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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times
China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times
"We’ve rebuilt China."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University
"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
stated on March 24, 2016 a Fox Business interview
Under Hillary Clinton, State Department "officials were sending official thank-yous to people who gave to the Clinton Foundation."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a speech at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.
"When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 24, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview on CNN
"Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America" said it would "ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2016 a speech at Mar-a-Lago
Under the Iran nuclear deal, "we give them $150 billion, we get nothing."
False
By Linda Qiu • March 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • 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
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 on CNN's "State of the Union."
Donald Trump has "described Hillary Clinton as one of the best secretaries of state in history."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2016
Right to Rise
Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.
Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016
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