Fact Check Posts – Page 81

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."

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2019

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019

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."

By Miriam Valverde • February 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 a tweet:

"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019

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."

By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 a tweet:

"58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote."

By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2019

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."

By Miriam Valverde • January 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 19, 2019 a speech:

"One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north."

By Miriam Valverde • January 25, 2019

Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 a tweet:

"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019

Jacob Wohl
stated on January 22, 2019 a tweet:

"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."

By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech:

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

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.

By John Kruzel • January 15, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 remarks in McAllen, Texas:

Says there’s "never (been) so many apprehensions ever in our history."

By Miriam Valverde • January 11, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2019 a roundtable at the border:

"When I say Mexico is going to pay for the wall, that's what I said. Mexico is going to pay. I didn't say they're going to write me a check for $20 billion or $10 billion."

By Samantha Putterman • January 10, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2019 a televised speech:

Says Sen. Charles Schumer "repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other Democrats. They changed their mind only after I was elected president."

By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2019 a televised speech:

"At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

By Manuela Tobias • January 9, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:

With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."

By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 in a discussion with reporters:

"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia."

By John Kruzel • January 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet:

"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."

By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2019

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