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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
stated on February 22, 2018 in a tweet:
“Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned”
True
By Dan Clark • February 28, 2018
Marco Rubio
stated on November 26, 2017 in an interview:
“Close to half of the voters in America, the only tax they pay is the payroll tax.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 28, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2017 in an interview with Channel 8:
“The child tax credit, if we don’t do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get…
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 19, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on July 20, 2017 in a Facebook live speech:
“In order to sell insurance in Florida there are over 40 separate individual conditions that must be covered. … far beyond the essential health benefits…
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 27, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on June 28, 2017 in a Facebook live speech:
“There is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on April 9, 2017 in an interview on ABC "This Week":
The Obama administration’s 2013 Syria proposal “had no clear objective,” while Trump’s Syria strike “had a clear strategic objective.”
False
By Lauren Carroll • April 12, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 in an interview:
“In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 in a U.S. Senate debate:
Says President Obama “was proposing pinprick strikes” for military intervention in Syria.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 in a U.S. Senate debate in Orlando:
“Not even Tim Kaine is willing” to say he trusts Hillary Clinton. 
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 in a U.S. Senate debate:
“In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again” through Obamacare.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on October 4, 2016 in a Spanish-language campaign ad:
Says Patrick Murphy wrongly conveyed Rubio’s stance on abortion for women infected by Zika.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 11, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on September 13, 2016 in a TV ad:
Says Patrick “Murphy embellished, according to reports, his University of Miami academic achievement.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on September 7, 2016 in a statement by a spokeswoman:
Says “Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika.”
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 in a campaign ad:
Says “Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers.”
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on June 22, 2016 in an announcement:
On running for re-election to U.S. Senate  
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on June 13, 2016 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
“In America, radical speech is not a crime.”  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on May 16, 2016 in a tweet:
Says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • June 3, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 in a GOP debate at the University of Miami:
Foreign aid “is less than 1 percent of our federal budget.”  
True
By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 in the GOP primary debate in Texas:
Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers “from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment.”
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 in comments during the Houston GOP debate:
“When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund.”
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
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