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Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

12,754 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Bernie Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn't like the fact we didn't push a single-payer option.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Ron Johnson didn’t “show up” for a day of impeachment hearings.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Photo shows Time magazine cover with Barack Obama that says “Treason.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostPolitics & government

The filibuster is “the tradition of the Senate here in 232 years now. … We need to be very cautious what we do. … That’s what we’ve always had for 232 years. That’s what makes us different than any place else in the world.”

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

Kirsten GillibrandPolitics & government

"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactPolitics & government

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “just ordered the evacuation of the capital city.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

If Democrats "impeach Trump and the Senate doesn’t confirm it then it nullifies Trump’s first term and he gets to run two more times."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Photos show U.S. senators sleeping in the chamber.

Publisher’s rating: False

Facebook postsPolitics & government

Quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that "a government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

World Economic Forum “elites” are pushing the Great Reset, which aims to control people by taking all their possessions.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"Gavin Newsom is Nancy Pelosi’s nephew ... Adam Schiff’s sister is married to George Soros son" and John Kerry’s “daughter is married to a ‘mullah’s son in Iran.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Finland joins NATO.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Donald Trump said, "Make no mistake: They’re not after me. They are after you; your guns, your Christian values, your freedom. I’m just in their way."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

"Have we ever had an impeached President, deliver the State of the Union address while he is on trial in the Senate? Given the audience in the room will be both his prosecutors and jurors on said trial."

Publisher’s rating: Answer: Yes, Clinton

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

The Trump administration “got 58 hostages released from various hostile countries without paying any money, or giving up anything.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Democrats introduce bill to ‘euthanize seniors’ to save Social Security.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Washington PostPolitics & government

“I had no choice because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House."

Publisher’s rating: Timeline

PolitiFactPolitics & government

A second impeachment means Donald Trump loses his lifetime pension, travel allowance, Secret Service detail, and his ability to run for public office.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Former President Donald Trump is actually another man wearing a Trump mask.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire