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Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 in a post on X:
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
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By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
West Virginia University Faculty Senate
stated on September 9, 2023 in a no-confidence resolution:
During E. Gordon Gee's presidency of West Virginia University, "student enrollments have steadily decreased."
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By Ethan Moore • October 5, 2023
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on August 24, 2023 in a post on X:
“Under Jim Justice,” West Virginia had “the lowest unemployment rate in state history.”
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By Kylie Tuttle • September 26, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 24, 2023 in a campaign ad:
Since Joe Biden “has taken office, unemployment in our (Latino) community has been cut in half."
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September 22, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2023 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • September 21, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 in News release:
During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.”
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By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:
U.S. inflation is "now down close to 3%, the lowest among the world’s leading economies."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 in a press release.:
“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
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By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2023 in a speech on extreme heat:
“The No. 1 weather-related killer is heat. 600 people die annually from its effects, more than from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes in America combined.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 in a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 in a speech in Chicago:
Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
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By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 in a press release:
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
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By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 in a TV interview:
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 in a speech:
In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”
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By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2023 in campaign announcement speech:
Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”
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By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2023
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on May 28, 2023 in in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:
The average amount of assistance for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is $6 a day.
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By Sevana Wenn • June 6, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 in a radio interview:
Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Al Franken
Al Franken
stated on May 17, 2023 in a tweet:
"Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
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By Julie Appleby • June 5, 2023
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 in a news conference:
The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
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