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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"92 million Americans aren't working."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 8, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"The Obama administration is refusing to directly arm the Kurds."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • February 8, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 an interview with Fox News
"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2014 an interview on Fox News
In the 2014 elections, "the American people overwhelmingly said we don't want Obamacare … and we don't want amnesty."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 10, 2014 a Facebook post
Says Obama's net neutrality proposal "puts the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 13, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2014 an interview on CNN
"Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general)."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 23, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 9, 2014 a Senate floor speech
Saturday Night Live executive producer "Lorne Michaels could be put in jail under this amendment for making fun of any politician."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 31, 2014 an interview with WFAA-TV
ISIS is "right now crucifying Christians in Iraq, literally nailing Christians to trees."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference at Lackland Air Force Base
Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because  President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference
Says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey "we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 1, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Barack Obama broke a decades-old policy of "not negotiating with terrorists."  
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • June 1, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 6, 2014 a report
The Obama administration spent "$205,075 in ‘stimulus’ funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2014 a speech at the CPAC conference
Says President Barack Obama "is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 26, 2014 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Under President Barack Obama, "We’ve got the lowest labor force participation in over three decades, since 1978."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 26, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum
Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on the "Tonight Show"
"Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • November 15, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 8, 2013 an interview on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"
"In the last four years, our economy has grown on average 0.9 percent a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 13, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 16, 2013 a conversation with reporters
"Virtually every person across this country has seen premiums going up and up and up" due to Obamacare.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 speech advocating repeal of Obamacare law
"Neville Chamberlain told the British people: ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.’"
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 Senate floor speech on the Obamacare law
"Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2013
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