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Eric Swalwell
Eric Swalwell
stated on April 14, 2019 a campaign rally:
In 2017, the first piece of legislation that Republicans passed "made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns."
Half-True
By Julianna Rennie • April 22, 2019
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 a town hall:
"There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on April 8, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump's "effort to roll back regulations means that Big Ag now gets to inspect its own pork" and "they decided to stop testing for E. coli."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 16, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania:
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on April 4, 2019 an interview:
"For every dollar we spend on actual peace creation, we spend over $1,000 on ways to prepare for war."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on April 4, 2019 a Fox News town hall:
Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on March 23, 2019 a speech:
Says that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in response to 9/11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 a CNN town hall in South Carolina:
Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 31, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:
"We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado."
Mostly True
By Julianna Rennie • April 11, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
X posts
X posts
stated on April 5, 2019 a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump said asylum seekers "aren't people. These are animals."
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee:
"The noise (from windmills) causes cancer."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 8, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 1, 2019 a podcast interview:
"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 remarks to reporters:
Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • April 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 27, 2019 a policy paper posted on Medium:
Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2019 a speech:
"When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • April 3, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on March 22, 2019 an interview:
"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2019
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 31, 2019 an interview on ABC News' "This Week":
"Every single (health care) plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected covered pre-existing conditions."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2019 an interview on Hannity:
"The FBI said (former national security adviser Michael Flynn) wasn't lying."
False
By John Kruzel • March 28, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet:
Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2019
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