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Latest Fact-Checks On Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 17, 2018 a news conference:
Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."
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By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on February 15, 2018 a briefing with reporters:
We "have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms."
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By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 13, 2017 an interview:
The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 1, 2017 an interview:
Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, "the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on November 3, 2017 a speech:
"With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 7, 2017 an interview:
Before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today."
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By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 13, 2017 a news release:
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums."
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By Tom Kertscher • March 14, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview:
In the United States, "we tax our exports and don't tax our imports."
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By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 a TV interview:
Under the current procedure, if someone "on a terror watch list" tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.
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By Jonathan Anderson • September 2, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech:
"The poverty rates in America today aren’t much better than when we started the War on Poverty."
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By Sarah Hauer • August 5, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 3, 2016 an op-ed:
After initially agreeing with Republicans on an amount for Zika funding, "Democrats derailed it."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 4, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 27, 2016 a town hall at Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service:
"Under (Obamacare), you can’t reward a person for better behavior. You can’t have incentives to be healthier."
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By Eric Litke • June 8, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 20, 2015 comments on 'Meet the Press':
The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."
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By Linda Qiu • December 20, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 17, 2015 on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.
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By Lauren Carroll • May 17, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 11, 2013 a speech:
Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners."
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By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 15, 2013 a speech at CPAC:
"Our debt is already bigger than our economy."
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By Molly Moorhead • March 15, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 4, 2012 a speech:
"Over $1 trillion" was spent on anti-poverty programs in 2011, enough to "give every single poor American a check for $22,000."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 the vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky.:
The Obama administration "called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney, "unemployment went down, household incomes went up," and the state "saw its credit rating upgraded."
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 18, 2012 a campaign stop at The Villages:
The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare "does not affect" benefits for anyone 55 or older.
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By Katie Sanders • August 24, 2012
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