City Budget Scorecard True 0% 12 Checks Mostly True 0% 30 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 29 Checks False 0% 25 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 5 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for City Budget Kelly Ayotte stated on September 12, 2024 in an ad: In Manchester, N.H., gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig “pushed for a city sales tax. Then, Joyce Craig overrode the tax cap and tried to raise taxes six times.” By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2024 Eric Adams stated on January 7, 2023 in a radio interview: “Fifty-one percent of our taxes are paid by 2% of New Yorkers.” By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 24, 2023 Robert Reich stated on November 24, 2021 in a tweet: “Norway spends about $30,000 per child on early childhood care, Finland spends $23,000, Germany $18,000” and the U.S. $500. December 11, 2021 India Walton stated on September 9, 2021 in a debate: Under Mayor Byron Brown, “we’ve been defunding community centers, our pools were closed this summer, we’ve been defunding senior and youth services.” By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 24, 2021 X posts stated on May 30, 2021 in a Twitter post: “Police budgets are at their highest they've ever been, there hasn’t actually been any defunding the police.” June 18, 2021 Tim Kaine stated on May 24, 2021 in an op-ed on CNBC: “New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement." By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2021 Ron DeSantis stated on April 19, 2021 in a speech: “If you look at some of these places that (reduced police funding), they’ve already seen crime go up." By Miriam Valverde • May 4, 2021 Greg Abbott stated on October 1, 2020 in a tweet: Says “Property crime rising in Austin. This is the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police. Residents are left to fend for themselves.” By Brandon Mulder • October 9, 2020 Susan Collins stated on September 14, 2020 in an ad: Says Sara Gideon "voted to defund" the Freeport police "and gave the money to a nonprofit she helped run." September 25, 2020 George P. Bush stated on August 13, 2020 in a tweet: Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on “the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million” from the police department.” By Madlin Mekelburg • August 24, 2020 Load More Latest Articles What to know about the LA fire department’s budget and whether Mayor Karen Bass cut funding By Samantha Putterman • January 14, 2025
