Fact Check Posts – Page 55

Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post:

"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."

By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on December 4, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Donald Trump "won more counties than any candidate on our side since Ronald Reagan."

By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2016

Christine Radogno
stated on November 14, 2016 a press conference:

We (in Illinois) have the fifth-highest tax burden in the country.

By Madeleine Doubek • December 2, 2016

Dan Patrick
stated on November 29, 2016 a press release:

"Texans pay the sixth-highest property tax in the nation."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 1, 2016

Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview:

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 an interview on ABC's This Week:

"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."

By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016

Lena Taylor
stated on October 13, 2016 an opinion column:

"Slavery is still allowable under Wisconsin law as long as it’s a punishment for a crime."

By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2016

Bill Nelson
stated on November 16, 2016 a Senate floor speech:

Says Donald Trump said he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling" during the campaign.

By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2016

Carl Heastie
stated on October 24, 2016 an article from WBFO:

Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, "that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000."

By Dan Clark • November 18, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an MSNBC interview:

"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."

By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on November 9, 2016 a news conference:

Obamacare "is not a popular law."

By Tom Kertscher • November 17, 2016

Donna Howard
stated on September 19, 2016 a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Thirty-one percent of school districts are still receiving less funding per pupil than they did prior to the dramatic budget cuts of 2011."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2016

Gavin Newsom
stated on November 9, 2016 a press conference.:

California has seen a "56 percent decline in the gun murder rate" since the 1990s.

By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2016 a rally in Atkinson, N.H.:

"Nearly one in four people in their prime working years are not working."

By Louis Jacobson • November 7, 2016

Senate Leadership Fund
stated on October 11, 2016 a TV ad:

"(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ‘ridiculous,’ yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag."

By Will Doran • November 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2016 a campaign speech.:

Says Nevadans will have a "double-digit hike in their Obamacare premiums for the year" and "10 of Nevada’s 16 counties will only have one Obamacare...exchange insurer"

By Riley Snyder • November 4, 2016

Richard Burr
stated on October 29, 2016 a private meeting with supporters:

"I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States."

By Will Doran • November 3, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on October 26, 2016 a radio ad:

Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act."

By Tom Kertscher • November 3, 2016

Priorities USA Action
stated on September 28, 2016 a TV ad:

Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers."

By Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2016 a campaign speech:

Says Barack Obama "is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth."

By Joshua Gillin • October 31, 2016

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