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The government of the United States under President Joe Biden (2021–2025)
The Epstein investigative files remained largely unreleased during President Joe Biden’s term primarily because they were part of active criminal investigations, subject to grand-jury secrecy, and ent...
The term “Podesta plan” has been used in competing ways: mainstream reporting and academic projects tied to John Podesta involve transition planning and climate/energy policy work (see John Podesta’s ...
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has publicly in the Israel–Hamas conflict and has framed her position around halting violence, providing humanitarian aid, and pursuing a lasting peace for Palestinians ...
Public reporting shows the Biden administration did not lead a mass, unilateral release of formerly sealed Epstein investigative files; instead, Justice Department decisions, court unseals and congres...
The claim that the Trump administration “rescued 62,000 missing migrant children” is not supported by the available reporting. Official Trump-era statements and recent DHS/ICE releases in late 2025 sa...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that any judge issued orders freezing Donald Trump’s personal bank accounts or personal properties during 2025–2026; the judicial actions cited concern th...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
The available analyses show that ICE arrests and detentions fluctuated significantly across the Trump and Biden administrations, with reporting emphasizing a sharp rise in detentions of people during ...
Questions about why the Biden administration “didn’t release the Epstein files” reflect a mix of legal limits, shifting promises from multiple administrations, and partisan pressure campaigns; availab...
ICE detention data show a substantial portion of people held have no criminal convictions: multiple datasets report between of detainees lacked criminal convictions in mid-to-late 2025. ICE and some s...
The available analyses indicate conflicting tallies: recent Trump-administration statements claim over people left the U.S. (including 1.6 million “self-deported”) and more than formal removals since ...
Reporting shows that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) under the Biden administration expanded eligibility for some non‑citizen borrowers—notably DACA recipients with work authorization—to obta...
Since the creation of DHS in 2003, funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has , with ICE’s budget growing from roughly $3.3 billion to about $9.6–$9.7 billion by FY2024–FY2025 and ...
The provided analyses advance competing claims about how ICE’s budget has changed since 2002, with several pieces asserting large increases under the Trump and Biden administrations and others describ...
The claim that the Biden administration is handing out is not supported by the available documentation; multiple fact-checks and government releases instead identify targeted funding, limited stipends...
Available government dashboards and news analyses show a sharp rise in removals through 2024 (with ICE reporting 271,484 removals in FY2024 per aggregated reporting) and intense, high‑visibility depor...
Available sources are limited to two MS NOW items in the provided set: a 2025 MaddowBlog page about fake AI Rachel Maddow voice videos and a 2025 MaddowBlog commentary criticizing the Biden administra...
Major reporting and government documents show claims that the Biden administration “lost” roughly 300,000–450,000 unaccompanied migrant children are widespread in political rhetoric, but independent n...
Federal immigration agents have worn face coverings in some operations at various times, but the practice is not exclusive to any single presidential administration and became a prominent political fl...
Available sources do not provide a single definitive tally of Somali refugees resettled in the U.S. between 2015 and 2025; reporting and data snippets show that roughly tens of thousands arrived in ea...