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Latest Fact-Checks On Jeb Bush

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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 6, 2017 an op-ed
"When public schools face increased competition, they get better and kids learn more." 
Mostly False
By Lola Duffort • April 17, 2017
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 24, 2016 a post on Medium
"My two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, Raul Cantero and Kenneth Bell, have earned reputations as its most consistent conservatives."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 21, 2016 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor
"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."
Mostly True
By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 2, 2016 an appearance at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.
The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 remarks at a Florida campaign stop
"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 14, 2016 the Fox Business Network debate
Says Hillary Clinton "is under investigation with the FBI right now."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 4, 2016 a column posted on Medium
"As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN
"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on 'This Week'
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation"
"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 24, 2015 a radio interview in New Hampshire
Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 a speech at the Citadel
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 11, 2015 Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.
Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office. 
False
By Jason Noble • November 23, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
"My plan actually gives the middle class the greatest break: $2,000 per family."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • November 5, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 comments on "Meet the Press"
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 14, 2015 a town hall meeting in Concord, N.H.
"If you're born poor, you're more likely to stay poor than any time in American history."
Half-True
By Nick Reid • October 30, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 28, 2015 the CNBC GOP presidential debate
"In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 30, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 a post on his website
"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015
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