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Brian Kolb

This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"

— PolitiFact New York on Monday, April 9th, 2018

Mostly True

Past numbers say yes

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Ruben Gallego

"For what it would cost the (National) Guard to make just two arrests at the border, we could give a homeless veteran permanent housing for an entire year."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Pants on Fire!

Connects nonexistent dots

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National Rifle Association

"March For Our Lives is backed by radicals with a history of violent threats, language and actions."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 23rd, 2018

Half-True

Oversells claim of partisan bias

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Donald Trump

Robert Mueller’s investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

True

Both in U.S. and N.Y.

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Andrew Cuomo

"Half of the American women who are murdered are killed by their intimate partners."

— PolitiFact New York on Friday, March 16th, 2018