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Latest Fact-Checks On Ron Johnson

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Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 26, 2025 a TV interview
We’re one of the very few nations that allowed birthright citizenship.”
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By Hope Karnopp • February 4, 2025
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 TV interview
Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
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By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 10, 2023 X, formerly Twitter
"In order to be a poll worker on the conservative side, you have to register through the Republican Party of Wisconsin."
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By Hope Karnopp • December 4, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 News release
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
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By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 Facebook post
The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 13, 2020 radio interview
For younger people, seasonal flu is “in many cases” a deadlier virus than COVID-19
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By Madeline Heim • September 8, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 2, 2020 a TV interview
“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • August 13, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 1, 2020 an interview
“PPP on average probably provided a grant of around $11,000 per employee."
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By Lawrence Andrea • July 24, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 4, 2017 a television interview
"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."
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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 26, 2017 an op-ed in the New York Times
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 3, 2017 a CNN interview
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.
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By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 14, 2016 a debate
Under Obamacare, "premiums have doubled and tripled" in Wisconsin.
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By Eric Litke • December 13, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 6, 2016 a TV ad
The U.S. Senate has "one manufacturer — that'd be me."
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By Cara Lombardo • October 4, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 19, 2016 the GOP convention in Cleveland
" ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?' I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors’ (of the Benghazi attack)?"
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By Linda Qiu • July 20, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 17, 2015 a television interview
"I’ll be running against a career politician."
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By James B. Nelson • February 4, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
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October 23, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview
Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."
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December 19, 2014
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 17, 2013 an interview
On average, college students "are taking six years to get a four-year degree."  
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August 11, 2013
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 13, 2013 a radio interview
"Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We’re trying to reduce the rate of growth in government."
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By Dave Umhoefer • February 20, 2013
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 11, 2012 a campaign speech
Deficit spending ‘exploded during the Obama administration’ to $5.3 trillion over four years, compared to $2 trillion in eight years under President George W. Bush.  
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By Dave Umhoefer • September 28, 2012
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