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In recent speeches and media scrums, President Donald Trump has lauded the federal budget surplus for the month of June, claiming the surplus had not happened in "many, many years" or "decades." To be clear, the U.S. had not recorded a surplus in June since 2016 – but the country has had several surpluses in other months since that time.
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Big Beautiful Bill Projected to Lead to Preventable Deaths
Contrary to President Donald Trump’s claim that no one will die as a result of the Republican budget bill, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University estimated that the legislation’s changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will result in at least 42,500 preventable deaths each year. At the same time, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders has slightly overstated the estimate.
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MAGA Ad Distorts How Massie Diverges from Trump
An attack ad by a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky targets Republican Rep. Thomas Massie -- a longtime conservative foil of President Donald Trump -- with claims that distort the congressman's votes on some of Trump's policy goals.
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Border Czar Makes Misleading Claim About Immigrants With Criminal Records
Border Czar Tom Homan has been repeating the misleading claim that there are "over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the streets of this nation.” That number includes legal immigrants, not just those who entered the country illegally; about a third of them have only been charged, not convicted; and it's unclear how many of them have been, or currently are, incarcerated.
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Weather Modification Played No Role in Texas Floods
Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
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