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Dave Murphy
Dave Murphy
stated on November 7, 2023 Wisconsin Assembly
"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a three-year contract for $186 million. He and his family, being African American, could receive benefits under affirmative action.”
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By Ricardo Torres • January 17, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2023 una publicación de Facebook
"Latino, inmigrante, recién llegado … Si eres inmigrante en Estados Unidos y llevas más de tres meses ahí, podrías calificar para obtener cupones de comida”.
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April 13, 2023
Liberal Groups
Liberal Groups
stated on June 2, 2022 Public statement
"Milwaukee’s hotels and restaurants are already filled during the summer. The RNC convention will simply replace those who normally visit our city."
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By Vanessa Swales • July 12, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2022 a video on Facebook
“We have 76% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they are one paycheck away from poverty.”
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By Madison Czopek • May 16, 2022
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on March 15, 2022 a tweet
“An extra 2 whole months and 15 days. That’s how long it takes for white women to make the same amount men made in the same job last year. And it's even worse for women of color.”
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By Analisa Trofimuk • April 1, 2022
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2022 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“People are 7% poorer now because of Biden inflation.”
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By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 19, 2022 a news conference
“This country’s working people actually got a raise.”
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By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2022
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on September 24, 2021 Twitter
Says Joe Biden's IRS reform proposals "would require banks and credit unions to hand over private information about routine transactions to the IRS."
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By D.L. Davis • October 15, 2021
Infowars
Infowars
stated on September 13, 2021 an Instagram post
“Biden’s Treasury Department declares IRS will monitor” all accounts over $600.
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September 15, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on November 13, 2019 a Facebook ad
"In America, there is a father who is holding down two jobs and paying more taxes than the richest 400 families in America."
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November 21, 2019
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on October 7, 2019 a tweet
Says the Associated Press was wrong to report that "Income Inequality grew to largest in 50 years" because in a "new Census report all four measures of income inequality SHRUNK, reversing rise over past five decades."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • October 12, 2019
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on September 25, 2019 remarks at a town hall
"Teachers in Chicago Public Schools are paid some of the highest compensation of any school system in the country."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 11, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 Tweet announcing new bill
Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."
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By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."  
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By Kevin Crowe • November 29, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 27, 2017 an interview
The Republican tax reform proposal is focused on tax breaks for the middle class "and not about people who are really high-income earners getting a tax break."  
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October 13, 2017
X posts
X posts
stated on September 11, 2017 tweets
"Paul Ryan doesn't know what the minimum wage is in Wisconsin."  
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September 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."  
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September 6, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 8, 2017 a tweet
"‘TrumpCare’ would allow insurance execs to personally make millions off your health care."
Mostly False
March 13, 2017
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on February 26, 2017 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says "Donald Trump wants to eliminate overtime pay for people." 
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • February 26, 2017
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