Fact Check Posts – Page 72

Scott Wagner
stated on May 21, 2018 Fundraising email:

Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"

By Colin Deppen • May 25, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 23, 2018 a CNN town hall:

A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."

By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2018

Senate Democrats
stated on May 23, 2018 a tweet:

"El precio de combustible ha aumentado un 25% este año" / "The price of gas has increased 25% this year."

By Louis Jacobson • May 23, 2018

Andy Gronik
stated on May 13, 2018 a candidates forum:

"I’ve lived" in Milwaukee "all 61 years of my life."

By Tom Kertscher • May 23, 2018

Mo Brooks
stated on May 16, 2018 a congressional hearing:

"You’re going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming."

By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018

Keith Faber
stated on May 11, 2018 a statement to the press:

"Thanks to the strong charter school reforms put in place while I was Senate President" the online charter school ECOT "was caught and is out of business."

By Amy Sherman • May 17, 2018

Randy Bryce
stated on May 6, 2018 an interview:

Says he’s not a politician.

By Tom Kertscher • May 16, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on May 8, 2018 remarks to a conference:

A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone."

By Casey Toner • May 15, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 15, 2018 a speech:

Says of MS-13 gang members, "We are getting them out of our country by the thousands."

By Miriam Valverde • May 15, 2018

Patrick Morrisey
stated on May 11, 2018 a radio interview:

"If Joe Manchin had his way, Judge Gorsuch never would have been able to get a vote."

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2018

Jacky Rosen
stated on May 10, 2018 a Rosen campaign press release:

Says Dean Heller "has voted for a GOP bill that funded efforts to revive Yucca Mountain."

By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2018 the NRA convention:

"I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week."

By John Kruzel • May 7, 2018

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on April 30, 2018 a website campaign statement:

Says he was "instrumental to passing two (recent) pieces of legislation that were a huge victory for firefighters across the state."

By Eric Litke • May 7, 2018

Don Blankenship
stated on April 23, 2018 a debate:

Says illegal immigration is "costing us $130 billion a year to house and feed and give benefits to people that shouldn’t be even in the country."

By Miriam Valverde • April 30, 2018

Ron Johnson
stated on April 3, 2018 a radio interview:

"We have laws on the books where people can walk right up to our ports of entry, say ‘I have a credible fear of persecution,’ and we bring them in. We don’t send them back."

By D.L. Davis • April 27, 2018

For Our Future Florida
stated on April 22, 2018 in a tweet:

Says Florida Gov. Rick Scott "just signed a bill that could make most of Florida’s beaches private."

By Allison Graves • April 26, 2018

Oath Keepers
stated on April 19, 2018 a blog post:

"California State Assembly bill would ban the (sale of the) Bible!"

By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2018

Newstarget
stated on February 23, 2016 on a website:

"USDA approves slaughterhouses producing horse meat for human consumption"

By Mica Soellner • April 24, 2018

Greg Abbott
stated on April 9, 2018 an interview by Trey Ware of San Antonio's KTSA radio station:

Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2018

Dean Heller
stated on April 17, 2018 a campaign ad press release:

Says Jacky Rosen promised "to repeal middle-class tax cut."

By Jon Greenberg • April 24, 2018

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