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Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.

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Did Republicans cut the budget of NIH and CDC in years leading up to Ebola?

There are three questions: Did cuts happen? Have those cuts hurt the CDC's and NIH's effort to fight ebola? Were those cuts made by Republicans? Here's an answer to the first question (only). In …
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14 votes

Are thousands of Islamic terrorists entering the United States?

Politifact: Pants on Fire http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-letting-tens-thousands-terror/ "Trump is certainly wrong on the facts h …
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Are people unable to legally immigrate to the United States for a better life?

You seem to be mixing up two different things here. The bit about financial stability in your home country is only relevant to visitor visas. It's not really financial stability they're looking for, …
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Do atheists commit far fewer crimes?

To the best of our inadequate data, the answer is Yes. A FOIA request shows prisoners who identify as Atheist are 1/10 to 1/20th (depending on whose survey we look at for rates of atheism) as common …
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Did more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?

Looks like bad data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2343923 Old (1990) data, but estimating 9,000 suicides amongst the Vietnam vets. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/07/opinion/l-how-many-suici …
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