McCarthy sold debt ceiling deal with a misleading claim The federal debt ceiling crisis ended this week when the House and Senate by overwhelming margins passed a compromise bill negotiated by President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). I'll leave it to the pundits to decide which side gained the upper hand, but The Fact Checker did note that McCarthy offered a misleading sales pitch as he tried to rally GOP support: "This also is the largest cut that Congress has ever voted on, more than $2.1 trillion." We dug into the historical records and found that Congress, on many occasions, has voted for deeper cuts in the past. The bill included a number of gimmicks and side deals, so the precise budget savings are not entirely clear. But depending on how you do the math, the agreement is either the sixth or seventh largest deficit-reduction deal in the past four decades, when measured as a percentage of the U.S. economy. McCarthy earned Three Pinocchios. Please click the link to read our complete report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Trump's iffy claim that he can end 'birthright citizenship' Nearly five years ago, President Trump told Axios he would soon issue an executive order that would prevent the children of undocumented immigrants from automatically obtaining U.S. citizenship. The executive order also would have halted what Trump called "birth tourism," the practice of some mothers traveling to the United States on a nonimmigrant tourist visa specifically to give birth, thus securing U.S. citizenship for children who would be raised overseas. Trump never issued the executive order. But now, running for president again, he says he will issue such an order on his first day in office. Trump knows this would be challenged quickly, and ultimately the Supreme Court would weigh in. There is enough ambiguity that legal scholars say the outcome is not entirely clear, but Trump would face stiff hurdles. We outlined those challenges in a guide to the issue. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read our fact checks on debt ceiling debate | 
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