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Chris Coons stated on July 30, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”
By Louis Jacobson• August 3, 2023
Scott Walker stated on May 16, 2016 in an interview:
"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."  
By Tom Kertscher• May 25, 2016
John Boehner stated on October 06, 2013 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"This year, the federal government will have more revenue than any year in the history of our country."
By Louis Jacobson• October 7, 2013
Erica Smith stated on December 30, 2021 in a tweet:
“Corporate profit margins are at their highest point in 70 years. … They’re overcharging us for gas, medicine, and groceries, and pocketing the difference.”
By Paul Specht• January 7, 2022
Jan Schakowsky stated on November 12, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
The United States "has never been richer, if you look at per capita GDP."
By Steve Contorno• November 18, 2013
Mike Romano stated on December 08, 2018 in an op-ed:
"Adjusting for inflation, West Virginia’s median household income has not grown in a decade."
By Shannon MacNeil• December 12, 2018
Shelley Moore Capito stated on August 23, 2023 in a post on X:
“#Bidenomics has led to mortgage rates hitting a 21-year high → over 7%.”
By Sophia Bookwood• October 5, 2023
Tim Kaine stated on December 07, 2011 in in a debate:
George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."
By Sean Gorman• May 15, 2012
Facebook posts stated on May 17, 2021 in social media posts:
“Gas prices highest in a decade. Worst jobs report in 2 decades. Highest inflation in 3 decades. Highest increase in illegal immigration in 4 decades.”
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde• May 26, 2021
Scott Walker stated on March 01, 2015 in an interview:
The University of Wisconsin System "will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America" because "going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation."
By Dave Umhoefer• March 9, 2015
Wes Riddle stated on October 22, 2011 in a speech.:
Says combined inflation and unemployment rates in October 2011 were the highest since Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter.
By W. Gardner Selby• June 8, 2012
Jason Carter stated on January 15, 2014 in a speech:
The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.
By Nancy Badertscher• January 23, 2014
Newt Gingrich stated on September 07, 2011 in a debate:
Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
By Eric Stirgus• September 12, 2011
Bernie Sanders stated on January 07, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high."
By Louis Jacobson• January 23, 2013
Mike Gallagher stated on April 12, 2022 in News release:
“Inflation has gone up every month of the Biden presidency and just hit another 40-year high.”
By Laura Schulte• April 22, 2022
Terry McAuliffe stated on December 17, 2015 in a speech.:
"We are taking Virginia’s investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealth’s history."
By Warren Fiske• January 11, 2016
Tim Scott stated on June 21, 2023 in a Fox News town hall:
“Median income in this country is … $35,000 a year. Because of Joe Biden's inflation, the average monthly expenses have increased by $500, almost.”
By Louis Jacobson• June 26, 2023
Rick Scott stated on October 14, 2015 in a press conference:
"We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state."
By Joshua Gillin• October 15, 2015
Marco Rubio stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
By Louis Jacobson• April 17, 2024
David Dewhurst stated on April 13, 2012 in a Republican U.S. Senate debate:
Says that when adjusted for inflation and population growth, state general revenue spending has decreased 10.7 percent on his watch.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• April 20, 2012

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