“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
Tammy Baldwin
U.S. Sen.. 17 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Wisconsin had over 1,400 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“On eliminating the filibuster.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half Flip
“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Yes, Americans pay more for remdesivir. No, Trump administration isn’t to blame for that
“We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: Two cybersecurity committees in the federal Department of Homeland Security released a statement that called the Nov. 3 election “the most secure in American history," contradicting President Donald Trump's many claims
“On whether to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year”
PolitiFact rated this: Full Flop
PolitiFact says: Baldwin flip-flops on SCOTUS nominations in a presidential election year
“The Trump Administration is trying to take food assistance away from Wisconsin families when people are out of work and struggling.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had.”
FactStream rated this: I mean, probably?
“Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“More Americans are uninsured today than when (President Donald) Trump took office.”
PolitiFact rated this: True