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Search-and-rescue records or Coast Guard annual statistics confirm the 4,946 lives-saved figure for 2025.
Official U.S. Coast Guard reporting on 2025 operations states that, "Throughout 2025, the Coast Guard conducted thousands of search and rescue cases" and that "Coast Guard crews saved 5,220 lives" in total, along with assisting 19,437 people and protecting over $1.02 billion in property. This figure appears in multiple Coast Guard releases summarizing 2025 performance. By contrast, the Department of Homeland Security swearing-in press release claims that "the Coast Guard saved 4,946 lives" over the same 2025 period, with no clarification of a different time frame or subset of missions, and the underlying Force Design 2028 report that might explain the discrepancy is currently inaccessible (HTTP 403). Given that the Coast Guard's own year-end operational summary uses 5,220 lives saved for 2025, the statement that the Coast Guard saved 4,946 lives "over the course of 2025" is supported only by a single DHS speech line and conflicts with the more detailed operational data, making it materially misleading about the official total. Therefore, the verdict is Misleading because the claim understates the Coast Guard’s 2025 lives-saved figure relative to the Coast Guard’s own published annual operational statistics and provides no context that would justify the lower number.