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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 in 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2023 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:
"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country."
Half-True
By Michelle Andrews • May 18, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 11, 2022 in an interview on CNN:
“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2022
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 in a speech:
“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”
Half-True
By Lauren White • September 15, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2020 in a Democratic presidential primary debate:
Says a 2007 immigration bill “was opposed by (the League of United Latin American Citizens), the largest Latino organization in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center called its guest-worker programs akin to slavery. … And you know who voted with me on that one, Joe? Barack Obama.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 4, 2020 in a news conference:
"If you look at California, if you look at people of color in general, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, we won that big time. Big time. Not even close.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 9, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2020 in a CNN town hall:
Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2020 in campaign talking points issued days before the New Hampshire primary:
“Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.”
Half-True
By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 13, 2020 in a Sun Sentinel op ed:
"In Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 19, 2019 in a rally in New York City:
Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 22, 2019 in a campaign speech:
 "Some 200,000 people are in jail for the crime of being poor and not being able to afford bail."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • August 29, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 15, 2019 in an interview with Cardi B:
"We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system. They may end up in jail, they may end up on parole, they may end up on probation."
Half-True
By Daniel Funke • August 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 in a Facebook meme:
"In 2016, counties hosting a Trump rally saw a 226% spike in hate crimes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 in a video on Twitter:
"There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet:
"30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost." 
Half-True
By Shefali Luthra • June 24, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 6, 2019 in a tweet:
"I have consistently voted against the Hyde Amendment."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 in a tweet:
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
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