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All Fact-checks for City Government

Donald Trump
stated on June 25, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.

By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore • June 26, 2025

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

Scott Adams
stated on March 8, 2023 in a tweet:

The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “an American intel op against Trump.”

By Gabrielle Settles • March 10, 2023

Levar Stoney
stated on October 26, 2022 in a news conference.:

“I don’t get involved in the hiring and firing of police chiefs.”

By Warren Fiske • November 2, 2022

Byron Brown
stated on September 9, 2021 in a debate:

“Three percent is not a modest tax increase, if you own a $100,000 home in the city of Buffalo, that means an extra $300 a year.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 28, 2021

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

Levar Stoney
stated on June 16, 2020 in a news conference.:

On conducting a national search for a new Richmond police chief.

By Warren Fiske • July 1, 2020

Jeanette Kowalik
stated on June 14, 2020 in an appearance on WISN-TV's "UpFront":

"Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.”

By Lawrence Andrea • June 18, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Tweet:

Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020

Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 30, 2020 in a news release:

During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 1, 2020

stated on November 20, 2019 in a public forum:

Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.

By D.L. Davis • February 17, 2020

Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 1, 2020 in a television ad:

"Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers"

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020

Viral image
stated on November 5, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"These are real ads running in New York City calling for the removal of ‘trash’ which includes white people, Trump supporters, and Christians."

November 6, 2019

Greg Abbott
stated on October 10, 2019 in a tweet:

"The City of Austin is dedicating more than $20,000 PER HOMELESS PERSON in Austin."

By Madlin Mekelburg • October 17, 2019

Roger Stone
stated on September 28, 2018 in a Facebook post:

As mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker "stole $600,000 from a city water authority and laundered it through his law firm."

By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2019 in 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