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Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 5, 2026 in an X post:

“If you live near one of these large data centers, your electricity bills over the last five years have gone up by as much as 267%."

By Caleb McCullough • June 12, 2026

Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2025 in a post on Facebook:

Former President Joe Biden “fired” 14,000 Keystone XL pipeline workers “on day one” of his administration.

By Madison Czopek • February 26, 2025

Nikki Haley
stated on January 17, 2024 in a rally in Rochester, N.H.:

Donald Trump “proposed when he was president” that “he wanted to raise the gas tax up to 25 cents."

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 19, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on January 30, 2023 in A speech in Baltimore:

“We used to rank No. 1 in the world in research and development, now we rank No. 9. China used to rank No. 8, now it ranks No. 2.”

By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • February 13, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on September 27, 2022 in a post:

"$12 billion more for Ukraine on top of $100+ billion while Jackson, Mississippi has yet to receive any funding to fix their water infrastructure."

By Gabrielle Settles • October 6, 2022

Kayleigh McEnany
stated on February 8, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2022

Sean Casten
stated on August 23, 2021 in remarks at a press conference:

Says the 1995 Chicago heat wave was “the largest single-day, non-war fatality in the United States” prior to 9/11, and “we are now expecting temperatures that hot in Chicago every summer.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 1, 2021

Citizens United
stated on March 31, 2021 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan “is the Green New Deal.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2021

Kelly Loeffler
stated on August 6, 2020 in a campaign ad:

“Doug Collins repeatedly joined liberal Stacey Abrams to raise taxes...Kelly’s never voted for a tax increase — and never will.”

By Noah Y. Kim • August 17, 2020

Jim Durkin
stated on June 3, 2019 in a radio interview:

"There are parts of I-80 near Joliet that school buses are not allowed to cross because of the fragile nature of a bridge."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 16, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 in climate change plan:

"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."

By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2019

LaTonya Johnson
stated on April 3, 2019 in a tweet:

"Our road conditions cost WI families. In Milwaukee, the average cost per driver is $2,300."

By D.L. Davis • April 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 in a campaign speech:

"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."

By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018

Rick Kriseman
stated on August 9, 2017 in a podcast:

"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."

By Allison Graves • August 24, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on June 24, 2017 in a "Tampa Bay Times" article:

Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."

By Allison Graves • August 10, 2017

Brian Higgins
stated on March 30, 2017 in a memo to the Train Station Site Selection Committee and press release on his website:

Two options for a new train station site in Buffalo are at Canalside

By Dan Clark • April 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"There was a very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration, a trillion dollars. Nobody ever saw anything being built."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Travis Allen
stated on February 13, 2017 in a press release:

"The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."

By Chris Nichols • February 16, 2017

Eric Bolling
stated on November 26, 2016 in a commentary on Fox News:

"President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (was) a fancy name for almost a trillion-dollar spending bill. The ARRA was supposed to fix our crumbling roads and bridges," but now, "we have absolutely nothing to show for it."

By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 in a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

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