Donald Trump’s 2023 CPAC speech included false or misleading claims about elections, immigration and the economy. We fact-checked him.
. But apprehensions increased after that, reaching 859,501 in fiscal year 2019.
When the coronavirus began in early 2020, migration dropped, but then steadily rose after April 2020. And the way officials tracked migration data changed as the government implemented Title 42, a public health policy intended to limit the number of people coming into the U.S. This makes it hard to compare pre-pandemic immigration data to data after March 2020.We rated a similar claim
. The U.S. economy was strong before the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020. But it was not the best in the nation’s history, economists told PolitiFact.under Trump hit historic lows. Experts said Trump could take some credit for this, but he also benefited from the continuation of trends that had been in place under former President Barack Obama.
Under Trump, growth in the nation’s gross domestic product — probably the single most important statistic used to gauge the overall strength of the economy — was similar to the rate under Obama and well below that of prior presidents.As we have reported, Trump did not seek congressional authorization to use military force, or formally declare war against any other country during his four-year term. He also didn’t engage the U.S. in any new protracted conflicts.
Formal declarations of war by Congress are rare, and have happened in just five conflicts: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. Joseph DeThomas, a professor at Penn State University’s School of International Affairs, told PolitiFact that defining war solely based on formal declarations by Congress would exclude conflicts such as the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the Iraq War.
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