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Latest Fact-Checks In Infrastructure

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Kelly Loeffler
Kelly Loeffler
stated on August 6, 2020 a campaign ad
“Doug Collins repeatedly joined liberal Stacey Abrams to raise taxes...Kelly’s never voted for a tax increase — and never will.”
Mostly False
August 17, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2019 an interview on "Face the Nation"
President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2019
Jim Durkin
Jim Durkin
stated on June 3, 2019 a radio interview
"There are parts of I-80 near Joliet that school buses are not allowed to cross because of the fragile nature of a bridge."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 16, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan
"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 7, 2019
LaTonya Johnson
LaTonya Johnson
stated on April 3, 2019 a tweet
"Our road conditions cost WI families. In Milwaukee, the average cost per driver is $2,300."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 26, 2019
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
stated on January 27, 2019 an interview
Among neighboring states, the condition of Wisconsin highways was rated "not only the worst, but it was worse by a gaping margin."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • February 26, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
True
By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on August 16, 2018 a speech
Wisconsin is "49th out of 50 states in infrastructure."  
False
August 30, 2018
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on August 8, 2018 a speech to farmers
"Hospitals are closing in rural America because they don't have access to high-speed internet."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 a campaign speech
"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on March 13, 2018 testimony before a Senate committee
A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the State of the Union address
"America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isn’t it a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road?"
Half-True
By John Kruzel • January 31, 2018
Matt Adamczyk
Matt Adamczyk
stated on December 15, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin's state court agency "basically" has rented the same office space across from the Capitol "since 1974."  
Mostly True
December 22, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 a newspaper article
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on June 14, 2017 a "Tampa Bay Times" article
Says Rick Kriseman is $35 million over budget on St. Petersburg’s new police station.  
False
By Allison Graves • August 25, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on August 9, 2017 a podcast
"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • August 24, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 a Facebook post
Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on June 24, 2017 a "Tampa Bay Times" article
Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • August 10, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech on the House floor
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 an interview
"All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel."
False
April 20, 2017
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