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Social Media
stated on October 22, 2025 social media posts:

Walmart will close to in-store shoppers and allow only online orders and curbside pickup starting Nov. 1 because of an expected Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding lapse.

By Loreben Tuquero • October 29, 2025

Kevin O'Leary
stated on February 24, 2025 an interview on CNN:

“We've never audited government for 100 years.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2025

Mike Johnson
stated on December 5, 2024 remarks to reporters:

About 1% of federal employees are “actually working in the office.”

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2024

Citizens for Sanity
stated on November 2, 2022 an ad:

President Joe Biden and Democrats "send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children."

By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2022

Bob Good
stated on November 4, 2021 a radio interview.:

“The infrastructure bill itself is only 10% true infrastructure.”

By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske • November 15, 2021

Lisa McClain
stated on November 6, 2021 a tweet:

In the infrastructure bill that just passed the House, “only 10% is actual infrastructure.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2021

Liz Cheney
stated on April 11, 2021 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

“Something less than 6% ... of this proposal that President Biden has put forward is actually focused on infrastructure.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2021 a Facebook post:

The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill "awards a $25 million bonus" to House members.

By Tom Kertscher • March 11, 2021

Darin LaHood
stated on August 24, 2020 a TV interview:

“The post office right now, this year, is operating with about a $12 billion surplus.”

By Deborah Wilber, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 6, 2020

Steve Scalise
stated on August 30, 2020 a video:

Says Ady Barkan asked Joe Biden, “Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding for police?”

By Bill McCarthy • August 31, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2020 a Facebook post:

Says Nancy Pelosi passed a bill awarding a $9 billion contract to her husband’s company.

By Noah Y. Kim • August 26, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on September 23, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Warren Buffett asked people to forward a chain email about the "Congressional Reform Act of 2019."

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on December 26, 2018 remarks to U.S. troops:

Says troops recently received "one of the biggest pay raises" ever, and that it was the first pay increase in "more than 10 years."

By Samantha Putterman • December 27, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 9, 2018 remarks at the White House:

Says the 2018 defense authorization bill includes raises for the military "for the first time in 10 years."

By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2018

The Patriot Report
stated on January 17, 2018 a headline:

Says Donald Trump is "canceling funding for Obama’s free house and library."

By Amy Sherman • February 12, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on January 22, 2018 an interview:

"I have consistently opposed shutdowns."

By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2018

Bloggers
stated on August 29, 2017 Internet posts:

Says video shows Mike Pence quoting the Bible as justification for "Congress not to fund Katrina relief effort."

By Joshua Gillin • August 31, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on May 2, 2017 a news conference:

"We got to a point that our Air Force pilots were going to museums to find spare parts over the last eight years" under Barack Obama.

By Tom Kertscher • May 11, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on November 10, 2016 an interview:

"Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke."

By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2016

Jonathan Stickland
stated on February 10, 2016 a TV ad:

Scott Fisher "tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2016

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