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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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