Six weeks after his presidency, Donald Trump is directed to Congress and the Nation on Tuesday night, presenting his goals for the next four years.
ABC News, together with Politifact, is a live data verification of Trump’s speech statements that are exaggerated, need more context or are false.
The president mocked Monday that it would be a “great night” and the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, told Fox News during the weekend to wait “fireworks.”
This story is being updated during Trump’s speech.
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the United States Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington
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Trump states: Joe Biden let the price of eggs get out of control, and we are working hard to lower it.
Verification of facts: Lack of context.
Although egg prices increased under President Joe Biden, they have also also increased under Trump, and that is due to avian flu, which has led to the death of 136 million birds since 2022, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
While the price of eggs increased constantly due to inflation under the administration of Biden, the first significant increase in prices occurred in 2022, when the avian flu began to infect bird flocks in the prices of the eggs of the United States. UU.
The prices were moderated again, they returned to the range of $ 2- $ 3 during the rest of the Biden presidency, but they have firing again to a record of $ 4.95 this January, again due to the avian flu.
-ABC News’ Hell
Trump states: Trump won a mandate in the elections
Verification of facts: This is in the viewer’s eye.
Trump’s victory was clear, but according to historical standards, it was not a landslide.
Trump has reasons to celebrate winning both the Electoral University 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 victory in the 2004 re -election. Trump won each of the seven battlefield states that political analysts said they would decide the elections.
In addition, the vast majority of American counties saw their margins change in Trump’s direction, both in places where Republicans historically are doing well and the places where Democrats generally have an advantage. On the other hand, Trump’s margins, both in raw and percentages, were small by historical standards, even for the previous fourth century, when the nearby elections have been the rule of the 2000 Florida Elections elections and the previous Rabp in 2016.
Trump’s victory also occurred without a great boost for the republicans of the ball. The Republicans lost a small land in the camera, which was already divided by little, and although the Republicans turned the Senate, the Democrats won four Senate races in the key states of the battlefield, even when former vice president Kamala Harris was losing those states to Trump.
-Aaron Sharockman from Politifact
Trump states: “We finish the mandate of crazy electric vehicles of the last administration, saving our car workers and companies of economic destruction.”
Verification of facts: You need context.
There was no mandate of electric vehicles established by the Biden administration. The Biden Environmental Protection Agency implemented the Tail Pipe emission standards last March that established an average emission average throughout the vehicle fleet offered by a vehicle manufacturer.
The standards would only have affected the cars of the years model 2027 to 2032. The standards allowed a variety of usable technologies, including totally electric cars, hybrids and improved internal combustion engines. Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to revoke these new standards.
-ABC News’ Kelly Livingston
Trump states: The Paris Climate Agreement was costing the “Billion” of the United States
Verification of facts: FAKE.
Trump defended his decision to withdraw from Paris’s climate agreement, saying that the pact was costing the United States “billion dollars.”
That is false.
The Trump administration defended the decision to withdraw from the climate agreement, in part, based on the projections by the economic consulting of the Nera consultancy. He concluded that restrictions on fossil fuel emissions would result in a higher production cost, and a higher production cost would result in the closure of non -competitive manufacturing companies. Those closures, in turn, would mean less manufacturing work.
The consultant estimated that these losses and their effects of coup beyond the manufacturing sector would amount to 1.1 million lost jobs for 2025 and 6.5 million by 2040. The loss of jobs results in a corresponding decrease in the gross domestic product, with a loss of $ 250 billion by 2025 that accelerates to $ 3 trillions in 2040.
Then, the climate agreement was not costing the billion dollars of the United States. Hypothetically could.
But even if he did, the study says that long -term projections do not take into account all compensatory work profits and GDP growth associated with a clean technological transition.
-Aaron Sharockman from Politifact
Trump states: Elon Musk found people in the social security system as old as 369
Verification of facts: This is misleading.
Elon Musk shared a table in X and said he found millions of people in a Social Security database over 110 years, including 1 that was at the age level of 360-369.
Elon Musk gestures in the gallery on the day of the speech of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to a joint session of the Congress, in the Chamber of the Capitol Chamber of the United States in Washington, DC, March 4, 2025.
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The Interim Social Security Commissioner said that people over 100 who do not have a death date associated with their social security history “do not necessarily receive benefits.” Recent Social Security Administration data show that around 89,000 people 99 years or older receive social security payments.
Government databases can classify someone as 150 years for peculiar reasons of the complex social security database or due to missing data, but that does not mean that millions of payments are delivered fraudulently to people with implausible ages.
-Aaron Sharockman from Politifact
Trump states: “Gold Cards” do not need Congress approval
Verification of facts: Misleading.
Immigration experts say Trump cannot create a new green card program or close an existing one without Congress actions.
Trump announced a plan to give people a legal permanent residence in the United States if they pay $ 5 million. The so -called “Gold Card” would be similar to a green card, since it would allow people to live and work in the United States permanently and provide a path to citizens.
Trump has described the program as a way to reduce the American deficit and has said that it would replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program. But it has not provided an official document that creates the program.
-Aaron Sharockman from Politifact
Trump states: “Hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” found by Doge
Verification of facts: This is not verifiable.
This statement is not verifiable because Dege has not yet published the entire work or specifies what cuts have been “fraud” instead of “waste.” Doge has claimed to have saved $ 106 billion in total savings, not “hundreds of billions” in fraud, and even Elon Musk himself has said that they have mostly found “waste” and “mostly non -fraud.”
Dege has affirmed that it has saved a total of $ 106 billion in federal money from a “combination of asset sales, contracting/lease and renegotiations, fraud and inadequate elimination of payments, cancellations of subsidies, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings and reduction of the workforce.” The figure remains not verifiable and Dege’s website claims to have published only 30% of the receipts that support this total.
Even Musk himself said in Joe Rogan’s podcast last week that most of what Dege is finding is “waste”, instead of fraud. “Only the federal government could get yours with this level of waste. It is mostly waste. It is not fraud for the most part, it is mostly waste. Ridiculus things only happen,” Musk said.
-ABC News’ Soo Rin Kim and Will Steakin
