In remarks at the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump said the 2018 defense authorization bill includes raises for the military “for the first time in 10 years.”
Our ruling
Trump said that recent legislation “includes raises for our military. First time in 10 years.”
That’s wrong. Depending how you count it, the most recent year without a military pay raise was either 35 or 57 years ago – not 10. And the most recent pay raise wasn’t even the biggest in the past 10 years; it was exceeded by raises in 2008, 2009 and 2010, during the Bush and Obama administrations.
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