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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 a post on X
“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025
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 November 10, 2024 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2024
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 a press release.
“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
Mostly True
By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2023 an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”
"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country."
Half-True
By Michelle Andrews • May 18, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 11, 2022 an interview on CNN
“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 13, 2022
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 29, 2022 an interview
In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave."
Mostly True
December 8, 2022
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 a speech
“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”
Half-True
September 15, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 8, 2020 an op-ed published in The Guardian
“It has been estimated that only 12% of workers in businesses that are likely to stay open during this crisis are receiving paid sick leave benefits as a result of the second coronavirus relief package."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 13, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2020 a Democratic presidential primary debate
Says a 2007 immigration bill “was opposed by (the League of United Latin American Citizens), the largest Latino organization in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center called its guest-worker programs akin to slavery. … And you know who voted with me on that one, Joe? Barack Obama.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 17, 2020
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 March 8, 2020 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 4, 2020 a news conference
"If you look at California, if you look at people of color in general, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, we won that big time. Big time. Not even close.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 9, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2020 a CNN town hall
Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2020 a debate
“Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 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, Shefali Luthra • February 26, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2020 an interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes"
“When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 24, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2020 campaign talking points issued days before the New Hampshire primary
“Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.”
Half-True
By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2020
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