Fact check: President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress | Donald Trump News

President Donald Trump has appointed six weeks of aggressive efforts to reduce the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and redirect foreign policy in his first speech to a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday.
His speech was long according to historical standards – about an hour and 40 minutes – and he inspired more opposition party’s reaction than any in modern memory.
Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson Al -Green, a representative from Texas and Trump’s critic for a long time, has been expelled after the president disrupted a few minutes in his speech. The Republicans chanted the removal of Green. Trump also mentioned the law enforcement, some Democratic lawmakers “January 6” shouted, referring to the Capitol 2021 riot, which led to many losses between the Capitol Police Force. Johnson flounded clothing and called for decor.
Trump emphasized his commitment to follow -up definitions, including those that entered into force earlier today against Canada, Mexico and China.
Trump said: “The customs tariff – they are about protecting the spirit of our country.” “There will be little turmoil, but we are well with that. It will not be much.” For farmers, who were concerned about the revenge definitions against the crops they issue, Trump said, “This may be a little amendment,” but he urged them to “enjoy a lot – I love you too.”
Here is a set of his main claims, check the facts.
“The Mexican authorities, due to The tariff policies that are imposed on itThink about this, and hand it over to us, 29 of the largest kartel leaders in their country. This has never happened before. “
This needs a context.
The Ministry of Justice said that Mexico delivered 29 “drug leaders and managers” to the United States on February 27. The number of people delivered in one day was described as “unconventional” and “unprecedented” by Insight Crime, an intellectual tank that focuses on crime and security in the Americas.
But Trump is not true to say that Mexico has not been delivered to the drug carters to the United States.
Mexico has it Hand over many members of the drug cartel To the United States for years, including during Trump’s first term.
Trump tells the increase in the recruitment of the army, but it was already rising
He said: “I am pleased to inform you that in January, the American army had the best month of employment in 15 years, and that all armed services have among the best employment results ever in the history of our services.” Before that, Trump said “sadness is bad” and “gold”.
The army had one of the worst years of employment in 2022 since the volunteer force began in 1973, we mentioned in September 2023.
But the Pentagon policies that were criticized as “woke up” – such as diversity training, spending time and travel allowances to get up to miscarriage and cover health care for transgender members – was not the main issue that affects employment. The largest drivers guarantees competition from the civil labor market, the continuous effects of Covid-19 restrictions and the gradual decrease in the number of young people who meet the standards.
Days before Trump took office, army Minister Christine Warmeouth told the Associated Press news that the army was on his way to bringing 61,000 young men by the end of the fiscal year in September, the second year in a row of employment targets.
In the 2024 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, the army recruited 55,150 people, just more than the target. This was improved during the year 2023, when the army achieved 76.6 percent of the 65500 target.
Tarin Sylvester, who is looking for military employment at a new American security center in Washington, DC, told February that the main reason for increasing employment is a future soldier program for soldiers that helped Americans get your physical or academic fitness so that they can qualify to join.
Trump says that autism rates have increased from one out of every 10,000 children to one in 36
Trump said that there is an increase in the number of children with autism and noticed that this means that there is a “mistake.”
This is partly true.
the Disease control and prevention centers (CDC) says that the current estimate is that one in 36 children are diagnosed in the United States and that the rates have increased, driven by the progress in the diagnostic examination in addition to increasing the spread of the condition. In the 1960s, the researchers estimated that about two children to four children in 10,000 autism.
The general proliferation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was one out of every 36 children between the ages of eight years and was nearly four times in boys as girls between the girls, according to a report in March 2023 in the report of the diseases and deaths at the Center for Disease Control. The increase comes in part due to the expanded definition of the case, more parental awareness of autism, and improving the examination. Other risk factors include premature birth and genetics.
Trump made a comment on autism rates after praise Robert P. Kennedy JuniorThe Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services. Kennedy, who is heading to a study group to study Chronic diseases in childhoodHe defended suspicion of the vaccine and unfounded theories of autism.
Trump exaggerates in the United States to Ukraine, again
Trump He said, “We have spent 350 billion dollars on Ukraine.
This is not true.
the The amount spent by the United States on Ukraine It varies according to what is calculated, but most estimates in a range of $ 175 billion to $ 185 billion, Mark Kansian, the main defense and security adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that have already told Politifact.
Ukraine’s supervision, the site of the ATLANTIC ResOOLVE operation, which was established by the US government in 2014 to coordinate its military assistance to Ukraine, as of September 30, 2024, said the United States spent $ 183 billion to help Ukraine.
Trump is amplifying savings by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency
Trump said, “We found Hundreds of billion dollars in fraudAnd we have regained money. “
This is a mistake.
As of March 4, DOGE showed $ 105 billion in savings. But the “receipt wall”, where it claims that it follows the savings created from Doug pieces, showed less than 20 billion dollars. The “receipt wall” has been moved by mistakes.
The White House referred to projects that are not approved by ideology, such as diversity, arrows, inclusion or climate change. But this does not prove the fraud determined by the courts and requires a crime and the purpose of deception.
Searching for fraud is not new. For decades, the general inspectors have searched for fraud in government agencies with some investigations that led to judicial prosecutions.
Trump Duj was created by Executive order On his first day in the office.
Trump is incorrect
The Conditioned Humanitarian Release program, which President Joe Biden started with a amount of 30,000 qualified immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in the month to enter the United States. They can live and work in the United States legally for two years. The Biden Administration did not cover travel costs; The beneficiaries had to book and finance their travel.
Trump I finish The program.
Trump says that 21 million people have entered the United States illegally “over the past four years.”
bloomer.
Immigration officials illegally crossed migrants about 10.4 million times from February 2021, the first full month of Laiden in his post, to January 2025, the last.
When calculating Republicans in September 2024 in September 2024, one of the border officials does not stop – the number rises to about 12.4 million.
But the meetings are not the same acceptance. The meetings represent events. So one person tries to cross the border twice is two meetings. Also, not everyone to face is to allow the country. The Ministry of Internal Security estimated that about 4.5 million meetings led to expulsion or removal operations from February 2021 to November 2024.
Trump misled the elderly who get social security payments
Trump said that social security databases show millions of people over the age of 100 and “money is paid to many of them.”
This is a mistake.
Trump recited from the numbers from the Ellen Musk joint scheme on X, which showed millions of people in the social security database of more than 100, including the person who was in the 360-369 life segment.
The Acting Social Security Commissioner said that people over the age of 100 and who do not have a date of death associated with the social security record “do not necessarily receive benefits.” Modern Social Security Administration data shows that about 89,000 people are between 99 years and over they receive social security payments.
Government databases may classify a 150 -year -old person for strange reasons for the complex social security database or due to the loss of lost data, but this does not mean that millions of payments are being delivered fraudulently to people with unreasonable ages.
Trump on historical inflation under Biden’s leadership
“We have suffered from the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country, it is not sure,” Trump said.
This is partly true.
The highest rate of inflation on an annual basis on Biden watch It was about 9 percent in 2022.
The highest rates of inflation in the sustainable United States were recorded, on an annual basis in the 1970s and early eighties, when the price ranged from 12 percent to 15 percent. It was more than 40 years ago. (For one year -1946, after the United States won the Second World War-the general inflation rate is over 18 % annual.
But since many years were inflated above 9 percent, Trump is not true that he is the highest in the history of the United States.
The Paris Climate Agreement did not cost us “trillions”
Trump motivated him The decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate AgreementSaying that the agreement was costing the United States “trillion dollars.”
This is a mistake.
The Trump administration defended the decision to withdraw from the climate agreement, partly on the basis of expectations by the Nara Economic Consulting. She concluded that the restrictions imposed on fossil fuel emissions will lead to a high cost of production, and that the high cost of production will translate into the closure of non -competitive manufacturing work. That closure, in turn, means fewer manufacturing functions.
The consultant estimated that these losses and their striking effects that exceed the manufacturing sector will reach 1.1 million jobs, by 2025 and 6.5 million by 2040. Loss of jobs leads to a similar decrease in GDP (GDP), with a loss of $ 250 billion by 2025, which accelerates to 3 trillion by $ 2040.
Therefore, the climate agreement did not cost trillion US dollars. It can be default.
But even if you do so, the study says that long -term expectations have not been treated in all the gains of providing jobs and GDP growth associated with the transmission of clean technology.
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2025-03-05 12:18:00