Fact Checker Podcast

Fact Checker grades an ad opposing the Credit Card Competition Act, which would require large banks to provide merchants a choice of payment networks besides Visa or Mastercard in an attempt to reduce swipe fees merchants pay for credit card transactions.

The Fact Checker looks into Rep. Ashley Hinson’s claims on the cost of the student loan payment pause and whether President Biden’s action to extend the pause will drive inflation higher.

This week’s Fact Checker focuses on claims from Sen. Chuck Grassley’s attack ads in the lead-up to Election Day.

The Fact Checker is reviewing statements U.S. Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks made at a Sept. 27 debate about how the Inflation Reduction Act would affect the Internal Revenue Service.

The Fact Checker looks into state Rep. Christina Bohannan’s claims that Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, her opponent in Iowa’s 1st District race, “voted against a bill to hold the oil and gas companies accountable for corporate price gouging after taking tens of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industry.”

An Iowa GOP election bill from 2021 moved 294,000 Iowans to inactive status for not voting in the 2020 general election. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, now running for Iowa Secretary of State, says 80 percent of Linn County’s deactivated voters still are inactive, which is “one step closer” to being canceled. We’ll check those claims.