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Latest Fact-Checks On Robin Vos

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Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 8, 2025 in News conference:
Voter ID "is supported, if you look at any poll, by 70 to 80% of the public."
True
By Hope Karnopp • January 23, 2025
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 6, 2024 in News conference:
“Every single county in America, every single county, Kamala Harris did worse than Joe Biden did.”
False
By Madeline Heim • November 14, 2024
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 7, 2024 in TV interview:
“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • February 9, 2024
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on September 15, 2023 in News release:
Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed."
Mostly True
By Vanessa Swales • December 22, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on October 12, 2023 in Assembly floor speech:
“Kids who don’t even know what day it is or their colors can decide to permanently change themselves” through medical gender transition.
False
By Tyler Katzenberger • November 15, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on March 9, 2023 in Podcast:
“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away."
True
By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 19, 2023 in Speech:
In Wisconsin, even multimillionaires can be on BadgerCare "because we don't even ask people what their income level is to qualify for free health care."
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • February 9, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 22, 2022 in Public statement:
“A lot of the programs (that were) started during the pandemic are still going, even though the pandemic is long over.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • December 1, 2022
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on July 8, 2022 in Twitter:
“The legislature has long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • July 29, 2022
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 22, 2020 in Interview:
“We passed one of the first (COVID-19) bills in the entire country, empowering Gov. Evers to act.”
False
By Haley BeMiller • November 25, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on June 9, 2020 in Facebook post:
Wisconsin was the last state to start paying COVID-related federal unemployment benefits.
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • June 30, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on March 4, 2020 in an interview:
Says as Assembly Speaker he is a "constitutional officer" of Wisconsin.
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • April 28, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on March 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Video shows Joe Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • March 9, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on February 13, 2020 in a newsletter:
Says Gov. Tony Evers “wants to release half of the prison population.”
Half-True
By Haley BeMiller • March 4, 2020
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 10, 2019 in a TV interview:
On red-flag laws says, "What (Democrats) wanted to do was say, ‘I think you might do something, so I’m going to take away your gun and make you prove you wouldn’t do it."
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • December 6, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 10, 2019 in a TV interview:
Says 1,000 people failed gun background checks in Wisconsin in 2018, but "almost none of them were prosecuted for trying to do a background check and illegally buy a weapon."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • November 26, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on October 22, 2019 in an interview:
Says "red flag laws" allow gun seizure without a judge’s involvement: "They take it away first. Then you have to get permission from a judge to do it."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • October 28, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on August 15, 2019 in a radio interview:
The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation’s largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures."  
False
By Mica Soellner • August 30, 2019
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 10, 2013 in a public forum:
On limiting late night legislative debates.
Full Flop
By D.L. Davis • December 11, 2018
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 26, 2016 in a an online opinion-piece:
"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."
True
By Cara Lombardo • June 3, 2016
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