Statements with completed fact checks
Fact Checks
- VA is spending an additional $800 million on infrastructure improvements to ensure department facilities provide safe and effective patient care.
Updated 1/16/2026, 4:47:02 AM
- The backlog of Veterans waiting for VA benefits is down 60% since Jan. 20, 2025.
Updated 1/16/2026, 4:45:50 AM
- Total continued weeks claimed for benefits in all programs was 2,218,506 for the week ending December 27, 2025, an increase of 313,297 from the previous week.
Updated 1/16/2026, 4:44:13 AM
- No state was triggered onto the Extended Benefits (EB) program for the week ending December 27, 2025.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:18:07 AM
- Advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment was 1,884,000 and the insured unemployment rate was 1.2% for the week ending January 3, 2026.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:15:21 AM
- Advance seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims were 198,000 for the week ending January 10, 2026.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:12:22 AM
- EBSA will continue efforts to identify abusive Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and prevent fraudulent MEWA operators from opening new arrangements in other states, even though MEWAs are not a national project.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:10:10 AM
- EBSA removed Employee Stock Ownership Plans from its national enforcement project list and will reduce focus on missing participants following the establishment of the Retirement Savings Lost and Found Database.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:08:36 AM
- EBSA updated its national enforcement projects for fiscal year 2026 and will prioritize investigations in cybersecurity, barriers to mental health and substance use disorder benefits, protecting benefit distributions, retirement asset management, surprise billing, and criminal abuse of contributory benefit plans.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:07:21 AM
- The release claims federal law enforcement officers are facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:06:33 AM
- ICE asserts that 70% of all ICE arrests are of noncitizens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:04:50 AM
- ICE announced arrests on Jan 14, 2026 of five named noncitizens described as 'worst of the worst,' listing their convictions.
Updated 1/16/2026, 3:02:53 AM
- Over the course of 2025, the Coast Guard saved 4,946 lives.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:59:36 AM
- Interdictions, deterrence events, and transportation of illegal aliens are up 120%.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:58:29 AM
- Since January 2025, Coast Guard seizures of illegal narcotics increased by 200%.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:57:03 AM
- Brooks entered the U.S. in 2024 via the CBP One app, which the release says allowed over a million unvetted arrivals.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:55:34 AM
- ICE reported 66 vehicular attacks against its officers from January 21, 2025 to January 7, 2026, compared with two in the previous year, a 3,200% increase.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:52:25 AM
- ICE arrested Robyn Argote Brooks on January 13, 2026 in San Antonio after he rammed two ICE vehicles and an officer was injured.
Updated 1/16/2026, 2:51:16 AM
- The Administration and CMS have increased enforcement and made rule changes on hospital and insurer price transparency.
Updated 1/16/2026, 12:56:01 AM
- The White House announced 'The Great Healthcare Plan' on January 15, 2026.
Updated 1/16/2026, 12:55:03 AM