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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 24, 2017 Internet posts
Says Johnny Depp died after being apprehended for threatening President Donald Trump’s life.
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • June 27, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on June 25, 2017 On "Face The Nation"
"Remember, Obamacare created a new category of eligibility. Working-age, able-bodied adults with no dependents for the first time became eligible for Medicaid if their income is below 138 percent of the poverty level. We’re going to continue that eligibility. No one loses coverage."
Half-True
By Mark Dent • June 27, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
There "are not cuts to Medicaid" in the GOP health care proposals.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 22, 2017 a Facebook post
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • June 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2017 Fox & Friends
"I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • June 26, 2017
FreedomCrossroads.us
FreedomCrossroads.us
stated on June 20, 2017 Internet posts
Says investigators have found remains of missing women in steel barrels buried on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s property.
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin, Lynn Arditi • June 26, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 6, 2017 a headline
"Massive Bumble Bee recall after 2 employees admit cooking a man and mixing him with a batch of tuna."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • June 26, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on June 25, 2017 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'
"If you became a Medicaid recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • June 25, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on June 2, 2017 a speech at the state Democratic convention
 "Seven years later, (Scott Walker) has not hit his first campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs."
True
By Alan Hovorka • June 23, 2017
John Faso
John Faso
stated on June 1, 2017 a radio town hall
A waiver in the American Health Care Act "doesn’t apply to things like maternity coverage."
False
By Dan Clark • June 22, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 a speech
Although California has "the sixth largest economy in the world, we also have one of the highest poverty rates" in the nation.
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 22, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on June 20, 2017 the "Fox and Friends" show
"5.7 million -- that’s how many illegal immigrants might have voted" in 2008.
False
By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2017
AntiNews.in
AntiNews.in
stated on May 21, 2017 a blog post
"Chinese lunar rover finds no evidence of American moon landings."
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • June 22, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 21, 2017 a White House tweet
Obamacare has led to fewer health insurance options for millions of Americans.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2017
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on June 16, 2017 a press release
Says Barack Obama "acknowledged over 20 times" that his administration’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans "immigration edict was a violation of law and the separation of powers."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in a tweet
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
Gus Bilirakis
Gus Bilirakis
stated on June 13, 2017 an email
"A study by the National Economics Research Association showed that the (Paris climate) deal could cost 2.7 million lost jobs in the U.S. by 2025 should our country adhere to the commitments made by the Obama Administration."
False
By Manuela Tobias • June 21, 2017
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