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Latest Fact-Checks In City Government

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 25, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.
False
By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore • June 26, 2025
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on September 12, 2024 in an ad:
In Manchester, N.H., gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig “pushed for a city sales tax. Then, Joyce Craig overrode the tax cap and tried to raise taxes six times.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2024
Scott Adams
Scott Adams
stated on March 8, 2023 in a tweet:
The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “an American intel op against Trump.”
Pants on Fire!
By Gabrielle Settles • March 10, 2023
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on October 26, 2022 in a news conference.:
“I don’t get involved in the hiring and firing of police chiefs.”
False
By Warren Fiske • November 2, 2022
Byron Brown
Byron Brown
stated on September 9, 2021 in a debate:
“Three percent is not a modest tax increase, if you own a $100,000 home in the city of Buffalo, that means an extra $300 a year.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 28, 2021
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on August 13, 2020 in a tweet:
Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on “the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million” from the police department.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 24, 2020
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on June 16, 2020 in a news conference.:
On conducting a national search for a new Richmond police chief.
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • July 1, 2020
Jeanette Kowalik
Jeanette Kowalik
stated on June 14, 2020 in an appearance on WISN-TV's "UpFront":
"Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.”
True
By Lawrence Andrea • June 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Tweet:
Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 30, 2020 in a news release:
During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 1, 2020
stated on November 20, 2019 in a public forum:
Says since he took office, the City of Milwaukee has seen the creation of 7,000 new affordable housing units.
True
By D.L. Davis • February 17, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 1, 2020 in a television ad:
"Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers"
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 5, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"These are real ads running in New York City calling for the removal of ‘trash’ which includes white people, Trump supporters, and Christians."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 6, 2019
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 10, 2019 in a tweet:
"The City of Austin is dedicating more than $20,000 PER HOMELESS PERSON in Austin."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • October 17, 2019
Roger Stone
Roger Stone
stated on September 28, 2018 in a Facebook post:
As mayor of Newark, N.J., Cory Booker "stole $600,000 from a city water authority and laundered it through his law firm."
False
By Daniel Funke • October 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2019 in a statement to the press:
Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama."
True
By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2019
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on May 17, 2019 in an interview:
"We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years."
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 10, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 27, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says Bill de Blasio is "banning hot dog sales to stop climate change."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 7, 2019
stated on April 24, 2019 in in a tweet:
Says one year ago, "no cities in the South had guaranteed paid sick days."
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • May 3, 2019
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on March 6, 2019:
On tax increases.
Half Flip
By Warren Fiske • March 19, 2019
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