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Bulwark Takes
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The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither does The Bulwark. Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team, including Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Bill Kristol, and more.
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False88% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Todd M. Lyons serves as the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Said by AAs of the claim's date (2026-09-05), Todd Lyons no longer served as acting ICE director: he was in the role from March 2025 to May 31, 2026, and David Venturella had replaced him. The claim's present tense is therefore contradicted, though the post's reference to a past range visit may have been to an earlier period when he did hold the post.False85% confidence7 sourcesAug 21, 2026The Treasury Department's bond buyback program caused long-term interest rates to increase.Said by BThe sources contradict the causal claim: the buyback announcement initially pushed long-term yields down, and the later rebound was attributed to deficits, inflation worries and heavy tech borrowing, not to the buybacks. Yields did rise again after the announcement, so the rise happened, but the buybacks did not cause it, and the claim is also dated to 2026-08-21, when yields were rebounding from their post-announcement lows.False55% confidence6 sourcesAug 21, 2026Every one percentage point increase in interest rates costs the U.S. government 600 billion dollars.Said by 4BThe claim's $600 billion-per-point figure is roughly double or more the cost estimates in the sources, which run from about $95 billion to roughly $300–400 billion a year per percentage point, depending on the model. The direction is right, since higher rates do raise federal interest costs, but the magnitude is grossly off. The passage is Trump's own remark, and the extraction matches it faithfully, so the figure is graded as the post's claim.