President Donald Trump made a slew of inaccurate and misleading claims during his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The lies spanned a wide range of topics, including the economy, climate change, immigration and more, reports The Washington Post. CCN.

In his speech, which lasted just under an hour and 40 minutes, Trump also made several false claims about his predecessor, Joe Biden. Here's a fact-check of some of Trump's statements:

Trump on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Trump claimed that the Department of Government Efficiency, the initiative led by Elon Musk, has "found hundreds of billions of dollars" in fraud.

This figure, which is unsupported, requires context.

On the day Trump delivered his speech to Congress, DOGE claimed on its website that its work has saved taxpayers an estimated $105 billion.
But it has offered no evidence to support such a high figure.
DOGE listed about 2,300 contracts it claims to have canceled across the federal government for a total savings of about $8.9 billion. It also listed nearly 3,500 grants it claims to have canceled for a total savings of about $10.3 billion, but provided no links or documentation for these cuts. It also listed about $660 million in savings from canceling government leases.

The figure published by DOGE has been plagued by errors and has been revised several times in recent weeks to remove several contracts that were identified as inaccurate by CNN and other media outlets — including a previous claim that it had saved $8 billion by canceling a contract that was actually valued at up to $8 million. The “wall of bills” on DOGE’s website included contracts that had been canceled during previous presidential administrations.

Musk and other Trump allies have claimed that DOGE’s work is geared toward targeting spending, fraud, and abuse. But DOGE has not released evidence that the contracts it has canceled were fraudulent. Some of the cuts have been canceled after criticism.

Trump on the economy

The president's claim Tuesday night that the U.S. is "going to take trillions and trillions of dollars" — a claim he has made repeatedly about his plan to impose tariffs on imports from various countries, which he has already begun to do — needs context. Tariffs are paid by U.S. importers, not foreign exporters, and it's easy to find specific examples of companies that passed along the cost of tariffs to American consumers.

Trump on efforts to combat climate change

Trump claimed that he had ended the "Green New Deal."

This claim is inaccurate in several ways. Biden did not pass the original "Green New Deal," a non-binding resolution introduced by progressive congressional Democrats in 2019 that never became law. Trump has yet to complete the massive environmental law Biden passed, which Trump may refer to as the "Green New Deal." Trump has previously claimed the policy cost $9 trillion, CNN reports. KosovaPress.

Trump on border crossings and immigrants

Trump claimed that, since taking office again, he has already achieved the lowest number of illegal border crossings "ever recorded."

He could have accurately said that the number of Border Patrol arrests on the southern border in February — the first full month of his second term — was the lowest in decades, at least if it is true that the number was 8,326, as he claimed on social media before the speech. But official federal statistics show that there were fewer Border Patrol encounters with immigrants on the southwest border in some months of the early 1960s.