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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 a post on X:
“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 16, 2024 a rally in Vandalia, Ohio:
"Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2024
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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
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