Latest Fact-Checks In Congress

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Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on August 27, 2025 an X post
Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”
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By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 an X post
“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on June 4, 2025 an ad
The Republican tax and spending bill will provide a “tax cut for Social Security recipients.”
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero • June 24, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 a Senate confirmation hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”
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By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on October 8, 2024 an Instagram post
“Two weeks ago 100 GOP lawmakers voted against additional FEMA funding.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 14, 2023 remarks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner
Republicans in Congress are “trying to wipe out federal funding to end the HIV epidemic.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • November 3, 2023
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on October 1, 2023 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 22, 2023 an Instagram post
U.S. aid to Ukraine will continue during a government shutdown, but programs for food stamps, transportation, education, justice, environmental protection and homelessness will not.
Half-True
September 26, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on September 12, 2023 a news conference
“We know the bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek • September 18, 2023
Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy
stated on June 12, 2023 a social media posts
“The White House Gift Shop is putting out a commemorative coin for Donald Trump's indictment.”
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero • June 13, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 28, 2023 a Senate floor speech
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is preventing military promotions “because he objects to women within the military getting access to reproductive care.”
Half-True
By Mary McNaughton • May 4, 2023
DeSantis Watch
DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 a Facebook post
"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."
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By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on January 22, 2023 an interview on Fox News Sunday
“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 an interview on CNN
“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • December 2, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on November 28, 2022 a statement on a website
Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests."
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By Amy Sherman • December 1, 2022
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 23, 2022 an ad
Tim Ryan said “I do love” Nancy Pelosi and votes with Joe Biden and Pelosi 100%.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2022
Jim Lamon
Jim Lamon
stated on June 2, 2022 a statement posted on Twitter
Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”
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By Ellie Borst • June 16, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 26, 2022 an interview with Fox News
In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2022 a Facebook post
“Joe Biden holds the all-time record for the most money received from Pharma while in Congress! $8,550,422.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 28, 2022
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