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Latest Fact-Checks In Military

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Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on April 3, 2026 a post on X:
President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
Mostly True
By Zoe Weyand • April 20, 2026
Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on April 12, 2026 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The U.S. Navy was created "to free international waters from the Barbary pirates."
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By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 14, 2026
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on March 24, 2026 an interview on MS NOW:
"Bombing civilian power infrastructure is a war crime.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 2, 2026
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on March 1, 2026 an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation":
“There is no history … that shows an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change. In fact, there's not a single example of it in the entirety of American history.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2026
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 19, 2025 an interview:
“About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
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By Samantha Putterman • October 22, 2025
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.:
In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
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By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2023 a speech:
“We banned transgender” people from serving in the military.
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2023
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview:
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
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By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 an interview with WNYC:
“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”
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By Landon Allison, Cassidey Kavathas • March 25, 2021
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
William Taylor
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 impeachment inquiry testimony:
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
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By Tom Kertscher • November 14, 2019
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 a tweet:
Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."
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By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum:
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum:
At the same time President Trump talks about supporting veterans, "he is deporting service members who have volunteered to serve this country."  
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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview:
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
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By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 26, 2018 a public forum:
"President Trump continues to disrespect patriotic transgender Americans who want to serve their country."
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By D.L. Davis • August 20, 2018
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham
stated on May 18, 2018 a Facebook post:
"So far this year, more students have been killed in schools than soldiers in combat zones."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 4, 2018 an interview:
"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."  
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By Tom Kertscher • May 9, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2018 a speech at Duke University:
"We’ve spent more money on the military than the next 12 nations combined."
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By Paul Specht • April 24, 2018
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on July 26, 2017 comments on CNN:
"You've got thousands of people serving in the military who are transgender."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 26, 2017
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