Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 24, 2021 a Facebook post
“A year ago we had the lowest unemployment in history without using taxpayers money.”
False
May 5, 2021
George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos
stated on April 12, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden is “withholding $150 million in aid from Ukraine” to “pressure Ukraine to drop all criminal investigations into him and his son, Hunter.”
False
April 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post
“FEMA is paying for hotel rooms!!!” for Texas winter storm victims.
False
February 19, 2021
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2020 a discussion with business leaders
Speaking of the federal debt before the coronavirus pandemic, “we were starting to get that number down.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • October 19, 2020
Tommy Tuberville
Tommy Tuberville
stated on October 8, 2020 an ad
Says Doug Jones "has voted to spend our tax dollars on late-term abortions" and "supports abortion up until birth."
False
October 14, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2020 on social media
Nancy Pelosi ordered a 220-seat Boeing 757 to fly to her home state, costing taxpayers nearly $5.8 million annually.
False
By Patrick Orsagos • June 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 31, 2019 social media posts
"California's Attorney General, Xavier Becerra is putting together plans to raise property tax revenue by eliminating the only thing keeping some people's property tax from sky rocketing, Prop 13."
False
By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 17, 2019 a video posted on his presidential campaign’s social media accounts.
"I am very proud that I am the only candidate in the Democratic primary to have voted against all of Trump's defense budgets."
False
By Kit Norton • December 20, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on December 1, 2019 an interview
The U.S. spends "57 cents on the dollar on defense."
False
December 13, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 a tweet
"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2019 posts online
"President Trump’s wall costs less than the ObamaCare website."
False
By Julianna Rennie • March 29, 2019
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 a speech
"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."  
False
March 12, 2019
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on January 15, 2019 a statement
A provision in the first bill passed by House Democrats would "allow the billions of dollars of aid we send to other countries to be used for abortions."
False
By Mica Soellner • February 19, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 11, 2019 tweets and Facebook posts
Says Congress set aside $50 billion for the Secure Fence Act in 2006
False
By Amy Sherman • January 22, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 2, 2018 a tweet
"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2018 a tweet
"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 12, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 26, 2018 a public forum
Says the Trump administration "has banned the CDC even using the word ‘transgender.’ "
False
By D.L. Davis • August 17, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on July 26, 2018 an interview on the Daily Show
"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."
False
By Manuela Tobias • August 1, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 10, 2018 remarks at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
"Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2018
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on April 29, 2018 an interview on CNN
President Donald Trump’s budget "threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid"
False
By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018
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