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Slim evidence
"When public schools face increased competition, they get better and kids learn more."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, April 17th, 2017
Effectively incorrect
"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, January 15th, 2016
The top 1 percent reap the most benefits
"My plan actually gives the middle class the greatest break: $2,000 per family."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Cheap but not the cheapest
"In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state."
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, October 30th, 2015
On economic growth, Bush trailed other recent presidents
The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, September 27th, 2015
He picked what emails were made public
"I released all my emails."
— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, August 31st, 2015
A 1992 Department of Defense directive -- under President Bush -- updated rules about personnel and firearms
"A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
More like 'upper class'
"The party in the White House" is responsible for "a massive tax increase on the middle class."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Spending has fallen, but it takes two to tango
The Democrats are "responsible" for "the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 22nd, 2015
A lot of changes in name and power
"ISIS didn't exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, May 28th, 2015
Eighteen permanent employees were fired
"One person has been fired" at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.
— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Washington, Baghdad never settled on a residual force.
"We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops" in Iraq.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, May 18th, 2015
Not the only one
"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, May 8th, 2015
Overall enrollment is up, but not from order
Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to "more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system" than before.
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
The official dropout rate is in the single digits
"1/3 of our kids drop out (of high school), cannot go to college or start a career."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Not more than 100, but there are some
"There are over 100 pipelines between the United States and Canada right now."
— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
Data doesn't show that
Florida's revenue "is growing at a faster rate than almost any state in the country."
The Bushes should know better about trusting exit polls
"Rick Scott got a majority of the Hispanic vote in Florida."
— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, November 15th, 2010