Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on September 28, 2025 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
People with insurance through the Affordable Care Act will see a “75% increase in premiums starting Nov. 1” if enhanced subsidies are not extended, including “twice as much in the rural areas.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2025
stated on September 29, 2025 The People's Cabinet podcast
“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid. The janitors never get paid.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2025
stated on September 12, 2025 a post on X
“Republicans are spiking health insurance premiums by 75% for everyday Americans” if they don’t extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
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By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 14, 2025 a podcast interview
“California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2025
stated on July 8, 2025 Pod Save America
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
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By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2025
Michael Lawler
Michael Lawler
stated on March 21, 2025 a television interview
“If we don’t pass the tax bill by the end of the year, we will have the largest tax increase in American history.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 22, 2025
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on October 25, 2023 his acceptance speech as speaker
“In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 a post on X
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
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By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 a press release
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
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By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 an ad
"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."
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November 1, 2022
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on February 2, 2022 Twitter
Gov. Tony Evers has “only gotten one-third of the money meant for COVID relief out the door. He is sitting on $930 million in ARPA funds left unspent. In fact, he still has CARES Act money from two years ago.”
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By Madeline Heim • February 25, 2022
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on November 24, 2021 a tweet
“Norway spends about $30,000 per child on early childhood care, Finland spends $23,000, Germany $18,000” and the U.S. $500.
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December 11, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2019 a Facebook post
"The 550 U.S. billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we'd raise enough to run the federal government for less than eight months."
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November 2, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 6, 2021 remarks at the White House
“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 5, 2021 Statement
The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan will be “the biggest non-defense investment in research and development in the history of our country.”
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By Laura Schulte • May 28, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on March 4, 2021 a press conference
President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”
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By Lara Bonatesta, Mackenzie Gilligan • April 15, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 4, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2021
Stand for America
Stand for America
stated on February 24, 2021 a Facebook post
The COVID-19 rescue bill includes money for a list of projects that are not COVID-related.
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February 26, 2021
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 24, 2021 a Senate floor speech
In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”
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By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2021
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