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Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on April 3, 2026 a post on X:
President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
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By Zoe Weyand • April 20, 2026
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
Dan Koh
Dan Koh
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
Katherine Clark
Katherine Clark
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
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau
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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By Tom Kertscher • 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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By Tom Kertscher • 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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By Tom Kertscher • 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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By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2021
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