PolitiFact is tracking the status of 99 promises Joe Biden made as he campaigned for president in 2020. Our team researches and rates the status of each promise on a spectrum of progress. By our measure, the majority of his promises — 63% — are Stalled ...

Upon taking office, President Donald Trump ended the federal tax credit for people who purchase electric vehicles. In November 2024, before Trump took office, Newsom pledged that “California will step in to provide a California ZEV rebate,” for zero ...

As one of the nation’s few swing states, Nevada saw many visits — and many promises — from Donald Trump on the campaign trail. It’s a strategy that paid off. Nevada went red in a presidential race for the first time in nearly two decades.

In old times, a promise was more than just a random set of words—it was an unbreakable oath, a bond that was supposed to be honored no matter the cost. Kings, warriors, and lovers alike understood that once a promise was made, it was carved into stone ...

It’s high school graduation season. Time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus adventures and incipient adulthood. This year, though, I want to talk about the other graduates. The ones without honor ...

The mantra for President Donald Trump‘s many broken promises in his second term: Predictable, but still outrageous. No more is this truer than his false promises to make in-vitro fertilization (IVF) free to everyone who needs it to conceive. During the ...

PARIS — Preposterous promises are a time-honored Olympic tradition, but still, on the eve of the handover from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028, when Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass made hers, heads spun and eyes bulged. LA28, Bass said, would be “a no-car ...

As Joe Biden campaigned for president in 2020, national and global discussion focused on one issue: the COVID-19 pandemic. As then-President Donald Trump downplayed the pandemic’s severity, Biden pledged to increase COVID-19 testing, vaccinate 50 million ...

NO PROMISES members (from left, top) Joey Pace, Kaeden Kass, Buck Hinman, David Baum, (bottom) Chancellor Waye, Joshua Steele, and Nat Comisar. Local a cappella group NO PROMISES is gearing up for another year of its annual Christmas tour. Founded in 2015 ...

Donald Trump spent much of his presidential campaign pledging to implement tariffs. And he clearly made good on that promise. But another promise Trump made related to Social Security. Specifically, Trump pledged that benefits would not be cut.