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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 in an interview:
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 21, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 in a CNN town hall:
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2019 in a speech:
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2019
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in an interview:
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
True
By Tom Kertscher • February 12, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in an interview on CBS:
"Over 40 percent of the American people don't have $400 in the bank."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a tweet:
"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019
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