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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
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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 12, 2019 a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters
The Trump budget "cuts $845 billion, almost a trillion dollar cut in Medicare."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 26, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 20, 2019 a CNN town hall
After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 10, 2019 a town hall
"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."
Mostly True
March 18, 2019
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 a U.S. House hearing
"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019
Kevin Downing
Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 remarks to reporters
Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in an interview
"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 12, 2019 a press release
The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying "software updates are likely coming."    
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2019
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 a speech
"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."  
False
March 12, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 7, 2019 a tweet
"Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, commits bank and tax fraud and gets 47 months. A homeless man, Fate Winslow, helped sell $20 of pot and got life in prison."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on February 20, 2019 an interview
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."  
Mostly True
March 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 5, 2019 remarks at the White House
When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2019
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