Fact-checks | PolitiFact

The Poynter Institute

English Español

Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

I would like to contribute

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 3, 2024 in a newsletter for constituents:

“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”

By Conor Amendola • February 20, 2024
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 in a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice:

“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”

By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 in an interview with WNYC:

“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”

By Landon Allison • March 25, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 21, 2020 in a tweet:

“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”

By Jaren Holmes • May 7, 2020
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 in the Detroit debate:

"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"

By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 9, 2019 in a campaign event:

A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 26, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 10, 2019 in an interview:

"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 21, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 2, 2019 in a Fox News town hall:

"Remember after the shooting in Las Vegas, (President Donald Trump) said, ‘Yeah, yeah, we’re going to ban the bump stocks.’ Did he ban the bump stocks? No."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on May 10, 2019 in a campaign stop:

"I actually in 2005 ran on Medicare for all."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 22, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 18, 2019 in a town hall:

For Cabinet posts, "I have the best voting record against Trump nominees of anyone else running for president"

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 29, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 25, 2019 in in a news conference:

"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 9, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 7, 2019 in a tweet:

"A black woman in New York City is 12 times more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on November 12, 2018 in a television interview:

"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 16, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet:

"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."

By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on December 15, 2017 in Buffalo:

"The truth is this tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes."

By Dan Clark • December 22, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on May 16, 2017 in a speech at a conference:

A national paid leave program "would potentially put into the economy $21 billion dollars annually."

By Dan Clark • June 15, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 in an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh:

The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."

By Dan Clark • April 16, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

"We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave."

By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 9, 2013 in an interview on Face the Nation:

The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."

By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 23, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC:

"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on January 24, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Today, about 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check."

By Molly Moorhead • January 30, 2013

✕