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Politifact looks into President Donald Trump’s claims about coronavirus testing.

While President Donald Trump has lauded increased testing for COVID-19, his rival Joe Biden said the administration has failed to deliver on its promises. “The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed,” Biden tweeted April 21. Tests play a huge role in managing the...

President Donald Trump said he was considering whether to stop domestic travel between U.S. hotspots for COVID-19. As he explained his reluctance to harm the transportation industry, Trump inaccurately said airline and train passengers were already being tested for the disease. “We have to get our country back, we have to start moving again, ...

President Donald Trump argued with “PBS NewsHour” reporter Yamiche Alcindor over what the president had said, or hadn’t said, about New York’s need for ventilators.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sen. Bernie Sanders talks in a way that one would think Sanders and Barack Obama “were close buddies.” But they were not, Biden said, claiming that Sanders was against Obama’s signature health care law. Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn’t like the fact we didn’t push a single-payer o...

Defending his “medicare for all” proposal in a recent Democratic presidential debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued the massive health care expansion would actually save the system hundreds of billions of dollars. PolitiFact went digging into Sanders’ claim that in addition to saving the money, it would also save some 68,000 ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., used the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas to launch attacks against Mike Bloomberg, including his the billionaire’s rhetoric on the collapse of the housing market and financial crisis. “When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here...

Former New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg got attacked on the debate stage last week on several issues, including his record on the stop-and-frisk police policy. Bloomberg said too many people were stopped and he apologized just before announcing his run for the White House. He also claimed that when he disc...

During the Feb. 7 Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden once again questioned the price tag of “Medicare for All,” the single-payer health care proposal championed by one of his key rivals, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden argued that the plan was fiscally irresponsible and would require raising middle-class ...

In his third State of the Union address, President Trump claimed that since he took office: “7 million Americans have come off of food stamps and 10 million have been lifted off of welfare.” There is some data to back him up when it comes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, but our analysis found t...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is concerned about the state of worker pay in the United States. “Instead of building a new factory, or instead of training new workers, or starting a new product line,” Warren said, many companies use their influence in Washington to rewrite laws in ways that benefit their profit line. “The next th...

President Donald Trump started the morning of Sept. 20 dismissing headlines about someone who blew the whistle on a phone call he had with the president of Ukraine. The call, he tweeted, was “pitch perfect.” Later that morning, Trump and first lady Melania opened the White House for a day of ceremony with Australia’s prime minister...

After weekend mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton left more than 31 people dead, President Donald Trump gave a speech at the White House blaming mental illness and hatred for the attacks. Trump offered few specifics related to potential gun legislation he would support, although he left open the door when he said he was “ready to listen and&...