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Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 30, 2023 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:
“In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 9, 2023 a speech about his budget proposal:
“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on January 27, 2023 an interview with reporters:
“The largest contributor to the debt ceiling, or to our deficit, has been the Trump tax cuts.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 20, 2023 a speech at the White House:
“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 8, 2022 a statement:
Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 14, 2022
Citizens for Sanity
Citizens for Sanity
stated on November 2, 2022 an ad:
President Joe Biden and Democrats "send a fortune to Ukraine but nothing for our children."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 3, 2022
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 an ad:
"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 30, 2022 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“All Democrats in the Senate and House voted to cut $280 billion out of Medicare just two months ago.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2022
Club for Growth Action
Club for Growth Action
stated on October 21, 2022 an ad:
Catherine Cortez Masto "was the deciding vote” to send COVID-19 stimulus checks to more than 1 million prisoners.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 27, 2022
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 31, 2022 a Facebook ad:
“More than half of the $739 billion tax increase (in the Inflation Reduction Act) will go to wasteful Green New Deal programs like tree equity, 'clean' garbage trucks, and studying cow farts."
Mostly False
By Jessica Riley, Sierra Worden • October 25, 2022
Saving Arizona PAC
Saving Arizona PAC
stated on October 11, 2022 an ad:
Mark Kelly "voted to allow prison inmates to receive stimulus checks five separate times."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 20, 2022
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker
stated on September 28, 2022 an ad:
Raphael Warnock "called police thugs, then cut their funding."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 16, 2022 an ad:
Sen. Raphael Warnock "voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 18, 2022 an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes":
“This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2022
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker
stated on August 22, 2022 a tweet:
Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock "are spending $1.5 billion on ‘urban forestry’ and raising taxes on those making under $200k to pay for it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tori Gantz • September 1, 2022
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on August 26, 2022 an ad:
Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is a "bailout for rich kids."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 31, 2022
Ben Cline
Ben Cline
stated on August 12, 2022 a statement.:
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann, Warren Fiske • August 24, 2022
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on August 3, 2022 an ad:
The Inflation Reduction Act "doubles the size of the IRS, raises your taxes and spends billions on a green energy slush fund."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 23, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 16, 2022 a press release:
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann • August 17, 2022
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