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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 26, 2012 in a graphic circulating on the Internet:
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa:
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 11, 2012 in comment to reporters.:
Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Glueck • January 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2012
Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen
stated on November 20, 2011 in appearance on MSNBC's "UP w/Chris Hayes":
"The Republicans have never done anything really to balance the budget."
Pants on Fire!
By Zack McMillin • January 13, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 in a page on the Obama campaign website:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 11, 2012 in an interview.:
Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they "doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 11, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on December 17, 2011 in a news release:
Says federal spending has increased 21 percent over the past three years.
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 9, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 8, 2012 in a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire:
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Anna Little
Anna Little
stated on December 29, 2011 in a message on her campaign website:
"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • January 8, 2012
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on December 12, 2011 in an interview on CNN’s ‘Out Front’:
Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 6, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 in a Web ad:
"Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • January 3, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 in an online video:
Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 2, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on December 27, 2011 in a video ad:
"Newt balanced the federal budget."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • December 28, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on December 7, 2011 in a debate:
"I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere."
True
By Sean Gorman • December 27, 2011
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on December 6, 2011 in a telephone town hall meeting:
Says in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now."
False
By Erin O'Neill • December 18, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
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