FACT CHECK: 4 Claims From Trump's Tax Speech
Without revealing any particulars, the president pitched his ideas for a tax code overhaul on Wednesday. Here are four claims he made and how close to correct he was on all of them.
President Trump pitched a tax overhaul package on Wednesday in a speech that was heavy on politicking and light on the particulars.
Trump's tax policy ideas are still sketchy — when pitched in April, they amounted to one page of bullet points. In his Wednesday remarks, he didn't add much more detail beyond the broad strokes, saying he wants lower rates for the middle class, a simpler tax code, lower corporate rates and for companies to "bring back [their] money" from overseas to the U.S.
In his speech in Springfield, Mo., though, he said a few things that were misleading or could use more context. Here are four fact checks:
1. Economic growth rate
"We just announced that we hit 3 percent in GDP. Just came out.
