illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border has dropped since Trump entered the White House. But the White House’s data use is misleading. …

Live blog: Fact-checking Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. confirmation hearings

By PolitiFact staff

Our partners at PolitiFact will be providing live fact-checking.

Live blog: Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirming hearing

By PolitiFact staff

More of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees will appear before the Senate this week. Our partners at PolitiFact will be providing live fact-checking.

Live blog: Fact-checking Trump's 2nd inauguration

By PolitiFact staff

Our partners at PolitiFact will be providing live fact-checking across the day.

Live blog: Fact-checking Trump Cabinet confirmation hearings

By PolitiFact staff

In the days to come, our partners at PolitiFact will be providing live fact-checking.

Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles wildfires and California water policy

By Jeff Cercone, Caleb McCullough, PolitiFact

President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s environmental policies enabled the blazes’ danger and wreckage.