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Charlie Crist stated on May 23, 2014 in a tweet:

41,200 veterans in Florida "don’t have health care because Scott didn’t expand Medicaid."

By Amy Sherman• May 28, 2014

Conservative Beaver stated on November 10, 2021 in a blog post:

“Wife of Pfizer’s CEO dies after complications from the vaccine.”

By Madison Czopek• November 15, 2021

Rick Scott stated on October 21, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate in Jacksonville:

Says Charlie Crist could have expanded Medicaid after the health care law passed but didn't.

By Joshua Gillin• October 22, 2014

Ron DeSantis stated on October 24, 2022 in a gubernatorial debate:

It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."

By Yacob Reyes• November 3, 2022

Chris Christie stated on November 10, 2013 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"Given how expansive our program already was," expanding Medicaid in New Jersey due to Obamacare "was a relatively small expansion."

By Julie Kliegman• November 14, 2013

Greg Abbott stated on March 03, 2021 in a tweet:

“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”

By Brandon Mulder• March 11, 2021

Rick Scott stated on April 07, 2015 in interviews with reporters:

On expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

By Jon Greenberg• April 7, 2015

Steven Landes stated on December 24, 2015 in a constituent survey.:

Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year..."

By Sean Gorman• January 11, 2016

Chris Matthews stated on December 16, 2013 in a broadcast of "Hardball":

"Every dollar spent in the new Obamacare system ... goes to private-sector insurance companies."

By Jon Greenberg• December 18, 2013

Betty Sutton stated on September 21, 2010 in a television campaign ad:

Says Tom Ganley has been "sued over 400 times, for fraud, discrimination and more," and "a judge called Tom Ganley's business practices "deceptive and unconscionable."

By Tom Feran• October 15, 2010

Scott Walker stated on August 18, 2015 in a speech:

Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."

By Tom Kertscher• September 2, 2015

Marco Rubio stated on January 12, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"Under Obamacare, when you turn Medicaid over to the states ... the money will be available up front for the expansion for a few years. Then, the money will go away."

By Katie Sanders• January 13, 2014

Dan Patrick stated on August 19, 2021 in an interview:

"Democrats like to blame Republicans on (low vaccination rates). Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats."

By Brandon Mulder• August 26, 2021

Rick Scott stated on July 02, 2012 in comments on CNBC:

The Medicaid expansion is "going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year."

By Aaron Sharockman• July 2, 2012

Ron Maag stated on April 12, 2013 in a statement during a state House Finance and Appropriations Committee hearing:

"Forty-six cents of every dollar" Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion "is going to come from China or some other country that doesn’t like us very much."

By Stephen Koff• May 22, 2013

George Barker stated on July 26, 2014 in statement:

Uncompensated care has "gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months" of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.

By Nancy Madsen• August 10, 2014

Joe Biden stated on December 03, 2021 in remarks from the White House:

“Even after accounting for rising prices, the typical American family has more money in their pockets than they did last year.”

By Louis Jacobson• December 7, 2021

M.J. Hegar stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:

Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• July 30, 2020

Dan Hegeman stated on March 08, 2017 in a meeting with University of Missouri System Curator nominees:

"We don’t give bonuses in the state of Missouri on any level of government."

By Allison Colburn• April 21, 2017

Mike Pence stated on March 24, 2023 in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo:

“We have a national debt the size of our nation’s economy for the first time since World War II.”

By Louis Jacobson• March 30, 2023

Corporate profits do not drive inflation, but inflation boosts company profits

By Louis Jacobson• December 10, 2022

Fact-checking Rick Scott on the health care law

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• July 3, 2012

Fact-checking Joe Biden’s speech after Electoral College vote

By Bill McCarthy• December 15, 2020

RFK Jr.'s 'chemtrails' probe shows the power conspiracy theories have to shape health policy

By Stephanie Armour• October 20, 2025

What's in the COVID bill for health insurance and the ACA?

By Emmarie Huetteman• March 9, 2021

Georgia's economy and the race for governor

By April Hunt• October 22, 2014

COVID-19 contact tracing for Donald Trump: Who else should isolate?

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• October 2, 2020

Fact-checking Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union speech

By Caleb McCullough, Lyle Muller, Lauren White, Rylee Wilson• March 2, 2022

In Context: Comparing school funding cuts to child rape

By Tom Kertscher• May 22, 2015

Announcing PolitiFact Texas!

By Bill Adair• January 13, 2010

What would a Nikki Haley presidency look like for health care?

By Lauren Sausser• January 12, 2024

Fact-checking Joe Biden on a coronavirus vaccine

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 17, 2020

Joe Biden’s plan to cut child poverty by half: What you need to know

By Louis Jacobson• February 25, 2021

Updating Evers' promises on tax cuts, education spending, expanding broadband and more

By Madeline Heim• July 28, 2021

How battleground states are preparing for the pandemic election’s massive increase in voting by mail

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• May 19, 2020

The CDC’s new guidelines on COVID-19 risk and masking send confounding signals

By Colleen DeGuzman• March 9, 2022

Events within and beyond Joe Biden’s control stymied progress on COVID-19 in his first year

By Victoria Knight• December 20, 2021

Biden's health care speech gets the figures mostly right

By Victoria Knight• November 10, 2020

Nikki Haley mixes red meat with more moderate tone in Exeter, New Hampshire, town hall

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 13, 2023

Fact-checking the 2020 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris vs. Mike Pence

By PolitiFact Staff • October 8, 2020

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