Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

Latest Fact-Checks In State Budget

Clear

Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 in an interview on Fox 13:

"I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 in an interview:

"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • May 25, 2016

Celia Israel
stated on May 13, 2016 in a press release:

"When adjusted for inflation, (Texas) per-student spending has remained relatively flat over the past 16 years. Despite that trend, Texas schools in 2017 will receive $381 less per student than they did in 2003."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2016

Vicki Saporta
stated on May 9, 2016 in an episode of "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee":

"There are more than twice as many (crisis pregnancy centers) as there are legitimate abortion providers in the United States."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 17, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 10, 2016 in a news release:

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has "2.8 students per faculty" member, "tied for second-lowest in its history since 1994."

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • May 13, 2016

Chris Koster
stated on April 14, 2016 in a tweet:

"Closing the tobacco loophole would save Missouri taxpayers $50,000,000"

True

By Andrew Kessel • May 6, 2016

LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 in a tweet:

North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.

Mostly False

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 in a Tampa Bay Times interview:

"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016

Michael Roberson
stated on March 3, 2016 in in a candidate forum on March 3, 2016:

Nevada lawmakers "permanently cut taxes for over 95 percent of Nevada’s businesses."

False

By Riley Snyder • March 29, 2016

Danny Tarkanian
stated on February 9, 2016 in an interview on Ralston Live:

Nevada Republicans "didn’t do one single thing to cut spending" in 2015.

Mostly False

By Riley Snyder • March 22, 2016

Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 in his education plan:

"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."

Mostly True

By Will Doran • March 21, 2016

Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 in Florida Senate floor debate:

"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on March 9, 2016 in a post on his Facebook page:

"Roy Cooper won't say how he will pay for ‘free’ college tuition."

Half-True

By Will Doran • March 14, 2016

Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 in a House Appropriations Committee meeting:

"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016

John Kasich
stated on February 13, 2016 in the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.:

"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • February 15, 2016

American Future Fund
stated on January 28, 2016 in a campaign ad:

"Kasich’s budget raised taxes by billions, hitting businesses hard and the middle class even harder."

False

By Nadia Pflaum • February 12, 2016

Tom Wolf
stated on February 9, 2016 in his budget proposal address:

If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso • February 12, 2016

John Kasich
stated on January 29, 2016 in comments on Fox News:

Ohio’s credit rating is "as high as you can get, AA+."

False

By Nadia Pflaum • February 8, 2016

Katrina Shankland
stated on January 29, 2016 in a news release:

"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • February 5, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 in a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter:

"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016

Previous Next