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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 4, 2013 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"Obamacare … carries on even under a government shutdown."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2013
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on August 4, 2013 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
The federal deficit is "growing."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2013
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on July 24, 2013 in a news release:
A Republican housing finance reform bill "would eliminate a person’s ability to obtain 15- and 30-year mortgages."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 4, 2013
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on July 30, 2013 in a media availability with reporters:
The sequester has "already lost 1.6 million jobs."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 22, 2013 in a blog post:
President Barack Obama has "announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2013
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 25, 2013 in a newspaper ad:
Rick Scott  "invested $38 million in the Port of Jacksonville's vital Mile Point Project," which "covered missing federal funds for the project."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • July 26, 2013
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on July 18, 2013 in a Twitter post:
"The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos."
True
By Janel Davis • July 26, 2013
American Postal Workers Union
American Postal Workers Union
stated on July 8, 2013 in television advertisement:
"The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t run on your tax dollars. It’s funded solely by stamps and postage."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • July 24, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 16, 2013 in a tweet:
"The FL Guard has defended our freedom in Afghanistan, Iraq, and put their lives at risk; now the fed govt is going to cut their pay 20%."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 in an MSNBC interview:
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 11, 2013 in a news conference:
"This is the same (farm) bill we voted on a few weeks ago, with the exception of one or two sentences."  
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • July 17, 2013
Todd Young
Todd Young
stated on June 19, 2013 in a letter to a constituent:
"Nearly 70 percent of all federal spending will go towards Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid" in fiscal year 2014.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2013
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on May 2, 2013 in a speech:
"In the past four years, (the U.S. Senate) has only passed nine out of 48 appropriation bills."
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • June 21, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 7, 2013 in a letter to Gov. Rick Scott:
If Gov. Rick Scott activates "the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state’s costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • June 18, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 in a conference call with reporters:
"Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies" but want to cut food stamps.
True
By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
Kitty Rhoades
Kitty Rhoades
stated on June 6, 2013 in a speech:
Wisconsin is "not walking away from a dime" in federal funds by rejecting the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 15, 2013
Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House floor speech:
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2013
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on May 21, 2013 in a news release:
A bill to advance the Keystone XL Pipeline "is an earmark" under House rules.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2013
Charlie Smith
Charlie Smith
stated on May 6, 2013 in a newspaper article:
The federal government could save $500 million annually by circulating $1 coins instead of $1 bills.
Half-True
By Janel Davis • May 31, 2013
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on May 14, 2013 in a radio interview.:
Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • May 28, 2013
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