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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 19, 2022 a news conference:
“This country’s working people actually got a raise.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2021 an Instagram post:
A video shows “your packages were rerouted and have arrived in the port of Miami” as a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2021 a press conference in Glasgow:
“Wages have gone up higher, faster than inflation.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2021
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on September 24, 2021 Twitter:
Says Joe Biden's IRS reform proposals "would require banks and credit unions to hand over private information about routine transactions to the IRS."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2021 a Facebook post:
“There are now 56 cargo freighters anchored off the coast of California from Oakland to Long Beach in what can only be considered a manufactured supply-chain halt.”
Mostly False
By Isabella Fertel • October 1, 2021
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on August 23, 2021 a TV ad.:
Glenn Youngkin “called COVID relief ‘unnecessary.’”
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • September 1, 2021
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on July 20, 2021 Twitter:
Says spending by Democrats is driving major jumps in car rentals, gas prices and hotel prices this summer
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • August 6, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 26, 2021 a press release:
“Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 29, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on July 15, 2021 a tweet:
“You must give EVERY PENNY” of the advance child tax credit payments back when you file your 2021 taxes.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • July 21, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2021 social media posts:
“Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • May 26, 2021
Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy
stated on February 7, 2021 remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“New York, for all of their complaining, Gov. Cuomo's complaining, has only had a 1.5% decrease in revenue” due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mostly False
By John Pullano • February 26, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 11, 2021 an Instagram post:
Due to differing lockdown orders, New York has more COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and job losses than Florida, and New York also lags on vaccinations.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 26, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 a CNN town hall in Milwaukee.:
“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2021
Jim Steineke
Jim Steineke
stated on January 17, 2021 a TV interview:
Gov. Tony Evers “has the authority and revenue necessary” to upgrade the Wisconsin unemployment system without the Legislature.
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • February 3, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 17, 2020 a Facebook post:
"Biden wants to end Shareholder Capitalism.. that's your 401k..your pensions.. your retirement.. are you voting for that???"
Mostly False
By Noah Y. Kim • September 23, 2020
Martha McSally
Martha McSally
stated on July 31, 2020 a tweet:
“Mark Kelly criticized the (Paycheck Protection Program), then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Mississippi got 10,145 warrants for unemployment fraud!!”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 a White House briefing:
“We're setting record job numbers.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 a Facebook post:
"China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020
Dan Bishop
Dan Bishop
stated on April 24, 2020 an interview:
“Half the workforce in the country may have just been idled” by coronavirus.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • May 20, 2020
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