Finally, someone called out Donald Trump and forced him to acknowledge his exaggerations and misleading numbers.
While Trump is often fact-checked, those fact checks go ignored. Fox News’ Chris Wallace did a live fact check of Trump’s claims on the budget.
After Trump said he could cut his way out of creating $10 trillion more in debt with his budget plan, Wallace asked Trump how. Trump responded by saying he’d cut the Department of Education, the EPA, and the IRS.
Wallace responded:
“The Education Department you talk about cutting, the whole budget for the Education Department is only $78 billion… The entire budget for the EPA, the Environment Protection Agency, is $8 billion. The deficit this year is $544 billion. Your numbers don’t add up.”
Next, Trump claimed Medicare could save $300 billion by bidding on drugs.
Wallace responded:
“You say that Medicare could save $300 billion a year in negotiating lower drug prices, but Medicare — total — only spends $78 million a year on drugs. Sir, that’s the facts.”
Full video:
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