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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.:
In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • June 14, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2024 a Biden for President campaign ad:
If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”
Mostly True
By Jacob Gardenswartz • June 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech:
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 TV interview:
Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • May 17, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 a speech:
In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 2, 2024
Greta Neubauer
Greta Neubauer
stated on April 11, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
“The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • April 24, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 9, 2024 an interview with Univision:
Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 a Facebook post:
“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024
Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker
stated on February 16, 2024 a letter to college presidents:
After a 2022 law, “the vast majority of colleges in New York State do not have on-campus poll sites.”
Mostly True
By David Scibilia • April 8, 2024
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on March 24, 2024 remarks on ABC's "This Week":
The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • April 3, 2024
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 TV interview:
“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
Carl Weisbrod
Carl Weisbrod
stated on March 3, 2024 an op-ed:
“The average commute time for people who drive to work in (New York City) is 43 minutes, the longest in the nation.”
Mostly True
By Mary McNaughton, Delainey Muscato • March 25, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 a press release:
“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”
Mostly True
By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • March 24, 2024
Simon Rosenberg
Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 a post on X:
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on February 25, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 an Instagram post:
A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 3, 2024 a CNN interview:
“Since May of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2024
Katie Britt
Katie Britt
stated on March 7, 2024 the Republican response to the State of the Union address:
President Joe Biden “bans TikTok for government employees but creates an account for his own campaign.”
Mostly True
By Loreben Tuquero • March 8, 2024
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