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Lawmaker has numbers on lockdown

Taylor

"We saw the prison population expand and vacancy rates for correctional officers go from 2.9% to 15.2%" over the last eight years.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Mostly True

Funding for Dreamers isn't only money for higher ed

Flanagan

The state budget fully funds "an initiative to provide free college tuition for illegal immigrants, while rejecting an increase in Tuition Assistance Program funding that would help middle-class families afford college."

— PolitiFact New York on Sunday, April 7th, 2019

Mostly True

Piggy bank is full for now

Katsma

"The rainy day fund … is $320 million. That's much more than what it has been in the past."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, February 28th, 2019

Mostly True

Driving in the right lane

Thompson

Among neighboring states, the condition of Wisconsin highways was rated "not only the worst, but it was worse by a gaping margin."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 26th, 2019

Mostly True

Claim about Foxconn dollars makes cents

Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders

Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders

"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, February 1st, 2019