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Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 21, 2017 In a speech
Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • July 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech
"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 5, 2017 a Facebook ad
"Elizabeth Warren doesn't think Obamacare goes far enough: ‘The next step is single payer.' Does Sen. Nelson agree? He has in the past ... Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2017 a CBN interview
"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 18, 2017
Save Our City, Milwaukeeans Can't Wait
Save Our City, Milwaukeeans Can't Wait
stated on July 7, 2017 a recall filing
Says Tom Barrett "has directed that tens of millions of City of Milwaukee tax dollars be used for the construction of a downtown trolley at the expense of: health and public safety; repair and replacement of public infrastructure; public education; and, job creation and economic development."  
Mostly False
July 14, 2017
Eric Bolling
Eric Bolling
stated on July 11, 2017 comments on 'Fox News Specialists'
"Collusion is not illegal."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 10, 2017 Morning Joe
Medicaid "is contributing to 70 percent of our budget deficit right now. It’s the one that is in our lap because of Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 12, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview with News Channel 8
"Midtown crime is up by 30 percent the last quarter."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • July 11, 2017
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on June 26, 2017 a video
Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in insurance companies all across the country jacking their rates up, explicitly because they don't believe that healthy people will buy insurance."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 6, 2017 a press conference in Poland
Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 5, 2017 At a "town hall"
"Sanctuary cities are extremely dangerous."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • July 8, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 4, 2017 a tweet
"Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 6, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 a campaign video
"I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 28, 2017 a Facebook live speech
"There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2017 an interview
When he was Milwaukee County executive, "eight years in a row we pushed through budgets that did not increase the tax levy from the previous year."  
Mostly False
June 30, 2017
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday
 "Actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on Medicaid than if you're uninsured."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 27, 2017 an interview with Fox News
Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on June 15, 2017 during a Q&A with reporters inside City Hall
"We are seeing poverty being reduced in south St. Pete at a number larger than the national average, the state average, county or Tampa and Jacksonville."  
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 27, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
There "are not cuts to Medicaid" in the GOP health care proposals.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2017
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