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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2026 a Senate committee hearing:
“As a result of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' 15 million Americans have been thrown off the healthcare that they need."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 30, 2026
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 2, 2025 a statement to the media:
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 11, 2020 a television ad attacking Joe Biden:
Says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years"
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2020 in remarks during the South Carolina Democratic primary debate:
“(A recent study) said ‘Medicare for All’ will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save the lives of 68,000 people who would otherwise have died.”
Mostly False
By Shefali Luthra • February 26, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 15, 2020 a speech in Las Vegas:
Says Mike Bloomberg “opposed modest proposals during Barack Obama’s presidency to raise taxes on the wealthy, while advocating for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 12, 2019 comments during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston:
"Was it 150 million people on private insurance? 50 million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs, or they go unemployed, or their employer changes their insurance policy."
Mostly False
By Emmarie Huetteman • September 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 a speech at George Washington University:
With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 Tweet announcing new bill:
Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."
Mostly False
By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2018 Facebook post:
Says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion that a president "may decline to enforce a statute . . . when the president deems the statute unconstitutional" is "contrary to 200 years of Supreme Court precedent."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 16, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 25, 2017 a tweet:
Says President Donald "Trump’s budget gives a $100 billion tax break to three of the wealthiest families."
Mostly False
By Smitha Rajan • May 31, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet:
"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a television ad:
"Washington politicians are paid over $200,000 an hour for speeches."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 12, 2016 a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.:
"We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a speech at Temple University:
Says Hillary Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president.' "
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 30, 2016 a CNN interview:
Says his free public university tuition program "is paid for … by a tax on Wall Street's speculation."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 4, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 a speech.:
"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:
"Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War on Iraq. I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported it." 
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • February 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:
"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016
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