On the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, PolitiFact is live fact-checking the speeches. Featured speakers Monday night are...
CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, in an often fiery speech, addressed a Democratic convention for which, until just a few weeks earlier, he had expected to be the one accepting his party’s nomination.With his address, Biden outlined his purpose to the party: pass the torch to a new leader.
Trump hasn’t said whether he supports other ways abortion could be restricted across the country, including using the Comstock Act to ban mailing abortion pills or other equipment used in abortion procedures.Trump made this comment during a March 2016 MSNBC town hall, but the ad failed to acknowledge that Trump walked back the comment the same day after facing criticism. He said it was doctors, not women, who should be punished for performing outlawed abortions.
During his presidency, Trump released four successive annual budgets that proposed cutting Medicare. However, experts are divided on how much those cuts would have hurt beneficiaries had they been enacted.Biden: “The result of the executive action I took: Border encounters have dropped over 50%. In fact, there are fewer border crossings today than when Donald Trump left office.”Biden’s data needs context.
The most a person makes without a four-year degree is about $70,000, according to a 2021 report from the Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics.
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