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Latest Fact-Checks On Jeb Bush

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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 his announcement speech at Miami Dade College:
Says Hillary Clinton "insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs ‘have to be changed.’ "
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Orlando:
"In Florida, for eight years we cut taxes every year, totaling $19 billion."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 11, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Orlando:
"We reduced the government workforce by 13,000, 11 percent, during my eight years."
True
By Joshua Gillin • June 9, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 remarks at an economic summit in Orlando:
"You can fill out your tax return in Estonia online in five minutes."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2015 a roundtable in New Hampshire:
"ISIS didn't exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2015 a meeting with business leaders in Portsmouth, N.H.:
"Florida was the only state during my eight years to go from AA to AAA" in its bond rating.
False
By Joshua Gillin • May 28, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2015 a meeting with business leaders in Portsmouth, N.H.:
Says he was known as "Veto Corleone" for cutting spending as Florida governor.
True
By Joshua Gillin • May 26, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day dinner:
"One person has been fired" at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 22, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 13, 2015 a response to a question after a town hall meeting:
"We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops" in Iraq.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 18, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 a speech at Politics and Eggs:
"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • May 8, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters:
"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire:
"We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 14, 2015 an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
"We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA:
Florida has the most concealed weapon permits in the nation, "nearly double that of the second state, which is Texas."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 15, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 30, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • March 31, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 a business roundtable in New Hampshire:
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 27, 2015 a CPAC appearance:
Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to "more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system" than before.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit:
Hispanic students in Florida perform "the best" of any Hispanic population in the United States.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 4, 2015 a speech in Detroit:
"Millions of people have given up looking for work altogether."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2015
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