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Latest Fact-Checks On Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on February 23, 2023 in TV interview:
"WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.”
True
By D.L. Davis • April 18, 2023
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 17, 2018 in a news conference:
Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on February 15, 2018 in a briefing with reporters:
We "have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 13, 2017 in an interview:
The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 1, 2017 in an interview:
Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, "the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on November 3, 2017 in a speech:
"With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 27, 2017 in an interview:
The Republican tax reform proposal is focused on tax breaks for the middle class "and not about people who are really high-income earners getting a tax break."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 13, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 1, 2017 in an interview:
"We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 in a town hall:
Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 in a CNN town hall broadcast:
"We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 27, 2017 in an interview with Fox News:
Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 7, 2017 in an interview:
Before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 2, 2017 in a news conference:
"We got to a point that our Air Force pilots were going to museums to find spare parts over the last eight years" under Barack Obama.
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • May 11, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 4, 2017 in remarks in 2009 and actions in 2017:
On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 13, 2017 in a news release:
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 14, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2017 in an interview:
In the United States, "we tax our exports and don't tax our imports."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 in a news conference:
Obamacare is "hurting people right now" with premium increases of up to 116 percent.
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • February 3, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 in a press briefing:
"Obamacare has failed."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 12, 2017 in a media briefing:
Obamacare "is in what the actuaries call a death spiral."
False
By Eric Litke • January 18, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on November 10, 2016 in an interview:
"Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2016
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