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Jobs

The White House's August jobs report showed explosive job growth driven by manufacturing and private-sector hiring.

Donald Trump

Mostly True

Independent reporting confirms the August jobs report beat expectations, with private-sector and manufacturing hiring both outperforming forecasts, matching the White House's framing.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 5, 2026

Elections

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of changing the congressional/legislative maps back to their previous boundaries.

Donald Trump

Mostly True

The Missouri Supreme Court did block Trump-backed congressional maps and restored the state's previous district boundaries, though it also ordered a statewide referendum on the map rather than permanently reinstating the old lines.The Baseline automated desk · Sep 4, 2026

Foreign Policy

"There's not a single example in the entirety of American history of an air campaign alone resulting in positive regime change."

Sen. Chris Murphy

Mostly True

Most military historians agree: air power alone has rarely, if ever, produced lasting, positive regime change without ground forces or the credible threat of them. A few cases (Libya 2011, the Balkans) are debated, but each involved ground forces or fell short of Murphy's bar.PolitiFact, military historians · Mar 1, 2026

Energy

"We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined."

President Donald Trump

Mostly True

True if you count all petroleum liquids: the U.S. produces more total liquids than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. For crude oil alone, the U.S. leads each country but not their combined total.PolitiFact, U.S. Energy Information Administration · Apr 29, 2026

Voting

"9% of American citizens don't have the identification that the SAVE Act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth

Mostly True

Survey research supports roughly this share: studies estimate that about 9% of voting-age citizens, on the order of 20 million people, lack a current government-issued photo ID. Estimates vary by survey and by how ID is defined.PolitiFact, University of Maryland · Mar 18, 2026

Immigration

“Illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded.”

Mostly True

CBP’s own data backs the core: June 2026 nationwide encounters (25,243) were the lowest in the agency’s records, 89% below the 2021–24 monthly average. Two caveats keep it from a clean True: encounters count apprehensions, not total crossings, and the record only reaches back to the modern data series.CBP / DHS · Jul 2, 2026

Crime

"California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma."

Gov. Gavin Newsom

Mostly True

Federal mortality data support the comparison: California's per-capita homicide rate is below those of Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The exact ranking can shift by year and dataset, but the core claim holds.PolitiFact, CDC · Jun 12, 2025