Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

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Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 in a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.:

Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 in a Web ad:

"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."

False

July 7, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on June 8, 2009 in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox:

Palin said stimulus money for weatherization required "universal energy building codes for Alaska, kind of a one-size-fits-all building code that isn't going to work up there in Alaska."

False

June 11, 2009

Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

Says former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin said the stimulus bill "won't actually stimulate the economy."

False

By Bill Adair • February 25, 2009

Mark Sanford
stated on February 23, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

"The Congressional Budget Office has found that (the stimulus) bill will lead to a real 0.1 to 0.3 percent reduction in gross domestic product by 2019."

False

By Bill Adair • February 23, 2009

Mike Pence
stated on February 12, 2009 in a statement on Fox News Channel.:

The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco."

False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 13, 2009

Jim DeMint
stated on February 5, 2009 in a speech on the Senate floor.:

There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."

False

February 13, 2009

Robert Gibbs
stated on February 2, 2009 in a comment at the daily White House press briefing.:

"There are no earmarks" in the stimulus bill.

False

By Bill Adair • February 4, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on January 9, 2009 in a news conference:

"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."

False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 30, 2009

Eric Cantor
stated on January 23, 2009 in an interview on the Fox News Channel.:

"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."

False

January 27, 2009

Eric Cantor
stated on January 21, 2009 in an interview on the Fox News Channel.:

Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."

False

January 23, 2009

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