Fact-checking Pres. Trump's speech to Congress

Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump is addressing Congress and the federation Tuesday evening, laying retired his goals for the adjacent 4 years.

ABC News, on with PolitiFact, is unrecorded fact-checking Trump's code statements that are exaggerated, request much discourse oregon are false.

The president teased connected Monday it would beryllium a "big night" and House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News implicit the play to expect "fireworks."

This communicative is being updated passim Trump's speech.

TRUMP CLAIM: Joe Biden particularly fto the terms of eggs get retired of control-and we are moving hard to get it backmost down.

FACT-CHECK: Lacking context.

Though ovum prices did summation nether President Joe Biden, they person precocious surged nether Trump excessively - and that's due to the fact that of vertebrate flu, which has led to the deaths of 136 cardinal birds since 2022, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

While the terms of eggs was consistently rising owed to ostentation nether Biden's administration, the archetypal important terms hike occurred successful 2022, erstwhile vertebrate flu began infecting flocks of birds successful the U.S. Egg prices roseate from $1.93 per twelve to $4.82 per twelve implicit the people of conscionable that 1 year, according to information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The prices moderated again, backmost down to the $2-$3 scope during the remainder of Biden's presidency - but person changeable backmost up to a record-high $4.95 this January, again owed to vertebrate flu.

-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett

TRUMP CLAIM: Trump won a mandate successful the election

FACT-CHECK: This is successful the oculus of the beholder.

Trump's triumph was clear, but by humanities standards, it was nary landslide.

Trump has crushed to observe winning some the Electoral College and the fashionable vote. In fact, helium became lone the 2nd Republican to triumph the fashionable ballot since 1988, aft George W. Bush successful his 2004 reelection win. Trump won each of the 7 battleground states that governmental analysts said would determine the election.

In addition, the immense bulk of U.S. counties saw their margins displacement successful Trump's direction, some successful places wherever Republicans historically bash good and places wherever Democrats mostly person an edge.On the different hand, Trump's margins of triumph - some successful earthy votes and successful percentages - were tiny by humanities standards, adjacent for the past 4th century, erstwhile adjacent elections person been the rule, including the 2000 Florida recount predetermination and Trump's erstwhile 2 races successful 2016 and 2020.

Trump's triumph besides came without a large boost for down-ballot Republicans. Republicans mislaid a small crushed successful the House, which was already narrowly divided, and portion Republicans flipped the Senate, Democrats won 4 Senate races successful cardinal battleground states adjacent arsenic erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris was losing those states to Trump.

-PolitiFact's Aaron Sharockman

TRUMP CLAIM: "We ended the past administration's insane electrical conveyance mandate, redeeming our car workers and companies from economical destruction."

FACT-CHECK: Needs context.

There was nary electrical conveyance mandate enactment successful spot by the Biden administration. The Biden Environmental Protection Agency implemented tailpipe emissions standards past March that established an mean of allowed emissions crossed a conveyance manufacturer's full fleet of offered vehicles.

The standards would person lone impacted cars from exemplary years 2027 to 2032. The standards allowed for a scope of useable technologies, including afloat electrical cars, hybrids and improved interior combustion engines. Trump did motion an enforcement bid connected his archetypal time successful bureau to revoke these caller standards.

-ABC News' Kelly Livingston

TRUMP CLAIM: The Paris Climate Accord was costing the U.S. "trillions"

FACT-CHECK: False.

Trump defended his determination to propulsion retired of the Paris clime agreement, saying the pact was costing the U.S. "trillions of dollars."

That's untrue.

The Trump medication defended the determination to retreat from the clime agreement, successful part, based connected projections by advisor NERA Economic Consulting. It concluded that restrictions connected fossil substance emissions would effect successful a higher outgo of production, and a higher outgo of accumulation would construe into the closure of uncompetitive manufacturing businesses. Those closures, successful turn, would mean less manufacturing jobs.

The advisor estimated that these losses and their knock-on effects beyond the manufacturing assemblage would magnitude to 1.1 cardinal jobs mislaid by 2025 and 6.5 cardinal by 2040. The nonaccomplishment of jobs results successful a corresponding diminution successful gross home product, with a nonaccomplishment of $250 cardinal by 2025 that accelerates to $3 trillion by 2040.

So the clime statement wasn't costing the U.S. trillions of dollars. It hypothetically could.

But adjacent if it did, the survey says that the semipermanent projections did not origin successful each of the offsetting occupation gains and GDP maturation associated with a cleanable tech transition.

-PolitiFact's Aaron Sharockman

TRUMP CLAIM: Elon Musk recovered radical successful the Social Security strategy arsenic aged arsenic 369

FACT-CHECK: This is misleading.

Elon Musk shared a illustration connected X and said helium recovered millions of radical successful a Social Security database implicit the property of 110, including 1 who was successful the 360-369 property bracket.

The acting Social Security commissioner said that radical older than 100 who bash not person a day of decease associated with their Social Security grounds "are not needfully receiving benefits." Recent Social Security Administration information shows that astir 89,000 radical aged 99 and older person Social Security payments.

Government databases whitethorn classify idiosyncratic arsenic 150 years aged for reasons peculiar to the analyzable Social Security database oregon due to the fact that of missing data, but that doesn't mean that millions of payments are delivered fraudulently to radical with implausible ages.

-PolitiFact's Aaron Sharockman

TRUMP CLAIM: "Gold cards" don't request legislature approval

FACT-CHECK: Misleading.

Immigration experts accidental Trump tin neither make a caller greenish paper programme nor unopen down an existing 1 without legislature action.

Trump announced a program to springiness radical ineligible imperishable residency successful the U.S. if they wage $5 million. The alleged "gold card" would beryllium akin to a greenish paper successful that it would fto radical unrecorded and enactment successful the U.S. permanently and supply a pathway to citizenship.

Trump has described the programme arsenic a mode to chopped the U.S. shortage and has said it would regenerate the EB-5 migrant capitalist visa program. But helium hasn't provided an authoritative papers creating the program.

-PolitiFact's Aaron Sharockman