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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.”
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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."
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 a speech in Chicago
Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
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By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 a press release
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
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By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 a TV interview
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 a speech
In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”
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By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2023 campaign announcement speech
Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2023
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”
The average amount of assistance for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is $6 a day.
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By Sevana Wenn • June 6, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 a radio interview
Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Al Franken
Al Franken
stated on May 17, 2023 a tweet
"Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
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By Julie Appleby • June 5, 2023
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 a news conference
The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
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