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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2020 in a rally:
Says Madison and Milwaukee County both carry sanctuary status for illegal immigrants and released undocumented immigrants who have committed multiple crimes including sexual assault of a child
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • April 17, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 11, 2019 in a tweet:
"Prescription drug companies are charging Americans prices that are on average 4x higher than what's charged in other countries."
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • March 5, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 13, 2019 in a tweet:
The United States is the only nation "that grants legal permanent residency to more than a million people per year."   
True
By Mica Soellner • December 26, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 10, 2019 in a TV interview:
On red-flag laws says, "What (Democrats) wanted to do was say, ‘I think you might do something, so I’m going to take away your gun and make you prove you wouldn’t do it."
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • December 6, 2019
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on November 17, 2019 in a TV interview:
"I am the only member of Congress that voted for both inquiries -- the Clinton inquiry and now the Trump inquiry."  
True
By Mica Soellner • November 25, 2019
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on August 19, 2019 in a tweet:
"In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care."
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • November 8, 2019
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on September 20, 2019 in a press release:
Says Donald Trump is breaking a campaign pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania since the two states "have lost the most manufacturing jobs in the past year."
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • October 18, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 15, 2019 in a tweet:
"Republican policies have led to business investment growth that’s 10 times faster than what we saw under President Obama."
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • October 9, 2019
Mark Perry
Mark Perry
stated on June 28, 2019 in a radio interview:
"Wisconsin is currently seeing an influx of new residents, Illinois is seeing an outflux."
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • September 19, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on August 15, 2019 in a radio interview:
The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation’s largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures."  
False
By Mica Soellner • August 30, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
"The law says that mental health must be treated the same as physical health," but coverage by health insurers is unequal.
True
By Mica Soellner • August 20, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on June 6, 2019 in a tweet:
"If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • June 28, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 26, 2019 in a TV interview:
"Just the last three weeks, on average about 23,000 women, children, men are coming over across the border illegally as family units or as unaccompanied children."
True
By Mica Soellner • June 18, 2019
Jimmy Anderson
Jimmy Anderson
stated on May 29, 2019 in a tweet:
Republicans on the budget-writing committee "did nothing" to address oversight of large-scale farms, "as literal manure is coming out of people’s faucets. 
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • June 11, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 3, 2019 in a tweet:
"More than a million Wisconsinites have voted to raise their own property taxes because Republicans have failed to fully fund our public schools for the past eight years."
Half-True
By Eric Litke, Mica Soellner • May 17, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally:
"The unemployment rate for Wisconsin workers has reached historic lows. It’s never been this low before, ever, ever, ever."
True
By Mica Soellner • May 2, 2019
David Craig
David Craig
stated on April 2, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Gov. Tony Evers' budget includes tax and fee increases even while spending "more on his way to a nearly $2 billion deficit."
Half-True
By Mica Soellner • April 24, 2019
Daniel Riemer
Daniel Riemer
stated on February 17, 2019 in a TV interview:
"About 80 percent of (the manufacturing and agriculture) tax credit goes to claimants who are making $1 million or more."  
True
By Mica Soellner • April 4, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 12, 2019 in a podcast:
29 states still don’t have "comprehensive protections" for people in the LGBTQ community.
True
By Mica Soellner • March 28, 2019
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