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RFK Jr. Justifies Cuts to mRNA Vaccine Projects With Falsehoods
In justifying the government's termination of $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine projects, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed mRNA vaccines "fail to protect effectively" against COVID-19 and suggested they are unsafe. The mRNA shots saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and have shown promise against influenza.
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Trump Exaggerates Trade Deficit with Switzerland by Ignoring Surplus in Services
President Donald Trump has cited a $40 billion trade deficit with Switzerland to justify a new, high tariff on imported Swiss goods. But his figure ignores trade in services. The overall goods-and-services deficit is less than $9 billion.
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No Evidence for Trump’s Claims of ‘Rigged’ or ‘Phony’ Job Numbers
Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, claiming the job numbers were "phony" and that the commissioner had "faked" other job figures to help Democrats. There's no evidence the commissioner, or others at BLS, manipulated the data, and Trump hasn't provided any.
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Trump Offers No Evidence for Claim About Bill Clinton and Epstein Island
Former President Bill Clinton flew multiple times on airplanes belonging to the late Jeffrey Epstein. But there is no evidence that Clinton visited the convicted sex offender’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands "28 times," as President Donald Trump has claimed.
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Are Prices Up or Down? Parsing Misleading Claims by Trump and Democrats
About six months into the second term of President Donald Trump, Republicans and Democrats are making conflicting and often misleading assessments of the Trump administration's impact on inflation and prices. Both sides cherry-pick examples of consumer products to support their claims, while sometimes wrongly taking credit for lower prices or falsely casting blame for rising costs.
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