Latest Fact-checks on Pete Gallego Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Pete Gallego stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas: Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense." Pete Gallego stated on April 22, 2016 in Pete Gallego campaign press release: Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park." Pete Gallego stated on October 23, 2015 in a blog post by the Texas Tribune: Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record." Pete Gallego stated on April 2, 2015 in an email blast: "Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve." Pete Gallego stated on December 10, 2014 in his farewell U.S. House speech: "This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation." Pete Gallego stated on May 14, 2014 in an email blast: "The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates." Pete Gallego stated on May 15, 2013 in a U.S. House committee meeting.: Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible." Pete Gallego stated on January 27, 2011 in an interview on "Capital Tonight": "In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... they don’t have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID."
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Pete Gallego stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas: Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense." Pete Gallego stated on April 22, 2016 in Pete Gallego campaign press release: Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park." Pete Gallego stated on October 23, 2015 in a blog post by the Texas Tribune: Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record." Pete Gallego stated on April 2, 2015 in an email blast: "Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve." Pete Gallego stated on December 10, 2014 in his farewell U.S. House speech: "This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation." Pete Gallego stated on May 14, 2014 in an email blast: "The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates." Pete Gallego stated on May 15, 2013 in a U.S. House committee meeting.: Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible." Pete Gallego stated on January 27, 2011 in an interview on "Capital Tonight": "In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... they don’t have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID."
Pete Gallego stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas: Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense."
Pete Gallego stated on April 22, 2016 in Pete Gallego campaign press release: Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park."
Pete Gallego stated on October 23, 2015 in a blog post by the Texas Tribune: Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record."
Pete Gallego stated on April 2, 2015 in an email blast: "Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve."
Pete Gallego stated on December 10, 2014 in his farewell U.S. House speech: "This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."
Pete Gallego stated on May 14, 2014 in an email blast: "The average student loan debt in Texas is over $22,000...the cost of an average size pickup truck." But unlike car owners, "students are not allowed to refinance their loans at lower rates."
Pete Gallego stated on May 15, 2013 in a U.S. House committee meeting.: Says 97 percent of food stamp benefits "are paid in the proper amounts to people who are really eligible."
Pete Gallego stated on January 27, 2011 in an interview on "Capital Tonight": "In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... they don’t have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID."
