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Facebook posts
stated on December 7, 2022 in a post on Facebook:

A $5,000 stimulus loan is available.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 6, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on June 12, 2022 in a post:

"President Biden confirm(ed) everyone will receive their $1k gas checks this week!!"

June 14, 2022

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 25, 2022 in an ad:

Sen. Mark Kelly voted “for benefits to illegals.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 2, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on January 18, 2022 in a Facebook post:

$2,000 stimulus checks were due on Jan. 19.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 3, 2022

Bobby Scott
stated on July 12, 2021 in a tweet.:

“Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.”

By Warren Fiske • July 22, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“Donald J. Trump’s signature is on the new stimulus checks.”

March 16, 2021

Kevin McCarthy
stated on March 14, 2021 in a tweet:

The COVID economic relief package “included $600 million for San Francisco, part of which goes to cover the tab for free alcohol and marijuana for the homeless."

By Jon Greenberg • March 16, 2021

Bloggers
stated on March 8, 2021 in a post on Trending Politics:

“Schumer and Pelosi sneak funding into COVID bill.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2021

Charlie Crist
stated on October 21, 2014 in a debate:

Says high-speed rail would have created 60,000 jobs.

By Steve Contorno • October 22, 2014

Young Conservatives of Texas
stated on March 13, 2014 in a press release:

Ryan Sitton’s company "accepted over $650,000 in Obama stimulus dollars."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 25, 2014

Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2014 in a response to the State of the Union address:

Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2014

Mitt Romney
stated on October 3, 2012 in the first presidential debate in Denver:

"In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1."

By Becky Bowers • October 5, 2012

John Boehner
stated on September 4, 2012 in a news release:

"The president went on a stimulus-fueled spending binge that stuck every American man, woman and child with a $50,000 share of this $16 trillion debt."

By Tom Feran • September 19, 2012

American Future Fund
stated on August 9, 2012 in an advertisement:

Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas."

By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 in a campaign commercial:

Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.

By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2012

Allen West
stated on May 14, 2012 in a newsletter:

An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign."

By Amy Sherman • May 30, 2012

Americans for Prosperity
stated on April 26, 2012 in a TV ad:

Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "half a billion to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in Finland."

By Becky Bowers • May 3, 2012

Jeb Hensarling
stated on October 26, 2011 in a hearing of the congressional "Supercommittee":

The departments of Commerce, Education and Energy and the EPA saw their spending increase by between 130 percent and 219 percent between 2008 and 2010.

By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on July 5, 2011 in a news release:

Says U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s "stimulus cost taxpayers $278,000 per job."

August 1, 2011

David Dewhurst
stated on July 5, 2011 in a Twitter message.:

Says President Barack Obama’s "own economists say the stimulus cost $278K per job ‘created.’ "

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2011

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