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John Ferman
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> From: Angie Holan, PolitiFact Editor <<email obscured>>
> Date: February 28, 2017 at 10:43:48 PM CST
> To: <<email obscured>>
> Subject: Fact-checking President Trump's address to Congress
> Reply-To: Angie Holan, PolitiFact Editor <<email obscured>>
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> Sorting out the truth
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> Fact-checking President Trump's address to Congress
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> President Donald Trump promised to deliver "a message of unity and strength"
that came from the heart in his first address to a joint session of Congress.
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> How did Trump do on the truth? We compiled a running collection of his
remarks, along with notes on their overall accuracy and additional points of
context. Trump also touted his campaign promises; we're tracking those on our
Trump-O-Meter.
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> Here are findings from some of the specific topics Trump mentioned:
> By enforcing immigration law, Trump said the country "will raise wages, help
the unemployed, save billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for
everyone." Actually, estimating the costs of illegal immigration is extremely
difficult and produces dramatically different figures depending on the source.
> "Obamacare is collapsing," Trump said. "And we must act decisively to protect
all Americans." There are ominous signs for the Affordable Care Act, but health
care policy experts have said that "collapsing" is too strong a word for what
has been happening. We rated a similar claim False.
> "We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years," Trump said. In a strict
sense, that's not the case; at least one other recovery was slower. But GDP
growth after the Great Recession has been slower than in other recent
recoveries.
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> Read more details in our story. In other stories, we explained why some of
the women members of Congress wore white and who Trump's guests were.
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> In case you missed it, read our fact-check from the weekend: Trump said on
Twitter, "The National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion." That's
Mostly False.
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