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Rachael Cabral-Guevara,
Rachael Cabral-Guevara,
stated on October 18, 2023 Public hearing:
Some individuals or businesses in Wisconsin are charging $2 or $2.25 an hour for child care.
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • November 7, 2023
MAGA Inc
MAGA Inc
stated on October 28, 2023 a TV ad in Iowa:
Gov. Ron DeSantis “actually sponsored the bill to make Puerto Rico a state.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 1, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on October 12, 2023 a town hall in Exeter, N.H.:
China is “the largest developer of neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • November 1, 2023
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on October 25, 2023 his acceptance speech as speaker:
“In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 18, 2023 an interview:
“In the last 11 months, Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 200,000 apprehensions a month, and you know how many beds we have to detain people at the border? Thirty-eight thousand."
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 20, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 14, 2023 a post on X:
"Credit card debt is above $1 trillion for the FIRST TIME EVER."
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By Ashala Moseberry • October 19, 2023
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 17, 2023 a post on X:
“Since Biden took office ... real wages have fallen monthly.”
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By Jacquie Broush • October 12, 2023
George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman
stated on July 11, 2023 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
“The percentage of students that are going to college (in West Virginia) has been declining for five years.”
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By Aubrey Burkhardt • October 6, 2023
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 23, 2023 a post on X:
“#Bidenomics has led to mortgage rates hitting a 21-year high → over 7%.”
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By Sophia Bookwood • October 5, 2023
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 a post on X:
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
Mostly True
By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
stated on September 9, 2023 a no-confidence resolution:
During E. Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased."
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By Ethan Moore • October 5, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 a post on X:
“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”
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By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 a campaign ad:
Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."
Mostly True
By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 22, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 News release:
During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House:
U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House:
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 a press release.:
“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
Mostly True
By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 a speech on extreme heat:
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
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