Fact Check Posts – Page 37

Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 an interview on MSNBC

"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."

By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019

Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 a speech

"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."

March 12, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet

"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 a speech in El Paso, Texas

Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."

By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 State of the Union address

"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country."

By Miriam Valverde • February 8, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning

"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019

Adam Smith
stated on January 29, 2019 a committee hearing

"Go back to 2005 until now, we have quadrupled the number of Border Patrol agents."

By Miriam Valverde • February 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 a tweet

"58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote."

By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 a tweet

"We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."

By Miriam Valverde • January 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 remarks in McAllen, Texas

Says there’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."

By Miriam Valverde • January 11, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 a roundtable at the border

"When I say Mexico is going to pay for the wall, that's what I said. Mexico is going to pay. I didn't say they're going to write me a check for $20 billion or $10 billion."

By Samantha Putterman • January 10, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2019 a televised speech

"At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet

"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."

By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on December 20, 2018 a tweet

"Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy" about U.S. troops leaving Syria.

By Miriam Valverde • December 21, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on December 4, 2018 in a tweet

Says the United States loses "250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration, not including the terrible drug flow. Top Border Security, including a Wall, is $25 Billion. Pays for itself in two months."

By Miriam Valverde • December 5, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 2, 2018 a tweet

"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."

By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 16, 2018 in a press conference

"There’s bipartisan consensus that (Matthew Whitaker’s) appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution."

By John Kruzel • November 29, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 25, 2018 a tweet

Says of immigrant family separations at the border, "we had the exact same policy as the Obama administration."

By Miriam Valverde • November 29, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 19, 2018 a tweet

In her defeat of Republican Rep. Karen Handel, Democratic challenger Lucy McBath "was outspent 5-1."

By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2018

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