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Fact Checks

A team of our reporters who cover the economy, national security, health care and more will be fact-checking President Trump's claims during the State of the Union address. Follow along here. nyti.ms/396fzy6

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This claim is false: “From the instant I took office, I moved rapidly to revive the U.S. economy — slashing a record number of job-killing regulations, enacting historic and record-setting tax cuts …” nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is false: "Our economy is the best it has ever been." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is true: "The unemployment rate is the lowest in half a century." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is exaggerated: "Thanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is exaggerated: "Our military is completely rebuilt." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is false: "We will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is false: "The USMCA will create nearly 100,000 new high-paying American auto jobs." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is misleading: "We will always protect your Medicare and your Social Security always." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is mostly true: "To safeguard American liberty, we have invested a record-breaking $2.2 trillion dollars in the United States military." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

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This is misleading: "In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public, instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

#SOTU Fact Checks

This is true: "This is the first major trade deal in many years to earn the strong backing of America’s labor unions." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

See all of our fact checks of President Trump's State of the Union address and the Democratic response nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo

Fact Check: Whitmer

This is exaggerated: "Those three bills, and more than 275 other bipartisan bills, are just gathering dust on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk." nyti.ms/2Sch3Qo