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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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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