claim: "i cut state spending more than anybody (in the 2016 gop field)."
author: jeb bush
evidence_1: apr 29, 2016 ... republican presidential candidates, led by donald trump, claim president  obama has slashed defense spending and will leave his successor with a ... post -9/11 pentagon spending peaked in 2009 at more than $691 billion — a  combination of the defense department's request for basic funds and the ...
evidence_2: a viral article inaccurately reported that medicaid spending cuts in texas  affecting disabled children were thanks to "emboldened" state republicans. ...  more than a year after lawmakers originally ordered it, texas announced monday  it will enact significant cuts to the money that it pays therapists who treat  vulnerable ...
evidence_3: november 21, 2016 issue ... essays by toni morrison, atul gawande, hilary  mantel, george packer, jane mayer, jeffrey toobin, junot díaz, and more. ...  barack obama's presidency the party lost both houses of congress, fourteen  governorships, and thirty state legislatures, comprising more than nine hundred  seats.
evidence_4: party elders have given up all pretense of being more than spectators, and most  of the candidates have given up all pretense of party loyalty. on the debate  stages, ... astonishingly, the 2016 republican presidential race has been  dominated by a candidate who is not, in any meaningful sense, a republican.  according to ...
evidence_5: aug 11, 2016 ... more than 70 republicans have signed an open letter to republican national  committee chairman reince priebus urging him to stop spending any ... and  house races will prevent the gop from drowning with a trump-emblazoned  anchor around its neck,” states a draft of the letter obtained by politico.