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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Center for Individual Freedom
Center for Individual Freedom
stated on April 13, 2016 a TV ad
Says Paul Ryan backs a proposal that would be a "bailout" of Puerto Rico.  
Half-True
May 6, 2016
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview
"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 a campaign speech
Says Donald Trump "wants us to pull out of NATO."
Mostly False
April 1, 2016
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 a political ad
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 21, 2015 a TV ad that ran mostly in Iowa
Says Donald Trump and Marco Rubio opposed Cruz’s "efforts to defund Planned Parenthood."
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • March 16, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 5, 2016 a public forum
Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."
Half-True
March 11, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 a GOP debate at the University of Miami
Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."  
True
By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 21, 2016 a TV ad
"When the auto industry was going under, car parts companies like" Johnson Controls "begged taxpayers for a bailout, and they got one."  
Half-True
March 9, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Jonathan Stickland
Jonathan Stickland
stated on February 10, 2016 a TV ad
Scott Fisher "tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 a debate
"We bailed out" Johnson Controls when "we saved the auto industry" and "now they want to avoid paying taxes."
Mostly True
February 11, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 2, 2016 an appearance at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.
The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 a Fox News debate
"Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on January 20, 2016 a radio interview
"A lot of student loans are already refinanced by the federal government."
False
January 27, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate
"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 15, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 his 2016 State of the Union address
"We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on Meet the Press
The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview
Says President Barack Obama’s homeland security budget had "$16 million to fight climate change" but "didn't have a line item to fight violent extremism."  
Mostly False
December 18, 2015
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