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Michael Williams
Michael Williams
stated on February 27, 2018 a CNN interview
Says Delta offers a discount to Planned Parenthood.
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 2, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 a panel at the conservative CPAC conference
"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 3, 2018 his State of the State address
"A case before Washington’s Supreme Court seeks to effectively end public labor unions."
False
By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 29, 2017 a speech in St. Charles, Mo.
Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state."
False
By Lucille Sherman • December 15, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 15, 2017 a video ad posted on his campaign website
"The Texas unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in 40 years & Texas led the nation last month in new job creation."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 1, 2017 an interview on CBS' Face the Nation
Trump’s tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class."
False
By Dan Clark • October 9, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters
Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Melissa Sargent
Melissa Sargent
stated on August 2, 2017 a tweet
On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."  
False
August 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a speech
"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."
False
By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 a speech
"Seventy-seven of the top 300 cities with the highest poverty rate" nationwide are in California.
False
By Chris Nichols • June 9, 2017
Anthony Brindisi
Anthony Brindisi
stated on May 26, 2017 a press release
"State economic development dollars were used to support a project where goods were manufactured in China."
False
By Dan Clark • June 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 a tweet
Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on April 28, 2017 an interview with Bloomberg
Farmers "are now dumping milk into the ditches" because of a trade dispute with Canada
False
By Dan Clark • May 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 a CEO town hall
"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 a tweet
"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."
False
By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017
Mark Assini
Mark Assini
stated on October 18, 2016 a debate on WROC
"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."
False
By Dan Clark • November 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate
Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University
"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2016 a speech
"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2016
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