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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 15, 2020 a speech in Las Vegas
Says Mike Bloomberg “opposed modest proposals during Barack Obama’s presidency to raise taxes on the wealthy, while advocating for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 15, 2020 a speech in Nevada
Says Mike Bloomberg is “a candidate who in 2015 stated, and I quote: ‘I, for example, am not in favor, have never been in favor of raising the minimum wage.’”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
Mostly True
By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 13, 2020 a Sun Sentinel op ed
"In Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments about his "Medicare for All" plan during the January Democratic presidential debate.
"We end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes."
True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • January 15, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 7, 2020 newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign
"In 2018, Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 17, 2019 a video posted on his presidential campaign’s social media accounts.
"I am very proud that I am the only candidate in the Democratic primary to have voted against all of Trump's defense budgets."
False
By Kit Norton • December 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles
Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 19, 2019 a rally in New York City
Says Congress gave Wall Street "trillions of dollars of zero interest loans."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 24, 2019 a speech
"49% of all new income goes to the top 1%."
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 29, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 12, 2019 comments during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston
"Was it 150 million people on private insurance? 50 million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs, or they go unemployed, or their employer changes their insurance policy."
Mostly False
By Emmarie Huetteman • September 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 22, 2019 a campaign speech
 "Some 200,000 people are in jail for the crime of being poor and not being able to afford bail."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • August 29, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 26, 2019 an Instagram post
 "Last year, South Carolina spent $21,756 per prison inmate and $11,552 per student."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • August 27, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 15, 2019 an interview with Cardi B
"We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system. They may end up in jail, they may end up on parole, they may end up on probation."
Half-True
By Daniel Funke • August 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 a Facebook meme
"In 2016, counties hosting a Trump rally saw a 226% spike in hate crimes."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 a video on Twitter
"There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."  
Half-True
August 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 a speech at George Washington University
With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2019 a speech at George Washington University
"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."
Mostly True
By Kristen Uppercue, Patrick Orsagos • July 18, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post
"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2019 the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida.
"No, that’s a mischaracterization of my thinking."
Mostly True
By Kit Norton • July 3, 2019
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