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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Scott

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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 2, 2025 an X post
Democrats shut down the government because they want “health care for illegal aliens and funding for free abortions.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 8, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 8, 2025 a television interview
Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 22, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 9, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 a post on X
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 4, 2024 an X post
“Joe Biden flew hundreds of thousands of illegals into Florida last year.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 9, 2024
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 31, 2023 an X post
Rainbow fentanyl is a threat to children on Halloween.
False
By Sara Swann • October 31, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2023 an ad
President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 26, 2023 a page about elections in his Rescue America plan
Same-day voter registration "does not allow election officials to verify the validity and accuracy of voter information."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2023
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 30, 2022 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
“All Democrats in the Senate and House voted to cut $280 billion out of Medicare just two months ago.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 2, 2022 a television interview
Kamala Harris said about Hurricane Ian that “if you have a different skin color, you're going to get relief faster.”
False
October 3, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 a press release
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 15, 2022 a statement to reporters
"The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign … actually spied on the president of the United States.”
False
By Bill McCarthy, Jon Greenberg • February 21, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 a press release
The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2021 a press release headline
An increase in Medicare Part B premiums means “America’s seniors are paying the price for Biden’s inflation crisis.”
Mostly False
By Phil Galewitz • November 23, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 8, 2021 in a CNN interview
"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 16, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 5, 2021 a tweet
"Joe Biden’s attorney general wants the FBI to go after parents for speaking out at school board meetings to protect kids from radical curriculum like critical race theory."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 23, 2021 an op-ed
“Democrats are responsible for the massive spending and debt growth, they alone need to take responsibility for raising the debt limit.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 27, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 30, 2021 a press release
Says Joe Biden and Democrats “have done absolutely nothing to help families struggling to keep up with inflation.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 4, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 26, 2021 a press release
“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 29, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 1, 2021 an interview with CBS News
The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 2, 2021
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