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Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on July 23, 2019 a digital ad
"Trump wants to cut (Medicare) just to pay for tax breaks to billionaires."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • July 26, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 21, 2019 CNN State of the Union interview
"There's a survey done in Guatemala. A third of Guatemalans intend to migrate to the United States. That's about 5.8 million people."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 26, 2019
Rebecca Holcombe
Rebecca Holcombe
stated on July 15, 2019 statement announcing candidacy for governor.
"Gov. Scott is pushing for a statewide voucher program that would take millions from our public schools and funnel it to private schools that mostly serve privileged families."
Mostly False
By Colin Meyn • July 25, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 15, 2019 a Facebook post
 "SIX of the most prominent activists during the Ferguson riots have all been found burned to death in their cars. There are no coincidences here." 
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • July 25, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 a speech at George Washington University
With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019
Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on May 6, 2019 a televised ad by the Americans for Tax Reform
"The Department of Health and Human Services is considering a plan to adopt socialist price controls from foreign countries." 
Mostly False
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • July 19, 2019
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on July 12, 2019 a tweet
"Terrorists who are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay can be transferred to a neighborhood near you" as a result of House Democrats’ actions on the National Defense Authorization Act.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2019 a Facebook post
 "No one mentions that illegals are free to leave detention centers anytime to go back to Mexico. They aren't our prisoners."  
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • July 17, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 4, 2019 an event in Carrol, Iowa
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 8, 2019 a Facebook post
Migrants at the U.S. border are "able to pay cell phone bills" after a "two-month excursion across four separate countries."
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • July 10, 2019
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on June 17, 2019 a Facebook post
Says "Joe Biden calls for gun ban."
Mostly False
July 9, 2019
John Flanagan
John Flanagan
stated on June 18, 2019 a radio interview
"The Senate Democrats have not provided one tax cut."  
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 8, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on June 28, 2019 an interview
"There’s a hacking conference that’s held every year in Las Vegas, where I think a 14- or 15-year old-girl from Florida hacked into a replica of Florida’s election system in less than 15 minutes."
Mostly False
July 3, 2019
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 a TV panel
"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019
Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor
stated on May 30, 2019 a statement to the Joint Committee on Finance
Voucher schools have increased property taxes by $1 billion since 2011
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • July 1, 2019
Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham
stated on June 21, 2019 in an interview
Says the U.S. Department of Justice has "seen in the past" that police department "consent decrees don’t work, that there’s very little change, that oftentimes immediately after a consent decree goes into effect, crime actually goes up."
Mostly False
By Duncan Agnew, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 30, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 27, 2019 a democratic debate in Miami
"I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2019
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on June 4, 2019 a radio interview
Says court ruling allows abortions in North Carolina "until right before the baby is delivered."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • June 27, 2019
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on June 26, 2019 comments made during the first Democratic presidential primary debate
"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. … These things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York."
Mostly False
By Emmarie Huetteman • June 27, 2019
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