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Fact-checks (20935)

Nick LaLota stated on March 29, 2023 in a press release:
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
By Cameron Carr• June 19, 2023
Donald Trump stated on August 31, 2016 in a campaign speech in Phoenix:
"There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they’ve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals."  
By Allison Graves• September 1, 2016
Facebook posts stated on August 18, 2022 in a TikTok on Facebook:
The Supreme Court will put Donald Trump back in office in October
By Amy Sherman• August 29, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on January 27, 2016 in a blog post :
Says Catherine Cortez Masto "was happy to line her own pockets with taxpayer dollars when state employees were slammed with frozen salaries."
By Riley Snyder• February 3, 2016
Barack Obama stated on January 20, 2015 in his 2015 State of the Union address:
"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."
By Lauren Carroll• January 21, 2015
John Kasich stated on March 08, 2011 in his State of the State speech:
Ohio Director of Job Creation "Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them."
By Mark Naymik• March 23, 2011
Andrew Cuomo stated on January 14, 2021 in a tweet:
“No state gets back less from Washington than New York state.”
By Cassidey Kavathas, Hannah Roesch• February 11, 2021
Chris Christie stated on July 23, 2012 in a news conference:
"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."
By Erin O'Neill• July 30, 2012
John Kasich stated on June 21, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"Since 1904, the Ohio victor has won the presidency 25 out of 27 times "
By Robert Higgs• July 23, 2010
Bernie Sanders stated on March 09, 2016 in the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College:
When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."
By Jon Greenberg• March 10, 2016
George Clooney stated on April 16, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising is not going to Hillary (Clinton) to run for president. ... It's going to the congressmen and senators to try to take back Congress."  
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• May 5, 2016
Back to Basics stated on October 05, 2010 in a newspaper ad:
Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole."
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• October 7, 2010
Rachel Maddow stated on April 12, 2011 in an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.:
Says Texas routinely gets "a lot more federal spending" than it pays in taxes.
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 22, 2011
Barack Obama stated on November 16, 2014 in a press conference after the G20 summit:
"Over the last few years, we’ve put more people back to work than all the other advanced economies combined."
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson• November 18, 2014
Back to Basics stated on September 08, 2010 in a TV ad:
"Perry pushed for a law that lets insurance companies raise homeowners’ rates without having to justify the increase."
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• October 3, 2010
Richard Licht stated on February 05, 2012 in a television interview:
"We aren't the only state cutting back on public television."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 14, 2012
Alex Sink stated on September 01, 2010 in figures cites on campaign website:
"Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade."
By Laura Figueroa• September 21, 2010
Thom Hartmann stated on December 12, 2013 in a broadcast of "The Big Picture":
Republican state lawmakers "are refusing to give the people of their own states their own tax dollars back in the form of (expanded) Medicaid."
By Jon Greenberg• December 31, 2013
Sean Duffy stated on August 25, 2010 in a campaign news release:
"Julie Lassa willingly took a hefty pay raise at a time when people throughout her district and the state were losing their jobs."
By James B. Nelson• September 21, 2010
Mahlon Mitchell stated on June 19, 2018 in an interview:
Says Scott Walker "has cut more from public education than he's put back in, obviously. He took $1.6 billion and some change away and then puts back $630 million and he's calling that progress."
By Tom Kertscher• August 1, 2018

Articles (6938)

Back to Basics ad demands Rick Perry face Texans and debate

By W. Gardner Selby• October 6, 2010

Truth-O-Meter travels back in time

By Willoughby Mariano• September 26, 2010

Aw shucks, Rick Perry blasted Washington while signing request for billions, Back to Basics ad says

By W. Gardner Selby• October 12, 2010

Fact-checking the Dick Cheney-John Kerry faceoff on 'Morning Joe'

By Louis Jacobson• September 4, 2015

On whether Wisconsin is the most gerrymandered state

By Tom Kertscher• June 18, 2018

Fact-checking the Feb. 1 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• February 1, 2015

Iran nuclear deal back in the news

By Tom Kertscher• October 17, 2017

A closer look at Donald Trump's comments about refinancing U.S. debt

By Louis Jacobson• May 16, 2016

How Iran and the United States came to the brink

By Jon Greenberg• January 7, 2020

For Trump, no signal yet refugee policy will change after U.S. airstrike in Syria

By Miriam Valverde• April 7, 2017

How big was Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory? 8 charts explain

By Louis Jacobson• November 22, 2024

Are Sensenbrenner and Moore in agreement on Voting Rights Act?

By Dave Umhoefer• March 6, 2013

Would a U.S. strike in Syria violate international law?

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• September 12, 2013

Fact-checking the Dick Cheney-John Kerry faceoff on 'Morning Joe'

By Louis Jacobson• September 4, 2015

Fact checking Wisconsin Republicans

By Tom Kertscher• May 10, 2018

Taking the jobs-claim challenge

By Warren Fiske• May 24, 2011

Drilling down on the state economy

By April Hunt• January 13, 2015

Does California give more than it gets from Washington D.C.?

By Chris Nichols• February 14, 2017

PolitiFact's 5 most-viewed fact checks from January

By Angie Drobnic Holan• February 16, 2015

PunditFact fact-checks the Feb. 1 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• February 1, 2015