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Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 in 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
stated on December 13, 2015 in 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
stated on December 9, 2015 in 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

By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2015

American Action Network
stated on December 8, 2015 in a newspaper ad:

"Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent – nearly $800 billion."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • December 11, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 1, 2015 in a tweet:

"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • December 7, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate:

Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third GOP primary debate.:

Says his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.

False

By Linda Qiu • November 5, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third GOP primary debate.:

Says his tax plan wouldn't leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.

False

By Linda Qiu • November 4, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

The debt limit deal "allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on October 21, 2015 in a post on his website:

"The federal government owns about half of the West, yet it continues to acquire more land."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2015

Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 in a blog post:

"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • October 15, 2015

Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2015 in a speech:

"60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded."

True

By Tom Kertscher • October 14, 2015

Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 in a speech:

"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2015

Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 26, 2015 in a speech:

Student loans from the federal government issued between 2007 and 2012 are on target "to produce $66 billion in profits for the United States government."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • October 1, 2015

John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015

Tom Cole
stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"There’s no money" for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.

True

By Lauren Carroll • September 29, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet:

The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."

Mostly False

By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015

Jay Nixon
stated on August 12, 2015 in a post on Twitter:

Missouri is "#1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities."

Mostly True

By Arthur Cook • September 24, 2015

Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 3, 2015 in remarks in San Antonio:

As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 in a speech:

Says Scott Walker rejected legislation to make college loan payments tax deductible and the result was "to raise taxes on students."

False

By Tom Kertscher • September 9, 2015

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