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Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 in an X post:
“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025
John Thune
John Thune
stated on May 30, 2025 in an interview with KOTA:
“A lot of times, health care comes with a job.”
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By Arielle Zionts • June 27, 2025
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on June 4, 2025 in an ad:
The Republican tax and spending bill will provide a “tax cut for Social Security recipients.”
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By Loreben Tuquero • June 24, 2025
stated on May 25, 2025 in an X post:
“U.S. retail gasoline prices heading into Memorial Day weekend: 20 year low.”
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 in a post on X:
“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025
Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post:
Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
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By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2025 in a speech announcing tariffs:
“Egg prices came down 50%”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2025
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on February 20, 2025 in a TikTok video:
“Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.”
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By Suz Redfearn • March 18, 2025
A Better Wisconsin Together
A Better Wisconsin Together
stated on February 24, 2025 in Social media ads:
“71 out of 72 Wisconsin counties filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma. Brad Schimel refused to join them.”
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By Hope Karnopp • March 11, 2025
Patty Murray
Patty Murray
stated on February 20, 2025 in a Senate floor speech:
“The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2025
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on February 2, 2025 in an interview:
At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 in White House press briefing:
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
Half-True
January 30, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 in a Senate confirmation hearing:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”
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By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on December 3, 2024 in comments to reporters:
North Carolina Republicans “took money out of western North Carolina” with Hurricane Helene relief bill.
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By Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on January 6, 2025 in an X post:
Buncombe County “is still demanding property taxes on homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Helene assessments that no longer apply.”
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By Paul Specht • January 17, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
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By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on November 20, 2024 in an X post:
FEMA delivered “only four” temporary housing units to Helene victims in North Carolina as of Nov. 20.
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By Paul Specht • December 10, 2024
WinSenate
WinSenate
stated on October 24, 2024 in a Facebook ad:
“Kari Lake is threatening Social Security and Medicare.”
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By Mia Osmonbekov • November 4, 2024
Make the Road Nevada
Make the Road Nevada
stated on October 28, 2024 in an X post:
Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown “wants to cut Medicaid and Social Security.”
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By Seth A. Richardson • November 1, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 28, 2024 in a Facebook post:
A Pennsylvania TV station aired the 2024 presidential election results early.
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October 30, 2024
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