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Trims future spending
"$575 billion cut from Medicare in Trump’s proposed 2020 budget."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Paycheck rules
The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Actual number at risk is lower
"Nearly 7 million Floridians have pre-existing conditions — but Rick Scott and Florida Republicans wants to take away their health care coverage by ending the Affordable Care Act."
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Link to Trump is not relevant
"Flip Flop! After opposing term limits for decades, Adam Putnam adopts Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ position."
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, June 8th, 2018
Funds expired
Says Gov. Rick Scott "ended $20 million in funding for mental health care despite Florida already ranking at the bottom."
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Trump dove in to failing golf course
Donald Trump’s "golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, May 4th, 2017
The cuts did occur, but any causal relationship is murky
Says Rick Scott "cut education to pay for even more tax breaks for big, powerful, well-connected corporations."
— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, July 7th, 2014
Depends on the circumstances
Taking the Fifth Amendment in a deposition about the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he founded "means a truthful answer to the questions that (Rick Scott) was asked would incriminate him."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
But none convicted
In ad attacking Rick Scott, says three executives of the Columbia/HCA hospital chain he ran were indicted.
Right in the details, but lacking context
Bill McCollum "cost the rest of us billions" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that "skyrocketed" to $4.7 trillion.
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010