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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2026 in an X post:
"Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500."
Mostly True
By Caleb McCullough • June 17, 2026
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 in an interview with Newsmax:
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 in an ad:
"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."
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By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 13, 2022 in Public statement:
Says Ron Johnson "wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year."
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By Madeline Heim • September 26, 2022
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
stated on September 2, 2020 in campaign website:
Says Sen. Martha McSally “supported a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program and ‘shift costs’ onto seniors” and “even supported raising the retirement age.”
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By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2020
Eugene DePasquale
Eugene DePasquale
stated on August 8, 2020 in a tweet:
Says Donald Trump's payroll tax deferral “could leave American workers liable for thousands of dollars during tax season and could potentially leave programs like Social Security and Medicare weakened.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2020
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:
"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."
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By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:
Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."
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By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 26, 2016 in a Florida Senate debate:
Says Marco Rubio "said Social Security and Medicare have ‘weakened us as a people.’ "
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By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2016
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on October 12, 2016 in In a political ad:
"Because as a Senator Toomey stood up for Wall Street. He wanted to privatize Social Security and invest it in the stock market. Wall Street would make billions in fees even if the stock market crashed. "
Mostly True
By Mark Dent • October 21, 2016
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:
Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 in a speech.:
"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 1, 2015 in a speech:
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent" of Americans "own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:
"Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income."
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By Linda Qiu • June 4, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview:
Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 in a meme on social media:
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.
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By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at American Enterprise Institute:
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."
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By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2013
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on February 11, 2013 in a letter to Ohio lawmakers:
Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."
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By Stephen Koff • February 21, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 17, 2012 in a debate:
Says Connie Mack’s Penny Plan would cut "over $200 billion out of Medicare, over $1 trillion out of Social Security. ... $3 trillion out of defense."
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By Amy Sherman • October 24, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on August 15, 2012 in a news release:
"For Social Security, which is projected to remain solvent through 2033, Whitehouse has cosponsored [a bill that] . . . would extend the life of the program by an additional 75 years."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2012
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