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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel
stated on May 1, 2017 a monologue on his show:
"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal last night to not go along with that. They actually increased funding by $2 billion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2017
Scott Peters
Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article:
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."
True
By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017
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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
By Sarah Waychoff • 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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
By Tom Kertscher • 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!
By Tom Kertscher • 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
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