Inflation rate versus price level: why “inflation fell” does not mean prices fell
Slower inflation means prices are rising more slowly. It does not normally mean the overall price level returned to where it started.
Open record →Latest
The newest reviewed claims, tracked promises, timeline entries and explainers—ordered by the date in the underlying record.
How to read a Trump executive order
The headline is not the operative law. Read the cited authority, definitions, agency instructions, deadlines, implementation documents and later court action.
Open record →Who actually pays a tariff?
The importer pays the government at the border. The economic cost can then be divided among importers, retailers, consumers and foreign suppliers.
Open record →How a claim review should handle uncertainty
Not every political claim resolves cleanly to true or false. A responsible review identifies what is known, unknown and still developing.
Open record →How tariffs work—and who initially pays them
Tariffs are collected at the border from the importer of record, but their ultimate economic burden can be distributed across businesses, consumers and foreign suppliers.
Open record →How to read an executive order
A practical guide to the operative sections, cited authority, agency instructions and implementation dates inside an executive order.
Open record →Why the public record matters more than the news cycle
A developing story can disappear in hours. A sourced, searchable record makes promises and outcomes harder to erase.
Open record →Promise: Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history
Second-term promise tracker: Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. Current published status: In the Works.
Open record →Appeals court leaves voter-database restriction in place
A federal appeals panel declined to lift a lower-court restriction on using the SAVE database for mass voter-roll checks; further appeal followed.
Open record →Promise: Fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve “immediately”
Second-term promise tracker: Fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve “immediately”. Current published status: Stalled.
Open record →Promise: Require voter ID at the polls
Second-term promise tracker: Require voter ID at the polls. Current published status: Promise Broken.
Open record →There are vaccines the size of a “bottle of soda … poured into a little child’s body.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Pants on Fire: There are vaccines the size of a “bottle of soda … poured into a little child’s body.”
Open record →When the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are given together in the combined MMR vaccine, “there could be a possibility they’re quite lethal.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Pants on Fire: When the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are given together in the combined MMR vaccine, “there could be a possibility they’re quite…
Open record →Prices are “all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Mostly False: Prices are “all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down.”
Open record →In Venezuela, “We’re making hundreds of billions of dollars (in oil revenue), and so are they.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement False: In Venezuela, “We’re making hundreds of billions of dollars (in oil revenue), and so are they.”
Open record →En Venezuela, “Estamos ganando cientos de miles de millones de dólares (en ingresos petroleros), y ellos también”.
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement False: En Venezuela, “Estamos ganando cientos de miles de millones de dólares (en ingresos petroleros), y ellos también”.
Open record →“There was vandalism” at the Reflecting Pool.
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement False: “There was vandalism” at the Reflecting Pool.
Open record →“They caught thousands of votes in New Jersey where illegal aliens were allowed to vote. Thousands and thousands.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Mostly False: “They caught thousands of votes in New Jersey where illegal aliens were allowed to vote. Thousands and thousands.”
Open record →Promise: Eliminate federal goals for electric cars
Second-term promise tracker: Eliminate federal goals for electric cars. Current published status: In the Works.
Open record →The AI industry needs “more energy than the entire country produces right now … In fact some people say almost double.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Mostly False: The AI industry needs “more energy than the entire country produces right now … In fact some people say almost double.”
Open record →President Joe Biden “raised the cost of housing by 40 and 50% — the cost of (a) rental — because they were housing illegal aliens in all of those empty units.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Mostly False: President Joe Biden “raised the cost of housing by 40 and 50% — the cost of (a) rental — because they were housing…
Open record →“You know why I’m profiting? Because the stock market’s going up. … I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Mostly False: “You know why I’m profiting? Because the stock market’s going up. … I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a…
Open record →“The United States Supreme Court just ruled against men playing in women’s sports.”
PolitiFact rated this Trump statement Half True: “The United States Supreme Court just ruled against men playing in women’s sports.”
Open record →Promise: End birthright citizenship
Second-term promise tracker: End birthright citizenship. Current published status: Promise Broken.
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