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PolitiFact Texas Reporter

Nusaiba Mizan is a journalist at the Austin American-Statesman.

Featured Statements

Roger Williams
stated on December 2, 2021 in an email:

"The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 in a rally:

"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022
Roger Williams
stated on October 28, 2021 in in a speech:

"U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030."

By Nusaiba Mizan • November 30, 2021
Colin Allred
stated on October 25, 2021 in in a TV interview:

"You've had over 2 million women drop out of the workforce during this pandemic."

By Nusaiba Mizan • November 23, 2021
Dan Patrick
stated on October 18, 2021 in a TV interview:

Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, "meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally."

By Nusaiba Mizan • November 15, 2021
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
stated on March 9, 2021 in Twitter:

“Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth”

By Nusaiba Mizan • June 9, 2021
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 in Facebook post:

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
Sarah Godlewski
stated on January 9, 2021 in Twitter:

“It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 15, 2021
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on November 8, 2020 in a TV interview:

The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts.

By Eric Litke • November 18, 2020
Mike Pence
stated on October 11, 2020 in a news release:

Says since he and President Trump took office, their policies "led to an unemployment rate of 3.1% in Wisconsin and 61,000 Wisconsin jobs, including 15,000 manufacturing jobs."

By Nusaiba Mizan • October 20, 2020