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Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 a committee hearing
"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."
Mostly True
By Yanqi Xu • February 14, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 a speech in El Paso, Texas
Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 31, 2019 an interview
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
True
February 12, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 State of the Union address
"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country."  
False
By Miriam Valverde • February 8, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning
"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2019 a tweet
"The Dems and their committees are going ‘nuts.’ The Republicans never did this to President Obama."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 28, 2019 remarks in Fort Lauderdale
"There was virtually no new business investment" after the 2017 tax law. "The bulk was used to buy back their own stock."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
stated on January 29, 2019 a committee hearing
"Go back to 2005 until now, we have quadrupled the number of Border Patrol agents."
False
By Miriam Valverde • February 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 a tweet
"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on January 27, 2019 an interview on CBS
"Over 40 percent of the American people don't have $400 in the bank."
Mostly True
January 29, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 a tweet
"58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 a tweet
"We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 28, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 19, 2019 a speech
"One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • January 25, 2019
Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 a tweet
"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019
Jacob Wohl
Jacob Wohl
stated on January 22, 2019 a tweet
"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2019
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech
"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 13, 2019 in an interview
Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.
Half-True
By John Kruzel • January 15, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 remarks in McAllen, Texas
Says there’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 11, 2019
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