copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2023-11-29): WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is "seriously looking at alternatives" if he wins a second term. [...] "The cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare. I’m seriously looking at alternatives," he wrote. "We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!" He was referring to July 2017, when the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blocked Trump’s long effort to repeal the health care law, which has proven increasingly popular.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2023-11-29): WASHINGTON — Even as his party has backed away from the issue, Donald Trump is doubling down on his calls to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," if he’s elected president again. "I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!" Trump said in a pair of late-night posts on social media. [...] President Joe Biden responded Monday to Trump’s comments signaling he’d seek to "terminate" and find "alternatives" to the ACA.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-01-24): More than 21 million people have signed up for health plans through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The record level of enrollment comes as former president Donald Trump, seeking the GOP nomination, is again vowing to repeal the program if elected. [...] "I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!" Trump wrote in a November 2023 post on Truth Social, his social media platform. Trump — who has spent the past decade pledging to repeal and replace the ACA — has yet to produce a health plan that would provide comparable health coverage at the same or less cost, analysts have said. [...] "At a time when more Americans are enrolling in the ACA than ever before, it is outlandish that the likely GOP nominee is even considering another attempt at repeal," Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, a Democratic-aligned health-care advocacy group, said in a statement.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-07-25): From eliminating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to cutting Medicaid benefits, increasing Medicare Part D prescription drug prices and eliminating reproductive freedom nationwide, Donald Trump’s Project 2025 would have disastrous, deadly consequences on our country’s health care system. [...] The Trump agenda would establish lifetime caps or time limits on receiving Medicaid. It would require states to implement stricter eligibility determinations for Medicaid, leaving many needy people without coverage. [...] By repealing the ACA, Trump’s agenda would allow health insurance companies to once again deny coverage based on preexisting conditions. Such a move would leave tens of millions of people without health coverage. Just this year, 21.3 million people signed up for insurance just this year through the ACA marketplace.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2023-11-27): "The cost of Obamacare is out of control, plus, it’s not good Healthcare," Trump said Saturday on Truth Social. "I’m seriously looking at alternatives. We had a couple of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and then raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!" [...] But what’s clear is that an effort to "terminate" Obamacare is not something Americans are pining for. Not only were the GOP’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare during Trump’s term historically unpopular, but the law also appears to have gotten more popular since then. Perhaps most strikingly, this doesn’t even appear to be a major emphasis for the GOP base. [...] It’s not clear what form a potential "alternative" might take. Trump has at least given lip service in the past to keeping some of the more popular features of Obamacare. But actually making that happen would be immensely difficult.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2018-02-26): Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel today led a 20-state coalition lawsuit against the federal government, challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. In the lawsuit, Attorney General Paxton explains that when Congress enacted President Trump’s tax overhaul, it rendered all of Obamacare unconstitutional by doing away with the tax penalty in Obamacare’s individual mandate. [...] In its current unlawful form, Obamacare still imposes rising costs and transfers an enormous amount of regulatory power to the federal government. In Texas and 38 other states, where the federal government administers health exchanges, health insurance premiums rose an average of 105 percent from 2013 to 2017. Around 70 percent of U.S. counties present citizens with a noncompetitive situation, having only one or two health insurers. "Through our multi-state lawsuit, we hope to effectively repeal Obamacare, which will then give President Trump and Congress an opportunity to replace that failed experiment with a plan that ensures Texans and all Americans have better choices for health coverage at more affordable prices," Attorney General Paxton said.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-06-10): "MAGA Republicans have tried to get rid of the Affordable Care Act more than 50 times, and Trump is still determined to do it," Biden said May 19 in Detroit. "In his words, he wants to ‘terminate’ the Affordable Care Act, which would deny 3 million Black Americans health insurance, deny protections for preexisting conditions for millions more Americans. But we’re going to deny Trump." Biden has made similar statements in speeches, interviews and ads and has featured clips of Trump calling the ACA, also known as Obamacare, a "disaster" and saying that Trump "wants to terminate it." Former President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law in 2010. [...] Biden said Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2020-07-27): President Trump’s healthcare vision put American patients, families, and seniors first by providing more choice, better care, and lower costs. He worked from day one to put healthcare back where it belongs—in the hands of the American people. [...] Empowered American patients by greatly expanding healthcare choice, transparency, and affordability - Eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate—a financial relief to low- and middle-income households that made up nearly 80 percent of the families who paid the penalty for not wanting to purchase health insurance - Increased choice for consumers by promoting competition in the individual health insurance market leading to lower premiums for three years in a row - Under the Trump Administration, more than 90 percent of U.S. counties have multiple options on the individual insurance market to choose from - Offered Association Health Plans, which allow employers to pool together and offer more affordable, quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30 percent lower cost - Increased availability of short-term, limited-duration health plans, which can cost up to 60 percent less than traditional plans, giving Americans more flexibility to choose plans that suit their needs - Expanded Health Reimbursement Arrangements, allowing millions of Americans to be able to shop for a plan of their choice on the individual market and then have their employer cover the cost - Added 2,100 new Medicare Advantage plan options since 2017, a 76 percent increase - Lowered Medicare Advantage premiums
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2021-07-20): From the start the Trump Administration refused to defend the ACA, an unprecedented move that seems to have led two senior career attorneys to withdraw from the case and one to resign. But the government’s specific position on the case changed. In June 2018 the Justice Department largely agreed with the plaintiffs’ reasoning, but it asked the court to strike down not the entire law but two critical consumer protections that it said were inextricably linked to the mandate: the prohibitions on insurers denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions (guaranteed issue) and on charging people higher premiums because of their health status (community rating). Later, the Trump Administration endorsed striking down the entire ACA, in line with its many legislative and executive attempts to repeal or undermine it. [...] Striking down the ACA would have increased the number of uninsured people by 21 million, or 69 percent, the Urban Institute estimated in October 2020. (Urban also provided estimates by state and demographic group.) And striking down the law would have ended not only the ACA’s major coverage expansions — such as Medicaid expansion, premium tax credits, and health insurance marketplaces ― but other important protections as well, harming tens of millions of people.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2020-06-26): Obamacare: Trump asks Supreme Court to invalidate Affordable Care Act [...] Some 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage if the court overturns the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was introduced by Donald Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama. [...] Mr Trump cannot rely on Congress to complete the dismantling of Obamacare because the Democrats took control of the lower house in 2019.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2021-02-02): President Trump said that, politically, the best thing to do would be to let the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "explode." This timeline tracked Trump Administration actions to sabotage the ACA by destabilizing private insurance markets or reversing the law’s historic gains in health coverage. [...] July 29 After Senate Republicans fail to pass a bill to repeal or replace the ACA, President Trump takes to Twitter to threaten that he will stop making CSR payments to insurers. Trump falsely calls these payments a "bailout." Actually, the ACA requires the federal government to make these payments to compensate insurers for reducing deductibles and copayments for low- and moderate-income marketplace enrollees. Ending the payments would hike premiums in the individual market for many consumers, raise federal marketplace costs, and likely cause some insurers to withdraw from the marketplaces. The renewed threat comes just two weeks before the deadline for insurers to finalize their premium rates for 2018 marketplace plans. [...] Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, he issues an executive order directing federal agencies to use their administrative powers begin dismantling the Affordable Care Act "to the maximum extent permitted by law." The order instructs agencies, for example, to do what they can to grant exemptions or delay implementation of ACA provisions that impose a tax, fee, or other costs and to encourage development of a "free and open market" in health care services among states, while Congress works to pass repeal legislation.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-04-12): Instead of terminating the Affordable Care Act, former President Donald Trump is now promising to make it "much better, stronger and far less expensive" if he wins the presidential election in November. "I’m not running to terminate the ACA as crooked Joe Biden says all over the place," Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social on Thursday, echoing a message he posted last month. "We’re going to make the ACA much better than it is right now and much less expensive for you." [...] Trump also signed a bill effectively eliminating the individual mandate, which required most Americans to have health insurance or face a penalty. And his administration supported a major court challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality, leaving it to a coalition of Democratic attorneys general to step in to defend it. The Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the challenge, keeping the law in place.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-05-10): Trump on the ACA: Donald Trump Wants to "Totally Kill" Access to Affordable Health Care [...] "There’s no question that Donald Trump is serious about wanting to ‘totally kill’ the Affordable Care Act — just take a look at the last time he was in office. Not only did Trump repeatedly try to kill the law in Congress, but he also signed an executive order to stall ACA implementation, suspended a program to help stabilize insurance markets, and slashed funding designed to help people sign up for health care. Trump has made it clear: He will not stop until millions of hardworking Americans are kicked off of their health care — and voters won’t let that happen." [...] "‘I would like to terminate Obamacare, come up with a brand new, beautiful health care,’ Trump said at the debate, which was moderated by NBC News’ Kristen Welker."
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-05-21): Over the weekend, Donald Trump renewed calls to "terminate" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), claiming his administration’s failure to repeal the ACA was "a low point for the Republican party." The news comes as the ACA covers more Americans than ever before, with President Biden and Democrats in Congress lowering costs and making enrollment easier. The Trump-MAGA agenda of repealing the ACA is rejected by the American people, costing Republicans at the ballot box repeatedly, and unpopular among voters of all parties. [...] Semafor: Trump Says He Still Wants To Repeal Obamacare. GOP Senators Say Not So Fast. "Republican Senators are reacting cautiously after Donald Trump said over the weekend that he might try to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he returns to the White House, with some suggesting another push to fully scrap the health law was unlikely… it’s unclear how much appetite exists among Republicans to try and fulfill a campaign promise that animated their party a decade ago. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, a Trump ally in the Senate, said key planks of Obamacare are "broadly popular" with the American public including Republicans, such as rules barring insurers from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions or charging sick people more for healthcare." [Semafor, 11/27/23]
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-07-26): The modest accomplishments of Trump’s sabotage strategy could, however, be transformed into a resounding success through a sixth initiative: persuading the Supreme Court to destroy the ACA. In recent decades, the decision on whether to have the Justice Department defend a law’s constitutionality has become a prominent tool of the administrative presidency. So it is with the most recent legal challenge to the ACA that the Supreme Court will hear just after the election. The case arose from a suit filed by 18 Republican state attorneys general, two Republican governors, and two Texas residents in a federal district court. The suit reasoned that, since Congress in 2017 had eliminated the financial penalty for failure to obtain health insurance, the mandate to purchase coverage that remained in the law was unconstitutional and invalidated the entire ACA. Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, concurred with this view. O’Connor’s decision was an epiphany for the White House. The Justice Department had originally argued that the remaining, toothless mandate invalidated only a portion of the ACA, primarily protections for those with preexisting conditions. Now, and against the advice of his attorney general, the president embraced overturning all of the ACA’s core provisions.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2019-10-14): Trump Is Trying Hard To Thwart Obamacare. How's That Going? [...] Overall, Nicholas Bagley says, the ACA has been "pretty resilient to everything, so far, that the Trump administration has thrown at it." Some of Trump's efforts to hobble the law have been caught up in the courts; others have not gone into effect. And despite efforts to lure people away from the individual insurance marketplaces or to make ACA policies unaffordable, "the marketplaces have proved themselves to be remarkably resilient," Corlette says. [...] The piecemeal attacks on the ACA have made many people nervous about the future of their health coverage, Gluck says. "The most important theme of [Trump's] administration of the ACA has been to sow uncertainty into the market and destabilize the insurance pool," she says.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-10-04): The general election campaign is underway, spotlighting former President Trump, the Republican nominee, and Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee, as the viable contenders for the presidency. Although health care reform may not be a central issue in this election as in the past, health care remains a significant concern for voters. Trump and Harris have distinctly different records and positions on health care. This side-by-side analysis provides a quick resource for understanding Trump’s presidential record and Harris’ record in the Biden-Harris administration and in previously held public office, as well as their current positions and proposed policies. Proposals are from when candidates served as president and vice president respectively unless text or links indicate otherwise. This tool will be continuously updated as new information and policy details emerge throughout the campaign. [...] Proposals by Trump to carry out mass deportations of millions of immigrants and executive action by both the Biden-Harris administration and by the Trump administration to have stricter border enforcement may increase fears among immigrant families, making them reluctant to access health coverage and care.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2018-08-30): President Trump was elected promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). On his first day in office he issued an executive order intended to turn back ACA implementation. He has maintained a constant drumbeat of statements attacking the law, often claiming that it has already been destroyed or crippled. ACA supporters assert that the president’s actions mirror his words; that he is deliberately "sabotaging" enforcement of the ACA. Indeed, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit was recently filed claiming that President Trump is violating his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." [...] Some Trump administration actions have clearly undermined ACA initiatives. A recent Government Accountability Office report, for example, criticizes the administration for greatly scaling back ACA outreach and education programs, including funding for the navigators who help consumers find coverage. The administration’s termination of reimbursement payments to insurers for reducing cost-sharing for low-income enrollees threatened to destabilize the ACA markets, although swift reactions by state regulators averted chaos. The Trump administration has also effectively ended the SHOP small business marketplace program. [...] It is nevertheless apparent that the Trump administration is chafing under its ongoing responsibility for enforcing and administering the ACA. The Department of Justice has taken the position in litigation brought by Texas and other Republican-led states that the ACA’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that its guaranteed issue and community rating requirements, as well as its ban on preexisting condition exclusions, should be invalidated. The administration apparently continues to enforce these provisions while awaiting the outcome of that litigation.
Claim: Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act. (Joe Biden, 2024-05-20)
Evidence (2024-09-11): Trump previously said he wanted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. [...] Trump said he was interested in replacing the Affordable Care Act -- also known as "Obamacare" -- but implied that he didn't have any specific plans in place. [...] Last year, Trump posted on Truth Social that the ACA "sucks" and that he didn't want to "terminate" the law but "replace it with much better health care."
Claim: “Walmart has announced starting June 3rd all locations in the U.S. will go back to 24hrs.” (Facebook posts, 2024-05-29)
Evidence (2024-05-29): This rumor is unfounded. Walmart isn’t resuming 24-hour operations.
Claim: “Walmart has announced starting June 3rd all locations in the U.S. will go back to 24hrs.” (Facebook posts, 2024-05-29)
Evidence (2024-01-31): Walmart already has a huge U.S. footprint. But the retail giant sees room to get even bigger. [...] The big-box retailer is the largest private employer in the U.S. with about 1.6 million employees. About 90% of the U.S. population already lives with 10 miles of a Walmart store. With the expansion, Walmart is signaling that it sees its brick-and-mortar locations as a key part of the future, despite heightened competition with online players like Amazon and Shein, and its own push for growth of online sales and its third-party marketplace. [...] New stores will also have more sustainability features, such as energy-efficient lighting, he said.
Claim: “Walmart has announced starting June 3rd all locations in the U.S. will go back to 24hrs.” (Facebook posts, 2024-05-29)
Evidence (2023-10-30): Walmart unveiled over a hundred revamped stores on Monday that have been recalibrated to pull in more customers and keep them in stores for longer, too. [...] So Walmart said it re-opened 117 stores in 30 states at a cost of half a billion dollars to keep customers engaged and shopping throughout the store. Those stores are part of an ongoing $9 billion investment over the past two years to update more than 1,400 of its more than 4,500 stores nationwide. [...] While the photos released by the company may not appear to show a drastically different look for a typical Walmart store, the changes are being implemented at a time when Walmart is trying to rev up sales.
Claim: “Walmart has announced starting June 3rd all locations in the U.S. will go back to 24hrs.” (Facebook posts, 2024-05-29)
Evidence (2023-10-08): While several customers expect Walmart to operate 24/7 again, the company announced a reduction in hours. These are the stores that will close earlier. [...] Until lockdowns kept shoppers at home, Walmart had locations that operated 24/7. However, with the arrival of COVID-19, the company chose to change this practice. Since the health emergency ended, thousands of customers have been waiting for Walmart to operate again under their previous schedule... but as the company responds to shifts in consumer demand, the 24/7 schedule is unlikely to make a comeback. On the contrary, Walmart has announced that they will limit hours further at select locations across the country.