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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address:
The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address:
“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 in a State of the Union address:
"We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2024
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
stated on March 4, 2024 in a Senate session:
“This is the era where people are given smartphones when they cross the border and enter our country.”
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • March 7, 2024
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross
stated on January 25, 2024 in a press conference:
“North Carolina has the longest voting period in the country … and we have the most ways of voting.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • February 28, 2024
George Borrello
George Borrello
stated on February 5, 2024 in a post on X:
“NYC will give $1,000 taxpayer-funded credit cards to migrants.”
Half-True
By Mary McNaughton, Delainey Muscato • February 21, 2024
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on February 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“Bidenomics is costing the typical American household over $11,400 more a year to buy the basics.”
Half-True
By Hope Karnopp • February 21, 2024
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on February 11, 2024 in an interview:
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act led to “a 12% reduction in urban homicides in this country.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 4, 2024 in a post on X:
“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2024
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on December 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
In the past year, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois passed "highly popular” policies such as paid family leave, one of several issues that have been stymied in Wisconsin by Republicans.
Half-True
By Sophia Voight • January 30, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:
“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 15, 2023 in a Concord, New Hampshire Town Hall:
U.S. tax dollars “have gone to promote transgenderism in Bangladesh.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • January 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 in a speech:
“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2024 in a speech:
Nikki Haley “says the retirement age at 65 is way too low, it must be much higher.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • January 8, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 4, 2024 in a CNN town hall:
In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 6, 2023 in the fourth Republican presidential primary debate:
Discussing gender-affirming surgical care for minors, said that Sweden “shut it down.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • December 18, 2023
Ron Tusler
Ron Tusler
stated on September 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • December 8, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on November 28, 2023 in an event in Derry, N.H.:
China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 19, 2023 in a statement on X:
In Florida, “any woman who has an abortion after six weeks — and any doctor who gives her care — will be guilty of a felony.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2023
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