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American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2022 in an advertisement:

Sen. Joe Manchin and AARP “support government price-setting schemes” to divert money from Medicare to “unrelated government programs or pad big insurers’ profits.”

By Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight • July 25, 2022

Matt Gaetz
stated on March 31, 2022 in a Twitter thread:

“The price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.”

By Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight • April 21, 2022

Joe Biden
stated on February 10, 2022 in a speech:

“Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.”

By Victoria Knight • March 1, 2022

60 Plus Association
stated on September 20, 2021 in a commercial shown on television and online:

Insurance companies and Washington bureaucrats “are working together to swipe $500 billion from Medicare to pay for Pelosi and Schumer’s out-of-control spending spree.”

By Victoria Knight • September 28, 2021

Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2021 in an executive order:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance on students and masking “lacks a well-grounded scientific justification.”

By Victoria Knight • August 10, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on July 25, 2021 in social media:

CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”

By Victoria Knight • July 30, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on June 22, 2021 in a social media post:

“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.”

By Victoria Knight • June 24, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on May 3, 2021 in remarks on the American Families Plan:

For vaccine rates among Americans 65 and older, “there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”

By Victoria Knight • May 11, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on March 2, 2021 in a news conference:

“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America.”

By Victoria Knight • March 5, 2021

Tom Cotton
stated on February 22, 2021 in a digital ad opposing Xavier Becerra's nomination to be HHS secretary:

“Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage.”

By Victoria Knight • March 1, 2021

Buck Sexton
stated on February 8, 2021 in a blog item posted on Facebook:

The science says “open the schools, stop wearing masks outside, and everyone at low risk should start living normal lives."

By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2021

Steve Scalise
stated on February 2, 2021 in an interview on Fox News:

“Now (Biden) is saying that people who came here illegally can jump ahead of other Americans who have been waiting to get the vaccine.”

By Victoria Knight • February 8, 2021

Donald Trump
stated on December 8, 2020 in comments made during a White House Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit:

The percentage of Americans with natural immunity from getting COVID-19 is “a very powerful vaccine in itself.”

By Victoria Knight • December 15, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on October 20, 2020 in a Facebook post.:

“Because our family couldn’t afford health insurance, Obama/Biden penalized us about $10,000, then took that $10,000 and used it to pay for others’ free Obamacare. Trump ended that theft.”

By Victoria Knight • October 28, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in comments during the last presidential debate:

“They have 180 million people, families under what he wants to do, which will basically be socialized medicine — you won’t even have a choice — they want to terminate 180 million plans.”

By Victoria Knight • October 23, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on October 15, 2020 in a town hall on NBC News:

“We saved 2 million people” from dying of COVID-19.

By Victoria Knight • October 21, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2020 in a tweet.:

“The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”

By Victoria Knight • October 15, 2020

Mike Pence
stated on October 7, 2020 in the VP debate:

“The reality is when you look at the Biden plan, it reads an awful lot like what President Trump and I and our task force have been doing every step of the way.”

By Victoria Knight • October 13, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in in comments during the first presidential debate:

“There's 100 million people that have preexisting conditions.”

By Victoria Knight • October 1, 2020

Mike Pence
stated on August 26, 2020 in his speech at the Republican National Convention:

“President Trump marshalled the full resources of our federal government from the outset. He directed us to forge a seamless partnership with governors across America in both political parties.”

By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • August 27, 2020

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