Ben Carson

Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.

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Ben Carson
stated on July 31, 2019 a press conference

"You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."

By John Kruzel • August 1, 2019

Ben Carson
stated on May 21, 2019 a tweet

More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces.

By Madlin Mekelburg • May 30, 2019

Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview

"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."

By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on February 13, 2016 a GOP debate on CBS

Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."

By Lauren Carroll • February 14, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate

"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."

By Lauren Carroll, Sean Gorman • January 29, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on CNN

"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 22, 2015 a TV interview.

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.

"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.

By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP debate.

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate

Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Republican debate in Milwaukee, Wis.

"Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases."

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 8, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"

"Go look on the West Point website and you’ll see those specific words, ‘full scholarship to West Point.’ So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used."

By Linda Qiu • November 8, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 4, 2015 an edited Facebook post

"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 the third GOP primary debate.

Says his tax plan wouldn't leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.

By Linda Qiu • November 4, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 29, 2015 a Republican presidential debate

Among manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees, "the average cost in terms of regulations is $34,000 per employee."

By Lauren Carroll • October 30, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.

Says he "didn’t have an involvement with" nutritional supplement company Mannatech.

By Lauren Carroll • October 29, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 9, 2015 his book "A More Perfect Union"

"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 30, 2015 a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H

Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger "believed that people like me should be eliminated."

By Clay Wirestone • October 5, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 Values Voter Summit

When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."

By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015

Latest Fact-Checks About Ben Carson

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stated on June 21, 2024 a Facebook post

Video shows Dr. Ben Carson promoting an erectile dysfunction treatment.

July 3, 2024

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stated on March 21, 2024 a Facebook post

“Dr. Ben Carson discovered 3 completely natural ingredients that resulted in headaches disappearing, blood cholesterol levels lowering, and elevated blood pressure disappearing.”

March 25, 2024

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stated on February 3, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Ben Carson said "illegal immigrants caught voting should be stripped of their citizenship."

February 8, 2019