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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 a post on X:
“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025
Make the Road Nevada
Make the Road Nevada
stated on October 28, 2024 an X post:
Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown “wants to cut Medicaid and Social Security.”
Half-True
By Seth A. Richardson • November 1, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 9, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo:
Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Sevana Wenn • July 13, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 a press release:
The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on March 21, 2021 TV interview:
"There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • May 7, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 19, 2020 Twitter:
“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • December 1, 2020
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on October 13, 2020 in comments during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
“Under the Affordable Care Act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. Can you name them? I'll help you: California, New York and Massachusetts.”
Half-True
By Phil Galewitz • October 28, 2020
Chris Jones
Chris Jones
stated on August 20, 2019 TV ad.:
Says he "led the fight to expand Medicaid."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • September 10, 2019
Rob Schmitt
Rob Schmitt
stated on August 14, 2019 a "Fox & Friends First" discussion:
Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • August 15, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on April 12, 2019 a radio interview:
"Tony Evers is cutting child support."  
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • May 10, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 12, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget "slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event:
Says President Donald Trump "came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 a radio interview:
Wisconsin has "the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care"  
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 a TV ad:
Says Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot "voted to cut health care for kids, affecting up to half the families at Cincinnati’s own Children’s Hospital."
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018
For Our Future PAC
For Our Future PAC
stated on July 2, 2018 a website:
"Repealing the Affordable Care Act — and with it, Ohio’s Medicaid expansion — could cost Ohio more than 81,000 jobs, jeopardize nearly 1 million Ohioans’ health care coverage, and leave more than 220,000 Ohioans with mental illness or substance use disorders without insurance."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2018
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 4, 2017 a Senate floor speech:
"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2017 an appearance on 'Fox & Friends':
Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 2, 2017 a speech:
Says Donald Trump "wants to kick thousands of kids off of BadgerCare."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • June 28, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on June 25, 2017 On "Face The Nation":
"Remember, Obamacare created a new category of eligibility. Working-age, able-bodied adults with no dependents for the first time became eligible for Medicaid if their income is below 138 percent of the poverty level. We’re going to continue that eligibility. No one loses coverage."
Half-True
By Mark Dent • June 27, 2017
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on May 4, 2017:
Says if the AHCA replaces Obamacare it will "significantly reduce insurance premiums in" North Carolina.
Half-True
By Will Doran • May 10, 2017
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