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					<description><![CDATA[Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump is addressing Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, laying out his goals for the next four years. ABC News, along with PolitiFact, is live fact-checking Trump&#8217;s speech statements that are exaggerated, need more context or are false. The president teased on Monday it would be a &#8220;big night&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC ">Six weeks into his presidency, <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/donald-------trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> is addressing Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, laying out his goals for the next four years.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">ABC News, along with PolitiFact, is live fact-checking Trump&#8217;s speech statements that are exaggerated, need more context or are false.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The president teased on Monday it would be a &#8220;big night&#8221; and House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News over the weekend to expect &#8220;fireworks.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><em class=" ">This story is being updated throughout Trump&#8217;s speech.</em></p>
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<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control—and we are working hard to get it back down.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> Lacking context.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Though egg prices did increase under President Joe Biden, they have recently surged under Trump too — and that&#8217;s because of bird flu, which has led to the deaths of 136 million birds since 2022, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">While the price of eggs was consistently rising due to inflation under Biden&#8217;s administration, the first significant price hike occurred in 2022, when bird flu began infecting flocks of birds in the U.S. Egg prices rose from $1.93 per dozen to $4.82 per dozen over the course of just that one year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The prices moderated again, back down to the $2-$3 range during the rest of Biden&#8217;s presidency — but have shot back up to a record-high $4.95 this January, again due to bird flu.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><em class=" ">-ABC News&#8217; Cheyenne Haslett</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> Trump won a mandate in the election</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> This is in the eye of the beholder.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump&#8217;s victory was clear, but by historical standards, it was no landslide.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump has reason to celebrate winning both the Electoral College and the popular vote. In fact, he became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988, after George W. Bush in his 2004 reelection win. Trump won each of the seven battleground states that political analysts said would decide the election.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">In addition, the vast majority of U.S. counties saw their margins shift in Trump&#8217;s direction, both in places where Republicans historically do well and places where Democrats generally have an edge.On the other hand, Trump&#8217;s margins of victory — both in raw votes and in percentages — were small by historical standards, even for the past quarter century, when close elections have been the rule, including the 2000 Florida recount election and Trump&#8217;s previous two races in 2016 and 2020.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump&#8217;s victory also came without a big boost for down-ballot Republicans. Republicans lost a little ground in the House, which was already narrowly divided, and while Republicans flipped the Senate, Democrats won four Senate races in key battleground states even as former Vice President Kamala Harris was losing those states to Trump.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><em class=" ">-PolitiFact&#8217;s Aaron Sharockman</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> &#8220;We ended the last administration&#8217;s insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> Needs context.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">There was no electric vehicle mandate put in place by the Biden administration. The Biden Environmental Protection Agency implemented tailpipe emissions standards last March that established an average of allowed emissions across a vehicle manufacturer&#8217;s entire fleet of offered vehicles.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The standards would have only impacted cars from model years 2027 to 2032. The standards allowed for a range of useable technologies, including fully electric cars, hybrids and improved internal combustion engines. Trump did sign an executive order on his first day in office to revoke these new standards.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><em class=" ">-ABC News&#8217; Kelly Livingston</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> The Paris Climate Accord was costing the U.S. &#8220;trillions&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> False.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump defended his decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, saying the pact was costing the U.S. &#8220;trillions of dollars.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">That&#8217;s untrue.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The Trump administration defended the decision to withdraw from the climate agreement, in part, based on projections by consultant NERA Economic Consulting. It concluded that restrictions on fossil fuel emissions would result in a higher cost of production, and a higher cost of production would translate into the closure of uncompetitive manufacturing businesses. Those closures, in turn, would mean fewer manufacturing jobs.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The consultant estimated that these losses and their knock-on effects beyond the manufacturing sector would amount to 1.1 million jobs lost by 2025 and 6.5 million by 2040. The loss of jobs results in a corresponding decline in gross domestic product, with a loss of $250 billion by 2025 that accelerates to $3 trillion by 2040.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">So the climate agreement wasn&#8217;t costing the U.S. trillions of dollars. It hypothetically could.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">But even if it did, the study says that the long-term projections did not factor in all of the offsetting job gains and GDP growth associated with a clean tech transition.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><br class=" "/><em class=" ">-PolitiFact&#8217;s Aaron Sharockman</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> Elon Musk found people in the Social Security system as old as 369<br class=" "/><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> This is misleading.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Elon Musk shared a chart on X and said he found millions of people in a Social Security database over the age of 110, including 1 who was in the 360-369 age bracket.</p>
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<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The acting Social Security commissioner said that people older than 100 who do not have a date of death associated with their Social Security record &#8220;are not necessarily receiving benefits.&#8221; Recent Social Security Administration data shows that about 89,000 people aged 99 and older receive Social Security payments.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Government databases may classify someone as 150 years old for reasons peculiar to the complex Social Security database or because of missing data, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that millions of payments are delivered fraudulently to people with implausible ages.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><br class=" "/><em class=" ">-PolitiFact&#8217;s Aaron Sharockman</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> &#8220;Gold cards&#8221; don&#8217;t need congressional approval</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><br class=" "/><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> Misleading.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Immigration experts say Trump can neither create a new green card program nor shut down an existing one without congressional action.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump announced a plan to give people legal permanent residency in the U.S. if they pay $5 million. The so-called &#8220;gold card&#8221; would be similar to a green card in that it would let people live and work in the U.S. permanently and provide a pathway to citizenship.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Trump has described the program as a way to cut the U.S. deficit and has said it would replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program. But he hasn&#8217;t provided an official document creating the program.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><br class=" "/><em class=" ">-PolitiFact&#8217;s Aaron Sharockman</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> &#8220;Hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud&#8221; found by DOGE</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> This is unverifiable.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">This claim is unverifiable because DOGE has yet to release the entirety of its work or specify which cuts have been &#8220;fraud&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;waste.&#8221; DOGE has claimed to have saved $106 billion in total savings, not &#8220;hundreds of billions&#8221; in fraud, and even Elon Musk himself has said they have mostly found &#8220;waste&#8221; and &#8220;mostly not fraud.&#8221;</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">DOGE has claimed it has saved a total of $106 billion in federal money from a &#8220;combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.&#8221; The figure remains unverifiable and DOGE’s website claims to have posted only 30% of the receipts supporting this total.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">Even Musk himself said on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week that most of what DOGE is finding is &#8220;waste,&#8221; rather than outright fraud. &#8220;Only the federal government could get away with this level of waste. It&#8217;s mostly waste. It&#8217;s mostly not fraud, it&#8217;s mostly waste. It&#8217;s mostly just ridiculous things happening,&#8221; Musk said.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><em class=" ">-ABC News&#8217; Soo Rin Kim and Will Steakin</em></p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">TRUMP CLAIM:</strong> There will be a little disturbance for Americans because of tariffs</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy "><strong class="vtkaO ">FACT-CHECK:</strong> Lacking context.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy ">The Yale Budget Lab estimates that the tariffs could cost the average household up to $2,000 annually. Cars and car parts are big exports from Canada and Mexico, and tariffs could increase the cost of a new car by over $3,000 per vehicle on top of last year’s average new car price of $44,811, according to JP Morgan Research. Most economists predict that prices, and therefore, inflation will go up, with consumers seeing higher prices for food, gasoline, clothes, shoes, toys and other household items.</p>
<p class="EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN "><em class=" ">-ABC News&#8217; Soo Youn</em></p>
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