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A Texas energy company billed a customer more than $200,000.
Publisher’s rating: False
The IRS is taking money away from people who received unemployment benefits.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
The 87,000 new IRS agents who were supposed to “only target the rich” are now “coming after waitresses’ tips.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“As your Lieutenant Governor…I cut your taxes.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“We’ve eliminated a record number of job-killing regulations, giving the average American household $3,000 more to spend every single year.”
Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios
"Credit card debt is above $1 trillion for the FIRST TIME EVER."
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
Related reporting from 2026 says U.S. credit-card balances reached $1.25 trillion in the first quarter, after falling by $25 billion from the prior quarter. The report attributes the figure to a New York Fed household-debt report and says balances were still 5.9% higher than a year earlier. This supports that balances exceeded $1 trillion at that point; it does not establish when they first crossed that threshold. The supplied reporting does not provide a historical series or identify an earlier record against which to test “for the FIRST TIME EVER.” It therefore cannot substantiate that part of the claim. The evidence here establishes a later reported balance, not the full historical claim.
"The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”
Publisher’s rating: Half True
Residents of New York state “pay the highest taxes in the nation.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
“Did you know the Kamala price hikes have cost the average American family $28,000?”
Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios
“Buried in the infrastructure bill is a ~8 cent per mile driving tax."
Publisher’s rating: False
“Heidi Cruz, Ted’s wife, is managing director of Goldman Sachs. They oversee the Texas utilities.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
“The Bidens own 10% of” a Chinese firm whose stock is up almost 300%” since Joe Biden was elected.
Publisher’s rating: False
“The global cost of corruption is as much as 5% of the world's GDP.”
Publisher’s rating: False
The price of "bacon is up five times" under President Joe Biden.
Publisher’s rating: False
"We are seeing (gasoline) prices now that we frankly haven't seen in years."
Publisher’s rating: Not years; about 18 months
In manufacturing, "I brought back 700,000 jobs. (Obama and Biden) brought back nothing."
Publisher’s rating: False