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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 3, 2025 in a letter to Congress
On support for U.S. Agency for International Development
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2025
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 19, 2024 an interview
The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 11, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 an interview with Fox News
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 3, 2024 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Joe Biden's executive orders meant "for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 8, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 18, 2022 a campaign ad
Val Demings "voted with Pelosi to raise taxes over $4,000 on Florida families."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • October 25, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 an ad
Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."
Half-True
October 5, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 6, 2022 a tweet
"Val Demings supports abortion up until the moment of birth."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 16, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 19, 2022 a campaign ad
Val Demings "called abolishing the police 'thoughtful.'"
False
By Yacob Reyes • July 26, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 25, 2022 an interview on CNN
“There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • May 27, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 30, 2021 a tweet
Photos show Lloyd Austin without a face shield after he landed in the Philippines.
Mostly False
August 2, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 6, 2021 a tweet
In rejecting his amendment, “Democrats voted to send reopening money to schools that refuse to reopen.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 22, 2021 a tweet
Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • January 27, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 27, 2020 a tweet
Says “Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 28, 2020
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 20, 2020 a New York Times op-ed
“Face masks being manufactured in China, for example, went to domestic consumption and their own fight against the virus” while the U.S. was “largely unable to import supplies from China.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2020
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 19, 2020 a tweet
For coronavirus cases “in the U.S. 38% of those hospitalized are under 35.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2020
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 a tweet
"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2018 a gathering in West Miami of Ron DeSantis supporters
After Hurricane Hermine in 2016, Tallahassee "didn’t have power for weeks because (Mayor Andrew Gillum) stood in the way of crews being able to come in and restore power, because they weren’t members of the right union or something."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 16, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2018 an interview with CBS News
States "haven't even begun to spend the (election security) money they have now."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 22, 2018 a tweet
"Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned"
True
By Dan Clark • February 28, 2018
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