While my colleague was in congress for fourteen years, they accrued a twelve trillion dollar deficit. The forty trillion we have, twelve trillion alone, came while he was in congress.
OverstatedAbdul El-Sayed, at Michigan U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WOOD TV8)
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Why we checked itSpecific claims about the length of the opponent's congressional tenure and the share of national debt accrued during that period are verifiable and, if wrong, would materially mislead voters about the opponent's fiscal record.
What we foundThe $40 trillion total debt and Rogers's 14-year tenure are accurate, and the national debt did increase by approximately $12.3 trillion during his 2001–2015 congressional service, but El-Sayed conflates 'deficit' with cumulative debt increase and implies personal attribution to Rogers for debt accrued by entire governments.