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Colin Allred
Colin Allred
stated on October 25, 2021 in a TV interview
"You've had over 2 million women drop out of the workforce during this pandemic."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • November 23, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 TV interview
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
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By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
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By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on October 19, 2021 a tweet
"Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where inflation is costing households an extra $175 a month.”
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By Lyle Muller • October 21, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2021 a speech in Howell, Mich.
"Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2021
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on August 25, 2021 Twitter
“Wisconsin Governor (Tony) Evers wanted to raise your taxes by $1 billion in a pandemic. Republicans stopped him and delivered the largest tax CUT in state history.”
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By Madeline Heim • September 24, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 23, 2021 a speech.
When Terry McAuliffe was governor, “Unemployment went down in every single county, including rural Virginia by nearly 50%.
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By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on May 21, 2021 a radio interview.
“Over the last few years, more Virginians are moving away from Virginia than are moving to Virginia from the other 49 states.”
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By Warren Fiske • June 17, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2021 an interview on MSNBC
"Sadly during the course of the pandemic one-third of our small businesses have closed."
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By Chris Nichols • June 7, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 5, 2021 Statement
The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan will be “the biggest non-defense investment in research and development in the history of our country.”
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By Laura Schulte • May 28, 2021
Rick Gundrum
Rick Gundrum
stated on March 29, 2021 Twitter
Says Gov. Tony Evers’ 2021-22 state budget "increases taxes $1 billion +"
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By D.L. Davis • April 6, 2021
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 24, 2021 a Senate floor speech
In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”
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By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2021
Christi Craddick
Christi Craddick
stated on December 12, 2020 a tweet
Says that the oil and gas industry comprises 35% of the Texas economy.
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By Brandon Mulder • December 22, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 a tweet
Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”
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By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 18, 2020 a Democratic convention speech
The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on August 4, 2020 remarks at a news conference
When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 14, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 2, 2020 a TV interview
“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • August 13, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 2, 2020 a tweet
“34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”
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By D.L. Davis • August 12, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a statement
Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”
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By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2020 remarks at a public event in Des Moines
"Under three years of my administration, net farm income has already gone up nearly 50%."
Mostly True
May 22, 2020
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