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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2009 a television interview
On mandating health care coverage.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 1, 2009 public statements
On a single-payer health care system.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2009 a newspaper interview
"We import more oil today than ever before."
False
By Catharine Richert • July 8, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 24, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 9, 2009 a statement at the White House
"In the first round of repayments"  from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
True
June 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2009 interview with Canal Plus Television
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • June 4, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2009 a speech
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 29, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 26, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2009 a speech.
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
True
By Catharine Richert • May 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2009 legal filings
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2009 a speech at the White House.
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • May 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 29, 2009 a press conference
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 29, 2009 a news conference
In Iraq, "civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year."
True
April 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2009 a speech at Georgetown University
"Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 19, 2009 a news conference.
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
Mostly True
April 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2009 a news conference.
"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
Half-True
April 17, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 27, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 31, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 in a news conference.
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
Mostly True
March 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2009 a news conference.
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • March 25, 2009
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