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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 30, 2018 in a video:
Says the Koch Brothers sponsored "a study that shows that Medicare for All would save the American people $2 trillion over a 10-year period."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2018 in a campaign appearance:
"The Koch brothers have given" Paul Ryan "$500,000 in campaign contributions."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2017 in an interview:
"Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 20, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 13, 2017 in a tweet:
Says Senate deliberations on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 included hundreds of hours of debate and more than 100 Republican amendments, compared with zero for the American Health Care Act this year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 5, 2017 in an interview on CNN:
Says former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • February 9, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 12, 2016 in an interview:
Fifty percent of workers ages 55 to 64 have "zero" money "in the bank as they enter retirement."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 5, 2016 in a speech:
Says Donald Trump’s plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would "get a $53 billion tax break."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
"The top 1 percent in recent years has earned 85 percent of all new income."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 27, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 1, 2016 in a news conference:
"There are tens of thousands of homes right here in California where you turn on the faucet but you can't drink the water."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 16, 2016 in a town hall in San Juan:
"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y.:
"We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 in a TV ad :
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political ad for Bernie 2016:
"The Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs."  
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • March 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 28, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • February 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 in comments during the PBS Democratic debate:
The United States has "the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth."  
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 2, 2016 in a campaign event in Keene, N.H.:
Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."
Half-True
By Clay Wirestone • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate on MSNBC:
Americans "are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 1, 2016 in a political ad:
"While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 3, 2016
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