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Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on July 23, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 • July 19, 2019
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on July 12, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a Facebook post:
Says "Joe Biden calls for gun ban."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2019
John Flanagan
John Flanagan
stated on June 18, 2019 in 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 in 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
By Tom Kertscher • July 3, 2019
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 in 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 in 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 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 in 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 in 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 in 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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