“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Robin Vos
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker. 16 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Kids who don’t even know what day it is or their colors can decide to permanently change themselves” through medical gender transition.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“In Wisconsin, even multimillionaires can be on BadgerCare "because we don't even ask people what their income level is to qualify for free healthcare.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“A lot of the programs (that were) started during the pandemic are still going, even though the pandemic is long over.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“The legislature has long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“We passed one of the first (COVID-19) bills in the entire country, empowering Gov. Evers to act.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Wisconsin was the last state to start paying COVID-related federal unemployment benefits.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Says as Assembly Speaker he is a "constitutional officer" of Wisconsin.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Video shows Joe Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Says Gov. Tony Evers “wants to release half of the prison population.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“On red-flag laws says, "What (Democrats) wanted to do was say, ‘I think you might do something, so I’m going to take away your gun and make you prove you wouldn’t do it.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Says 1,000 people failed gun background checks in Wisconsin in 2018, but "almost none of them were prosecuted for trying to do a background check and illegally buy a weapon.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Says "red flag laws" allow gun seizure without a judge’s involvement: "They take it away first. Then you have to get permission from a judge to do it.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation’s largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures.”
PolitiFact rated this: False