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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 6, 2025 remarks at a dinner:
Walmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 14, 2025
Kevin Hassett
Kevin Hassett
stated on July 6, 2025 an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation":
A Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2025
Scott Bessent
Scott Bessent
stated on May 18, 2025 remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2025
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on April 6, 2025 an interview:
“Less than half of Americans have $1,000 in savings.”
Mostly False
By Claire Cranford • April 16, 2025
Brooke Rollins
Brooke Rollins
stated on April 6, 2025 an interview:
“We had an agriculture export deficit that increased from zero when President Trump left to $49 billion” under former President Joe Biden.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2025 an interview with Newsmax:
“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 2, 2025 a statement to the media:
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 18, 2024 TV debate:
Says opponent Eric Hovde “opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 31, 2024
Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on October 13, 2024 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The (Black-white) wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump's administration.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 25, 2024 an interview with MSNBC:
“Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2024
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on September 17, 2024 a TV ad:
“Two years ago, Bob Casey promised us his vote will reduce inflation. ... Casey’s vote for reckless spending” made inflation worse.
Mostly False
By Caleb McCullough, Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2024 a rally in Mosinee, Wis.:
Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2024
Bob Casey
Bob Casey
stated on August 22, 2024 a speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention:
“Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • August 28, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 14, 2024 a speech in California:
Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 a speech:
Speaking of semiconductor industry jobs, "Know what the average salary is? $110,000. You don't need a college degree."
Mostly False
By Marta Campabadal Graus • April 15, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 an interview with Fox News:
Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
Brian Schimming
Brian Schimming
stated on March 13, 2024 Statement:
“On Joe Biden’s watch, Wisconsin has lost 6,000 manufacturing jobs and 455 dairy farms in the last year.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • March 20, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on March 10, 2024 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2024 a speech to the National Rifle Association:
Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2024
Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy
stated on November 7, 2023 Wisconsin Assembly:
"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a three-year contract for $186 million. He and his family, being African American, could receive benefits under affirmative action.”
Mostly False
By Ricardo Torres • January 17, 2024
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