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Latest Fact-Checks In Stimulus

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Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2021 in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee.:
“There is a consensus among economists left, right, and center… that we can’t spend too much” on COVID-19 relief.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2021
Thom Tillis
stated on July 7, 2020 in a tweet:
“Cal Cunningham criticized (the Paycheck Protection Program) while his company benefitted.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • July 17, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 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.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017
Eric Bolling
stated on November 26, 2016 in a commentary on Fox News:
“President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (was) a fancy name for almost a trillion-dollar spending bill. The ARRA was supposed to fix our crumbling roads and bridges,” but now, “we have absolutely nothing to show for it.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2016
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 in the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Rob Portman “said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio.”
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:
Says that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, the United States has created “15 million new jobs.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2016
Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 in an op-ed for PennLive:
“Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black.”
Half-True
By Cassie Owens • July 13, 2016
Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2016 in a statement:
“As governor, in the face of partisan attacks, (Charlie Crist) had the courage to save jobs and lead his state into economic recovery.”
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 23, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 in an advertisement:
“In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash.”
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
“President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had.”
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 in a speech:
“We’ve cut the deficit by two-thirds.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • July 8, 2015
Charlie Crist
stated on October 21, 2014 in a debate:
Says high-speed rail would have created 60,000 jobs.
False
By Katie Sanders, Steve Contorno • October 22, 2014
Rick Scott
stated on October 15, 2014 in a debate at Broward College:
“3,000 teachers lost their jobs when (Crist) was governor.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on October 10, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate:
If Florida had not taken the stimulus, it “would have led to the firing of 20,000 teachers.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 10, 2014
Bloggers
stated on September 18, 2014 in a chain email:
Was Martha Kanter “dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money” to save Craig Robinson’s job?
Pants on Fire!
By Dana Tims • September 23, 2014
Jack Kingston
stated on June 18, 2014 in radio and television add:
U.S. Senate candidate David Perdue’s company took $3 million from the federal stimulus program that President Barack Obama created.
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • June 30, 2014
Rick Scott
stated on June 23, 2014 in a TV ad:
“Under Governor Crist, 3,000 teachers laid off.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 26, 2014
Ted Cruz
stated on May 6, 2014 in a report:
The Obama administration spent “$205,075 in ‘stimulus’ funds to relocate a shrub that sells for $16.”
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2014
Young Conservatives of Texas
stated on March 13, 2014 in a press release:
Ryan Sitton’s company “accepted over $650,000 in Obama stimulus dollars.”
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 25, 2014
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2014 in a response to the State of the Union address:
Says President Barack Obama “spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2014
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