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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 26, 2017 an interview
"Close to half of the voters in America, the only tax they pay is the payroll tax."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 28, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2017 an interview with Channel 8
"The child tax credit, if we don't do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get under tax reform is entirely dependent on whether or not we put in place an increase to the child tax credit."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 19, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 20, 2017 a Facebook live speech
"In order to sell insurance in Florida there are over 40 separate individual conditions that must be covered. ... far beyond the essential health benefits included in Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 27, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 28, 2017 a Facebook live speech
"There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 9, 2017 an interview on ABC "This Week"
The Obama administration’s 2013 Syria proposal "had no clear objective," while Trump’s Syria strike "had a clear strategic objective."
False
By Lauren Carroll • April 12, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview
"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate in Orlando
"Not even Tim Kaine is willing" to say he trusts Hillary Clinton. 
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
"In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again" through Obamacare.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 4, 2016 a Spanish-language campaign ad
Says Patrick Murphy wrongly conveyed Rubio's stance on abortion for women infected by Zika.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 11, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 13, 2016 a TV ad
Says Patrick "Murphy embellished, according to reports, his University of Miami academic achievement."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 7, 2016 a statement by a spokeswoman
Says "Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 a campaign ad
Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 22, 2016 an announcement
On running for re-election to U.S. Senate  
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview with Hugh Hewitt
"In America, radical speech is not a crime."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 16, 2016 a tweet
Says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • June 3, 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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 the GOP primary debate in Texas
Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the Houston GOP debate
"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 a web video
"People (are) paying more in taxes than they will for food, housing and clothing combined."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016
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