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Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 a campaign video
"I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on June 8, 2017 a radio interview
Says Scott Walker recently said "he got his bald spot from hitting his head on a cabinet, and it's not a joke, he actually said that his bald spot came because he hit his head on a cabinet."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • July 3, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 28, 2017 a Facebook live speech
"There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 an immigration roundtable discussion
"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017
Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee
stated on June 21, 2017 a segment on her show "Full Frontal"
The New York State Senate "passed legislation allowing minors to race snowmobiles, get their own hunting licenses, and not be employed gathering or picking rags, cigar stumps, or collecting bones."
True
By Dan Clark • June 30, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 17, 2017 a blog post
"U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 26, 2017 an op-ed in the New York Times
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 27, 2017 in a blog post
"Leonardo DiCaprio explains why he’s moving to Casselberry, Florida."
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • June 30, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2017 an interview
When he was Milwaukee County executive, "eight years in a row we pushed through budgets that did not increase the tax levy from the previous year."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2017
Shawn Thierry
Shawn Thierry
stated on June 7, 2017 a press release
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on June 28, 2017 in a tweet
"28.2 million Americans are still waiting under Obamacare and remain uninsured!"
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • June 28, 2017
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday
 "Actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on Medicaid than if you're uninsured."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2017 an appearance on 'Fox & Friends'
Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Snoopack.com
Snoopack.com
stated on June 23, 2017 a headline
"Trey Gowdy is the new director of the FBI!"
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 27, 2017 an interview with Fox News
Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 2, 2017 a speech
Says Donald Trump "wants to kick thousands of kids off of BadgerCare."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • June 28, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2017 in a tweet
"When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare’s exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • June 27, 2017
Devin Nunes
Devin Nunes
stated on June 19, 2017 a radio interview
President Trump has signed more bills into law "than any president previously before at this stage in the game."
False
By Chris Nichols • June 27, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on June 15, 2017 during a Q&A with reporters inside City Hall
"We are seeing poverty being reduced in south St. Pete at a number larger than the national average, the state average, county or Tampa and Jacksonville."  
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 27, 2017
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