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Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on September 24, 2025 in remarks to reporters:
"Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2025
Russell Vought
Russell Vought
stated on June 1, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid (payments) is improper.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2025
Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 in on-air remarks:
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 30, 2024 in an event in Atlanta:
"Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 4, 2024 in a post on TikTok:
Donald Trump’s plan is “cutting Social Security for you.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 27, 2023 in remarks at the White House:
Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2023
Francesca Hong
Francesca Hong
stated on October 25, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson "opposes Social Security benefits."
Mostly False
By Sophia Voight • November 17, 2023
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on August 23, 2023 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Every study has shown” that when work requirements are tied to federal safety-net programs, “it puts more people to work.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2023 in a speech in New York:
"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 18, 2023
Club for Growth Action
Club for Growth Action
stated on October 21, 2022 in an ad:
Catherine Cortez Masto "was the deciding vote” to send COVID-19 stimulus checks to more than 1 million prisoners.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 27, 2022
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 31, 2022 in a Facebook ad:
“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, 'clean' garbage trucks, and studying cow farts."
Mostly False
By Jessica Riley, Sierra Worden • October 25, 2022
Saving Arizona PAC
Saving Arizona PAC
stated on October 11, 2022 in an ad:
Mark Kelly "voted to allow prison inmates to receive stimulus checks five separate times."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 20, 2022
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker
stated on September 28, 2022 in an ad:
Raphael Warnock "called police thugs, then cut their funding."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2022
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on August 26, 2022 in an ad:
Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is a "bailout for rich kids."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 31, 2022
Ben Cline
Ben Cline
stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement.:
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann, Warren Fiske • August 24, 2022
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on August 3, 2022 in an ad:
The Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 23, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 in a press release:
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on May 10, 2022 in an ad:
"David Perdue voted with liberals” for $10 trillion “in new debt, his out-of-control federal spending is driving inflation through the roof."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2022
Alabama's Future
Alabama's Future
stated on March 11, 2022 in an ad:
Mo Brooks "voted to cut off funding to destroy ISIS terrorists in the middle of the fight."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 22, 2022
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