As President-elect Donald Trump stocks his Cabinet with some of his most loyal followers, we’ve already checked some of their surprising and dubious claims. Here’s a look at a few of them.
Category: Fact briefs
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Did a late night ‘ballot dump’ in Milwaukee cost Eric Hovde the US Senate election?
No. Milwaukee counts absentee ballots at a central location and reports the totals only when they are finished.
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Has Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford opposed Wisconsin’s voter ID law?
Yes. Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford has opposed the state’s voter identification law.
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Has 83% of the money from Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts gone to the top 1%?
No. Higher-income Americans have received the largest savings from the 2017 tax cut law signed by President Donald Trump, but the top 1% have not received 83% of the savings.
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Does Wisconsin have twice as many registered voters as active voters?
No. Wisconsin has 4.27 million inactive voters and 3.66 million registered voters.
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Are 40% of children in US taking antidepressants?
No. Less than 8% of minors in the U.S. use antidepressant prescription drugs, the latest data indicate.
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Are Milwaukee vote tabulation machines connected to the internet?
No. Milwaukee ballot tabulation machines are not connected to the internet.
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Can anyone order Wisconsin absentee ballots ‘for anyone and ship the ballots anywhere in the world’?
No. Only registered Wisconsin voters can use Wisconsin’s MyVote website to request absentee ballots by mail.
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Was the Biden administration’s revision of a jobs report fraud?
No. Donald Trump falsely stated in Milwaukee that the Biden administration “fraudulently claimed” to have created 818,000 jobs.
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Has Tammy Baldwin taken steps to lower prescription drug prices?
Yes. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., has backed efforts to reduce prescription drug prices.
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Does Eric Hovde support raising the Social Security retirement age for younger Americans?
Yes. Republican Eric Hovde supports raising the retirement age for receiving Social Security, but only for younger Americans, despite misleading attacks on him.
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Does the US allow 10,000 additives into food?
Yes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimates that more than 10,000 chemicals “have been authorized or are considered generally recognized as safe for use in food, or in contact with food in the U.S.”
