Latest Half-True Fact-checks on Tom Coburn Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Tom Coburn stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN: The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year." Tom Coburn stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president." Tom Coburn stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren: "Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
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Tom Coburn stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN: The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year." Tom Coburn stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president." Tom Coburn stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren: "Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Tom Coburn stated on December 11, 2014 in an interview with CNN: The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."
Tom Coburn stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."
Tom Coburn stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren: "Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
