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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 in an op-ed in the Washington Post:
“42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2019 in the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida.:
“No, that’s a mischaracterization of my thinking.”
Mostly True
By Kit Norton • July 3, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 26, 2019 in an opinion article:
“The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • July 3, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 24, 2019 in Press conference in Washington D.C.:
“Forty years ago, a federal Pell Grant paid for nearly 80% of tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year college.”
Mostly True
By Kit Norton, Lola Duffort • June 26, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet:
“30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost.” 
Half-True
By Shefali Luthra • June 24, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 6, 2019 in a tweet:
“I have consistently voted against the Hyde Amendment.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 10, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Wisconsin payday loans have a 574% average annual interest rate, “exploitative lending that keeps Americans trapped in debt”
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • May 14, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2019 in an interview on CNN:
“One out of five Americans cannot afford the cost of prescription drugs.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 6, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:
“You’ve got millions of families paying 40, 50, 60% of their limited incomes to put a roof over their heads.”
True
By Yanqi Xu • May 2, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall.:
“In my own state of Vermont, from the very first days of our state’s history, what our Constitution says is that everybody can vote. That is true. So people in jail can vote.”
True
By Ellie French • April 24, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 10, 2019 in speech at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire:
I received “more votes from young people — black, white, Latino, Asian American and Native American — than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined.”
Mostly True
By Kit Norton • March 16, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
Says President Donald Trump “came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 in a tweet:
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 “would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
“We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:
“In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don’t take out your wallet.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 in Tweet announcing new bill:
Says middle class taxpayers “subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year.”
Mostly False
By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 30, 2018 in a video:
Says the Koch Brothers sponsored “a study that shows that Medicare for All would save the American people $2 trillion over a 10-year period.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 14, 2018 in a speech:
“The three wealthiest people” own “more wealth than the bottom half of the American people.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2018 in Facebook post:
Says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion that a president “may decline to enforce a statute . . . when the president deems the statute unconstitutional” is “contrary to 200 years of Supreme Court precedent.”
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 16, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2018 in a tweet:
“You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero.”
True
By Manuela Tobias • May 3, 2018
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