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All Half-True statements involving Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Half-True

Depends on your definition of mass shooting

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

"380 Americans have been killed in 294 mass shootings in 2015 alone."  

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, October 8th, 2015

Half-True

A bumpy path for some Medicaid enrollees

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

"500,000 people have signed up for #Obamacare."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Half-True

Many ways to measure

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Says President Obama has cracked down "on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."

— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Half-True

Way off on the estimate of manufacturing jobs

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

After losing 750,000 jobs a month before this administration, the U.S. economy under Barack Obama has had 20 straight months of growth, has added 2.8 million jobs in the private sector and added "millions of jobs in manufacturing."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Half-True

Not the kind of thing the CBO says

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."

— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, July 25th, 2011

Half-True

A new report reduces that estimate

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The Democratic health care law "added 12 years of solvency to Medicare."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, May 27th, 2011

Half-True

Are Republicans stealing credit for parts of health care bill?

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Republicans are now "taking credit" for provisions of the health care bill "that they had tried to derail."  

— PolitiFact National on Friday, August 13th, 2010

Half-True

Fails to mention huge job losses in 2009

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

"On the pace that we're on with job creation in the last four months ... we will have created more jobs in this year than in the entire Bush Presidency."

— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, June 18th, 2010