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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 an interview with Fox News
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 an ad
Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."
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October 5, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 6, 2021 a tweet
In rejecting his amendment, “Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.”
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By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 26, 2017 an interview
"Close to half of the voters in America, the only tax they pay is the payroll tax."
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By Allison Graves • November 28, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
"In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again" through Obamacare.
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By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 the GOP primary debate in Texas
Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."
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By Linda Qiu • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 a web video
"People (are) paying more in taxes than they will for food, housing and clothing combined."  
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 26, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Two-thirds of our kids can’t read at grade level."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."
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By Lauren Carroll • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The states have always defined marriage."
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By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 remarks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa
North Korea "has over two-dozen nuclear warheads."
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By Jason Noble • November 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 an interview on CNN
"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Under his tax plan, "the greatest gains, percentage-wise," will be "at the lower end of our plan."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 the third Republican presidential debate
"For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses closing than starting."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2015 an op-ed in Breitbart
"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "  
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By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • October 23, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 4, 2015 an interview with Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention
"A minor cannot get a tattoo without parental consent but can get an abortion without parental consent."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 19, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
The Iran deal "violates promises the president made to the American people." ... "It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process."  
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By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 10, 2015 a USA Today op-ed
"There is not a single documented case of abuse" of the bulk metadata collection program.  
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By Kirby Wilson • June 4, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board
"I'm running for office with much more experience and qualifications than Barack Obama had when he ran."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 29, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 8, 2014 a news release
The authors of a report on CIA’s torture techniques "never interviewed a single CIA official."
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By Amy Sherman • December 11, 2014
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