Checking Cornyn’s Numbers Versus Context
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn takes his arguments online. Photo by Bob Daemmrich/Texas TribuneAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn recently floated an “inconvenient factoid” about Democrats and debt. KUT’s Emily Donahue fact-checks the statement with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas. Cornyn posted on his Facebook page: “When Ds controlled Congress and WH: federal spending as a share of GDP leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 (this was the largest such increase in ANY 8 year period since WWII).”
On those numbers, yes, but we realized that he went off the map a bit by also saying that Democrats controlled Congress and the White House for all those years.
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