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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 his State of the Union address
The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 a State of the Union address
"We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 27, 2023 remarks at the White House
Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2023
Francesca Hong
Francesca Hong
stated on October 25, 2023 X, formerly Twitter
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson "opposes Social Security benefits."
Mostly False
By Sophia Voight • November 17, 2023
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on November 7, 2023 an event at a store in Manchester, N.H.
Looking at “American aid to other countries … the vast majority of it is military aid.”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Renee Romo • November 14, 2023
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on November 5, 2023 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
“Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2023
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on October 25, 2023 his acceptance speech as speaker
“In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 a post on X
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
Mostly True
By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on October 1, 2023 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on August 23, 2023 a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee
"I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 9, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo
Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Sevana Wenn • July 13, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 20, 2023 a Facebook post
The Pentagon “said we accidentally sent $6.2 billion to Ukraine.”
False
June 22, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 a press release
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 28, 2023 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Every study has shown” that when work requirements are tied to federal safety-net programs, “it puts more people to work.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2023 a speech in New York
"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 18, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on April 26, 2023 a TikTok post
Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 8, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on April 10, 2023 a town hall in Salix, Iowa
There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded.
Half-True
By Matthew Crowley • May 1, 2023
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 30, 2023 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
“In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 9, 2023 a speech about his budget proposal
“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023
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