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Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen
stated on July 24, 2022 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We've cut the deficit by a record $1.5 trillion this year."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2022
One Nation
One Nation
stated on July 16, 2022 ads
Raphael Warnock and Catherine Cortez Masto “voted to allow hundreds of millions of dollars of COVID relief funds to be squandered” on leisure projects.
Half-True
July 28, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 28, 2022 Twitter
"Thanks to failed Dem policies, beer is 9.1% more expensive."
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • July 18, 2022
Planned Parenthood Votes
Planned Parenthood Votes
stated on June 30, 2022 an ad
Mehmet Oz “wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania.”
Half-True
July 18, 2022
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on May 27, 2022 News conference
The RNC is “a $200 million economic infusion into our communities.”
Half-True
By Vanessa Swales • July 8, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 15, 2022 an ad
J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement."
Half-True
June 30, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 27, 2022 News release
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • June 28, 2022
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on June 24, 2022 an interview on Fox News
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on June 14, 2022 an ad
Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions."
Half-True
June 23, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 16, 2022 an interview with the Associated Press
“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2022
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on May 28, 2022 a newsletter
$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."
Half-True
June 16, 2022
Jim Lamon
Jim Lamon
stated on June 2, 2022 a statement posted on Twitter
Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”
Half-True
By Ellie Borst • June 16, 2022
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on May 21, 2022 Newsletter
"Nearly 60% of all student loan debt is held by the rich and upper-middle class," so forgiveness would give the wealthy a "financial windfall" but not really help low-income people.
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • June 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 21, 2022 a Facebook post
“U.S. Orders MILLIONS Of Smallpox Vaccines Amid Global Monkeypox Outbreak.”
Half-True
June 8, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 26, 2022 a photo on Facebook
With the $53 billion spent in Ukraine aid, the U.S. “could pay five SWAT members $80,000 each and have them at EVERY school front door.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • June 3, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 26, 2022 an interview with Fox News
In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2022
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn
stated on May 9, 2022 a campaign ad
“Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022
Harry Wilson
Harry Wilson
stated on May 6, 2022 in a campaign ad
Lee Zeldin “voted for Cuomo’s Billion Dollar Tax hike and every Cuomo budget.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 27, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 16, 2022 a Facebook post
Studies show plastics can help combat climate change.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • May 26, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on May 13, 2022 a television ad
Cheri Beasley “vacated” a man’s death sentence and “threw out” the indictment in a child assault case.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • May 25, 2022
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