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Latest Fact-Checks On Rand Paul

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 19, 2025 an interview:
“About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
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By Samantha Putterman • October 22, 2025
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
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By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 11, 2019 an interview on ABC's "The View":
"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2019
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 8, 2018 a Senate floor speech:
"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2018
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
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By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
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By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate:
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland:
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on July 17, 2015 a campaign rally in Houston:
"We borrow a million dollars every minute."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 21, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.:
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
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By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 9, 2014 a 'Fox News Sunday' interview:
"The president won the youth vote 3 to 1, but his numbers have dropped 20, 30 percent among the youth."
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By Julie Kliegman • March 9, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 5, 2014 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"There are many studies that indicate" that the longer people get unemployment insurance, "it provides some disincentive to work."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 12, 2013 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
Many uninsured Americans are "young."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 27, 2011 a Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting:
Says President Barack Obama revealed in his State of the Union address that he "now is against earmarks."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2011
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 7, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"The interest on the debt now is going to approach in the next couple of years ... what we spend in the national defense budget."
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By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2010