Latest False Fact-checks on Sheldon Whitehouse 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 Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
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Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs." Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on October 23, 2012 in a debate: "The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech: "When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
