Fact Check Posts – Page 16

Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2021 in a speech:

“You go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2021 in a Facebook post:

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was the lone vote in the House against an anti-human trafficking bill.

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Georgia’s new voting law “makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma’s absentee ballot in a dropbox.”

By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2021

Josh Holmes
stated on March 28, 2021 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

A Georgia law has not “criminalized giving people bottles of water.” It pertains to political organizations.

By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2021

Charles Schumer
stated on March 24, 2021 in a Senate hearing:

“Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday” in Georgia

By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2021

Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2021 in a statement to the media:

"We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • March 24, 2021

Ron DeSantis
stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:

"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."

By Amy Sherman • March 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Under HR 1, a person can still vote if they are 16, in the U.S. illegally, have no ID and have not registered to vote

By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2021

Ted Budd
stated on March 2, 2021 in a tweet:

Says H.R. 1 “allows minors to vote.”

By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • March 10, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 2, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The Georgia House passed a bill that “makes it a misdemeanor to give food or water to voters waiting in line.”

By Amy Sherman • March 9, 2021

Mike Pence
stated on March 3, 2021 in Daily Signal op ed:

The voting bill known as H.R. 1 would mean “that millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote."

By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2021

Elise Stefanik
stated on March 3, 2021 in a tweet:

H.R. 1 would “prevent removal of ineligible voters from registration rolls.”

By Amy Sherman • March 4, 2021

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2021 in a speech at CPAC:

HR 1 “automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2021

Ronna McDaniel
stated on February 22, 2021 in a tweet:

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

By Amy Sherman • March 1, 2021

Act for America
stated on February 23, 2021 in an online post:

HR 1 will allow members of Congress to draw a second salary “worth an estimated $600,000 per year!”

By Amy Sherman • February 25, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in a speech:

“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”

By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 16, 2021 in a tweet:

“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”

By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on February 5, 2021 in an interview on CBS:

“If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage.”

By Amy Sherman • February 10, 2021

Richard Durbin
stated on February 4, 2021 in a Senate speech:

“More than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential infrastructure workers” including “41,700 DACA recipients in the healthcare industry”

By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2021

Ron Klain
stated on January 24, 2021 in an interview on Meet the Press:

"The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House."

By Amy Sherman • January 27, 2021

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