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Joe Scarborough stated on September 11, 2018 in a newspaper column:

"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."

By Louis Jacobson• September 12, 2018

Marianne Williamson stated on April 04, 2019 in an interview:

"For every dollar we spend on actual peace creation, we spend over $1,000 on ways to prepare for war."

By Tom Kertscher• April 15, 2019

Donald Trump stated on September 03, 2020 in a tweet:

"I never called John (McCain) a loser."

By Louis Jacobson• September 4, 2020

Barack Obama stated on June 16, 2008 in Flint, Mich.:

"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."

By Alexander Lane• June 25, 2008

Florida Consumer Action Network stated on April 29, 2008 in a press conference in Tampa:

"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."

By Janet Zink• May 7, 2008

Donald Trump stated on March 23, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "The View":

South Korea doesn't pay the United States for U.S. troops that protect their country.

By Louis Jacobson• April 1, 2011

National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on November 08, 2023 in an ad:

Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “voted to send hundreds of millions to Iran” to bankroll “radicals like Hezbollah and Hamas.”

By Tyler Katzenberger• November 24, 2023

Adam Kinzinger stated on October 26, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says Rand Paul "has put out budgets to cut the military in half."

By Steve Contorno• October 26, 2014

JD Vance stated on September 28, 2025 in an interview:

“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 1, 2025

Tom Price stated on May 10, 2017 in press conference about opioid addiction:

"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."

By Ella Nilsen• May 26, 2017

Donald Trump stated on April 04, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"There was a very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration, a trillion dollars. Nobody ever saw anything being built."

By Louis Jacobson• April 4, 2017

Keith Olbermann stated on April 08, 2009 in an episode of his TV program.:

"President Obama is actually increasing Bush-era defense spending by $21 billion in the new fiscal year."

By Robert Farley• April 13, 2009

Mitch McConnell stated on April 14, 2010 in a press conference:

New financial regulation "actually guarantees future bailouts of Wall Street banks."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson• April 20, 2010

Donald Trump stated on January 13, 2026 in a speech in Detroit:

"If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we're going to have a balanced budget."

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• January 13, 2026

Donald Trump stated on June 22, 2016 in a speech in New York attacking Hillary Clinton:

"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."

By Jon Greenberg• June 22, 2016

Democratic Party of Virginia stated on April 04, 2022 in a news release.:

“The proposed (Virginia) House budget cuts hundreds of millions in funding for public education…”

By Warren Fiske• April 12, 2022

Barack Obama stated on February 03, 2009 in interview with CBS News:

On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."

By Robert Farley• February 9, 2009

Brett McGurk stated on October 20, 2019 in an MSNBC appearance:

"President Trump has sent 14,000 American troops to the (Middle East) region since May. So he can't tell his political rallies that he's getting troops out of endless wars when he's sending 14 times the amount back into the region."

By Bill McCarthy• October 22, 2019

American Future Fund stated on August 09, 2012 in an advertisement:

Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas."

By Louis Jacobson• August 14, 2012

Republican Party of Florida stated on September 27, 2010 in a campaign ad:

"Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Florida's investments? Alex Sink."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 6, 2010

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