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Facebook posts stated on April 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., “is now worth $29 million dollars.”

By Loreben Tuquero• April 3, 2023

John Kasich stated on March 20, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Donald "Trump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of free media. I got, like, none."

By Joshua Gillin• March 20, 2016

Threads posts stated on October 30, 2024 in a Threads post:

"AOC is worth 29 Million dollars! How did that happen, on $174,000 per year?"

By Jeff Cercone• October 30, 2024

Florida Democratic Party stated on February 24, 2010 in an advertisement by the Florida Democratic Party:

Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay, by a total of $51,000, and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75,000 a year.

By Louis Jacobson• February 25, 2010

Robert Gibbs stated on March 05, 2009 in a White House briefing:

"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."

By Alexander Lane• March 11, 2009

Instagram posts stated on July 19, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was “faking being arrested” during an abortion-rights protest outside the Supreme Court.

By Bill McCarthy• July 20, 2022

Michele Bachmann stated on May 06, 2009 in a press release:

ACORN "could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."

By Robert Farley• May 21, 2009

Americans For Tax Reform stated on September 28, 2012 in a mailer to voters:

The Obama administration’s "green" stimulus program "funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms," creating thousands of jobs in China.

By Jon Greenberg• October 1, 2012

Mike Pence stated on November 07, 2010 in an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour.":

"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• November 9, 2010

Viral image stated on February 26, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, "We must block Trump from stopping the return of the heroic Alabama mother from ISIS. In many ways she is more of a hero then our veterans. Welcome home sister!"

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 27, 2019

Americans for Prosperity stated on April 26, 2012 in a TV ad:

Says the stimulus bill sent tax credits overseas, such as "$1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plant in Mexico."

By Becky Bowers• May 2, 2012

Tim Baxter stated on January 04, 2022 in an ad:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “says that all young people want to be socialists.”

By Tom Kertscher• January 12, 2022

Viral image stated on June 26, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "weeps over empty parking lot."

By Ciara O'Rourke, Stefanie Pousoulides• July 22, 2019

Scott Perry stated on August 31, 2020 in an ad:

Says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Eugene DePasquale support "socialized medicine," the Green New Deal and defunding the police.

By Tom Kertscher• September 10, 2020

Viral image stated on January 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Let’s begin ‘The Purge’ to roundup all Conservative traitors.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• January 13, 2021

Facebook posts stated on July 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez as saying private truck drivers are "destroying America" and should be "government regulated and drivers should be on full-time camera until we can figure out how to automate our shipping and do away with them altogether."

By Samantha Putterman• July 19, 2019

Donald Trump stated on January 20, 2016 in a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa:

"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."

By Amy Sherman• January 26, 2016

Barack Obama stated on April 14, 2011 in an interview with George Stephanopoulos:

On whether the federal debt limit should be raised

By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 29, 2011

Gilberto Hinojosa stated on September 25, 2013 in an interview on YNN’s “Capital Tonight”:

40,000 veterans in Texas won’t get health care because Perry rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.

By Sue Owen• October 17, 2013

Scott Walker stated on January 16, 2019 in a tweet:

During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America."

By Eric Litke• February 5, 2019

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