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Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on March 20, 2017 in a press briefing:
Says Paul Manafort "played a very limited role" in the Trump presidential campaign.
False
By John Kruzel • March 22, 2017
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on March 16, 2017 in a press conference:
"In year No. 1, 14 million Americans lose coverage," according to the CBO. 
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 22, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 in a rally in Kentucky:
"Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 22, 2017
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
stated on March 8, 2017 in a House Judiciary Committee hearing:
Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 21, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 16, 2017 in a press conference:
"There's no demonstrable evidence they (after-school programs that feed kids) are helping kids do better at school."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2017
Devin Nunes
Devin Nunes
stated on March 20, 2017 in a House Intelligence Committee hearing:
"In recent years ... the Obama administration was committed to the notion, against all evidence, that we could reset relations with Putin."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 in a tweet:
"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2017 in a post on Twitter:
"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"
False
By Allison Graves • March 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2017 in an interview with Fox's Tucker Carlson:
Says "the New York Times wrote about" Barack Obama wiretapping Donald Trump during the election. 
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 16, 2017
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on March 12, 2017 in CNN's State of the Union:
"2009-2010, let's remember, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted in the ACA."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 16, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 13, 2017 in a press conference:
The House Republican health care "plan doesn't get rid of Medicaid expansion."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 14, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 in his first Cabinet meeting:
"In the first full month of my administration following the issuance of my executive orders, illegal immigration on our southern border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 24, 2017 in a speech at CPAC:
"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 in a listening session on health care:
"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
True
By Lauren Carroll • March 13, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
"The number of individuals who actually got coverage through the exchange who didn't have coverage before, or who weren't eligible for Medicaid before is relatively small. So we've turned things upside down completely for 3 million, or 4 million, or 5 million individuals."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 12, 2017 in a segment on ABC's "This Week":
"If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are. … Sometimes we ask them to do stuff that they're not capable of doing."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • March 12, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 7, 2017 in a press briefing:
The Obama administration said "they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms. In fact, they did just the opposite."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2017
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt
stated on March 9, 2017 in an interview on CNBC:
Carbon dioxide is not "a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC's "All In With Chis Hayes":
The GOP health care plan gives "$275 billion in tax breaks for the top 2 percent, people earning $250,000 a year or more."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2017
Greg Walden
Greg Walden
stated on March 7, 2017 in a oress conference:
Under the Affordable Care Act, "some people were gaming the system" by paying "for nine months of insurance, get 12 -- the other three for free."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2017
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