Tag Archive: the White House

7 million thanks to Obamacare?

“Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more than 7 million Americans have signed up for private health coverage.” —the White House, April 2014 on the whitehouse.gov website   Overview The White House generously doles out undeserved credit to itself. The Facts The White House website has a menu option for exploring the administration’s stance on issues.  Clicking the “Health Care”…
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The White House uses president’s State of the Union address to peddle VAWA misinformation

“The Violence Against Women Act. “Between 1993-2010, the rate of intimate partner violence declined 64 percent.  Between 1993-2007, the rate of intimate partner homicides of women decreased 35 percent.  And the rate of intimate partner homicides of men decreased 46 percent.” –The White House’s enhanced version of President Obama’s State of the Union speech for 2013   Overview The White…
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Fact checking the White House infographic about Plan B

On Dec. 26, Zebra Fact Check published an evaluation of claims by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi about the Republicans’ “Plan B” for resolving fiscal cliff negotiations. In that article, we noted that the White House put forth a statement similar to Pelosi’s on the official White House blog, and did it with “Get the facts” in the headline. The…
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Does the Obama tax proposal save almost $1.16 trillion?

With fiscal cliff negotiations underway, President Obama lobbies for his tax proposal using the White House website. The White House infographic says his tax proposal will “save almost $1.16 trillion.” Overview The portion of the infographic above appears to deal only with Mr. Obama’s proposal on changes to the tax system.  His “savings” are apparently nothing more than revenues acquired…
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