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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on October 8, 2025 an X post:
“Trump’s budget called for a $300 (million) cut” to the Women, Infants and Children program.
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By Amy Sherman • October 16, 2025
Sara Jacobs
Sara Jacobs
stated on December 18, 2024 an X post:
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2024
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 8, 2022 a statement:
Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”
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By Tom Kertscher • December 14, 2022
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on October 3, 2021 Twitter:
“The annual Pentagon budget hovers over $750 billion annually, twice that of the much debated Build Back Better Act that costs about $350 billion annually as currently proposed.”
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By Laura Schulte • October 14, 2021
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on August 16, 2021 Twitter:
In Afghanistan, “over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.”
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By D.L. Davis • August 31, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on October 2, 2019 a newspaper:
Millionaires are eligible for food stamps, but "Donald Trump came along and decided to put a stop to it." 
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By D.L. Davis • October 11, 2019
Allen Thomas
Allen Thomas
stated on April 9, 2019 a candidate questionnaire:
"Currently, 23 percent of our military's infrastructure is graded as 'poor' while 9 percent is 'failing.'"
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By Bill McCarthy • April 23, 2019
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on December 1, 2018 a tweet:
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 "includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years."
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By Morgan Keith • December 13, 2018
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on November 15, 2018 a tweet:
The United States "spends more on potato chips than we do on ALL energy R&D."
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By Kristen Mohammadi, Lili Zecevic • December 6, 2018
Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray
stated on October 30, 2018 a debate:
"Do you know that New York State pays out way more than they ever get back?"
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 2, 2018
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on June 5, 2017 a meeting with nonprofit leaders:
For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is "the only human contact in their life from week to week."
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By Nick Reid • June 9, 2017
Scott Peters
Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article:
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."
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By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017
Raj Shah
Raj Shah
stated on February 24, 2017 an op-ed:
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."  
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By Jon Greenberg • March 8, 2017
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on October 26, 2016 a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs:
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2016
Ruben Hinojosa
Ruben Hinojosa
stated on July 16, 2016 a tweet:
"50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college."
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By Rye Druzin • August 15, 2016
Jonathan Jarvis
Jonathan Jarvis
stated on June 14, 2016 testimony before a U.S. House committee:
The National Park Service has "an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 a GOP debate at the University of Miami:
Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."  
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By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."
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By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2015 a speech:
"60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 14, 2015
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"There’s no money" for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.
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By Lauren Carroll • September 29, 2015
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