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Instagram posts
stated on May 19, 2020 an Instagram post

“A lot of people can get an additional $2,400” from the CARES Act “and they can do it every month!”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Tom McClintock
stated on April 29, 2020 an interview on CapRadio's Insight program.

“The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year according to the CDC.”

By Chris Nichols • May 5, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 a Facebook post

“Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2020

Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 22, 2020 a speech

Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support."

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on December 13, 2019 a rally in San Antonio, Texas.

"I (found) the Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare, help us from falling into a Great Depression."

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2019

Brian Treece
stated on October 17, 2019 a press conference

Columbia, Mo., is "one of the fastest growing cities in the region, the only city in the state to grow jobs faster than the nation as a whole."

By Libby Stanford • November 16, 2019

Kevin Brady
stated on October 7, 2019 a tweet

Says the Associated Press was wrong to report that "Income Inequality grew to largest in 50 years" because in a "new Census report all four measures of income inequality SHRUNK, reversing rise over past five decades."

By Madlin Mekelburg • October 12, 2019

Ron Johnson
stated on July 15, 2019 a tweet

"Republican policies have led to business investment growth that’s 10 times faster than what we saw under President Obama."

By Mica Soellner • October 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 9, 2019 a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.

China has "had now the worst year in 57 years."

By Bill McCarthy • September 10, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 remarks to South Korean business leaders

"We hadn’t had a (car) plant built in years — in decades, actually. And now we have many plants being built all throughout the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019

Charles Payne
stated on June 17, 2019 a TV appearance

"When President Obama was elected, the market crashed … Trump was up 9%, President Obama was down 14.8% and President Bush was down almost 4%. There is an instant reaction on Wall Street."

By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing

"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."

By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019

Scott Walker
stated on January 16, 2019 a tweet

During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America."

By Eric Litke • February 5, 2019

West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet

"FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office."

By Cade Moisey, Matt Holleran • February 4, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on January 27, 2019 a campaign launch event

"The cost of living is going up, but paychecks aren't keeping up."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2019

David McKinley
stated on October 31, 2018 a debate

"Last year we had the eighth fastest-growing economy in the country in West Virginia."

By Patrick Orsagos, Zack Schwehm • November 29, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 Tweet announcing new bill

Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."

By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2018 a rally in Charleston, W.Va.

"A few months ago, it hit where West Virginia is, on a per capita basis, one of the most successful (gross domestic product) states in our union."

By Warren Sterling • August 31, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on July 26, 2018 a tweet

"Between the first and second quarters of 2018 — after the tax cuts were enacted — real wages fell by 1.8 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2018

Don Blankenship
stated on April 23, 2018 a debate

Says illegal immigration is "costing us $130 billion a year to house and feed and give benefits to people that shouldn’t be even in the country."

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2018

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