Donald Trumpās and Kamala Harrisā tax plans, compared
Trump has also floated several more targeted tax cuts, including ending taxation on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime work.
Trump Ad on Taxes Uses Deceptive Political Playbook
Harris did say that at the time, but the Hill reported that her campaign said she wanted to replace the TCJA with ālegislation she has proposed that would involve nearly $3 trillion in refundable tax cuts primarily affecting the middle class.ā
Harris exaggerates scale of prepandemic manufacturing losses
The prepandemic decline was "chump change compared with the drop that occurred in the COVID-19 recession," Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told us in July.
Fact-checking Kamala Harrisā interview with the NABJ
On the Israel-Hamas war, Harris reiterated that Israel has a right to defend itself, following Hamasā Oct. 7, 2023, attack, but didnāt have a straight answer for co-moderator and Politico White House Correspondent Eugene Danielsā question about how her policies would differ from President Joe Bidenās.
Trump did not say he āblew up the Nord Stream pipelineā
The video included two clips of Trump, one from a 2023 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the other from the presidential debate.
Viral Posts Make Baseless Claim About Harris’ Earrings at the Debate
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called āThe Long History of āHidden Earpieceā Conspiracy Theories.ā The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCās āMeet the Pressā in 2000.
US presidential debate: what misinformation have we seen so far?
While Full Fact normally sticks to checking claims made by or about UK politicians, weāve written about a flurry of misinformation involving the two presidential candidates circulating on social media over the last few months.
Social media users falsely claim Harris plans to ban X
"You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts peopleās perceptions about what they should and should not doā¦He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down.
Why an unrealized capital gains tax wonāt affect most people
"As it is now, normal workers are taxed on their entire income, but we have a situation where the very rich can have hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of capital gains which go altogether untaxed," said Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
FactChecking Harris’ CNN Interview
In her first media interview as the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris stretched the facts on her past stance on fracking and the number of clean energy jobs created by recent legislation: