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."
A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he continually disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises like the ones in Flint, Michigan and Washington, D.C.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.
Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state's top prosecutor said Wednesday.
