No. Vice President Kamala Harris has not stated support for legalizing illicit use of fentanyl.
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Is the Biden-Harris administration ‘shutting down power plants all across the country’?
No. The Biden-Harris administration is not, as Donald Trump claimed, shutting down power plants nationally.
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Was Donald Trump exonerated in the classified documents case?
No. No legal determination of guilt or innocence has been reached in the criminal charges filed against former President Donald Trump over classified documents he kept after leaving the White House.
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Was half of recent inflation caused by corporate greed?
No. Economists say corporate price markups are not a major cause of inflation.
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Is repackaging foreign meat in the US enough to label it ‘made in USA’?
Yes. Meat labeled in U.S. grocery stores as “made in USA” does not have to have come from animals in the United States, but that will change with a new federal rule.
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Did the Biden-Harris administration let more than 400,000 people convicted of crimes enter the US?
No. New data cited by former President Donald Trump count the number of noncitizens convicted of crimes who entered the U.S. over roughly 40 years, not only during the Biden-Harris administration.
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Did Obamacare cause health insurance premiums to increase 100%?
No. Average annual health insurance premiums have increased 67% to 75% since Obamacare became law in 2010 — less than what they increased before the law.
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Was a Wisconsin sexual assault suspect released after previous criminal charges because of sanctuary cities?
No. There is no evidence sanctuary policies meant to shield people from immigration authorities freed Venezuelan Alejandro Coronel Zarate before he was jailed Sept. 5, 2024, on a sexual assault charge in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
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Is federal spending 50% higher than pre-COVID levels?
Yes. Fiscal 2024 federal spending, as projected by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, is $6.94 trillion — 56% higher than the $4.45 trillion in fiscal 2019.
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Did the Biden-Harris administration attempt to suspend some deportations upon taking office?
Yes. President Joe Biden’s administration announced a 100-day suspension of the removal of certain undocumented immigrants on Jan. 20, 2021, the day Biden was inaugurated. A judge blocked the “pause” days later.
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Did Tammy Baldwin fund a transgender clinic for youths?
No. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin directed $400,000 in 2024 federal spending to Briarpatch, a nonprofit that provides counseling, shelter, job assistance and other services to runaway and homeless youth. It’s not a transgender clinic.
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Does Wisconsin Congressman Bryan Steil support ‘surveillance of pregnancies’?
No. U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, a Republican who represents southeastern Wisconsin, has not said he supports “surveillance of pregnancies.”