Latest Fact-Checks In Children

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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 28, 2024 an ad
Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.
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By Samantha Putterman • September 6, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 15, 2023 a speech
"Twenty-six out of every 100 students” in K-12 speak Spanish.
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By Maria Briceño • June 21, 2023
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on December 27, 2022 Twitter
"During my time in office, we've increased per pupil aid by more than $300 per student. Now, our schools have returned to the top 10 in the country after falling to 17 under the previous administration.”
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By D.L. Davis • February 7, 2023
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 an ad
Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."
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October 5, 2022
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock
stated on August 29, 2022 a speech in Albany, Ga.
The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 15, 2022 a post
“Due to the baby formula shortage Tricare will now pay to have it shipped directly to you.”
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By Monique Curet • May 18, 2022
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on October 28, 2021 Twitter
Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.”
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By Laura Schulte • November 12, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 a speech
“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”
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September 15, 2021
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on September 1, 2021 on social media
Texas “ranks 50th in baby wellness checks, ranks 50th in clinical care for infants, ranks 50th in uninsured women, ranks 43rd in maternal mortality, ranks 44th in school funding per child, and ranks 46th in child hunger.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2021 a Facebook post
Children ages 5 to 9 “are not affected by” the coronavirus.
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April 23, 2021
Brandon Tatum
Brandon Tatum
stated on April 5, 2021 a Facebook post
“Kids at the border: 2,600 highest number Trump, 12,000 currently under Biden.”
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April 9, 2021
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on February 16, 2021 News release
"Wisconsin is one of only nine states in the nation in which 17 year-olds are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system."
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By D.L. Davis • March 16, 2021
Melissa Agard
Melissa Agard
stated on February 10, 2021 Twitter
"Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.”
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By Madeline Heim • March 5, 2021
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on February 6, 2021 a tweet
“On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards child care in Wisconsin.”
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By Eric Litke • February 23, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 3, 2021 a Facebook post
“Dems Pass Bill to Vaccinate Children Without Parental Knowledge, Consent.”
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By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2021
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 12, 2020 an advertisement
Says he “strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.”
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By Brandon Mulder • October 3, 2020
Nicole Galloway
Nicole Galloway
stated on October 12, 2019 a mass email
"Missouri has one of the highest rates of uninsured children in the country."
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By Caitlyn Rosen • November 16, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
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By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on April 12, 2019 a radio interview
"Tony Evers is cutting child support."  
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By D.L. Davis • May 10, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 a policy announcement on Medium
"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
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