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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.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
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.”

By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
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.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
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.”

By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 in an ad:

"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."

By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2022
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on February 2, 2022 in Twitter:

Gov. Tony Evers has “only gotten one-third of the money meant for COVID relief out the door. He is sitting on $930 million in ARPA funds left unspent. In fact, he still has CARES Act money from two years ago.”

By Madeline Heim • February 25, 2022
Robert Reich
stated on November 24, 2021 in a tweet:

“Norway spends about $30,000 per child on early childhood care, Finland spends $23,000, Germany $18,000” and the U.S. $500.

By Tom Kertscher • December 11, 2021
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"The 550 U.S. billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we'd raise enough to run the federal government for less than eight months."

By Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021
Kamala Harris
stated on May 5, 2021 in Statement:

The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan will be “the biggest non-defense investment in research and development in the history of our country.”

By Laura Schulte • May 28, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on March 4, 2021 in a press conference:

President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”

By Lara Bonatesta • April 15, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 4, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal “is fully paid for. Across 15 years, it would raise all of the revenue needed for these once-in-a-lifetime investments."

By Louis Jacobson • April 7, 2021
Stand for America
stated on February 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

The COVID-19 rescue bill includes money for a list of projects that are not COVID-related.

By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2021
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 24, 2021 in a Senate floor speech:

In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2021
Josh Hawley
stated on August 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"USPS currently has the most cash on hand in its history, (approximately) $15 billion."

By Veronica Mohesky • September 16, 2020
Ron Johnson
stated on August 2, 2020 in a TV interview:

“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • August 13, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 12, 2020 in a tweet:

“Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.”

By Meghan Hall • April 29, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on February 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Trump just cut the scheduled federal pay raise, stating that he can’t do it now because of ‘serious economic conditions’ in America.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 17, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet:

“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."

By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:

"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."

By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 in a town hall:

"There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program."

By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2019
Jason Smith
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

Federal workers "are paid well above the HOUSEHOLD income in southern Missouri."

By Olivia Garrett • February 21, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on January 2, 2019 in a tweet:

The partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia."

By Patrick Downey • February 20, 2019
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 1, 2018 in a tweet:

"Thanks to President Trump and Republican leadership, the number of people collecting food stamps has declined by more than two million."

By Patrick Orsagos • August 23, 2018
Dana Wachs
stated on April 11, 2018 in an interview:

Says Scott Walker "has turned down $1 billion of Medicaid money over the course of his tenure."

By Tom Kertscher • June 15, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 4, 2018 in an interview:

"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."

By Tom Kertscher • May 9, 2018
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2018 in a speech at Duke University:

"We’ve spent more money on the military than the next 12 nations combined."

By Paul Specht • April 24, 2018
Rand Paul
stated on February 8, 2018 in a Senate floor speech:

"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2018

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