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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X “Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.” Donald Trump stated on March 16, 2024 in a rally in Vandalia, Ohio "Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable." Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history." Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in a State of the Union address "We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion." Joe Biden stated on November 27, 2023 in remarks at the White House Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.” Francesca Hong stated on October 25, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson "opposes Social Security benefits." Marianne Williamson stated on November 7, 2023 in an event at a store in Manchester, N.H. Looking at “American aid to other countries … the vast majority of it is military aid.” Mike Johnson stated on November 5, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" “Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.” Mike Johnson stated on October 25, 2023 in his acceptance speech as speaker “In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.” Joe Manchin stated on September 2, 2023 in a post on X “Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.” Matt Gaetz stated on October 1, 2023 in an interview on ABC's "This Week" "Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt." Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House “According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.” Mike Pence stated on August 23, 2023 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee "I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives." Ron DeSantis stated on July 9, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.” Facebook posts stated on June 20, 2023 in a Facebook post The Pentagon “said we accidentally sent $6.2 billion to Ukraine.” 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.” Kevin McCarthy stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" "Every study has shown” that when work requirements are tied to federal safety-net programs, “it puts more people to work.” Joe Biden stated on May 10, 2023 in a speech in New York "The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on." TikTok posts stated on April 26, 2023 in a TikTok post Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab Nikki Haley stated on April 10, 2023 in a town hall in Salix, Iowa There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded. Load more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X “Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”
Donald Trump stated on March 16, 2024 in a rally in Vandalia, Ohio "Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."
Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history."
Joe Biden stated on March 7, 2024 in a State of the Union address "We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."
Joe Biden stated on November 27, 2023 in remarks at the White House Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”
Francesca Hong stated on October 25, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson "opposes Social Security benefits."
Marianne Williamson stated on November 7, 2023 in an event at a store in Manchester, N.H. Looking at “American aid to other countries … the vast majority of it is military aid.”
Mike Johnson stated on November 5, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" “Only in Washington can you cut funding, add a pay-for to a new spending measure, and they say it's terrible for the deficit.”
Mike Johnson stated on October 25, 2023 in his acceptance speech as speaker “In the time it’s going to take me to deliver this speech, we’ll go up another $20 million in debt.”
Joe Manchin stated on September 2, 2023 in a post on X “Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
Matt Gaetz stated on October 1, 2023 in an interview on ABC's "This Week" "Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt."
Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House “According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
Mike Pence stated on August 23, 2023 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee "I actually pushed the Deficit Reduction Act. That was the last time we actually reduced the national debt in the United States, when I was the leader of House conservatives."
Ron DeSantis stated on July 9, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
Facebook posts stated on June 20, 2023 in a Facebook post The Pentagon “said we accidentally sent $6.2 billion to Ukraine.”
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.”
Kevin McCarthy stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" "Every study has shown” that when work requirements are tied to federal safety-net programs, “it puts more people to work.”
Joe Biden stated on May 10, 2023 in a speech in New York "The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
TikTok posts stated on April 26, 2023 in a TikTok post Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab
Nikki Haley stated on April 10, 2023 in a town hall in Salix, Iowa There is “$500 billion of unspent COVID money” that can be rescinded.
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