{"id":137936,"date":"2024-12-17T06:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137936"},"modified":"2024-12-17T06:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T23:18:48","slug":"fact-checking-trumps-first-post-election-news-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137936","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Trump\u2019s First Post-Election News Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President-elect Donald J. Trump, in his first news conference since the election, again displayed his penchant for exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During more than an hour of questions on Monday, Mr. Trump made a number of new claims \u2014 false, misleading or overstated \u2014 about a range of topics, in addition to repeating a number of familiar inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here\u2019s a fact-check of his remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">What Was Said<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cWe\u2019re, you know, having a 41-year record for optimism from small businesses.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">This is exaggerated. <\/strong>In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfib.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SBET-November-2024.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">its most recent survey<\/a>, the National Federation of Independent Business Research Center said its small-business optimism rose by 8 points, to 101.7, from October to November. Earlier in the news conference, Mr. Trump correctly noted that this was the largest one-month increase since the organization began releasing monthly surveys in 1986. But the index was higher most recently in June 2021, at 102.5; the highest <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfib-sbet.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ever recorded in the survey<\/a> was 108.6 in August 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-9w1fbe e6idgb70\">What Was Said<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking to save maybe $2 trillion and it\u2019ll have no impact. Actually, it\u2019ll make life better but it\u2019ll have no impact on people. It\u2019s not like \u2014 we will never cut Social Security, things like that. It\u2019s just waste, fraud and abuse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">This lacks evidence. <\/strong>Of the federal governments\u2019 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/60419\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$6.9 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year<\/a>, about $4.2 billion was mandatory spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare and about $892 billion was in interest payments. Only $1.8 trillion was in \u201cdiscretionary\u201d spending and about $954 million of that was in military spending. So to reach the $2 trillion in cuts, the Trump administration would need to eliminate all discretionary spending \u2014 which would include spending on Mr. Trump\u2019s policy priorities of mass deportations and enhancing border security, protecting farmers and providing more military funding \u2014 and then some. 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