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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
stated on March 30, 2017 a campaign ad
In the federal government, "there’s $16 billion in duplicate programs" that can be cut.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017
Restoration PAC
Restoration PAC
stated on March 21, 2017 a video
Says Tammy Baldwin "supported legislation allowing citizens to withhold funding for our troops."  
Mostly False
April 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 a CEO town hall
"There was a very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration, a trillion dollars. Nobody ever saw anything being built."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017
Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
stated on March 28, 2017 a House committee hearing
"There are about as many members of the Armed Forces marching bands as there are American diplomats."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 31, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 16, 2017 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
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on March 12, 2017 an interview on CNN
"I remember years ago looking at a CBO report that in 1964 predicted that Medicare would cost $9 billion 10 years later. And I think it was already over $100 billion at that point."
False
March 20, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 13, 2017 a news release
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums."
Half-True
March 14, 2017
Raj Shah
Raj Shah
stated on February 24, 2017 an op-ed
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 8, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2017 a speech to Congress
Says his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2017
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 1, 2017 tweets
Says Melania Trump’s security detail at Trump Tower costs more than the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • February 8, 2017
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 27, 2017 a speech at the March for Life
The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 a press briefing
"Obamacare has failed."
Mostly False
February 1, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 23, 2017 the daily press briefing
There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 11, 2017 a Senate confirmation hearing
"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 17, 2017
Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison
stated on January 5, 2017 a tweet
"House GOP rules package bars CBO from counting spikes in deficit spending spurred by an ACA repeal."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2017
Nick Seymour
Nick Seymour
stated on January 7, 2017 an op-ed
Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on November 10, 2016 an interview
"Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke."
Pants on Fire!
December 23, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on November 30, 2016 a speech
"In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year."
Mostly True
By Ariella Phillips • December 21, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2016 a press release
More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but "the federal government has still only committed $7 million" to help Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 12, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 6, 2016 a tweet
"Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2016
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