City Budget Scorecard true 0% 12 Checks mostly true 0% 30 Checks half true 0% 24 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kim Gray stated on March 3, 2020 a radio interview. “Even Fairfax County doesn’t pay the kind of (school administration) salaries that Richmond is paying right now.” By Warren Fiske • April 1, 2020 Facebook posts stated on December 31, 2019 social media posts "California's Attorney General, Xavier Becerra is putting together plans to raise property tax revenue by eliminating the only thing keeping some people's property tax from sky rocketing, Prop 13." By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2020 Greg Abbott stated on October 10, 2019 a tweet "The City of Austin is dedicating more than $20,000 PER HOMELESS PERSON in Austin." By Madlin Mekelburg • October 17, 2019 Donald Trump stated on October 7, 2019 a statement to the press Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama." By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2019 Turning Point USA stated on July 1, 2019 a Facebook post "San Francisco has spent $72.5 million this fiscal year cleaning up human waste and drug paraphernalia" and "there are more drug users on their public needle program than high school graduates." By Daniel Funke • July 16, 2019 Levar Stoney stated on May 14, 2019 a radio interview. "Richmond was one of the only cities in the state that did not (increase) their real estate tax to those pre-recession rates." By Warren Fiske • May 21, 2019 Gery Chico stated on January 2, 2019 a campaign ad "As chairman of the City Colleges, I cut millions in waste and we cut property taxes." By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 20, 2019 Paul Vallas stated on December 31, 2018 a radio interview "I took over the school district when it had a $1 billion structural deficit and left them with $1 billion in cash and 70,000 more students than they have today." By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 6, 2019 Nate McMurray stated on August 8, 2018 a news conference at the UAW 897 hall in Hamburg. Says he’s a "small-town supervisor who has kept a balanced budget, who has increased surpluses, who has led us to the highest credit rating our town has ever had." By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 29, 2018 Texas Campaign for the Environment stated on April 26, 2018 a handout Says most of Austin’s biggest parks have recycling though as "many as 293 out of 300" Austin city "parks have no recycling, including almost every neighborhood park." By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2018 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 Latest promises about City Budget No promises to show. Latest promises about City Budget
