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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2014 a speech at the CPAC conference
Says President Barack Obama "is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2013 a conversation with reporters
"Virtually every person across this country has seen premiums going up and up and up" due to Obamacare.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 20, 2013 a news release
"A strong bipartisan majority" in the House of Representatives "voted to defund Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 a Senate floor speech
UPS left 15,000 employees’ spouses "without health insurance" and told them to, "go on an exchange with no employer subsidy."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 26, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 10, 2013 a speech to the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa
Says "President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception" to Obamacare.
False
By Becky Bowers • August 14, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 1, 2013 remarks in Austin, Texas
"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 7, 2013 an interview on PBS
Says "the jurisdictions with the strictest gun control laws, almost without exception … have the highest crime rates and the highest murder rates."
False
By Sue Owen • February 1, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 13, 2012 a Republican US Senate debate at WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas.
David Dewhurst "has never once cut one penny from the state budget."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 20, 2012
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 19, 2012 a tweet.
"Did you know ObamaCare will cost nearly twice as much as initially expected -- $1.8 TRILLION?"
False
By Molly Moorhead • March 21, 2012
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