Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

Clear
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi:
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 17, 2010 in a press release:
"$100,000 in stimulus funds (were) used for a Martini Bar and Brazilian Steakhouse."
Mostly True
February 19, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2010 in an op-ed in 'USA Today':
"In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • February 17, 2010
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on February 11, 2010 in a press release:
Despite touting the economic stimulus as a great triumph, "The very same report, however, notes that unemployment will average 10 percent for the rest of the year."
Mostly True
February 12, 2010
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 in an interview with Bill O'Reilly:
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010
Jeff Miller
Jeff Miller
stated on November 19, 2009 in a newsletter:
Recovery.gov listed congressional districts that "do not exist."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 24, 2009
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on October 15, 2009 in on his television show:
U.S. taxpayers paid $71,500 per job created by the stimulus bill.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • October 19, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 23, 2009 in a speech to investors in Hong Kong:
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
Mostly True
By Ian Jannetta • September 29, 2009
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 in a statement on the House floor.:
There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 in an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.:
"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 in a news release.:
"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on February 22, 2009 in an interview on "Meet the Press.":
Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 24, 2009
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 28, 2009 in a news release:
"The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."
Mostly True
January 29, 2009
John Mica
John Mica
stated on January 28, 2009 in a comment quoted in the Washington Post.:
Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, "but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" into roads and bridges.
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • January 28, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 4, 2009 in in a news interview:
If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, "that's about the size of the post office work force."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 5, 2009
Previous