Pete Buttigieg

“The Biden administration began “a long-term communications fix that is still underway that [President Donald Trump] is now passing off as his idea.”

FactCheck.org says: A project called NextGen has been updating the air traffic control system since 2003 -- parts of that project are still ongoing.

“J.D. Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”

PolitiFact says: Vance said he would not support a bill that would federally legalize same-sex marriage, but did say during a debate that "gay marriage is the law of the land in this country."

“Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.”

PolitiFact says: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill in 2023 that provides paid family leave starting in January 2026. Democrats in Congress have proposed the Family Act since 2013, but this paid family leave plan has not progressed.

“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”

PolitiFact says: There is no official definition of a "recession" in one sector, but data on manufacturing employment and output shows a downturn beginning in 2019 and lasting through the pandemic's onset.

“The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump.”

PolitiFact says: The S&P 500 recently hit all-time highs under President Joe Biden, as it had several times earlier in his tenure. But the S&P 500 also set multiple records during Donald Trump’s presidency.

“Sen. Marco Rubio signed a 2021 letter that “supports waivers that would reduce visual track inspections.”

PolitiFact says: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., signed an October 2021 letter related to requests for automated track inspections. That letter did not explicitly advocate for fewer visual track inspections.

“If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach — or that would’ve been — in New York was — was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.”

Washington Post says: This is a famous anecdote from Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses but it remains unconfirmed and historians increasingly doubt it.

“President Joe Biden "has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession.”

FactCheck.org says: The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially lasted just two months and ended in April 2020.

“Polls show the American Jobs Plan has "extraordinary Republican and independent and Democratic support.”

FactCheck.org says: Several independent studies show strong bipartisan support for many of the main spending components, but also show most Republicans oppose the overall plan.

“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”

PolitiFact says: In city after city, highways have been designed in a way that prompted the demolition or fragmentation of Black neighborhoods. The reason is a combination of racism, lower real estate costs, and weaker political clout.

“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.”

PolitiFact says: Two independent analyses back up the notion that the new spending will be evened out by the new revenue raised under the plan after 15 years.

“Says Bernie Sanders would “go beyond reform and reorder the economy in ways most Democrats — let alone most Americans — don’t support.”

“Our party has a tradition that includes excellent presidents like Barack Obama who Mayor Bloomberg opposed.”

“The budget hole in Bernie Sanders’ plans “is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States.”

“But how did we get into this debt? It’s not the result of some mysterious, cosmic force that nobody could have prevented. It’s the result of giant tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy.”

“More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks.”

“More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks.”

“Every time we have won, at least in the last 50 or 60 years, it’s been with a candidate who called the country to a higher vision of itself, who hadn’t been in Washington for too long, and who spoke for a new generation.”

“The Trump administration "certified" that Iran was complying with the nuclear deal.”

“But when folks out there standing up for democracy hear not a peep from the president of the United States, what message is that sending to the Chinese Communist Party?”