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Common Sense Leadership Fund
Common Sense Leadership Fund
stated on September 17, 2021 in an attack ad:
Democrats “want to tax your retirement funds to pay for their new trillion dollar power grab.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 10, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Congressional benefits include “free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • February 1, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech:
Says "Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2016 in a campaign ad:
Says Hillary Clinton wants illegal immigrants "collecting Social Security benefits."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 24, 2016
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech at the DNC:
Says "Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market."
Mostly False
By Riley Snyder • July 28, 2016
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on August 19, 2014 in a commercial:
Says Gina Raimondo's "venture capital firm secured a secret no-bid contract funded by taxpayers."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 14, 2014
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on August 19, 2014 in a campaign ad:
While "Arkansas seniors depend on Social Security and Medicare," Sen. Mark Pryor supports an overhaul so they "couldn’t get Social Security until they turn 68 or 69."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 5, 2014 in remarks at a forum:
Medicare is "going broke. The trust fund goes bankrupt in 2026."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 5, 2014
Mark Pryor
Mark Pryor
stated on February 5, 2014 in a campaign ad:
Says Tom Cotton’s vote in Congress to change Medicare "will increase out-of-pocket expenses for every senior in Arkansas."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • February 28, 2014
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on April 16, 2013 in an interview:
"Not one dime gets added to the deficit because of Social Security."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 26, 2013
Scott DesJarlais
Scott DesJarlais
stated on September 2, 2012 in an interview with The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro:
Defends his vote to push "retirement age to 70" by saying he is for "a process" that would not be fully implemented until "around the turn of the century."
Mostly False
By Richard Locker • September 17, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 12, 2012 in an interview on "60 Minutes":
Says Barack Obama "robbed Medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 15, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 in a speech in Tampa, Fla.:
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 1, 2012
Paul Valletta
Paul Valletta
stated on October 27, 2011 in testimony at a General Assembly pension hearing:
Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo "raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87" and "used a 1994 annuity chart" to create the pension crisis.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 6, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 19, 2011 in a segment on The Rachel Maddow Show:
"A recent Department of Labor study guessed Wall Street fees cost a worker 28 percent of the value of your plan over the span of your career."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 28, 2011
Rhode Island Retirement Security Coalition
Rhode Island Retirement Security Coalition
stated on September 9, 2011 in a YouTube video:
"In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula … have saved over half a billion dollars."
Mostly False
By Lynn Arditi • September 25, 2011
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on August 25, 2010 in a television ad:
"Barbara Boxer voted to cut spending on Medicare benefits by $500 billion, cuts so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2010
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on September 21, 2010 in a television ad:
State pension fund staffers "lost billions. Then Sink gave them bonuses."
Mostly False
By Mary Ellen Klas • September 23, 2010
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on June 16, 2010 in an e-mail:
Says Rep. Ken Legler "voted against installing fire sprinklers and emergency power generators in nursing homes."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2010
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 31, 2010 in a speech to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs:
In 2004, "20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. ... Another 20 percent were receiving almost 40 percent."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • April 21, 2010
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