Fact Check Posts – Page 81

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 21, 2017 in In a speech:

Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."

By Mark Dent • July 24, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 in 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."

By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 in 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.

By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 5, 2017 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2017 in 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."

By Miriam Valverde • July 18, 2017

Save Our City, Milwaukeeans Can't Wait
stated on July 7, 2017 in 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."

By Tom Kertscher • July 14, 2017

Eric Bolling
stated on July 11, 2017 in comments on 'Fox News Specialists':

"Collusion is not illegal."

By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2017

Pat Toomey
stated on July 10, 2017 in 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."

By Manuela Tobias • July 12, 2017

Rick Baker
stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview with News Channel 8:

"Midtown crime is up by 30 percent the last quarter."

By Allison Graves • July 11, 2017

Chris Murphy
stated on June 26, 2017 in 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."

By Manuela Tobias • July 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 6, 2017 in 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."

By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017

Pat Toomey
stated on July 5, 2017 in At a "town hall":

"Sanctuary cities are extremely dangerous."

By Mark Dent • July 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 4, 2017 in a tweet:

"Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years!"

By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 6, 2017

Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 in a campaign video:

"I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market."

By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2017

Marco Rubio
stated on June 28, 2017 in a Facebook live speech:

"There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid."

By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2017 in 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."

By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2017

Michael Needham
stated on June 25, 2017 in 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."

By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on June 27, 2017 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on June 15, 2017 in 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."

By Allison Graves • June 27, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

There "are not cuts to Medicaid" in the GOP health care proposals.

By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2017

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