Truth-checking some claims made by Donald Trump’s Cupboard picks

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As President-elect Donald Trump shares his Cupboard with a few of his most loyal followers, we’ve already checked a few of their shocking and doubtful claims.

Right here’s a take a look at just a few of them:

No, 40% of youngsters within the U.S. will not be taking antidepressants.

Robert Kennedy Jr., Trump’s choose for well being and human companies secretary, made that declare whereas campaigning for Trump in Milwaukee.

The most recent proof we discovered was for 2022:

Two million adolescents ages 12-17 stuffed at the least one antidepressant prescription, in keeping with a 2024 College of Michigan-led research. That’s 7.9%.

Antidepressants have been obtained for two.7% of youngsters 17 and beneath, in keeping with a federal company.

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No, Obamacare didn’t trigger medical health insurance premiums to extend 100%.

Kennedy, who nonetheless wants Senate affirmation, made that declare at a discussion board sponsored by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Common annual medical health insurance premiums have elevated 67% to 75% since Obamacare turned legislation in 2010 — lower than what they elevated earlier than the legislation.

No, deportations beneath Trump weren’t “the very best ever”.

That assertion was made on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee by Thomas Homan, former head of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He’s Trump’s choose for border czar and doesn’t require Senate affirmation.

Such removals have been highest throughout Invoice Clinton’s second time period as president, averaging 1.7 million yearly from 1997 by 2000. 

Trump’s highest was 600,000 in 2020.

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Sure, Kamala Harris supported taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgical procedure for inmates and detainees

The vp has supported the uncommon prevalence of taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgical procedure for jail inmates and detained undocumented immigrants.

That helps a declare made on Wisconsin radio by former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who was Trump’s choose for lawyer common. Final week Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration amid stories he had paid ladies for intercourse and likewise had intercourse with an underage teen. Trump has since introduced he plans to appoint former Florida Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi to be the nation’s prime legislation enforcement officer as an alternative.

Wisconsin Watch and its companions have additionally fact-checked claims about (however up to now not by) Elon Musk, Trump’s choice to co-lead a authorities effectivity effort.

We discovered that Musk was not the founding father of Tesla (it was based by two different entrepreneurs); and that, as of 2022, he was not the richest particular person in historical past.

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