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Latest Fact-Checks In State Budget

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Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News:
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 18, 2017 a radio interview:
"Property taxes are lower right now than they were" in December 2010 on a median-valued home in Wisconsin.  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 7, 2017
Wisconsin Freedom Alliance
Wisconsin Freedom Alliance
stated on April 25, 2017 a radio ad:
Wisconsin politicians get daily expense payments "even if they don’t spend a dime on meals, or lodging or travel," and "no receipts are required for them to get paid."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • May 3, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 a U.S. Senate floor speech:
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017
Kip Kendrick
Kip Kendrick
stated on January 20, 2017 an interview on KMIZ’s “This Week”:
"Corporate entities are paying a lot less taxes this year than they have in the past. Part of that is from a loophole in a bill that was passed in 2015."
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By Jen Para • March 2, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 20, 2017 an interview:
Says Scott Walker is proposing to add 485 employees "in the category of supervisor and management" to his Department of Administration.
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By Tom Kertscher • March 1, 2017
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission:
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
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By Will Doran • January 27, 2017
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview:
On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."  
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By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on September 19, 2016 a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:
"Thirty-one percent of school districts are still receiving less funding per pupil than they did prior to the dramatic budget cuts of 2011."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:
"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 in an interview with Fox 13 :
"I've cut the budget of the (lieutenant governor’s) office by more than half."  
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By Amy Sherman • June 6, 2016
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 an interview on Fox 13:
"I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."  
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By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 an interview:
"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."  
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By Tom Kertscher • May 25, 2016
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 his education plan:
"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."
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By Will Doran • March 21, 2016
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate:
"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016
Janet Adkins
Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting:
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."
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By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 13, 2016 the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.:
"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 15, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter:
"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."
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By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 an interview:
The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval  
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By Tom Kertscher • December 3, 2015
Jeff Morales
Jeff Morales
stated on October 29, 2015 a press conference:
"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."
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By Chris Nichols • November 24, 2015
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