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PolitiFact analyzed claims by U.S. Sen. Jon Husted and President Donald Trump on the national and state economies, Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown’s congressional record, and Husted’s recent bill on data centers and utility costs.
Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, right, shakes the hand of President Donald Trump after speaking during an event at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026.
President Donald Trump sought to rally supporters in Vandalia, Ohio, as part of a weeks-long effort to boost Republicans in the midterm elections. Ohio is one of the key 2026 battlegrounds, with Republican Sen. Jon Husted facing a stiff challenge from former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton vying for governor.
Trump spoke for about 90 minutes at the Oct. 3 rally, joined by Husted, Ramaswamy and other Ohio Republicans. Ramaswamy welcomed a 10-year-old named Hunter to the stage after learning his father was deployed with the military. Husted brought up Jon Gruden, his old college football teammate and a PolitiFact analyzed claims by Husted and Trump on the national and state economies, Brown’s congressional record, and Husted’s recent bill on data centers and utility costs.
Husted: Brown “did some nice things for the people here illegally. He gave them your Social Security money and free healthcare and COVID checks. ” Husted distorts the outcome of several Brown Senate votes that would not have provided federal benefits to immigrants in the country illegally.
Some of the measures stemmed from a practice both parties engage in: forcing members of the other political party to vote on amendments that don’t align with the party’s positions, and using those votes in later campaign messaging.an amendment that pertained to immigrants who were once in the U.S. illegally but later became legal residents. The legislation would have prevented these individuals from receiving Social Security credit for taxes paid before they gained legal status.
His vote did not give Social Security benefits to people in the country illegally.already prohibits immigrants in the country illegally from receiving Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Affordable Care Act subsidies.that included $1,400 stimulus checks for millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill included provisions preventing people in the U.S. illegally from receiving such checks by requiring recipients to have valid Social Security numbers. Husted: “You know what happened in Ohio this week, Mr. President?
We had the lowest unemployment rate in the history of Ohio. ”, for August, was 3.3%. The previous low, going back to the first state calculation in 1976, was 3.4% in May 2023. Trump: “Jon Husted introduced the Rate Power Protection Act to stop data centers from raising electricity costs and require them to pay their own way. … Almost every single Democrat in the Senate voted to block it. They didn’t want it only because we wanted it, probably because I wanted it. ”the Husted-backed measure in the Senate, even though most House Democrats had supported the legislation in that chamber, where it passed 417-3.
the effect of the bill. Its provisions to have tech companies fund the additional costs caused by data-center electricity use were not mandatory. This is contrary to Trump’s statement that they would “stop” cost increases and “require” companies to pay their own way.
“Americans are demanding real guardrails on AI and data centers, but all the Republicans offer is a toothless messaging bill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. , said in a.
“The bill is a fraud. I can sum up the shortcomings of the Republican data center bill with one word: optional. The bill is optional. ”This refers to lost manufacturing jobs since 1993, when Brown started a 32-year run in Congress.
It isn’t the full story of U.S. manufacturing receding amid greater global competition.. To get to about 300,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the state requires adding in Brown’s tenure in the House .was 3% when Trump began his second term; it was 3.4% in August, the most recent month for which the consumer price index is available. That’s well above zero, and it’s above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% year-over-year inflation..
, Talarico said reducing meat consumption is the “moral thing to do” and “necessary to fight climate change. ” But he didn’t say in the clip he is a vegan.
And more recently, Talarico has denied that he’s a vegan and releasedThe AI industry needs “more energy than the entire country produces right now … In fact some people say almost double. ” “You know why I’m profiting? Because the stock market’s going up. … I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash.
” Says benefits of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act are “going to go to a lot of people that are here illegally to build houses for them. ” “There’s been numerous other occasions over the years” when the federal government created a reserve similar to a new $1.776 billion anti-weaponization settlement fund.
“I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! ” “Just months after” the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, David Jolly “was in Washington, pressuring Congress to expand drilling off the Florida coast, over $5 million in billings. ” Abdul El-Sayed “could not condemn the terrorist who tried to attack and kill 140 Jewish children right here in Michigan. ” Sen.
Susan Collins “voted to cover up the Epstein files” and Jeffrey Epstein’s “business partner funneled $3 million” to a Collins super PAC. Sen. Jon Husted “led the push to bring data centers to Ohio and gave billions of tax dollars to make it happen. ”The people who warned of climate change, the “Russia hoax” and the “Ukraine hoax” are the same people “now saying that AI is going to kill us all. ”
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