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Latest Fact-Checks In West Virginia

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Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 14, 2023 a post on X:
"Credit card debt is above $1 trillion for the FIRST TIME EVER."
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By Ashala Moseberry • October 19, 2023
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 17, 2023 a post on X:
“Since Biden took office ... real wages have fallen monthly.”
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By Jacquie Broush • October 12, 2023
George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman
stated on July 11, 2023 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
“The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.”
Mostly True
By Aubrey Burkhardt • October 6, 2023
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 23, 2023 a post on X:
“#Bidenomics has led to mortgage rates hitting a 21-year high → over 7%.”
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By Sophia Bookwood • October 5, 2023
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 a post on X:
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
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By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
stated on September 9, 2023 a no-confidence resolution:
During E. Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased."
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By Ethan Moore • October 5, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 a post on X:
“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”
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By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023
West Virginia Democratic Party
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on August 25, 2022 a tweet:
“Carol Miller is a multi-millionaire worth over $16 million.”
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By Emily Oiler, Savannah Quinn • October 27, 2022
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on August 28, 2022 a tweet:
“WV families making less than $400K & small businesses will NOT be targeted by the IRS.”
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By Amanda Boring • October 18, 2022
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet:
“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”
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By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on August 29, 2022 a tweet:
“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”
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By Eleanor Kenneweg, Maxwell Bruce • October 3, 2022
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 12, 2021 an op-ed:
“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”
Mostly True
By Maxwell Ionno, Olivia Murray • October 5, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on March 4, 2021 a press conference:
President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”
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By Lara Bonatesta, Mackenzie Gilligan • April 15, 2021
Paula Jean Swearengin
Paula Jean Swearengin
stated on September 10, 2020 a tweet:
“West Virginia is near last in the U.S.” rankings of education, clean drinking water, and child mortality.
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By Morgan Akers, Rylan Toledo • November 6, 2020
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on August 19, 2020 an interview with the Washington Examiner:
“Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol.”
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By Delaney Geiger, Julia Maltby • October 28, 2020
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on September 9, 2020 a tweet:
"Nearly 800 million opioid pills were shipped to WV, amounting to 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in the state.”
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By Camren Gandee, Julia Manley • October 15, 2020
Carol Miller
Carol Miller
stated on July 30, 2020 a tweet:
“In West Virginia alone, overdoses have increased by 50% during the #COVID-19 pandemic.”
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By Patrick Orsagos • August 19, 2020
Woody Thrasher
Woody Thrasher
stated on August 21, 2019 a tweet:
"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."
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By Alayna Degenhardt, Farrah Frattaroli • December 6, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 a press conference:
China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."
Mostly True
By Minh Do • December 4, 2019
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 an article in a local newspaper:
"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."
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By Matthew Digby, Minh Do • November 18, 2019
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