President Donald Trump touting his tax bill over Twitter. Politifact Staff Writer Jon Greenberg fact-checks claims Trump made over the impact of tax reform. The GOP tax plan signed into law last week terminates the individual mandate for Obamacare. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted this provision "essentially repeals--over time--Obamacare."
Greenberg says its encouraging to see Trump modify this claim to "over time" but the statement still is not accurate. "Getting rid of the mandate doesn't get rid of (all) those elements so there's no repeal there," says Greenberg. Eliminating the mandate does undercut the Affordable Care Act, but Greenberg says it does not completely repeal it.
Greenberg says Trump's claim that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. election is Politifact's "Biggest Lie of 2017." "It may be a lot of things but it is not made up," says Greenberg. "He wants to see this whole thing just go away."
Students, lawmakers and religious leaders have joined forces at a temple in Philadelphia to strongly denounce antisemitism on college campuses and in their communities, one day after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned amid criticism over her testimony at a congressional hearing.
The former New York City mayor has already been found liable in the defamation lawsuit brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who endured threats and harassment after they became the target of a conspiracy theory spread by Trump and his allies.
Donald Trump says he's decided against testifying for a second time at his New York civil fraud trial. In a social media post Sunday, the former president said he “very successfully & conclusively” testified last month and saw no need to appear again.
The president of Harvard University has apologized for her remarks at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, saying she got caught up in a heated exchange and failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students.
The House Education and Workforce Committee opened an investigation into MIT, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University after an anti-Semitism hearing on Tuesday.
The son of North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer was charged with manslaughter and fleeing an officer after a police pursuit ended in a crash that killed the sheriff's deputy.
