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Latest Fact-Checks In Federal Budget

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Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on July 24, 2011 an appearance on Channel 6
"There's no money in Social Security."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 4, 2011
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on July 31, 2011 on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."
"The average Republican voter thinks there should be some revenue as part of this deal."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2011 remarks from the White House
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 29, 2011 an e-mail
"If the debt ceiling is surpassed, our nation will not go into default as some suggest."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Martha M. Hamilton • August 2, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on August 1, 2011 a message on Twitter
"There are no tax increases in this debt limit bill. Period."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 2, 2011
Alliance for Retired Americans
Alliance for Retired Americans
stated on July 12, 2011 an email blast
"Social Security doesn’t contribute a penny to the deficit."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 2, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 14, 2011 a letter.
(Rep. Bob Goodlatte's) balanced budget amendment does not require a balanced budget.
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • August 1, 2011
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 25, 2011 a television interview
"The federal government is spending 25 percent of our entire economy versus 100 years ago we spent only 2 percent."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 31, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on July 27, 2011 an interview on CNN
"This is the first time in the history that we've had the raising of a debt limit also with spending cuts."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 29, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 26, 2011 a comment on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 26, 2011 a TV interview.
"Harry Reid’s plan is basically giving the president a blank check."
False
By Warren Fiske • July 29, 2011
Judson Phillips
Judson Phillips
stated on July 27, 2011 a "Washington Post" opinion piece
"Our government has spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly."
Half-True
July 29, 2011
We Are Wisconsin
We Are Wisconsin
stated on July 15, 2011 a news release
Says Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling offered "unqualified support" for a plan to end Medicare
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 29, 2011
Ohio Democratic Party
Ohio Democratic Party
stated on July 25, 2011 a news release
Says Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel "supports allowing the United States to default on its obligations."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Feran • July 28, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office."
True
July 27, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 25, 2011 an interview on MSNBC
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
True
By Stephen Koff • July 27, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised speech
The House passed "cut, cap and balance" with "bipartisan support."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 25, 2011 a televised address
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times.  George W. Bush did it seven times."
True
July 26, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 19, 2011 debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."
Half-True
By Therese Bottomly • July 25, 2011
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on July 19, 2011 a campaign video.
"This past (legislative) session, we passed out of the Legislature a resolution requiring Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the (U.S.) Constitution."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 25, 2011
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