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Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2025 in a speech announcing tariffs:

“Egg prices came down 50%”

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2025
Kamala Harris
stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes":

"We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people."

By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2024
Tim Walz
stated on September 21, 2024 in in Bethlehem, Pa.:

“Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in su discurso de aceptación en la Convención Nacional Demócrata:

El expresidente Donald Trump “tiene la intención de promulgar lo que, en efecto, es un impuesto nacional sobre las ventas…que elevaría los precios para las familias de clase media a casi $4,000 al año”.

By Marta Campabadal Graus • September 5, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:

Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year."

By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on May 16, 2024 in News release:

"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."

By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:

The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 in an interview with Time magazine:

“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2024
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:

Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2024
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC:

Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X:

"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Macy’s, Foot Locker, Gap, Burger King, Regal Cinemas and Kroger have had mass store closures during Joe Biden’s presidency.

By Sara Swann • April 24, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Eric Hovde
stated on March 4, 2024 in Campaign video:

“Since the end of the 2020 fiscal year, President Biden and Senator Baldwin have added over $7.3 trillion of debt, more than the first 228 years of our nation’s history combined.”

By Hope Karnopp • March 14, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on March 7, 2024 in his State of the Union address:

“We cut the federal deficit by $160 billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay those exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.”

By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2024
Bryan Steil
stated on February 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“Bidenomics is costing the typical American household over $11,400 more a year to buy the basics.”

By Hope Karnopp • February 21, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on February 4, 2024 in a post on X:

“Inflation has been at the pre-pandemic level of 2% over the last half year.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:

“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 in a speech:

“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”

By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 4, 2024 in a CNN town hall:

In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2024
Mike Johnson
stated on October 25, 2023 in his acceptance speech as speaker:

“Prices have increased over 17% in the last two years.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on October 23, 2023 in remarks at a rally in Derry, N.H.:

“When I came into office, Iran had $70 billion in foreign exchange reserves. … By the time I left, they had nothing. They were broke.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Chris Christie
stated on September 5, 2023 in a interview:

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, “in the last five years, spending has gone up 30%" in Florida.

By Samantha Putterman • September 8, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on July 28, 2023 in a speech in Maine:

"Wages are up after being adjusted for inflation."

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Tim Scott
stated on June 21, 2023 in a Fox News town hall:

“Median income in this country is … $35,000 a year. Because of Joe Biden's inflation, the average monthly expenses have increased by $500, almost.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2023
Tim Scott
stated on May 22, 2023 in his presidential announcement speech:

“The share of working-age men choosing to work is the lowest it has ever been.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2023
Mike Pence
stated on March 24, 2023 in an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo:

“We have a national debt the size of our nation’s economy for the first time since World War II.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on February 3, 2023 in a speech in Philadelphia:

“We created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:

“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work needing unemployment benefits. Today, that number is under 1.6 million, the lowest in decades.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on January 12, 2023 in remarks at the White House:

“Take-home pay for workers is going up.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2023

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