Latest Fact Checks By Miriam Valverde

Beto O’Rourke says race is No.1 indicator for location of toxic facilities. Is it true?

By Miriam Valverde

May 14, 2019

"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."

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Beto O’Rourke says 60 million Americans have unsafe drinking water. That’s exaggerated

By Miriam Valverde

May 7, 2019

"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."

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Elizabeth Warren says she warned about the financial crisis before it happened. That’s True

By Miriam Valverde

April 30, 2019

Speaking of the financial crisis that gained traction in 2007, "I talked about it to anyone who would listen, a crisis is coming."

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Does half the U.S. population have diabetes or prediabetes, as Tim Ryan claimed?

By Miriam Valverde

April 29, 2019

"Half the country today has either diabetes or prediabetes."

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Fact-checking Tulsi Gabbard’s attack on new Trump policy for pork inspections, E. coli testing

By Miriam Valverde

April 16, 2019

Says President Donald Trump's "effort to roll back regulations means that Big Ag now gets to inspect its own pork" and "they decided to stop…

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Democrats push misleading tweet on Donald Trump, asylum seekers

By Miriam Valverde

April 8, 2019

Says President Donald Trump said asylum seekers "aren't people. These are animals."

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Fact-checking Julian Castro on Bush’s 2005 immigration policy

By Miriam Valverde

April 5, 2019

Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it "decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal…

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No, American middle schools not ‘caught forcing students to do Muslim prayers 5 times a day’

By Miriam Valverde

April 2, 2019

"American middle schools caught forcing students to do Muslim prayers 5 times a day."

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Julian Castro claims Trump’s budget cuts health care to pay for tax cuts. That’s exaggerated

By Miriam Valverde

March 20, 2019

Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget "slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires."

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Beto O’Rourke claims nearly half of Texas public school teachers have second jobs. Is that true?

By Miriam Valverde

March 19, 2019

"Nearly half of public school teachers in Texas are working a second or a third job, not for kicks, not for extra spending cash, but…

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Fact-checking claim about Kansas City Chiefs’ stadium, illegal immigration

By Miriam Valverde

March 12, 2019

"In February alone there were enough illegal immigrants who crossed the border to fill this (Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead) stadium."

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Did Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand say they’d tear down border wall if elected president?

By Miriam Valverde

March 7, 2019

Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."

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