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Immigration
Yes, Border Patrol can stop cars without cause at immigration checkpoints within 100 miles of the border
Social Security
Social Security 2025 COLA estimates don't show significant increase compared to 2024
Early estimates indicate that Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment could be somewhere around 3% in 2025. Here’s what that would mean for your benefits.
Social Security
Raising Social Security tax cap for high-income earners would help, but not fix, its shrinking reserves
Taxing more income from higher earners could help with Social Security’s financial problems, but it wouldn’t completely fix the issues.
Social Security
Raising Social Security tax cap for high-income earners would help, but not fix, its shrinking reserves
Would taxing more income from the rich fix Social Security’s financial problems and delay benefit cuts? It would help, but it wouldn't completely fix the issues.
Travel
No, California hasn’t spent $11 billion to build just 1,600 feet of high-speed rail
California has spent $11 billion on 57 miles of completed guideway, 45 structures and investments in the state’s infrastructure, not just 1,600 feet of rail.
Student Loans
No, taxes are not going up to pay for student loan forgiveness
President Biden’s student debt relief plan does not raise taxes to pay for it, which is something only Congress can do. Here's how it could impact taxpayers.
Government
VERIFYING 3 questions about the Antisemitism Awareness Act
Viral social posts claim an antisemitism bill would make it illegal to criticize Israel and the Bible. Here’s what we can VERIFY about the legislation.
Elections
Yes, the RNC can recruit and train poll workers who handle ballots
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump announced plans to recruit thousands of poll watchers and workers. Here’s what the RNC is allowed to do.
Elections
RNC can train ballot handlers for 2024 election
Co-chair Lara Trump announced plans to recruit thousands of poll watchers and workers to assure Republican voters can trust election integrity.
Social Security
No, Social Security recipients won’t get a bonus payment in May
Supplemental Security Income recipients will get a second payment in May. But it’s an advance for June – not a bonus payment.
National
Yes, child marriage is legal in 38 states
Viral social media posts that claim child marriage is legal in 38 states are actually true. Most of those states only allow it in limited circumstances.
Government
No, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t say the U.S. and Ukraine fought together in WWII
A manipulated clip of a White House press briefing has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media. The audio is fake.
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