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Donald Trump

2021-01-06 00:00:00

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Says City Blue Imaging Services in Rochester, N.Y. “printed ballots there. If you search them you’ll see they’re the ones who had ballots misprint errors for the ballots sent to NYC.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-06 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/06/viral-image/posts-about-dc-bill-allows-children-be-vaccinated-/

Posts about D.C. bill that allows children to be vaccinated without parental consent needs context

A law recently went into effect in Washington, D.C., that allows children ages 11 and older to receive certain vaccinations without parental approval if a doctor deems them capable of giving informed consent.  But some posts on Facebook share a screenshot from a website called the Conservative Brief, which misleadingly displays a photo of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and features a headline that reads: "D.C. Passes Bill to Immunize Children Without Parental Knowledge, Consent." The headline is repeated in text above Fauci’s photo, but swaps out the word "D.C." for "Dems." Additional text, which comes from the article, also appears in the post and says, "The bill not only permits children of this age (11+) to provide consent to doctors and other vaccine administrators without a parent’s knowledge or consent, but also requires insurance companies, school administrators, and medical personnel to conceal from parents that…" The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Washington, D.C., city officials did pass and enact a law that allows minors 11 and older to get certain vaccinations without parental approval if they are deemed able to consent by a doctor. But Fauci had nothing to do with it. And more context is needed than what is presented on social media. The bill in question, "B23-0171 - Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2019," was introduced in the D.C. city council on March 5, 2019 and enacted on Dec. 23, 2020.  Under the legislation, children age 11 and older are permitted to receive government-recommended vaccines that their parents object to on religious grounds, if a doctor agrees. The law covers vaccines for a range of illnesses including polio, measles, mumps and rubella, as well as the COVID-19 coronavirus and human papillomavirus, which is recommended for older children.  The law requires doctors who are employing the legislation send the immunization records to the child’s school and seek payment directly from the insurance company, rather than involving parents. These circumstances can come into play if the parents are using a religious exemption that allows their child to attend school without being vaccinated against communicable diseases.  The legislation was created in response to the country’s 2019 measles outbreak, which was believed to have been fueled by parents’ refusal to vaccinate their children.   A representative of the D.C. chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which strongly supported the bill, said vaccination rates at the city’s public schools range from 87 to 93 percent but have fallen below 85 percent at some charter schools, according to a report by the Washington Post.  A famous example of a teen circumventing parental consent over vaccinations came in 2017, when Ethan Lindenberger, who has since become a public health advocate, got vaccinated against his mother’s wishes when he turned 18. Some states already allow minors to get vaccinated without parental permission, but rules vary widely. There is no federal law that allows U.S. children as young as 11 to get vaccinated without parental approval. Our ruling A Facebook post shares an article screenshot that features Dr. Anthony Fauci and says "D.C. Passes Bill to Immunize Children Without Parental Knowledge, Consent." The city of Washington, D.C., passed a bill that allows minors 11 and older to get certain government-recommended vaccinations without their parent’s consent. No such law exists at the federal level. And Fauci had nothing to do with the legislation. Also, the headline obscures that children would first have to be willing to receive the vaccination and that a doctor would have to agree they are capable of making that decision.  We define Half True as a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. That fits here.

Children,Public Health,Facebook Fact-checks,Viral image

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Facebook posts

2021-01-04 00:00:00

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Photo shows people protesting the 2020 election in Washington D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021.

Samantha Putterman

2021-01-06 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/27/ron-klain/trump-vaccine-plan-left-logistics-states-it-did-ex/

Trump vaccine plan left logistics to states, but it did exist

President Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain criticized the Trump administration’s vaccination campaign as "chaotic," adding Biden will work more closely with states to get vaccines into arms. On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd asked Klain about conflicting comments by Biden officials about whether the new administration had to create a vaccination distribution plan from scratch.  Klain said Biden was building on progress from the initial wave of vaccinations, "no question about it." "But the process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole did not really exist when we came into the White House," Klain said. Really? We found that’s taking things too far. Many experts said that the Trump administration’s plan had some key holes, including a failure to communicate with the states and cities about the rollout and inadequate funding for vaccine distribution. But it did have a plan: rely on the states. "The federal plan, much like the rest of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, was very hands off when it comes to details of implementing public health interventions," said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "The last mile of vaccine delivery was not a big part of the federal plan by design." Trump administration’s plan relied on the states  We asked Michael R. Fraser, CEO of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, if the Trump administration had a plan for vaccine distribution. "It is all in what you mean by ‘plan," Fraser said. "If you mean a tactical guidebook on how to do vaccination from A to Z, no, there is no federal plan."  Prakash Nagarkatti, vice president for research at the University of South Carolina, told USA Today that "there was total lack of planning at the state level for mass vaccination, and the federal government did not help the states overcome the hurdles." In September, the Trump administration announced a general strategy to distribute the vaccine which included deliveries to states and, later, pharmacy chains. A partnership with CVS and Walgreens administered vaccines in some long-term care facilities.  The closest thing to a federal plan was the playbook the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave states to help them create their own distribution plans. States wrote broad plans and submitted them in October. They lacked important details , such as how many doses they would get and when. (At the time, no vaccines were approved.) Without dollars to make them happen, state plans were essentially wish lists, Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, said on a podcast. It wasn’t until December that Congress approved a COVID-19 package with $8 billion for vaccine distribution.  At the same time, it’s clear there was some level of coordination. The U.S. would not have been able to give shots to millions of people, enroll tens of thousands of private providers, and set up a data collection system tying in all 50 states if the federal and state governments had done no planning. "To say there wasn’t planning is not accurate," Hannan told PolitiFact. "However, I don’t think there was communication from the federal government about the plan, about the vision, about how things would work." Biden’s plan calls for more federal involvement A couple of days after Klain’s interview, Biden offered a softened take on the work of the Trump administration. "We want to give credit to everyone involved in this vaccine effort and the prior administration and the science community and the medical sphere … for getting the program off the ground," Biden said Jan. 26. "And that credit is absolutely due." But Biden said that once he took office, he found that the vaccine program was in worse shape than he expected.  The Biden administration has envisioned a more prominent federal role, including setting up  100 vaccine centers across the nation by the end of February. Officials say the biggest roadblock is lack of vaccine supply. Biden announced that his administration aims to purchase enough doses to fully vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of the summer or beginning of the fall. While the philosophical approach to federal involvement is different, "you can’t say absence of plan when the plan isn't the one you would have created," said KFF’s Michaud. The Washington Post reported that Biden’s advisers inherited something "more like a black box than a bare cupboard — the result of fractured communication among federal, state and local officials and a juggling act between manufacturers making a new product and thousands of providers, from big hospital systems to tiny clinics, struggling to plan around an unknown amount of vaccine." As of Jan. 26, about 20 million people had received their first dose and about 3.5 million had received a second dose, according to the CDC. About 44 million doses had been distributed. The main challenge that states now face is they only know how many doses they are getting a few days in advance. Most state officials have said they could deliver double or triple the number of shots if they had a larger supply. "The story here is the supply, not needing a plan," Fraser said. Our ruling Klain said, "The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals out into the community as a whole, did not really exist when we came into the White House." Klain was focusing his criticism on the phase of getting vaccinations into the arms of the general public, not the initial phase of vaccinating health care workers and workers and residents of long-term care facilities. The Trump administration’s approach to distributing the vaccine was to give it to locations chosen by the states and to let them take it from there. There are many criticisms of this process, including that it took too long to give states money to implement their plans and a lack of communication from the top about how the rollout would work. But that was the plan they drew up. Saying there a plan "does not really exist" is beyond saying a plan is lacking. We rate Klain’s claim Mostly False. CORRECTION, Jan. 28: We corrected the number of Americans the Biden administration hopes to fully vaccinate by the end of summer or early fall.

National,Corrections and Updates,Public Health,Coronavirus,Ron Klain

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Facebook posts

2020-12-27 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Dems Pass Bill to Vaccinate Children Without Parental Knowledge, Consent.”

Chris Nichols

2021-01-27 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/27/mandy-cohen/nc-health-officials-clarify-number-spoiled-covid-1/

NC health officials clarify number of spoiled COVID-19 vaccines

With North Carolina initially among the slower states to administer coronavirus vaccines, reporters are raising questions about the effectiveness of its rollout. In a press conference on Jan. 21, a reporter asked Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen how many shots had been misused or gone to waste. "We as a state don’t want to waste any vaccine. We are seeing very small numbers of vaccine waste recorded in our CVMS system, but it’s very few, like in the tens of doses," Cohen responded. Is North Carolina’s spoil number "very small," even "in the tens?"  The state health department says, on average, it’s receiving reports of fewer than 10 spoiled doses per provider. However, the total number of spoiled doses is in the four digits, not two.  A day after Cohen’s briefing, North Carolina’s health department told the Associated Press that a total of 1,280 doses had been discarded. About the discrepancy We asked the department about the comments Cohen made on Thursday. Was she describing the 1,280 number? Had she seen that specific 1,280 figure?  Chris Mackey, the department’s director of communications, said no. Cohen hadn’t seen the specific total when she spoke at that Jan. 21 briefing, Mackey said, because the department didn’t run a report on the numbers until later. Cohen based her comments on "one-off conversations" with other health officials. "We ran a report when someone asked us for it. Mandy didn’t have the number," Mackey said in a phone interview. "She was trying to say we haven’t seen any big incidents of vaccine waste." The 1,280 spoiled doses account for 0.1% of the 1.1 million doses in the state, the department said in an email.  There are 250 healthcare providers administering the shots, the email said, meaning the losses average out to about five doses per provider. Comparing states It’s difficult to know how North Carolina’s numbers compare with other states. The CDC has instructed states to report vaccine waste into its tracking system, agency spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund told PolitiFact. However, ProPublica reporters found that some states aren’t tracking their spoiled doses. "We are working to figure out how to provide this data online in the future when the data is more complete," Nordlund said. A 2019 report from the World Health Organization says vaccine waste is expected to be anywhere between 5% and 20% during mass vaccination campaigns.  There are reports of other states losing hundreds of doses in single incidents. Wisconsin received national attention when authorities charged a local pharmacist with deliberately destroying around 500 doses of the vaccine. In Massachusetts, NBC News reported that a Veterans Affairs hospital lost 1,900 doses after a cleaning contractor accidentally unplugged a refrigerator. In Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch reported, a pharmacy spoiled 890 doses by failing to keep them properly stored. In another case, nearly 12,000 doses spoiled on the way to Michigan after the shipping truck got too cold. Our ruling Cohen said the health department is receiving reports of "very small numbers of vaccine waste … but it’s very few, like in the tens of doses." The health department provided clarity on Cohen’s remarks a day later.  It’s fair to say the rate of vaccine spoilage is "very small" — a tenth of 1%. However, it was inaccurate for Cohen to say the number was "in the tens." The total number was 1,280. We rate this claim Half True.

North Carolina,Coronavirus,Mandy Cohen

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2021-01-03 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says the number of spoiled coronavirus vaccines in North Carolina is “very small ... in the tens.”

Tom Kertscher

2021-01-26 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/facebook-posts/no-evidence-covid-19-vaccine-caused-hank-aarons-de/

No evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Hank Aaron’s death

Social media users are suggesting that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine caused the death of baseball legend and civil rights advocate Hank Aaron.  "Hank Aaron - RIP - wanted to be an example and an inspiration to Black People by taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Unfortunately, he may have become a clear example to Black People of why this vaccine CANNOT be trusted," reads a Facebook post.  The post was published on Facebook and flagged as part of the company’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Aaron passed away at the age of 86 on Jan. 22, 2021, two weeks after he had received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.  But posts like this one mislead by implying that the vaccine caused Aaron’s death. So far, there’s no evidence of a direct link, and vaccine experts told us to view these claims with caution.  A spokesperson at the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office, which examined Aaron’s body after his death, told PolitiFact that his cause of death was natural and not linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.  The COVID-19 vaccines have been studied for months and have been proven to be safe and effective in tens of thousands of people. In addition, many of the users suggesting that the Moderna vaccine caused Aaron’s death are doing so without any evidence. "Unfortunately, there are 86-year-olds who die every day. Thus, a single death in a person of that age group following a more than two-week interval from vaccination does not prove causation," said Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center. We don’t know specifically how Aaron died. USA Today has reported that Aaron died of a stroke in his sleep.  If Aaron did die of a stroke, that would make it even less likely that the vaccine contributed in some way to his death. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said that it would be "biologically implausible" for the COVID-19 vaccine to cause a stroke.  "The coronavirus can cause strokes, but the (Moderna COVID-19) vaccine only contains one protein of the virus, and there’s no evidence that that one protein is inducing inflammation of the blood vessels (which could cause strokes)," he said.  The most common way of assessing whether vaccines have negative side effects is by gathering safety data from two groups of people, a vaccinated group and a control group. If a particular symptom is significantly higher in the vaccinated group, then it’s likely that the vaccine causes that symptom. However, if a particular symptom occurs at a similar rate in both the vaccinated and control groups, then the most likely cause is coincidence.  Tens of thousands of people participated in clinical trials last year to make sure the vaccines were safe before rolling them out to the general public. To receive FDA emergency-use authorization, vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna had to follow up with at least half of participants for at least two months after they received their vaccinations. U.S. health experts have been aware of the possibility that deaths following vaccination would be perceived as being linked to the vaccine. In December, Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot, a member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said that the likelihood of nursing home patients dying from other causes shortly after vaccination could erode public confidence in the safety of the vaccines.  "When you are vaccinating millions and millions of people, some will develop bad illnesses and death simply by chance," said Orenstein. "These would be illnesses and deaths that would have occurred anyway at that time even if the person was not vaccinated." Our ruling Social media users imply that Hank Aaron’s death was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that Aaron’s death was not linked to the vaccine. Just because someone dies after receiving a vaccine does not prove that the vaccine caused his death. The COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective in tens of thousands of people. We rate these posts False. 

Public Health,Sports,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2021-01-01 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Donald Trump offered his hotel “to our troops to sleep in after they were put in a car garage.”

Noah Y. Kim

2021-01-26 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/james-tedisco/how-bad-have-new-york-states-recent-population-los/

How bad have New York state’s recent population losses been?

Has New York state seen bigger losses in population from out-migration than any other state? That’s what state Sen. Jim Tedisco said in a press release issued with fellow members of the Senate Republican Conference  On Jan. 5, Senate Republicans unveiled their plan to "Reset New York State," saying they sought to lower taxes, improve local economies and get smarter about addressing the coronavirus pandemic. In the release, Tedisco said that in order for New York to address its economic challenges, the Legislature must first grapple with the pattern of New York residents fleeing the state for other locales.  "In order to reset New York State by safely restarting our economy, we need to address the elephant in the room that our state government is not talking about: the fact that for the third year in a row, New York leads the nation in outmigration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade," Tedisco said in the release. "When enough people who can afford to leave New York State are gone, who will be left to pay for the infrastructure, health care, schools and other necessities?" New York has indeed experienced population losses over the past decade, we found, but the nature of the losses is not quite as Tedisco suggests. Adam Kramer, Tedisco’s chief of staff and director of communications, directed PolitiFact’s reporters to several articles referring to the total population decline of 126,000 people, but this figure isn’t necessarily tied to domestic out-migration. What’s the source of New York’s population loss? Kramer cited the U.S. Census Bureau’s new population figures released on Dec. 22, 2020, which show changes between July 2019 and July 2020. The figures show that New York’s population decreased by 126,355 people during that period, or a 0.65% drop from a year earlier. That was the nation’s largest loss of population for that period, with Illinois having the second-biggest loss.  However, it’s important to note that the population loss figure is not necessarily attributable to out-migration to other states. The figure also reflects net international migration and natural increases from births minus deaths, said William Frey, chief demographer at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington. In 2020, deaths could be a significant factor, since New York experienced roughly 25,000 coronavirus deaths during the period reflected in the Census statistics. The Census Bureau has not yet released a more detailed breakdown of population changes from 2019 to 2020, so it’s not clear yet how much of New York’s population loss stems from migration to other states. That said, recent history supports Tedisco claim that New York has experienced significant migration to other states. This brings us to his second assertion. Did 1 million people leave New York over the decade? Census data shows that between 2010 and 2019, New York state gained about 75,000 people overall. However, the population losses to other states were substantial — almost 1.38 million people. This was larger than any other state, with California ranking second. The reason for the overall gain is that the domestic losses were more than balanced out by a net gain of 698,000 from international migration and a net gain of more than 758,000 from births minus deaths. The breakdown for domestic out-migration isn’t available yet for 2020, but figures are available for the overall population figure. They show that New York’s small overall population gain from 2010 to 2019 was reversed by 2020, with the state losing almost 117,000 between 2010 and 2020. Why are people leaving New York? When Tedisco made his claim, his Republican colleagues largely blamed the state government for the population decline. Sen. Joseph Griffo said in the statement that people are leaving New York because of "unwelcome policies, burdensome regulations and high taxes," while Sen. George Borrello cited "high taxes, excessive, job-killing regulations, and a rising crime rate" as reasons for population loss. Tom W. Smith, senior fellow and director of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Politics and Society, said that these factors may help cause out-migration, but he added that other factors can as well, even the prevailing weather. Despite Tedisco’s assertion that out-migration will make it difficult for New York to be able to pay for infrastructure, health care, schools and other necessities in the future, Frey said New York’s population losses aren’t enough to cause that. "While there may continue to be a negative domestic out-migration from New York, it has not been dramatically different than the past, especially when compared with the early 2000s," he said. Our ruling Tedisco said that "New York leads the nation in outmigration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade." New York has seen significant population losses for a decade, exceeding the losses in other states. However, he described the one-year loss of 126,000 incorrectly. That figure refers to net population changes for all reasons, including gains from international in-migration and births minus deaths. We rate the statement Half True.

Population,New York,James Tedisco

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Mandy Cohen

2021-01-21 00:00:00

a press conference:

Hank Aaron’s death was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine.

Landon Allison

2021-01-26 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/facebook-posts/biden-did-back-long-border-fence-2006-comparison-2/

Biden did back a long border fence in 2006, but a comparison to 2021 falls short

Not 30 minutes after President Joe Biden took office, a Facebook post surfaced showing video of him speaking in 2006 about his vote in support of fencing at the southern U.S. border. "Flashback: Joe Biden Boasts About Voting For '700 Miles Of Fence.’ This grainy footage from 2006 shows then-Sen. Joe Biden talking about immigration in some entirely different ways than he does today," reads the title and caption to the video, which has been shared more than a thousand times. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post appeared on American Voices Facebook page, which has nearly 3 million followers. The account says that it is affiliated with the Daily Caller, a conservative-leaning news website. Daily Caller’s watermark shows in the upper-right corner of the video. For this fact-check, PolitiFact reviewed the video as well as Biden’s past positions and statements on border security and his modern-day policy stances on immigration and border control. We found that he did support 2006 legislation funding a 700-mile fence at the southern U.S. border, but his statements at the time do not signify a significant departure from his current support for border security and other measures to control immigration into the U.S. Let’s look.     The video The three-minute video posted on Facebook starts with about a one-minute clip of fuzzy footage in which then-Sen. Biden is seen speaking to a group of people seated at tables. This clip comes from a Nov. 27, 2006, talk Biden gave to the Columbia (S.C.) Rotary Club. It was recorded by Brad Warthen, who was then editorial page editor for The State newspaper in Columbia. In it, Biden says: "I voted for 700 miles of fence. But let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high. Unless we change the dynamic in Mexico and — and you will not like this — and punish employers who knowingly violate the law when they hire illegals, unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing... "And the reason why I,parenthetically, why I believe the fence is needed does not have anything to do with immigration, as much as drugs. I’m the guy that wrote the national crime bill. I’m the guy that wrote the national drug trafficking. I’m the guy that wrote the law that set up a drug czar. And let me tell you something folks, people are driving across that border with tons, tons — hear me — tons of everything from byproducts for methamphetamine to cocaine to heroin."  The video then splices together more recent footage from Biden’s statements on immigration and border protection during the 2020 campaign, including a pledge to create a pathway to citizenship for people living in the United States without a legal status. About the 2006 Secure Fence Act The vote Biden references was for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was squarely aimed at reducing illegal immigration along the southern border. It was passed by a Republican-led Congress and signed by Republican President George W. Bush. The bill passed the Senate, 80-19, with Biden and then-Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton among 26 Democrats voting for it. The law authorized about 700 miles of fencing along certain stretches of land between the border of the United States and Mexico.  The act also authorized the use of more vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting to curb illegal immigration, and the use of advanced technology such as satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles. Bush described it as part of his efforts toward comprehensive immigration reform. The Boston Globe in 2017 noted that Democrats who were normally in favor of looser immigration laws viewed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 as the lesser of two evils. Around that same time, the House passed legislation that would make any immigrant illegally in the country a felon. Biden’s position Biden said in the clip that his vote was mainly targeted at drug trafficking. But he also indicated that he doesn’t believe border security depends on the wall. He said he supported a variety of measures much as he does today, such as addressing root causes for why people seek to leave their homes for the United States. Biden campaigned for the presidency saying he would not take down border barriers or add more. He wants to use technology to maintain border security and to invest $4 billion to tackle the factors motivating Central Americans to migrate to the United States. Our ruling A Facebook post says that a video shows Biden boasted in 2006 "about voting for ‘700 miles of fence’" and "talking about immigration in some entirely different ways than he does today." In the 2006 video clip, Biden did talk about voting for a 700-mile fence. He said he made the vote mainly to fight drug trafficking, not illegal immigration, but the 2006 Secure Fence Act was squarely aimed at stemming illegal immigration along the southern border. Biden in 2006 supported a variety of measures to fight illegal immigration much as he does today, including addressing root causes that lead people to flee their homes south of the U.S.-Mexico border for the United States. In that respect, Biden’s position is not so different. The post is partially accurate but leaves out important details — our definition of Half True.

Immigration,Candidate Biography,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2021-01-22 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“New York leads the nation in out-migration of residents, with 126,000 people leaving last year and over one million in the past decade.”

Tom Kertscher

2021-01-26 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/colin-schmitt/sweeping-claim-about-safety-youth-sports-lacks-evi/

Sweeping claim about safety of youth sports lacks evidence

State lawmakers have been among those pushing the Cuomo administration to allow all high school sports to resume, even those the state deems "higher risk" such as wrestling, competitive cheerleading, basketball and hockey.  In a news conference on Jan. 14, Assemblymember Colin Schmitt, a Republican who represents parts of Orange and Rockland counties, said neighboring states have allowed students to play and New York should follow suit.  "We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports," he said.  Last week, the New York State Department of Health announced those sports will be allowed to return Feb. 1. Now the question has become even more important to a lot of families whose children may want to play: Is Schmitt right? Does scientific data show it is safe to play amid a pandemic?   Experience elsewhere We approached Schmitt’s office about his claim, and his chief of staff, Taylor Weyeneth, sent us information from several sources. He reiterated Schmitt’s statement that with Covid-19 safety measures in place, sports can resume without a high risk of transmission.  A news story from earlier this month dealt with rapid testing of student athletes in Michigan. The 4,000-plus students who played football and volleyball and competed in swimming competitions took a test before they practiced or competed. The state found 99.6% of the tests came back negative since testing began Dec. 30.    A University of Wisconsin study of Covid-19 and high school sports, published in October, was based on surveys of 207 high school athletic departments that had re-started sports. Those departments accounted for more than 30,000 students, 4,000 games and 16,000 practices during September. The sports included, but were not limited to, cheerleading, soccer and football. The survey showed 271 coronavirus cases reported among the students, with only one case traced back to school sports. The infection rate among high school student athletes was lower than the rate among the general population of their peers, the authors wrote.  We asked the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health about the study.  The school’s dean, Dr. Robert N. Golden, said in a statement that the study does not represent the views of the school, and he cautioned the data came from high school athletic departments and that the study had not been peer-reviewed.  "High schools across the country are working to make the best decisions they can regarding the health and safety of their athletes, and we do not believe this report should play a major role in shaping their decisions," said Golden.  A survey in Kentucky tracked responses from more than 12,000 high school football players and support staff. The survey, conducted by football coaches and reported on by the Cincinnati Enquirer, found that less than 1% of participants reported being infected with the coronavirus after two months of meetings and practices. None of the cases could be traced back to workouts. Not everyone was tested. The data was collected in an effort to persuade state officials to resume play, according to the Enquirer. Measuring risk We asked experts about the risk of Covid-19 spread among high school athletes allowed to play amid the pandemic.  Dr. Chad Asplund, a primary care and sports medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said from what is known, the majority of the infections do not occur during games, but through everything that goes with them: meals, travel and hanging out with teammates. "But from the data available, it appears that there has not been a significant amount of transmission during athletic contests," Asplund said.  As far as which sports are riskier, he said that those with more direct contact, such as wrestling, are more likely to transmit the virus between athletes, while outdoor sports are less likely. Indoor sports pose more risk, but some of that can be mitigated with improved ventilation and air flow. He also said spectators should be masked and socially distant, especially indoors in an enclosed space, such as a hockey rink.  Ice hockey, considered "higher risk" in New York, has been deemed the source of several clusters or outbreaks around the country, including in Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. During an amateur indoor hockey game between adults in Florida, 13 were infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.   "The indoor space and close contact between players during a hockey game increase infection risk for players and create potential for a superspreader event, especially with ongoing community COVID-19 transmission," CDC researchers wrote.  The American Academy of Pediatrics says ice hockey in particular "carries a higher relative risk."  Regarding all youth sports, the academy cautions that the number of players, the frequency and duration of contact, and whether students are playing outside or inside can influence whether infection will be transmitted during school sports.  "Risk can be decreased but not eliminated by athletes, parents, coaches, and officials following safety protocols," according to the academy’s guidance from December.  Dr. Donald Milton, a professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, studies Covid-19 transmission. While his lab hasn’t studied this specific question, he said safe sporting events are doable with rapid tests before practices and games, twice-weekly PCR testing, contact tracing, air filtration, and proper mask wearing.  Dr. Ingrid Ichesco, who specializes in pediatric sports medicine at Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, said there’s many benefits with sports from a physical and mental standpoint, and those benefits have to be weighed against the risks.  "Obviously, anything where you’re in close proximity there’s a risk for Covid transmission," she said.  Our ruling Schmitt said scientific data shows it’s safe to play all sports while following health and safety protocols, even those considered "high risk."  But the data that Schmitt provided did not address all of the high-risk sports. There are indications that participation in certain sports does not lead to greater transmission of the virus. And the University of Maryland professor we talked to said he believes high school students can play sports safely by following the right precautions. But the key word in Schmitt's statement is "scientific." Tallying survey results is not conclusive scientific evidence regarding all of the sports that Schmitt wanted to see resumed, such as wrestling and ice hockey.  Even the medical school dean at the University of Wisconsin advised against relying on a colleague's report because it wasn't peer reviewed and the data collection depended on the high schools. If Schmitt had said "mounting evidence" or "early indications" show playing high school sports is safe amid a pandemic, that would not have been false. But he said "scientific data," which implies a more rigorous standard has been met. It hasn't. We rate Schmitt’s claim Mostly False. 

Education,Sports,New York,Coronavirus,Colin Schmitt

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James Tedisco

2021-01-05 00:00:00

a news release:

“We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports.”

Daniel Funke

2021-01-26 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/26/rick-scott/paris-climate-agreement-easier-china-and-india-us/

Is the Paris Climate Agreement easier on China and India than on the US?

President Joe Biden has been systematically undoing former President Donald Trump’s policies on climate change. Case in point — Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. On Biden’s first day, he signed paperwork to bring the United States back in. Under the Paris agreement, about 200 nations promised to set goals to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Each nation decides for itself what its goal will be. The hope is that cumulatively, those reductions would limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, criticized Biden’s move.     "We have to stop joining deals that are bad for America," Scott said in a statement to the press. "President Biden is throwing the U.S. back into the Paris Agreement just to appease his liberal friends. This deal does nothing to hold real polluters, like Communist China and India, accountable." There’s debate over how well the agreement’s overall approach will meet the challenge of climate change. Here, we focus on Scott’s claim that the agreement puts the U.S. at a disadvantage because it does nothing to hold "real" polluters like China and India accountable.     Limited enforcement Under the agreement, each country submits a set of greenhouse gas reduction targets called a Nationally Determined Contribution. Countries have been sending these to the United Nations since they launched the agreement in 2015, with new or updated goals due in 2020, and every five years after that. For example, in its 2016 plan, China said that by 2030, it would lower carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 60% to 65% compared with 2005 releases. So, while its emissions would rise as its economy grew, they wouldn’t rise as much as they would have if everything worked the way it did in 2005. China said it would aim for carbon dioxide emissions to peak in about 2030. India set a more modest goal of cutting emissions by 33% to 35% per unit of GDP by 2030. Both China and India had additional goals on their list.  Scott said the agreement has no way to hold nations accountable if they stray from meeting their goals. Benjamin Zycher, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a market-oriented think tank, said Scott has a point. "The Nationally Determined Contributions are strictly voluntary," Zycher said. "There is no enforcement mechanism." Zycher is no fan of the Paris agreement. But even those who think it holds promise agree that it lacks teeth. "There are no penalties other than naming and shaming if these pledges are too weak or are not fulfilled," said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Countries are required to report their progress publicly. Law professor Daniel Bodansky at the Arizona State University College of Law said transparency matters, and those progress reports are not simply taken on faith. "The agreement provides for both expert and peer review of these reports," Bodansky said. Holding to international norms is a form of pressure, Bodansky argued. Zycher countered that China is autocratic and can ignore domestic and international pressure more easily than the United States, Canada and Europe. Unfair advantage? Gerrard said Scott’s reference to China and India was misleading. "It implies that China and India are subject to weaker requirements than the U.S.," Gerrard said. "That is incorrect." The agreement’s compliance rules might be weak, but they apply equally to all participating countries. The Biden administration will determine how ambitious the U.S. goals will be when it rejoins the agreement. At this point, we don’t know what those will be. Gerrard and Bodansky both fault Scott for calling China and India the "real polluters." The actual rankings are more complicated. As this chart shows, by one measure, China releases more carbon dioxide than the U.S. By another, the U.S. tops China.   "The United States is the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, and has higher per capita emissions than either China or India," Bodansky said. "It is misleading to point the finger at China and India and label them as the real polluters." By the yardstick of carbon dioxide releases relative to the size of the economy, the latest numbers come from 2016 World Bank data. China was at the top with 0.5 kilograms per dollar of GDP, with India and the U.S. tied at 0.3 kilograms per dollar of GDP.  We reached out to Scott’s office and did not hear back. Our ruling Scott said the Paris Climate Agreement is bad for the United States because it fails to hold "real polluters" such as China and India accountable.  People who study the agreement agree that it lacks teeth to hold each country to its carbon dioxide reduction goals. But its rules apply equally to all nations. China and India are treated the same as the U.S.  China emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as the U.S., but per person, the ranking is flipped, and the U.S. emits twice as much as China. By both standards, India emits much less than either country. The Paris agreement lacks strict enforcement, but Scott’s comparisons to China and India are misleading. We rate this claim Mostly False.  

National,Climate Change,Rick Scott

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Colin Schmitt

2021-01-14 00:00:00

a news conference:

The Paris Climate Agreement is “bad for America,” because it "does nothing to hold real polluters, like Communist China and India, accountable."

Haley BeMiller

2021-01-26 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/25/facebook-posts/biden-was-not-sworn-illuminati-bible/

Biden was not sworn in on an Illuminati Bible

President Joe Biden’s family Bible is the latest fodder for Illuminati conspiracy theorists. On Jan. 21, a Facebook user posted a photo of Biden’s hand on the Bible. First lady Jill Biden is pictured in the lower right-hand corner. "Sooo has anyone else realized this yet or???? Masonic/Illuminati Bible that Biden swore on yesterday," the photo’s caption says. The post has more than 16,000 shares. It was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) (Screenshot from Facebook) The term "Illuminati," translated from Latin to mean "revealed" or "enlightened," refers to a secret society called the Bavarian Illuminati that sought to infiltrate powerful institutions, such as monarchies, to promote Enlightenment ideals. "Masonic" refers to freemasonry, the practices of the world’s oldest and largest fraternal organization. The Bavarian Illuminati infiltrated Masonic lodges before dissolving in the 18th century. The Bible that Biden was sworn in on is not related to either organization, which have been the subjects of numerous conspiracy theories. Other fact-checkers have debunked similar claims. Biden has used this hefty Bible, featuring a Celtic cross, throughout his career in public office. He told Stephen Colbert in December that it’s been a family heirloom since 1893. "Every important date is in there," he said. "For example, every time I’ve been sworn in for anything, the date has been on that and is inscribed in the Bible."   The book is pictured in photos from when Biden was first sworn in as a senator in 1973. He also used it when he was inaugurated as vice president. (AP) As evidence that the Bible is linked to the Illuminati, the Facebook post includes two screenshots. The first screenshot shows a listing for a Haydock Douay-Rheims Bible, a 19th century translation with commentary from Christian scholar George Leo Haydock, on a third-party auction house website. The second screenshot shows text from a website that claims the Haydock Douay-Rheims book contains information about how the Illuminati "changed the name of God the Son of the Catholic Trinity" — a "Masonic trick" that the website calls "the Da Vinci Code." Biden’s family Bible is indeed a Haydock Douay-Rheims edition, which was common among English-speaking Catholics in the U.S. until the 1940s. But claims about this edition of the Bible being linked to Illuminati are related to a long line of conspiracy theories about the Illuminati, which only operated for a decade in the 1700s and sought to replace Christianity with a "religion of reason." "Beginning in 1792, several conspiracy authors began to combine the Masons, the Illuminati, the Templars, and the Jews in varying combinations to create a worldwide conspiracy of universal control," wrote Christopher Hodapp and Alice Von Kannon in "Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies." "The Da Vinci Code" is a book about an elaborate conspiracy to suppress information that Jesus possibly had a child with Mary Magdalene. It is a work of historical fiction that has been discredited by churches, clergy members and Bible scholars. We could find no credible evidence that Biden’s Bible is linked to the Illuminati. While many former presidents were Freemasons, we did not find evidence that Biden is a member of the fraternity. The Facebook post is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire! RELATED: Kamala Harris was sworn in on a stack of Bibles — not a clutch purse

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L. Lin Wood

2021-01-25 00:00:00

an

"We put $330 million in general school aids — the largest in more than a decade."

Daniel Funke

2021-01-25 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/06/facebook-posts/yes-la-hospitals-were-packed-covid-19-patients-con/

Yes, L.A. Hospitals Were Packed With COVID-19 Patients, Contrary To Viral Video’s Claims

A deceptive and widely viewed Facebook video claimed Los Angeles hospitals did not face a recent surge of COVID-19 patients. The footage made the rounds and was believed by Facebook users despite strong evidence to the contrary from health officials and media reports. The anti-mask activist who shot the video made a sweeping conclusion: There are  "absolutely no patients" at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, according to the video, posted on New Year’s Day. The activist also referred to hospital staff as "useful idiots."  A hospital representative rejected the video’s assertions as baseless.  The footage mostly shows the hospital’s deserted outpatient center. But this is not where COVID-19 patients arrive, as pointed out by some of the comments on the video.  Most patients arrive through separate ambulance and emergency department entrances, said Gwendolyn Driscoll, spokesperson for MLK Jr. Community Hospital. "There is no substance whatsoever to her allegations," Driscoll wrote in an email, referring to the activist.  The hospital is located in a mostly Black and Latino south L.A. neighborhood where many residents are essential workers who are continually exposed to COVID-19. It also serves some unhoused individuals. The hospital is considered among the hardest hit in Southern California, where post-holiday COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed.  In a striking example, the number of cases in Los Angeles County doubled from 400,000 on Nov. 30 to 800,000 on Jan. 2, according to the county’s public health department. That led to patients overwhelming area hospitals, including an oxygen shortage at five facilities, forcing them to close to all ambulance traffic for several hours. The Facebook video was flagged as part of the social media company’s effort to combat false news and misinformation. (Read more about PolitiFact California’s partnership with Facebook.) It had been shared 1,000 times and viewed more than 18,000 times as of early this week. Converting ‘Every Nook And Cranny’ To Patient Space To fact check the video’s claim, we relied on statements and data from officials at MLK Jr. Community Hospital, along with other health and emergency service officials. We also reviewed recent news reports, photos and videos showing the impact of the COVID-19 surge on hospitals in the L.A. area.  A Dec. 19 report by CBS News shows patients inside a triage area set up at MLK Jr. Community Hospital’s ambulance bay. Additionally, a KTLA TV news report this week shows a similar tent set up outside the hospital.  A Dec. 29 report by ABC 7 Los Angeles shows footage of patients on gurneys waiting in hallways at an unidentified hospital, while several news clips include footage of ambulances waiting outside emergency rooms with patients still inside.  "We have converted every conceivable nook and cranny in the hospital into patient care space," Dr. Elaine Batchlor, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital CEO, told ABC News last month. "We're doing everything that we can." The Facebook video shows the both the outpatient center and the main entrance to MLK Jr. Community Hospital. There’s little activity at either location. Driscoll, the hospital spokesperson, said that’s because these "are not patient areas" and few COVID-19 patients come in through the main doors.  She also cited a data analysis showing MLK Jr. Community Hospital had the highest rate of COVID-19 patient volume to hospital bed capacity of any nearby hospital in late December. It shows 97% of its 131 licensed beds were being used by COVID-19 patients the week before Christmas, a higher rate than each of the dozens of other hospitals within 15 miles.  SOURCE: MLK Jr. Community Hospital Driscoll says the hospital’s figures are based on an analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, which publishes COVID-19 data at hospitals nationwide.  As of late December, the hospital remained well over capacity with 225 total patients, when combining those with and without the virus, according to the Los Angeles Times. ‘Every Bed Occupied By A Ventilated COVID Patient’ Staff at MLK Jr. Community Hospital aren’t the only ones dealing with the impacts of the area’s coronavirus surge.  The situation at nearby Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center was also dire, chief medical officer Dr. Brad Spellberg told the Times last week.  "When you walk into the ICU, and you see every bed occupied by a ventilated COVID patient, with tubes coming in all orifices of their body, you begin to understand that we are not dealing with what we were dealing with 10 months ago," Spellberg said in the Times article. There was not one available bed for at least 30 patients who needed intensive or intermediate levels of care, Spellberg added in the article, and the hospital had to shut its doors to all ambulance traffic for 12 hours. In this Dec. 17, 2020, photo, medical tents are set up outside the emergency room at UCI Medical Center in Irvine, Calif. California hospitals are facing increasingly difficult decisions about which services to postpone amid a crushing load of coronavirus patients. Intensive-care beds are full in Southern California and the Central Valley, with statewide availability at only 1.1%. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File) Regional health officials warned the impact to hospitals is even more serious this week, as the post-Christmas and New Year’s Eve surge of cases and patients is just beginning.  "We are still encouraging people to only come to the emergency department or to call 911 if you have a medical emergency or psychiatric emergency," Los Angeles County Public Health Services Director Christina Ghaly said at a press conference on Monday. "Ambulances are still having to wait many hours to offload patients to the emergency room."  Our Ruling A misleading Facebook video alleged Los Angeles hospitals were not overwhelmed with patients following the recent COVID-19 surge. Specifically, it said there were "absolutely no patients" at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in south Los Angeles. That claim is a far cry from reality. Video from news reports along with patient data and statements from the hospital all show MLK Jr. Community Hospital, like many in the region, was flooded with patients last month as COVID-19 cases soared.  Additionally, the Facebook video was filmed at the hospital’s outpatient center, which is not where COVID-19 patients arrive. They come in through separate emergency department and ambulance entrances.  A hospital spokesperson described the claim as groundless.  Based on the evidence, we agree and rate it Pants On Fire. PANTS ON FIRE – The statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.

Health Care,Public Health,Facebook Fact-checks,California,Facebook posts

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Rick Scott

2021-01-20 00:00:00

a statement given to the press:

Joe Biden was sworn in on a "Masonic/Illuminati Bible."

Tom Kertscher

2021-01-25 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/05/donald-trump/does-mike-pence-have-power-reject-electoral-colleg/

Constitution does not allow Mike Pence to reject electoral votes

When Congress meets to formally count the votes from the Electoral College Jan. 6, President Donald Trump has said Vice President Mike Pence can turn a loss into a win. Typically, in a joint session of Congress, the vice president opens the envelopes from each state containing the results that determine which candidate got that state’s electoral votes. These results, in the form of official certificates, have been signed and sealed. The vice president opens each one, hands them to four members from the House and Senate who read the results out loud, and at the end, the vice president announces the final tally. As many as 140 House members and over a dozen senators have said they will challenge some of the state results. Trump tweeted that Pence himself could do that. "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors," Trump tweeted Jan. 5 The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2021 We asked the White House press office for the legal basis of that claim and did not hear back. Many scholars say there’s nothing in the Constitution or legislation that gives the vice president the power Trump claims. Trump’s statement focuses on Pence’s ability to sway the outcome. This is separate from what we know to be the ability of members of Congress to challenge the results. If at least one senator and one representative object to the results from a given state, both chambers vote to sustain or reject the complaint. Only if both chambers sustain the complaint are the results thrown out. When it comes to counting the votes, the 12th Amendment says, "The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted." To Hofstra University law professor Richard Neumann — and many of his colleagues — the meaning of those words is plain. "The Constitution gives a vice president, as president of the Senate, only one role, which is to open envelopes," Neumann said. "The vice president’s constitutional duty to open envelopes is ministerial." Neumann said the law offers no exceptions. The vice president must open every packet of results. The next relevant law comes from the Electoral Control Act of 1887. That’s the law that guides the process on Jan. 6. It, too, undercuts Trump’s tweet. "Nothing in the statute gives a vice president a role in deciding disputes," Neumann said. Under that law, resolving disputes falls to members of Congress. And while the vice president is the president of the Senate, that doesn’t make that person a senator. The Constitution defines the vice president as an officer of the executive branch. Law professor Ilya Somin at George Mason University said there’s a good reason the law doesn’t give Pence any say over which electoral votes are valid, and which are not. "If he did, he would have an obvious conflict of interest anytime he is himself a candidate for president or VP — as is the case this year, actually," Somin said. A federal judge threw out a suit that aimed to give Pence the power to reject electoral votes. The Justice Department also argued against it. That, however, was based on the standing of the plaintiffs, not the merits of the case itself.  Some legal analysts say that states retain full control over elections, and not even Congress can interfere with the outcome. "Neither the vice president nor Congress has the power to reject electoral votes," wrote Alan Charles Raul and Richard Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal. Raul is former associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan and Bernstein is a retired appellate attorney. "The 12th Amendment vests no power in the vice president or Congress to judge who won a state’s electoral votes when the authorized branches of the state’s government agree, as they do here, on which electors won," they wrote Jan. 3. "The word ‘counted’ provides no basis for anyone to override anything. When a person counts the number of games his favorite team has won, that person has no power to alchemize losses into wins." The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled directly on the question of the vice president’s role in the Electoral College count, but in 2020 it did affirm the power of the states over presidential elections in a case involving "faithless electors" — those who wanted to vote for the candidate of their choice.  "Their ‘faithless elector’ ruling rests on the assumption that states have near-total control over the selection of their electors," Somin said. Trump focused on "fraudulently chosen electors." If there were evidence of massive fraud on a scale that would flip the results, there might be legal grounds for Congress to act. But in lawsuit after lawsuit, no judge has found any evidence to back up that allegation. In explaining why he would vote to affirm the Electoral College results, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., cited a Trump-appointed judge who threw out a challenge in Pennsylvania. "Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here," Sasse wrote Dec. 31. But again, this would only grant Congress the power to do something. Not the vice president. Our ruling Trump said, "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." His office provided no legal basis for that assertion, and multiple legal scholars have said that no law gives the vice president any role beyond reading the results from the states. Based on the text of the Constitution, existing law and prevailing scholarship, we rate this claim False. RELATED: Counting the votes Jan. 6: What you need to know CORRECTION, Jan. 6, noon: In a group email exchange with Hofstra University law professors Eric Freedman and Richard Neumann, we thought Freedman was sharing his own thoughts when in fact he was passing on the thoughts of Neumann. We wrongly attributed comments to Freedman that should have been attributed to Neumann. The story has been corrected.

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Facebook posts

2018-11-18 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“President-elect Biden steps down as president-elect.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-05 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/05/ron-johnson/sen-ron-johnson-changes-tune-objecting-electoral-c/

Sen. Ron Johnson changes tune on objecting to Electoral College results

It’s a new year, and the turmoil surrounding the 2020 presidential election still isn’t over. Congress convenes on Jan. 6, 2021 to count the Electoral College votes that show President-elect Joe Biden defeating President Donald Trump 306 to 232. Vice President Mike Pence, acting as Senate president, will open the sealed certificates from each state, hand them to tellers to read aloud and call for any objections to the results. That’s where Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson plans to come in.   Johnson and 10 other Republican senators and senators-elect issued a statement on Jan. 2, 2021 saying they will object to the votes in "disputed states" unless an election audit is completed.  The move came as Trump and his allies have continued to try to cast doubt on the Nov. 3 election despite no evidence of widespread fraud and nearly 60 failed legal attempts to overturn the results. Weeks before that, Johnson was singing a different tune about the Jan. 6 session. So we decided to break out our Flip-O-Meter.  Reminder: We’re not measuring whether any change in position is good policy or good politics. We’re just examining whether a public official has been consistent in his or her stated views. Let’s take a look. Then A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter asked Johnson on Dec. 15, 2020 whether he planned to object to the Electoral College votes.  "No, I don’t have any plans," Johnson said. "Something would have to surface that would call into question the legitimacy of the election. Again, so far nothing has … again, plenty of irregularities, things that need to be investigated." He went on to say he regarded the election as legitimate and accepted Biden as president-elect. The next day, however, he held a Senate hearing to discuss election "irregularities" and argued that legitimate questions had been raised about how it was administered in Wisconsin and other states.  Still, Johnson said he didn’t anticipate a level of fraud that would change the election’s outcome. "Today we will hear testimony on … how fraudulent voting did occur, as it always does," he said during the hearing. "The question that follows is whether the level of fraud would alter the outcome of the election. This year, through dozens of court cases, through the certification process in each state, and by the electoral college vote, the conclusion has collectively been reached that it would not." Now Johnson’s more recent comments, however, paint an entirely different picture. In their statement, Johnson and his Republican colleagues claimed that the 2020 election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities." Johnson added to that in a Jan. 4, 2021 talk radio appearance, saying 50 to 70 million Americans "have real legitimate suspicions that this election was stolen" — but offered nothing more than suspicions, which Trump and others helped stoke. That same day, he said on Fox News that affirming the results would turn a blind eye to alleged problems in certain states. Again, he did not offer specifics on new evidence, but rather past allegations that have been litigated in lawsuits and other forums. He also appeared on the conservative Newsmax network and argued for an investigation, saying fraud allegations need to be taken seriously.  "There's so many irregularities here," Johnson said in the interview. Johnson has not said whether he’ll challenge his own state, but the results in Wisconsin have been disputed multiple times after Biden won by a narrow margin similar to the victory Trump secured in 2016.  Spokesmen for Johnson did not respond to PolitiFact Wisconsin’s inquiry about what changed the senator’s mind. But here’s what hasn’t changed: Courts across the country, including the nation’s highest, continue to throw out lawsuits brought by Trump allies alleging the election was rigged. And as of Dec. 23, 2020, only a handful of fraud cases had emerged in battleground states — including one woman charged in suburban Milwaukee.  That’s hardly unprecedented.  Our ruling Johnson said in mid-December that he had no plans to object to the Electoral College results that Congress will tally on Jan. 6. He spoke of potential "irregularities" in certain states but overall considered the election to be legitimate. Weeks later, he joined other Republicans in pledging to object despite no evidence emerging that points to rampant fraud.  We give Johnson a Full Flop.    

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2021-01-05 00:00:00

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“1776 flag flying over White House!” in January 2021. “Revolution Signal.”

Haley BeMiller

2021-01-05 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/05/facebook-posts/new-york-isnt-trying-pass-bill-put-non-mask-wearer/

New York isn’t trying to pass bill to put non-mask wearers in detainment camps, force vaccinations

A dormant, years-old bill in New York that would allow officials to detain contagious patients during a health emergency has reemerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic and has quickly become the subject of rapidly spreading conspiracy theories, some of which claim it’s a scheme by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to throw people in detainment camps. "New York is trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non mask wearers and people who don’t want to take the vaccine into concentration camps," one popular post on Facebook reads. "Then with a court order they can force vaccinate you." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) This is wrong, and a faulty interpretation of the bill in question, A416.  While the legislation may be applicable in the COVID-19 era, the bill has been dormant since it was drafted and proposed during the 2015 Ebola outbreak, before a vaccine for the disease was approved.  The bill specifies that it applies to infected people and their contacts who refuse to quarantine in a health emergency.  Like other evergreen bills that get introduced year after year with little regard, the legislation has never been heard by committee. It was introduced for the state's 2021-22 legislative session, but it was also introduced in the 2015-16, 2017-18 and 2019-20 sessions and has never had a co-sponsor. An idea during the Ebola crisis  Assembly bill 416 was introduced by Assemblyman N. Nick Perry, D- Brooklyn, and is described as: "An act to amend the public health law, in relation to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health." Frank Shea, Perry’s communications director, said the assemblyman proposed the legislation in 2015 after a nurse who worked closely with Ebola patients in Africa refused to quarantine upon returning to the United States. It was designed to be similar to existing laws that allow for the detainment of mental health patients who are deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. The bill says that during a health emergency, officials would have the authority to detain in a medical or "other appropriate facility" any infected persons and their contacts who are deemed a threat to the public. It also says that, if the detentions last longer than three business days, the state would need a court order. "The assemblyman thought that we needed a mechanism for the government to say that we can’t have someone with this type of communicable disease who says ‘the hell with the rest of you’ and travels on our trains and buses and goes into our schools," Shea said. Its creation had nothing to do with the COVID-19 crisis, he added, and despite being reintroduced, Perry hasn’t pushed the bill or solicited sponsorships. Bill isn’t going anywhere Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin of Suffolk released a statement rebuking the bill on Jan. 3, and initially claimed that it was scheduled "to be taken up by the New York State Assembly’s Health Committee on Wednesday, January 6, 2021."  But that isn’t true. The Assembly has no committee hearings on its schedule that day, the first day of session.  On Jan. 3 Politico reported that it received no reply from Zeldin’s office about where he got the information that the Health Committee was taking up the bill. Zeldin’s statement appears to have been amended shortly after to say that the bill will instead be "referred" to the committee that day.  Cuomo’s office, meanwhile, says they weren’t aware of the bill until recently. "No, the governor doesn’t want to open up concentration camps," Cuomo’s senior adviser, Rich Azzopardi, told PolitiFact. "We didn’t even know this bill existed."  Perry says he’s receiving threats over the bill and wrote in an emailed statement that he’s open to amendments that would address concerns raised by critics. In this statement, he urged a careful reading of the bill. "There is no intent, no plan, or provisions in my bill to take away, or violate any rights, or liberties that all Americans are entitled to under our Constitution, either state or federal," the statement says. "A proper reading of the bill would find that significant attention was paid to protect individual rights which could be affected by exercising the authority granted in this bill." Our ruling Social media posts claim that New York officials are trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non-mask wearers and those who don’t want to get vaccinated into "concentration camps" to eventually force vaccinations for COVID-19. This is wrong. While the bill, A416, may be applicable in the COVID-19 era, it has sat dormant since it was introduced in 2015 during the Ebola outbreak and has not gained any traction in the New York State Assembly. The legislation specifies that it applies to infected people and their contacts who refuse to quarantine in a health emergency. The bill has no co-sponsors and has never once been heard by committee despite being introduced in the 2015-16, 2017-18, 2019-20 sessions, and the current session.  We rate this False. 

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2021-01-01 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

On whether he’ll object to the Electoral College results

Samantha Putterman

2021-01-05 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/alma-adams/democrats-say-40-people-college-debt-didnt-get-deg/

Democrats say 40% of people with college debt didn't get degrees

Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., says many Americans carrying heavy student loan debt aren’t even getting their money’s worth. Her comments come as the Biden administration considers action to relieve some student loan debt. "Almost 40% of borrowers with student loan debt didn't finish their degree. Now, they face the worst of both worlds: all of the debt and no degree," Adams tweeted on Feb. 9. Is it true that nearly 40% of borrowers didn’t finish their degree?  Adams’ tweet caught our attention because it didn’t cite a source for her claim. When we reached out to Adams’ office, a spokesman said Adams got the statistic from Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren tweeted a similar claim on Jan. 27, saying: "Up to 4 in 10 people with student loan debt weren’t able to graduate, many because of high costs, so now they’re in the worst of both worlds—crushed by debt, with no diploma to boost their earnings." Warren mentioned the statistic again during a Feb. 3 confirmation hearing for President Biden’s nominee for education secretary. (Warren has previously misstated facts about student loans.) After speaking with Warren’s office and tracking down the origins of this claim, it appears the stat shared by Warren and Adams is on track. However, it's based on a limited data set with a short tracking period. Recent report Warren’s office said her source is data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics and analyzed by Mark Huelsman, former associate director of policy and research for Demos, a progressive think tank. Huelsman now works as a fellow at Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. He’s also a fellow at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit advocacy group. Huelsman told PolitiFact that he looked at students who entered college in the 2011-12 school year who had taken on debt from public or private lenders. Then he looked at whether those students graduated by 2017. "I looked at cumulative debt. If you had any debt at any point going to college, did you graduate?" he said. The number that emerged from his research: 38.6% of people who took out student loans in that six-year span did not complete their college education in that period. PolitiFact reached out to other experts about Huelsman’s findings.  Adam Looney, an economics expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, and Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University, said they analyzed the same NCES data and got virtually the same result. Lack of data Of course, Huelsman’s analysis is just a snapshot of a specific time period. Experts at the NCES and the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, look at graduation rates in six-year windows because that period can account for part-time students and other variables, as explained in a recent institute report. However, some people do return to school outside the six-year timeframe and ultimately earn their degree," said Jill Barshay, a writer and editor for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit newsroom that covers education. "The problem with the six-year time frame is that many many people take longer than 6 years to get a degree," Barshay said in an email. "I don't know what percentage of them eventually do. Some colleges like to use an 8 year period for measuring how many students complete their 4 year degrees." We asked Looney and Scott-Clayton if they’re aware of other significant studies on the issue. They said information tracking individual debt repayment and college completion over the long term is hard to come by.  "This every-8-year survey is the best that is readily available," Looney said. In an email, Scott-Clayton said: "Unfortunately, the number of datasets that link information on borrowing with information on degree completion are rare. A lot of student loan borrowing statistics (e.g. that come out of the Federal Reserve Banks) are based on credit report data — these are not connected to any info on degree completions. That's why we have to rely on these NCES surveys which track people over time and gather a lot of rich info, but are only fielded every so often." Huelsman pointed out that his 38.6% figure for student-loan borrowers tracks with overall college graduation trends. The NCES last year reported that the overall six-year graduation rate for most full-time undergraduate students was 62% in 2018, meaning nearly 40% didn’t graduate. In the debate over whether lawmakers should forgive student loan debts, Looney says it’s important to note that the nearly 40% of non-graduates do not hold 40% of the debt. "While 39% of borrowers did not complete a degree, they account for only 23% of ebt borrowed," Looney said. Bachelor’s degree holders account for 41% of all borrowers, but hold 64% of the debt, Looney said. Our ruling Adams tweeted "almost 40% of borrowers with student loan debt didn't finish their degree." Three different analyses of data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that 38% to 39% of people who took out college loans between 2012-2017 didn’t finish college in that period. While there's a lack of data on this specific issue, experts say this analysis is the most reliable to date. We rate this claim Mostly True.

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New York “is trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non mask wearers and people who don’t want to take the vaccine into concentration camps. Then with a court order they can force vaccinate you.”

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2021-02-12 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/michael-van-der-veen/trump-impeachment-defense-lawyer-wrongly-singles-o/

Trump impeachment defense lawyer wrongly singles out antifa in Capitol riot

On the fourth day of the Senate impeachment trial, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump singled out a left-wing activist as a key instigator of violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. From the Senate floor, Michael van der Veen blamed "extremists of various different stripes and political persuasions" for the insurrection, which took place while Congress counted electoral votes. However, he named one group in particular. "One of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa," said van der Veen, a personal injury lawyer. "Sadly, he was also among the first to be released." "Antifa" is short for anti-fascist. The term refers to a broad left-wing coalition of activists that seek to protest white supremacy and other far-right causes, sometimes by using violence. It is not a single group, but rather an ideology. The House of Representatives impeached Trump on Jan. 13 and charged him with "incitement of insurrection," maintaining he stoked doubt over the results of the 2020 election and encouraged protesters in Washington to march toward the Capitol. However, Trump’s defense team says Trump did not direct his followers to participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection — instead, they argue, the crowd was infiltrated by extremists. RELATED: A timeline of what Trump said before Jan. 6 Capitol riot We’ve debunked several claims that antifa activists were behind the Capitol insurrection, so we wanted to take a closer look at van der Veen’s claim. A left-wing activist was arrested nine days after the riot for allegedly breaking into the Capitol. However, he denied being part of the antifa coalition. There is no evidence that antifa activists incited or planned the insurrection. Many members of right-wing groups were arrested around the same time. We reached out to van der Veen through his law firm to find out who he was referencing in his comment. We did not get a response. But coverage of arrests following the Capitol riots did describe one controversial left-wing activist from Utah as being among those who stormed the Capitol. His name is John Sullivan, the founder of Insurgence USA, an activist group that says it protests police brutality. Sullivan was arrested Jan. 14 and charged with one felony count of interfering with law enforcement in connection with a civil disorder, as well as misdemeanor charges of unlawful entry and disorderly conduct. He was released from jail the next day. A U.S. magistrate judge placed strict restrictions on Sullivan. He was banned from using social media and attending protests, given a location monitor, and ordered to remain at his home and look for a job outside of Insurgence USA. He was also prohibited from possessing firearms.  Sullivan’s Twitter accounts frequently used #antifa, #blm, and other anti-Trump or anti-police hashtags. He has also been filmed using incendiary language in the past. But Sullivan previously told PolitiFact that he’s not part of the antifa coalition. And Sullivan has been singled out before by some left-wing activists as not being fully aligned with their cause. An FBI affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint did not mention Sullivan being part of any anti-fascist groups, and we could find no other criminal history.  Many other criminal complaints explicitly tie rioters to right-wing groups including the Three Percenters, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers  — names that van der Veen did not mention on the Senate floor. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged dozens of people with crimes related to the Capitol riot. Some of the suspects were arrested days before Sullivan was taken into custody. Take for example Jacob Chansley, a QAnon supporter known as the "Q Shaman," who was arrested Jan. 9 and charged with violent entry, disorderly conduct, and with "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority." Two other men were charged the same day: Adam Johnson of Florida, who was photographed in the Capitol wearing a Trump knit hat, and Derrick Evans, a former Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Both were arrested prior to Chansley. Other rioters sporting right-wing causes were arrested around the same time as Sullivan.  Kevin Seefried of Delaware was photographed carrying a Confederate battle flag after allegedly breaking into the Senate building through a window. He was taken into custody Jan. 14. Then there’s Robert Packer, who was arrested Jan. 13 in Newport News, Va. Packer was photographed inside the Capitol wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with "Camp Auschwitz," a reference to the Nazi death camp.  The Washington Post combed through footage from the insurrection and identified other symbols associated with neo-fascists and extremist groups. Affidavits from the FBI also allege that several suspected rioters had ties to right-wing groups. There is no evidence that antifa activists played a similar role. The Associated Press reviewed public records for more than 120 people identified at the insurrection and found that they included GOP donors, members of far-right militia, and supporters of QAnon. ProPublica archived more than 500 videos taken Jan. 6 that show people in and around the Capitol wearing Trump apparel and carrying Confederate flags. FBI Assistant Director Steven D'Antuono said during a Jan. 8 press briefing that there was "no indication" that antifa activists were involved in the insurrection. Our ruling Van der Veen said during the Senate impeachment trial that after the Capitol insurrection, "one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa." That’s not accurate. There is no evidence that antifa activists were behind the Jan. 6 riot. Sullivan was arrested nine days after the insurrection. He posted #antifa on social media, but he has denied being a part of antifa and an affidavit associated with his arrest did not mention him being a part of the coalition. Many other criminal complaints explicitly tie rioters to right-wing groups that van der Veen did not mention. His claim contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.

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Ron Johnson

2021-01-04 00:00:00

media

“Almost 40% of borrowers with student loan debt didn't finish their degree.”

Daniel Funke

2021-02-12 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/ron-desantis/no-indication-biden-administration-planning-shut-d/

No indication that Biden administration is planning to shut down the Florida border

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent out a fundraising plea attacking the Biden administration for considering domestic travel restrictions in an effort to curb the spread of a highly contagious COVID-19 variant.  President Joe Biden "is trying to shut FL’s border," DeSantis texted potential donors. In an accompanying email, DeSantis said: "Joe Biden is considering treating Florida like East Berlin and shutting down our border over ‘coronavirus concerns.’" Is that so? We found no indication of anything so dramatic. We reached out to DeSantis’s office and asked where they had gotten the information that the Biden administration was planning to shut down the Florida border. Cody McCloud, a DeSantis spokesperson, did not answer our questions directly and instead referred us to a Twitter video posted to the governor’s account. What he says in the video is far less sweeping than what he claimed in the fundraising email. DeSantis’ fundraising message followed a front-page article in the Miami Herald on Feb. 10. The story quoted an anonymous government official saying that the Biden administration was considering new domestic travel restrictions for regions affected by the highly contagious U.K. strain of the coronavirus. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Florida currently has a third of the nation’s cases of the U.K. COVID-19 variant.  But according to the Herald, the White House has not said that it is considering a Florida travel ban. It’s unclear so far what particular domestic travel regulations the administration is weighing and how they would be implemented. The administration has not publicly discussed a border shutdown as an option. One possible restriction could be to require travelers to show negative COVID-19 test results before they take domestic flights. During a Feb. 7 interview, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that the Biden administration was considering this idea. Such a requirement would not apply to Florida in particular, but to the U.S. more broadly. Desantis imposed travel restrictions on travelers from some states earlier in the pandemic. On March 23, 2020, he required travelers from coronavirus hot spots like New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to self-quarantine for 14 days. Later that month, he ordered the Florida Highway Patrol to set up checkpoints on a highway connecting Florida and Louisiana.  In public appearances, Biden spokespeople and federal officials have stressed that no policy announcements regarding travel restrictions are coming soon.  "We are always considering what steps are necessary to keep the American people safe, but we are not currently in the process of… No decisions have been made around additional public health measures that would delay or would change, I should say, domestic travel considerations," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Feb. 11. The Miami Herald story quoted two anonymous federal officials who said that "no policy announcements are imminent," and that "any move to restrict travel or impose new health measures would be taken in partnership with state and local governments." It’s not clear that the president has the power to close a state border. The right of Americans to travel interstate in the United States has never been substantially judicially questioned or limited, according to Meryl Justin Chertoff, the executive director of the Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law. "The baseline ... is that freedom of movement within and between states is constitutionally protected," Chertoff wrote. Our ruling Desantis said Biden is trying to close Florida’s border. A story in the Miami Herald quoted an anonymous source saying that the Biden administration was considering new domestic travel restrictions in response to COVID-19 spread. But there is no indication that banning travel to or from Florida is on the table.  This claim is False. ​ Jill Terreri Ramos contributed to this fact-check.

Public Health,Florida,Coronavirus,Ron DeSantis

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Facebook posts

2021-01-04 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

After the Capitol insurrection, “one of the first people arrested was a leader of antifa."

Noah Y. Kim

2021-02-12 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/greg-abbott/medicaid-not-directly-linked-abortions-texas/

Medicaid not directly linked to abortions in Texas

Texas has strict abortion regulations, and Gov. Greg Abbott indicated this month that he intends to make them stricter.  In his state of the state speech Feb. 1, Abbott said that in the upcoming legislative session he will encourage laws ensuring "that the life of every child will be spared from the ravages of abortion."  A bevy of bills have been filed to further restrict abortion in Texas, including one that would ban the practice all together. But Abbott and fellow Republican state leaders have long targeted one of the state’s largest abortion and family planning providers: Planned Parenthood.   Last month, after years of litigation, Texas health officials gave Planned Parenthood a 30-day notice before kicking the organization off the state’s Medicaid program. Just before the Feb. 3 deadline, Planned Parenthood sued and a judge blocked state officials from removing Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid health care provider.  Abbott posted a tweet Jan. 24 anticipating that Feb. 3 deadline, saying that "innocent lives will be saved" thanks to the state’s actions. Planned Parenthood and state leaders are longtime mutual adversaries, squaring off in court multiple times over the years over abortion restrictions. The battle over Medicaid funding began in 2015 when state officials complained that an undercover video shot by abortion opponents showed Planned Parenthood officials in a Houston clinic agreeing to illegal activity, such as changing abortion procedures to better acquire fetal tissue for researchers. Planned Parenthood officials argued that the video was heavily edited and an Austin federal judge ruled that it did not prove any illegal activity occurred. An appeals court disagreed. But will the state’s latest move to cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding result in curbing the state’s abortion numbers, as the governor claims?  Hyde Amendment  Since 1976, Medicaid has been prohibited from funding abortion services under the Hyde Amendment, passed three years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision.   The law, which bars the use of federal dollars to pay for abortion, was introduced by U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill., who famously said, "I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the … Medicaid bill."  Federal Medicaid dollars that flow through the Texas Medicaid program to Planned Parenthood are, thanks to the Hyde Amendment, not allowed to be used for abortion services. Instead, Planned Parenthood uses those funds for non-abortion services for Texas’ poorest women — services such as mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, contraception and STI tests.  Last year, Medicaid dollars paid for the health care and family planning services of 8,800 Medicaid patients at Planned Parenthood clinics across Texas, according to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. This money is paid to the organization through reimbursements. For instance, Planned Parenthood receives $71.50 for every Depo-Provera birth control shot administered to a Medicaid patient, or $8.30 in reimbursement for every HIV rapid test. Of Planned Parenthood’s 40 clinics around the state, nine are licensed to perform abortion procedures. Last year, those nine centers performed 14,220 surgical or medication-induced abortions. Virtually all of these procedures were paid for by patients out-of-pocket or by third-party grants. According to experts, Abbott’s tweet connecting Medicaid funding to abortions is a misrepresentation.   "That statement indicates that somehow this funding is being used to provide abortions, (but) the funding is not allowed to do that," said Kari White, a University of Texas associate professor of social work and a faculty researcher at the Population Research Center. "That’s a misrepresentation of the way this funding is used and what care can be provided with it."  Instead, the effect of removing Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program will cut access to specialized health care for 8,800 women, experts say. If Texas’ bid to cut Planned Parenthood from Medicaid is ultimately successful, that means women who qualify for Medicaid — such as a single mother of two who makes less than $230 a month — would lose access to Medicaid-funded cancer screenings, contraception, and other preventative healthcare services.   "It’s problematic to say that innocent lives will be saved. Given that if people can’t get access to mammograms and cervical cancer screenings, perhaps lives will be lost," said associate professor Abigail Aiken of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Medicaid dollars and ‘innocent lives’  It’s unclear how Abbott connects Medicaid dollars to abortion — his office did not respond to several requests for comment regarding his tweet. But it’s not the first time rhetoric around the abortion issue in Texas has connected the two.   Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for life — which is backing a proposal to ban abortion beginning at fertilization (Texas law bans abortions after 20 weeks) — argues that Planned Parenthood places women on a pathway that, for many, ultimately leads to abortion. Although "it’s difficult to make a causal relationship," Pojman argues that many women seeking pregnancy-related services at Planned Parenthood are ultimately getting referred to Planned Parenthood abortion facilities.   "There’s definitely referrals going on," he said. "That’s certainly part of Planned Parenthood’s practices — is to refer women for abortions."  And women who are seeking non-pregnancy related health services build a "client relationship" with Planned Parenthood. Then, if those women later become pregnant, Pojman said, "they know who to call."  "A woman searching for breast or cervical cancer screening or high blood pressure screening, if they do a pregnancy test on her and she's positive, then they'd do a referral to their abortion facility," he said.  However, because medical referral information is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Pojman said he hasn’t seen any records showing this connection. "It’s reasonable to believe that fewer women going to Planned Parenthood facilities for any reason will likely result in fewer abortions," he said.  Planned Parenthood spokesperson Sarah Wheat says that none of these claims have factual basis. A standard component of family planning services is providing nondirective pregnancy counseling, Wheat said. All patients are informed of all of their legal and medical options.  "Providing patients with referrals for all of their medical options is not unique to Planned Parenthood," Wheat said.   Furthermore, Pojman’s argument ignores the fact that many women rely on Planned Parenthood to obtain contraception and avoid unwanted pregnancies, said Aiken. According to Planned Parenthood’s own data, 82,400 Texas women received birth control through Planned Parenthood last year.   Abortion referrals "seems to be exactly what would be precipitated by kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid," Aiken said. "If there are no Medicaid funds to help low-income patients get contraception, I would imagine that more abortion referrals would be necessary precisely because of the lack of funding."  Healthy Texas Women  Pojman said Texas’ own family planning services program could easily absorb the 8,800 Planned Parenthood Medicaid patients.  Created by the Legislature, Healthy Texas Women launched in 2016 to provide family planning and health care services to low-income women. It served 173,000 women in 2018, the most recent year for which data is available.  While the program offers services including pregnancy testing, STD testing, breast and cervical cancer screenings and others, it follows Texas’ ethos of excluding abortions within its continuum of care.  But the program is not without drawbacks and shortcomings, said White, who conducted a survey of the program’s provider network in 2019.   "What we have found in our research is that it is not so easy for patients to just transfer their care someplace else. In some communities, there aren't very many providers for patients to go to," she said.  White’s research, done with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, found that many Healthy Texas Women providers don’t offer a full range of contraceptive options or lack clinicians trained to place or remove birth control implants or intrauterine devices.  "There's a lot of variability in the network. Where you go for services is going to determine the kind of services that you get," White said.  Our ruling  Abbott’s tweet tied Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood to abortions, and said that the state’s efforts to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid would save "innocent lives."  Since 1976, Medicaid dollars have never been used to fund abortion or abortion-related services thanks to the Hyde Amendment. Instead, the federal funding the state is attempting to block from Planned Parenthood provides family planning services and healthcare for 8,800 Medicaid patients. Because Abbott’s office did not respond to requests for comment, it’s unclear how he connects Medicaid funding to abortions. Other anti-abortion advocates like Pojman of the Texas Alliance for Life argue that Planned Parenthood’s referral practices lead women to abortion facilities, although he couldn’t provide proof of that claim.  Due to the lack of evidence establishing this connection, and because the burden of proof is on the speaker, we rate this claim False.

Abortion,Medicaid,Texas,Greg Abbott

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/dan-odonnell/no-absentee-rejection-rate-november-was-not-stunni/

No, absentee rejection rate in November was not a “stunning anomaly”

The November election has come under attack on a variety of fronts from a variety of sources. Former President Donald Trump and his backers have taken aim at voting machines, vote reporting, vote counting, the mail-in voting process and more. Many of those claims centered around Wisconsin, a key swing state that backed Trump in 2016 but supported Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. Election officials in the state have been unanimous that it was a free and fair election, with no evidence of fraud outside the usual scattered cases — and certainly no fraud that would have reversed Biden’s 20,000-vote margin of victory. Not to mention the recount that upheld the margin of victory. Three months later, many remain unconvinced. Conservative radio host Dan O’Donnell raised a new claim about election integrity in a Feb. 3, 2021, commentary piece written for the MacIver Institute, a conservative think tank based in Madison. In a piece headlined, "Wisconsin’s Miraculous Vanishing Ballot Rejection Rate," O’Donnell asserted the low number of absentee ballots rejected in the November 2020 election was a "stunning anomaly." He implied something questionable was at play. "This is nearly impossible to explain," O’Donnell wrote. "Did hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites suddenly figure out how to correctly fill out their ballots? Or was there a concerted effort to count as many ballots as possible without regard to whether they were correctly filled out? The evidence points toward the latter." O’Donnell’s core claim has two elements: That the rate of absentee rejection was an anomaly, and that the tally should be considered questionable — or even evidence of a conspiracy of some kind. We took a closer look at both elements. Absentee rate in line with historic trends O’Donnell’s claim runs into immediate trouble when we look at the historic trend of absentee ballot rejections. His commentary included a chart showing six elections since April 2016, with four having an absentee rejection rate above 1.4%, and the November 2018 and November 2020 elections having a rejection rate of 0.2%. O’Donnell described this as evidence "ballots suddenly stopped getting rejected in the two statewide races in which unpopular Republicans (Scott Walker and Donald Trump) were on the ballot." But zooming out farther shows the November 2020 numbers were to be expected since November elections have consistently lower rejection rates for absentee ballots. From 2008 to 2020, clerks rejected an average of 0.62% of absentee ballots in November elections, according to Wisconsin Elections Commission data. The August, April and February elections ranged from 1.4% to 2.2%. In addition, the rejection rate in November elections has steadily dropped over time, decreasing every November but one from 2008 to 2020. The outlier election was in November 2016, due to a change in state law. In 2016, the state Legislature passed a law stating an absentee ballot may not be counted if it is missing the address of a witness. Every absentee ballot in Wisconsin must be signed by both the voter and a witness, who must also provide an address. As a result, the absentee rejection rate jumped from 0.31% in November 2014 to a 1.35% in November 2016. But election officials had become concerned some voters wouldn’t be aware of the witness address requirement, so in October 2016 the commission — on a motion made and seconded by Republican members — voted to advise clerks they should fix missing address components based on "reliable information." This guidance passed very close to the November 2016 election, so it wasn’t followed widely enough quickly enough to affect the rejection spike in that election, WEC spokesman Reid Magney said.  Once clerks had time to incorporate the new guidance, the November rate resumed its descent — to 0.23% in November 2018 and 0.2% in November 2020. In other words, limiting the timeframe to 2016-20 as O’Donnell did treats the November 2016 number as a baseline and the November 2018 and 2020 numbers as outliers. Putting that data in context makes it clear 2016 is actually the outlier. And, of course, November 2020 is in line with similar elections in the past. Why the November dips? That brings us to the question of why November elections — in 2020 and before — would have lower ballot rejection rates than other elections. This is essentially the question O’Donnell’s raises throughout his column, but he never contacted state election officials to seek out the answer, Magney said. It turns out, it’s a pretty straightforward explanation. The difference in ballot rejection rates is primarily because of how people vote. November elections bring a surge in early voting, which is still counted as absentee but takes place in a clerk’s office with the clerk as the witness. "This eliminates chances that their ballot will be rejected for an insufficient (witness) certification," Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, told PolitiFact Wisconsin in an email. Looking at 2016 to 2020, for example, elections commission data shows in-person absentee votes accounted for an average of 19% of all votes in November elections, but only 7.3% of the vote in the April elections — even with the spike in in-person early voting in April 2020 due to the pandemic. (We also checked elections further back to confirm this was an ongoing trend.) For those using traditional mail-in ballots, Woodall-Vogg said Milwaukee elections "cured" — that is, used reliable information to fill out missing witness information, per commission guidance — a total of 1,063 ballots in November. That generally meant simply filling in "Milwaukee, WI" for voters who included a street address but forgot the city and state and could be confirmed as living there. "We wouldn’t make presumptions about a witness’s address; if we couldn’t read the witness’ name or there were multiple people by the same name, we would either call the voter or return their ballot via mail," Woodall-Vogg said. Why did the rejection rate continue the downward trend in November 2020 despite the high volume of mail-in absentee ballots? Magney noted some improvement in rejection rate would be expected from April to November 2020 since in April many voters were casting a mail-in ballot for the first time and in a short timeframe, while in November they had more time to find witnesses and return ballots, and clerks had more time to send deficient ballots back to voters to be corrected.  Woodall-Vogg also noted clerks around the state were taking steps to educate voters given the expected influx of absentee voting. "Election administrators and community groups all made an intentional effort to educate voters on the requirements when voting by mail due to the increase with COVID," Woodall-Vogg said in her email. "The WEC created new absentee instructions which were finally in plain English and even included photos. The media covered the requirements far more than ever before, as did we via outlets like Facebook and media interviews. On the exterior of our drop boxes, we had large stickers with STOP signs, asking voters to check if they signed, their witness signed, and their witness provided their address." Finally, Magney noted the rejection figures cited by O’Donnell are only one way to handle flawed absentee ballots, making it an imperfect measure of how many absentee ballots ultimately don’t count. If a ballot is to be thrown out, some clerks mark this as a rejected ballot, while others record it an "administrative ballot cancellation." While the number of absentee ballot rejections dropped from April to November of 2020, the number of administrative ballot cancellations nearly quadrupled. "The assignment of these labels is entirely at the discretion of local clerks," Magney said in an email. What a conspiracy would require Before we move on to the ruling, let’s pause for a moment to take a wider view. This is far from the first conspiracy claim involving the 2020 election. And it’s a reminder that a good first step when examining any claim of coordinated wrongdoing is to consider the scope. If there were something nefarious at play, who would have to be in on it? The answer in this case stretches well into the quadruple digits. Wisconsin’s elections are overseen by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, but we’re not talking about a generic policy in this case. The rejection rate is the accumulation of thousands of individual, local decisions on whether (and how) to reject a given ballot. Those decisions are made by the 1,850 municipal clerks around the state, and the thousands more deputy clerks and volunteers they work with. Asked if he was alleging a coordinated effort across a group of nearly 2,000 clerks, O’Donnell said, "Clearly ballot mistakes that were accepted in these elections would not have been, and were pretty obviously not, accepted in other elections." Our ruling O’Donnell asserted in an opinion piece that November election data shows a "stunning anomaly in the rejection rate of absentee ballots." But that rejection rate was neither stunning nor an anomaly. Election data from 2008 to 2020 shows November elections have consistently lower rejection rates than other elections, due primarily to the higher number of in-person early voting (which is included in absentee tallies). And the November rejection rates themselves have steadily dropped in each election aside from 2016, when a new law caused a one-year spike. The November 2018 and 2020 rejections rates were in line with that long-term trend. We rate this claim False.

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Michael van der Veen

2021-02-12 00:00:00

a speech at the U.S. Senate:

“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

Eric Litke

2021-02-12 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/illinois-republican-party/did-pritzker-prioritize-inmates-pols-and-college-k/

Did Pritzker prioritize inmates, pols and college kids for vaccination?

Illinois’ entry into the second phase of its COVID-19 vaccination plan means many more residents are eligible, but not everyone agrees the state is prioritizing the right groups as vaccine demand still outpaces supply. In an image shared on Facebook and Twitter, the Illinois Republican Party said Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s "Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities" puts prisoners, politicians, and college students into Phase 1B — the current vaccination phase — ahead of "individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else." Like other states, Illinois’ vaccination plan is modeled from federal guidelines, but states aren’t required to uniformly implement the non-binding guidance. So we decided to take a look at the groups the state GOP claimed are now eligible in Illinois. State lawmakers and inmates are now eligible, but college students are not. Prisoners and lawmakers can receive the vaccine Along with people 65 years or older and frontline essential workers, inmates are part of Illinois’ second vaccination phase, which began Jan. 25. Pritzker is no renegade on this. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is providing vaccines to inmates, and at least 13 other states have included the group in their first two vaccination phases, according to a comparison of state prioritization plans from the Kaiser Family Foundation. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance says states may choose to vaccinate individuals living in congregate facilities — including prisons or jails — at the same time as frontline staff because of the increased risk of transmission in such close quarters. Pritzker’s administration also added Illinois lawmakers to Phase 1B on Feb. 3 following requests from some members of the General Assembly. The requests came after several people tested positive for the coronavirus during the House’s lame-duck session at the Bank of Springfield Center in January. Both the state House and Senate also canceled session days scheduled for February.. State lawmakers in Colorado, Hawaii and Maryland are also being vaccinated in the second phase. Members of Congress have been receiving vaccines since the distribution began. Still not eligible are individuals with high-risk health conditions from ages 16 to 64 who are not frontline essential workers. Pritzker recently announced the group will be added Feb. 25, which would make Illinois the 18th state to include them in their first two phases, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation comparison. Chicago and suburban Cook County, which receive doses separately from the federal government, have opted out of the expansion because of supply shortages. CDC guidelines say people younger than 65 years with high-risk medical conditions do not need to be prioritized until the next phase of eligibility, Phase 1C. That means the state remains in line with federal guidance. College students generally do not qualify There is nothing in the Illinois vaccination plan allowing college students as a group to qualify. A spokesperson for the Illinois Republican Party said its assertion that college students currently qualified for vaccinations was based on a WCIA-TV report in which a student is seen receiving the vaccine at the I Hotel Conference Center in Champaign. The report also identifies her as a medical student, which according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District puts her squarely into another group that is eligible — healthcare workers. Spokespeople for the Illinois Department of Public Health and the governor’s office confirmed college students who do not work in healthcare or another position covered in the current phases do not qualify. Our ruling The Illinois Republican Party says "Pritzker’s Hierarchy of Vaccine Priorities" puts prisoners, politicians and college students into Phase 1B, ahead of "individuals with high-risk health factors, and everyone else." It’s true inmates and state lawmakers currently qualify for vaccinations, and those under the age of 65 and others who are not frontline workers do not — including people with underlying health risks. But it’s not true college students as a group are eligible. College students may only receive the vaccine right now if they meet other qualifying criteria. The GOP’s post also ignores how the Pritzker administration’s prioritization plan for inmates and those with high-risk medical conditions is in line with federal guidance. We rate it Half True. HALF TRUE – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.

Illinois,Coronavirus,Illinois Republican Party

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Ron DeSantis

2021-02-11 00:00:00

a fundrais

November election data shows a “stunning anomaly in the rejection rate of absentee ballots.”

Kiannah Sepeda-Miller

2021-02-12 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/gordon-hintz/wisconsin-assembly-minority-leader-right-relations/

Wisconsin Assembly Minority Leader right on relationship between mask mandates and COVID-19 cases

Masks have once again become a political volleyball in the Wisconsin State Capitol. Assembly Republicans voted on Feb. 4, 2021 to overturn Gov. Tony Evers’ order requiring people to wear face coverings to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 — sealing the deal after the Senate took action a week prior. Evers responded by immediately issuing a new mandate.  The next day, Democrats in the Assembly introduced legislation requiring masks, a measure that is likely to go nowhere in the GOP-controlled Legislature. Amid the back and forth, Democrats chastised their Republican colleagues for playing politics with public health and argued masks are necessary to push the state through the final stages of the pandemic. Among those to speak out was Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz. "At the end of the day we know mask mandates work," the Oshkosh Democrat said in a Feb. 5, 2021 interview on the Wisconsin Public Television program Here & Now. "There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t." Is Hintz onto something? Let’s take a look. Mask mandates in Kansas  When asked for evidence to support Hintz’s claim, his office pointed to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kansas Department of Health and Environment that analyzed the impact of mask mandates on Kansas counties. Kansas’ governor issued an executive order requiring face coverings in public spaces starting July 3, 2020. A state law enacted the month prior allowed counties to opt out of the state mandate, which 81 of 105 did without implementing their own mask rules.  Researchers found the seven-day rolling average of new daily cases per 100,000 people decreased by 6% in the 24 counties with mask mandates after the governor’s order. In counties without a mandate, COVID-19 incidence increased by 100%.  The study noted that 13 counties with mask mandates and seven counties without mandates also had other mitigation strategies in place, such as limiting the size of gatherings and how many could eat in restaurants. Still, researchers concluded that "strategies related to mask use mandates appear to be important." "The decrease in cases among mandated counties and the continued increase in cases in nonmandated counties adds to the evidence supporting the importance of wearing masks and implementing policies requiring their use to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2," the study stated. Additional research  The Wisconsin Medical Society cited the Kansas study in a Feb. 1, 2021 memo to Assembly lawmakers asking them to oppose the repeal.  The group also referenced research from Goldman Sachs estimating that mandates gradually increase the number of people who "always" or "frequently" wear masks by about 25 percentage points, and the number who "always" wear masks by 40 points. Another study published in June 2020 found a "significant decline" in daily COVID-19 cases in states with mask mandates, with the effect increasing over time. Researchers cautiously estimated that 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases may have been averted by May 22, 2020 due to the mandates.  Meanwhile, researchers in Canada found a 25 to 46% average weekly reduction in new cases in the first few weeks after mandates were adopted, while the number of people who reported always wearing a mask in public increased by about 30 percentage points.  When studying the impact of mask mandates, it’s important to consider whether people follow them and if they’re enforced, said Ajay Sethi, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He said it can be difficult to assess mandates individually when they’re issued with other public health guidelines, but he believes the Kansas study offered compelling data on the matter.  "You could argue that with or without a mandate, people might wear a mask because that’s what they do and the mandate is just confirming what they do," he said. "At the end of the day, an entire county had fewer cases." And ultimately, Sethi said, mandates remind people about the importance of wearing face coverings to guard against COVID-19.  "If we didn’t have mandates, would you expect mask use to go up?" he said. "I wouldn’t." Our ruling In a TV interview, Hintz said, "At the end of the day we know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t." Multiple studies have suggested mask mandates can lead to a decline in COVID-19 cases. Researchers caution that factors like compliance and enforcement should be taken into consideration, but masks have ultimately proven to be an effective tool in combating the virus.  We rate Hintz’s claim True.     

Public Health,Wisconsin,Coronavirus,Gordon Hintz

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Dan O'Donnell

2021-02-03 00:00:00

“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t."

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-05 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/05/facebook-posts/no-wisconsin-bill-does-not-decertify-and-give-trum/

No, Wisconsin bill does not decertify and give Trump win here

The disinformation onslaught of 2020 isn’t exactly reversing course in the new year. The runup to the Jan. 6 finalizing of the Electoral College vote brings us one particularly absurd example from Gateway Pundit, a far-right online publication that routinely publishes stories unburdened by facts or common sense. The headline published late Jan. 4, 2021, said this: "BREAKING: Wisconsin Legislature Announces Resolution To Be Introduced on Thursday Which Will Likely Decertify State and Award to President Trump." This article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook). The claim isn’t remotely true, and the ill-conceived story itself provides evidence of that. The nonsensical claim The story begins with a paragraph largely restating the headline, then embeds a tweet making the same outlandish claim. The story then links to and quotes the resolution in question, 2021 Assembly Resolution 3, proposed by state Rep. Scott Allen, R-Waukesha. The Republican-controlled Assembly passed the bill Jan. 4 by a voice vote near the end of inauguration ceremonies, which most Democrats skipped over concerns that COVID-19 precautions were inadequate. But the story ignores that the bill says nothing about decertifying.  Here’s the actual closing of the bill, where the "Resolved" sections indicate the action it is seeking: Resolved by the assembly, That: the Wisconsin State Assembly recognizes that the most important function for a government is to conduct fair and honest elections that follow the duly enacted law; and, be it further Resolved, That when there are significant portions of the population that question the integrity of the elections due to the failure of election officials to follow the letter of the law, it is incumbent upon the legislature to address the issues that are in question; and, be it further Resolved, That the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly place the redress to these and other election law violations and failed administrative procedures as its highest priority and shall take up legislation crafted to ensure civil officers follow the laws as written. It doesn’t take a degree in English literature to discern this doesn’t award anything to President Donald Trump. Trump lost Wisconsin to former Vice President Joe Biden by 20,000 votes, as confirmed by a canvas and recount. The bill simply says the Legislature should make it a priority to take up legislation ensuring election officials follow laws as written. The timeline in the Gateway Pundit story is also divorced from reality. The "Thursday" cited here would be a day after Congress meets to finalize the election results.  And the deadline for action to alter Wisconsin’s slate of electors has long-since passed. The state’s 10 Biden electors cast their votes on Dec. 14. As expected based on election returns confirmed as fair and legitimate by election and government officials from both parties nationwide, that gave Biden a 306 to 232 victory over Trump, handing him the White House. Gateway Pundit Editor Jim Hoft did not immediately reply to an email seeking evidence of this article’s claim. Allen declined to comment on how the story characterized his resolution, saying the text speaks for itself. Our ruling Gateway Pundit, a regular purveyor of disinformation, says Wisconsin is introducing a resolution to decertify the state’s election results and award its Electoral College votes to Trump. The article conveniently includes the text of the bill, allowing readers to see for themselves this claim is 100% fabricated. The bill simply says the Legislature would prioritize legislation addressing election laws. It says nothing remotely related to decertification or awarding the state to Trump. And in any case, the state’s electoral votes were already cast for Biden weeks ago. This is disinformation in its most transparent form. We rate this Pants on Fire!

Elections,States,Wisconsin,Facebook posts

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Illinois Republican Party

2021-02-05 00:00:00

social media posts:

Says Mayor Muriel Bowser “ordered all hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, and convenience stores to close Jan. 4, 5 and 6 to discourage Trump supporters from gathering in D.C.”

Eric Litke

2021-01-05 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/04/donald-trump/no-evidence-4925-voters-out-state-voted-georgia-pr/

No evidence that 4,925 voters from out-of-state voted in Georgia in the presidential election

President Donald Trump has claimed that thousands of out-of-state voters improperly cast ballots in Georgia during the 2020 election. "You had out-of-state voters — they voted in Georgia but they were from out of state — of 4,925," Trump said in a Jan. 2 phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Ryan Germany, the general counsel for Raffensperger’s office, pushed back on Trump’s assertion during the call. Germany said that Trump was working from inaccurate information and that the secretary of state’s office had already investigated these claims. "We’ve been going through each of those. ... Everyone we’ve been through are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia legitimately," Germany told Trump.  Trump appears to have gotten his number from an analysis conducted by Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign staffer and election analyst. Braynard claimed that he had located 4,926 people who cast absentee or early ballots in Georgia but were registered to vote in another state.  Braynard arrived at the number by comparing Georgia registration and voting lists with the the U.S. Postal Service change-of-address data.  Braynard’s methods have been strongly criticized by election experts and statisticians. In an analysis of Braynard’s findings, Harvard professor and voting statistics expert Stephen Ansolabehere wrote that "the report offers no conclusions based on scientifically accepted standards of evidence" and that parts of the report were "riddled with errors and biases that render it invalid for purposes of drawing inferences about the quantities at issue." In a Dec. 18 article, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed election experts who criticized Braynard’s methods, pointing out that matching voter lists to other databases is likely to produce false matches because of people with identical names or birth dates. In addition, Braynard’s analysis did not account for college students, people with vacation homes, military personnel or people on temporary work assignments, all of whom are eligible to vote in Georgia despite having temporarily left the state.  Braynard himself seemed to backpedal when Georgia State Rep. Bee Nguyen questioned him about his conclusions during a Dec. 10 legislative hearing.  During the hearing, Nguyen said that she had confirmed that many of the purported out-of-state voters on Braynard’s list actually lived in Georgia. Of the first 10 voters on the list, Nguyen was able to establish that eight lived in the state through phone calls and property tax records.  In addition, Nguyen found that Braynard had cited a condominium complex near her home as a postal box "disguised as a residential address." She also found that certain names on the list occurred more than once.  In response to Nguyen’s questions, Braynard claimed that he had only listed "potentially illegal" voters and that he was not accusing any of the people on his list of breaking the law.  Our ruling Trump said that "you had (4,925) out-of-state voters… in Georgia." He appears to have gotten his number from a list of purported "out-of-state voters" created by a former Trump campaign staffer. Braynard’s analysis has been widely criticized by statisticians and election experts. Braynard himself acknowledged that he only listed "potentially" illegal voters rather than people proven to have voted illegally.  The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has investigated the claim and found it to be baseless. This claim is False. ​

Georgia,National,Elections,Donald Trump

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Gordon Hintz

2021-02-05 00:00:00

TV

Wisconsin Legislature “Will Likely Decertify State and Award to President Trump.”

Noah Y. Kim

2021-01-04 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/04/donald-trump/trump-rehashes-debunked-claim-about-suitcases-ball/

Trump rehashes debunked claim about ‘suitcases’ of ballots in Georgia phone call

In an hour-long phone call pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the results of the election, President Donald Trump rehashed the debunked claim that election workers in Atlanta were caught on tape secretly counting "suitcases" full of fraudulent ballots behind closed doors. State and county officials have said the surveillance video Trump mentioned shows normal ballot processing. But Trump stood by his inaccurate version of events during the Jan. 2 call, which was first reported by the Washington Post. "That was the tape that’s been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad, you, me and everybody else," Trump said to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, according to the recording. In Trump’s telling, the Nov. 3 tape showed that after a "major water main break" at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, where Fulton County election workers were counting ballots, "everybody fled the area." With Republican election observers gone, the county’s election workers returned, Trump said. They reached under a table and pulled out "suitcases or trunks" full of ballots that were hidden there hours earlier, he said, and they secretly tallied "18,000 ballots, all for (Joe) Biden." Trump’s story aligns with the false narrative that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his team pushed when they introduced the tape during a Dec. 3 hearing with state legislators. What actually happened, according to Georgia and Fulton County officials, is much different.  Gabriel Sterling, a Republican and Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, has addressed the "suitcases" claim in social media postings, TV interviews, and press conferences since Dec. 4, when he tweeted that the video showed "normal ballot processing." In a Jan. 4 press conference ahead of Georgia’s runoff Senate election, Sterling spent minutes rebutting Trump’s claim, which he called "thoroughly debunked." The sequence of events he described lined up with what PolitiFact and multiple other fact-checkers have reported. In reality, the ballots seen in the surveillance footage were not in suitcases or trunks. They were in "normal absentee ballot carriers," Sterling said. The ballots were removed from their envelopes while news media personnel and observers were still in the room, and there was no formal announcement for observers to leave. But some observers took off once the election workers responsible for cutting the envelopes open and verifying the ballots inside had finished their job and started packing up for the night. Workers tasked with scanning the ballots got instructions to keep going, and an independent monitor and investigator oversaw the ballot counting as it continued into the night, Sterling said.  In an affidavit, Frances Watson, the Georgia secretary of state’s chief investigator, wrote that the state’s "investigation and review of the entire security footage revealed that there were no mystery ballots that were brought in from an unknown location and hidden under tables." "Around 10 p.m., with the room full of people, including official monitors and the media, video shows ballots that had already been opened but not counted placed in the boxes, sealed up, stored under the table," Watson wrote. "When the counting continued into later in the night, those boxes were opened so that the ballots inside could then be counted." Sterling said he reviewed the full tape with a local reporter. "The president’s legal team had the entire tape, they watched the entire tape, and then from our point of view, intentionally misled the state Senate, voters and the people of the United States about this," Sterling said. There’s no evidence that the ballots counted on election night were "all for Biden," as Trump claimed, and a state monitor disputed that 18,000 votes were tallied during that window. There’s also no connection between the "suitcase" allegation and a leak at State Farm Arena on Election Day. State Farm Arena reported that one room being used for ballot counting had been affected by a water leak at approximately 6 a.m., hours before the scene in question took place.  Arena staff repaired the leak, which Sterling attributed to an overflowing urinal, in roughly two hours, according to the arena’s statement. No ballots were damaged, the arena said. The Trump campaign and White House did not immediately respond to our inquiries. Our ruling Trump claimed a tape shows that after a "major water main break" in Georgia, election workers pulled out ballots stored in "suitcases" under a table and counted "18,000 ballots, all for Biden" with no election observers present. That’s wrong in multiple ways. State and county officials have repeatedly debunked this claim. The video in question does not show any wrongdoing, and there’s no evidence that the ballots shown were fraudulent or "all for Biden." The water leak, which was sourced to a urinal, was unrelated. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!

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Kristi Noem

2021-02-02 00:00:00

an

“You had (4,925) out-of-state voters… in Georgia.”

Bill McCarthy

2021-01-04 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/04/mike-gallagher/congresss-task-simply-count-electoral-votes/

Congress’s task is simply to count electoral votes Jan. 6

After a lengthy string of court defeats and a formal Electoral College vote, backers of President Donald Trump have pinned their hopes on the Jan. 6 Congressional review of the vote to overturn the president’s defeat. Election officials, many of them Republicans, and officials from Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed there is no proof that voter fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election. And federal and state courts have dismissed Trump’s claims of voter fraud nearly 60 times. But Trump and many allies have continued to claim without evidence that fraud influenced the election. Though a dozen U.S. senators, including Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, have pledged to object to the electoral results and seek an audit of the returns, another Wisconsin congressman says that is beyond lawmakers’ power. "Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law," U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, said in a Jan. 3, 2020, statement signed by several other members of the House. "To take action otherwise — that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process — would amount to stealing power from the people and the states." He’s exactly right about Congress’s job. Here’s why. Gallagher’s explanation Gallagher and some other Republicans have spoken to clarify the role of Congress after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas announced plans — joined by Johnson and nine other Republican senators — to object to the certification of the Electoral College results. (Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri has separately promised to object to the results.) A release from the group said they are seeking an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in "disputed states" and intend to vote to reject electors from those states until that is complete. They said this is necessary because of "unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities." The effort is all but guaranteed to fail given that objections must be backed by the Republican-led Senate and Democrat-led House in order to pass. But Gallagher’s assertion is that the effort is not just hopeless, it’s unconstitutional.  The statement noted no states have overturned their own election results, though Republicans control the Legislature in Wisconsin and other disputed states. "There is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented," the statement from Gallagher and the others said. "The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly, our path forward is also clear. We must respect the states’ authority here. Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states." The group’s statement also noted that setting a precedent where Congress could overturn the Electoral College would delegitimize the very system Republicans have relied on for their recent success, having won the national popular vote in the presidential race only once in the last 32 years. "I just don’t think we want to endorse the principle (that) Jan. 6 is a legitimate forum for Congress to overturn the will of the states and the people," Gallagher said Jan. 4, 2020 on WTMJ radio. "If you’ve endorsed that principle, then you’ve already destroyed the idea of American government. Right? At least you’ve destroyed the conservative idea of American government." What the Constitution and federal law say The process involved comes from the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, which says electors for each state should deliver their presidential and vice presidential votes to the U.S. government. That happened Dec. 14, with those votes confirming a 306 to 232 victory for former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrat. Here’s what the happens next, as spelled out in the amendment: "The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; -- The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President." On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will open the sealed certificates from each state and hand them to tellers to read aloud. During that process he will call for objections to each state’s votes. The resulting process for those objections comes from the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Objections must be made in writing by at least one member of both the House and Senate. They can be debated for a maximum of two hours before a vote, which requires a majority vote from both houses in order to pass and throw out that state’s votes. Objections can fall in two possible categories: That the vote was not "regularly given" by an elector or that the elector was not "lawfully certified" according to state statutory procedures, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. But that’s not to say Congress is vested with the power to substitute its preference or judgment for that of the states. In fact, federal law explicitly says the power to appoint electors belongs to the states. It says if electors are appointed by the states at least six days before the electors meet — a criteria met by all the so-called disputed states — those votes "shall be conclusive and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes." Johnson himself acknowledged this in an interview in December with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "The Electoral College met. They voted. That’s our process. That process has played out," Johnson said when asked if he accepted Biden as president-elect. On a related note, Federal law delineates the vice president’s role as simply "to preserve order" during that proceeding. He has no authority on his own to weigh in on whether those votes are valid, contrary to what many have claimed. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told the Associated Press there is "zero chance such a maneuver by Pence or the Republicans will succeed" if they object or otherwise seek to overturn the results. The expected objections won’t pass (Democrats control the House), and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had urged his party privately in mid-December not to object to the count. Our ruling Gallagher said, "Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state." He said this in making the broader point that Congress is not tasked in this case with making "value judgements" about the legitimacy of those votes. That is a power left to the states. The role of Congress, as laid out in the Constitution and federal law, is effectively to observe the electors sent in by the states. And that’s how the process has been carried out throughout American history. We rate this claim True.

Constitutional Amendments,Elections,States,Wisconsin,Mike Gallagher

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Donald Trump

2021-01-02 00:00:00

a phone call with the George secretary of state:

Photo shows “people coming from California to Washington DC” to protest election results.

Tom Kertscher

2021-01-04 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/kristi-noem/sd-governor-gives-state-high-marks-handling-pandem/

S.D. governor gives state high marks in handling the pandemic. Are they deserved?

COVID-19 has pushed states to adopt unique approaches to protect their residents, but few have garnered as much scrutiny as South Dakota.  Its governor, Kristi Noem, refused to enact a mask mandate or close any businesses. She argued these precautions were a matter of personal choice, even at large gatherings, such as a July 3 political event at Mount Rushmore and the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis that was connected to COVID-19 cases in Minnesota and other nearby states. She sees success in the approach. In a recent television interview, Fox News’ personality Laura Ingraham asked Noem, a Republican, why she believes news outlets criticize her handling of the pandemic. Her response: While her state sought to protect high-risk populations and keep hospitals from overflowing with patients, she said, it was done in a way that still allowed residents to earn a living. "That was a unique approach that, for our people, really worked well," she said in the segment. "We did have tragedies and we did have losses. But we also got through it better than virtually every other state." That got us wondering. Is South Dakota really "through" the pandemic? And on what measures is this statement based? We first reached out to Noem’s office to ask these questions. In an email, communications director Ian Fury didn’t address the first question. On the second, Fury cited South Dakota’s standing in these categories: vaccine distribution, unemployment, the number of people moving to the state and the state’s budget surplus. Fury dismissed using "an apples-to-apples" comparison between South Dakota and other states on measures such as deaths and case counts, saying such assessments are flawed because the timing of surges and the metrics used can vary by state. Expanding the lens on how South Dakota’s doing Several metrics can offer clues about how a state is managing the pandemic, experts said. In the health category, the number of deaths per capita is one way to track the most severe COVID-19 cases, said Kumi Smith, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.  This metric is not a real-time snapshot of how quickly the virus is spreading in a community, given the lag in reporting deaths. But Smith said it can provide "a much fuller picture of what’s going on with the pandemic" than case counts alone. That’s because case counts can wax and wane depending on other factors, such as the availability of coronavirus tests and which populations a state prioritizes for testing, she said. In South Dakota, 1,815 lives have been lost to the pandemic, making its per capita death rate, as of Feb. 10,  205 people for every 100,000 residents, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state’s death rate ranks among the 10 worst in the nation. Another key health metric is positivity rates — or the percentage of people tested who have the virus. It can indicate whether a state is regularly testing enough of its residents, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-diseases physician and senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. Positivity rates vary based on how they are calculated. Data from the South Dakota Department of Health and the CDC show the average weekly positivity rate peaked in the spring. Few tests were being done at the time, which means every positive result would have a greater impact on the rate. The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Tracker, which uses a different method, shows the state’s rate peaked in November. High positivity rates can indicate a lack of adequate testing that allowed the virus to spread unchecked, said Adalja. "Their death count may be even higher," he added, because some of those cases may not have been properly tested and identified as caused by COVID-19. Last week, the positivity rate hovered slightly under 7%, as reported by the state. Johns Hopkins researchers placed the figure closer to 20% as of Feb. 3. Both are above the 5% threshold recommended by the World Health Organization to reopen a community safely. Hospitalization data — specifically, the number of intensive care unit beds occupied — can also help gauge how a state is handling the pandemic, public health experts said. By comparing the number of beds occupied in intensive care units to the year before the pandemic, said Smith, the metric can show whether hospitals could keep up with the demand caused by the virus. News reports indicate some South Dakota hospitals struggled to keep up with demand in the fall when the state’s outbreak peaked. As of Feb. 10, state data shows about half of adult and pediatric ICU beds in the state were available. Public health experts noted South Dakota has emerged as a national leader in distributing COVID-19 vaccines to its residents, ranking among the top 10 states with the most residents vaccinated per capita. And the economy? Most of the metrics Noem’s office highlighted related to South Dakota’s economy. And, indeed, the state has the lowest unemployment rate in the country and ended the budget year with a $19 million surplus. How did the state manage to pull that off during a pandemic? Evert Van der Sluis, a professor of economics at South Dakota State University, said several factors helped. The state experienced less of an economic decline than initially projected at the start of the pandemic because of federal aid, conservative revenue projections and a multibillion-dollar investment in wind energy, he said. South Dakota — where agriculture is the top industry — also benefited from billions of dollars in direct federal government payments to farmers, said Van der Sluis. While some of these payments were connected to the pandemic, others helped offset the financial losses caused by fallout from a U.S. trade dispute with China. However, Van der Sluis said, these indicators don’t capture the depth of the damage caused by the pandemic.  They also don’t necessarily show how South Dakota compares with other states, because they don’t take into account that variations in population density, tax revenue and industries all influence how a state manages an outbreak. "We can talk about economic well-being," he said, "but some of the enormous harm done by COVID-19 is not reflected at least in the short run by economic measures." It may become apparent in long-term measures like health care spending and lost productivity, he added. While the lack of lockdowns may have also played a role in keeping South Dakota’s economy afloat, said Lucy Dadayan, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, there are other states that raked in cash while also implementing strict public health measures. Case in point: California. As reported by Politico, California defied expectations of an economic downturn due to tax revenue from its wealthiest residents and their stock market gains. Ultimately, Dadayan said, a state’s ability to stay financially afloat depends on a variety of factors — which makes it more difficult to draw comparisons between states and their economic performance during the pandemic. "It all matters," she said. Our ruling Both public health measures and fiscal stability represent important pieces to forming a full picture of how the state is handling the pandemic, experts said. As Van der Sluis noted, these metrics are imprecise instruments for measuring the damage from a deadly health crisis. In addition, comparing states wholesale is difficult given their differences and the dynamic nature of the pandemic, as various sources noted. And, though South Dakota is currently experiencing a decline in case counts, with a total of 109,580 cases to date and growing concern nationwide about the virus’s emerging variants, it’s hard to say the state has "come through" the pandemic.  Noem’s statement on South Dakota’s performance cherry-picked the data, emphasizing the state’s economy while giving less weight to the lives lost and burden of disease its residents suffered. We rate it Mostly False.

Health Check,Coronavirus,Kristi Noem

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Mike Gallagher

2021-01-03 00:00:00

a statement:

Says COVID-19 vaccines have “experimental technology never before used on humans” and that some “contain nanochips which can electronically track recipients."

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

2021-02-12 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/12/mark-walker/walker-exaggerates-effect-trump-drug-order-biden-f/

Walker exaggerates effect of Trump drug order, Biden freeze

A Republican running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina says Joe Biden is already raising drug prices for some of the most vulnerable Americans. Former Congressman Mark Walker hopes to replace U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, who won’t seek reelection next year. Two days after Biden’s inauguration, Walker took aim at the new Democratic president. "The disdain for President Trump and his accomplishments are so deep that President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured," Walker tweeted. He linked to this story by Modern Healthcare. Walker’s claim is similar to others that have been fact-checked by PolitiFact and other media. Walker is referencing President Trump’s executive order requiring community health centers, specifically, to give the lowest price possible for insulin and injectable epinephrine to their low-income and uninsured patients. However, Walker’s tweet exaggerates the effect of Trump’s order, and the effects of Biden’s decision to freeze it. Trump’s order Community Health Centers, sometimes referred to as Federally Qualified Health Centers, or FQHCs, are government-supported clinics that help people facing financial obstacles to care and prescription drugs.  Before Trump left office, his administration signed-off on a rule requiring those centers to pass along discounts they’re receiving through the federal government’s 340B program. The idea was to prevent mark-ups. Sayeh Nikpay, associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, emailed PolitiFact for a separate story on the Trump order. Her email described the program this way: "The program was designed to allow community health centers the opportunity to raise some funds from the sale of discounted drugs to patients. What this means in practice is that when an insured patient goes to the clinic, the clinic bills insurance and gets to keep the difference between the mandated acquisition price (usually about half of the full cost) and the insurer reimbursement. Lawmakers have been okay with this because safety net clinics are federally funded and don’t typically have that many insured patients, so this should be happening on the margins." Indeed, experts told PolitiFact that any extra money is marginal at best.  While it’s true that Biden froze all of Trump’s pending rules at once, it’s misleading to suggest Biden did it out of disdain.  Criticism of order Adam Fein, a business consultant who runs a blog about pharmaceutical economics, wrote that he was surprised by Trump’s decision to target community health centers. "I generally consider these covered entities to be the good guys of 340B," Fein wrote in July after Trump announced his plans. "Notably, the executive order doesn’t mention hospitals, which are the worst abusers of the 340B program." As the health department noted in its December summary of Trump’s order, health centers are already required to reinvest any income from the 340B Program into patient services. Also in the summary, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) said it’s aware of the health centers’ "compliance with the 340B statute and strong track record of using the savings generated to benefit patients." The National Association of Community Health Centers released a Jan. 25 statement saying Trump’s administration misunderstood the issues. The red tape created by his order would have hindered the centers’ ability to serve their patients, said Colleen Meiman, policy advisor for State Associations of Community Health Centers. "All the Trump order did was say ‘If you can’t prove (you’re passing along the discounts), we’re going to punish you,’" Meiman told PolitiFact in a phone interview. The U.S. HRSA estimated that each health center would, on average, need to hire an additional worker at about $50,000 a year "to support necessary additional administrative processes." Biden’s move Trump’s order was scheduled to take effect on Jan. 22. However, on Jan. 20, Biden’s administration froze Trump’s order until March 22.  Walker’s tweet implies that Trump’s order had already lowered the prices of those medicines. But it hasn’t become law yet. Even if Trump’s order had taken effect on Jan. 22, those drug prices wouldn’t have gone down immediately, said Karyn Schwartz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation health advocacy group. The providers affected by Trump’s order would need to come into compliance by the time they apply for their annual grant, she told PolitiFact in a phone interview. "It wasn’t like a switch was going to get flipped on the 22nd," Schwartz said. The Biden administration hasn’t yet said whether Trump’s order will be scrapped altogether. Our ruling Walker said Biden "is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured." Biden froze a directive that would have ordered some health centers to provide insulin and epi-pens at the same price they purchased them through a government program.  But experts say the health centers were already providing the discounts. Furthermore, Biden froze Trump’s order before it ever took effect, so it’s inaccurate to suggest prices are going up. The program’s status quo will continue until a final decision is made. We rate this claim Mostly False.

Drugs,North Carolina,Mark Walker

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Viral image

2021-01-03 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

South Dakota "did have tragedies and we did have losses. But we also got through (the pandemic) better than virtually every other state."

Samantha Putterman

2021-02-11 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/blog-posting/no-house-democrats-impeachment-video-did-not-viola/

No, House Democrats’ impeachment video did not violate US House rules

To kick off the second trial of former President Donald Trump, Democratic House impeachment managers played a 13-minute compilation of videos taken during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building.  Shortly after, Star Political News, a conservative website, alleged that the video was heavily edited and that it therefore violated House rules against the dissemination of manipulated media.  "Manipulated Video used in House Impeachment Looks to Have VIOLATED House Rules," reads the headline of the article. The House Rules govern the chamber's congressional proceedings. Under Article I of the Constitution, a two-thirds majority can vote to censure or expel a member who violates those rules.  As evidence of its claim, Star Political News cites a tweet by former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who asked whether the video violated House Rules.  "Go to page 34 of House Rules. Did the manipulated video violate the House Rules?" it reads.  We asked three experts on congressional procedure whether there was any violation. Their answer was a clear no.  "I cannot possibly see how (the video) violates the House rule Chaffetz is pointing to," said Josh Ryan, a professor of political science at Utah State University.  House Rule hasn’t been enacted yet Here’s the section of the House Rules that Chaffetz highlighted in his tweet:  "DISSEMINATION OF MANIPULATED MEDIA.—The Committee on Ethics is directed to report to the House not later than December 31, 2021, any recommended amendments to the Code of Official Conduct, as well as any accompanying regulations, intended to address the circumstances and instances, if any, for which a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may be subject to discipline for the dissemination by electronic means, including by social media, of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public." In other words, this text dictates that the House Ethics Committee issue a report to the House by the end of 2021 recommending whether members and employees should be subject to discipline for knowingly distributing deceptively edited media, like deep fakes.  So the House "rule" that Chaffetz cited is not actually in force.  "The rule is a direction to Ethics, not a standard for ethical behavior," said Steven Smith, a professor of political science at Washington University, St. Louis.  Besides that, Donald R. Wolfensberger, a former Republican staff director of the House Rules Committee, cited three reasons why the House manager’s presentation wouldn’t run afoul of any House rule: House Rules do not extend to the Senate chamber, which is governed by Senate rules, Wolfensberger said. In the case of the Senate impeachment trial, that would include the Senate impeachment rule and the special impeachment procedures adopted Feb. 9 by the Senate and enforced by its presiding officer.  Even if the rule were already in effect and applied to the House impeachment managers on the Senate floor, the burden of proving a violation would be steep. In particular, the Ethics Committee would have to determine that there was "intent to mislead" in the compilation, a tall order when all of the footage was undoctored video relevant to the proceeding.  In the case of this impeachment, House managers are charged with presenting evidence at the Senate trial in support of the article of impeachment adopted by the House. "Nothing could be more germane or relevant as evidence than video proof of the insurrection at the Capitol," Wolfensberger said.  Was the video deceptively edited? Congressional representatives have been warned about spreading manipulated media before. On Jan. 28, 2020, House Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch, D-Fla., sent out an advisory memo, reminding representatives that "posting deep fakes or other audio-visual distortions intended to mislead the public may be in violation of the Code of Official Conduct."  The memo was sent out three weeks after Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., posted an image of former President Barack Obama doctored to show him shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The issue flared up again in August 2020 when Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., tweeted out a video that used manipulated footage of activist Ady Barkan to falsely accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of wanting to defund the police.  There is a difference between Scalise’s video, which was digitally altered to distort a person’s words, and the House Democrats’ impeachment video, which edited together documentary footage into a narrative. Hany Farid, a computer science professor at University of California-Berkeley and a leading expert in digital forensics, told PolitiFact that he would not classify the House Democrats’ impeachment video as deceptively edited because it was presented "as a set of representative vignettes."  Some Republican politicians have objected to the fact that the impeachment video didn’t feature Trump telling his supporters to "peacefully and patriotically protest." But that omission doesn’t meet the same standard of deception as a deepfake. "A deceptively edited video is one that purports to depict an event in its entirety, but the video has in fact been edited to remove or add content that significantly alters the video's meaning," he said. "For example, editing a speech saying ‘Let's peacefully take the Capitol,’ to say ‘Let's take the Capitol,’ by cutting or splicing a portion of the video." One could argue that the edited impeachment video is incomplete, Farid said, but the exclusion of some parts of Trump’s speech does not make the video deceptive.  Our ruling Star Political News wrote, "Manipulated Video used in House Impeachment Looks to Have VIOLATED House Rules." The rule the article points to has not actually been enacted yet.  House Rules do not extend to the Senate chamber where the trial is happening. The Senate is governed by Senate rules. Even if such a rule had been enacted, the video does not appear to violate it. The video consists of documentary footage edited into a single narrative. It does not contain audio-visual distortions or splice together words to make someone say something they didn’t say.  This is False. ​

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Viral image

2020-12-29 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured.”

Noah Y. Kim

2021-02-11 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/blog-posting/doctors-administering-covid-19-vaccines-arent-guil/

Doctors administering COVID-19 vaccines aren’t guilty of war crimes

The video starts with a video from a child TikToker and an advertisement for silver coins. Then, it transitions to a shot of an old man in a maroon wingback chair reading from a stack of papers. That man is Dr. Vernon Coleman, a British author who has denied the existence of HIV/AIDS and authored a book titled "Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective is Lying." In the video, Coleman spins a conspiracy theory that paints the coronavirus vaccine as a dangerous medical experiment. "I’d rather die than have that stuff in my body," he says. Over the course of nearly 18 minutes, Coleman takes aim at politicians in the United Kingdom who have promoted the coronavirus vaccine. He calls the vaccine "experimental" and "gene therapy" — and says that doctors who administer it are guilty of war crimes. "How many doctors and nurses jabbing people with this stuff are telling patients it’s a trial? How many are giving people the information they need to make a value judgment?" Coleman says. "I would guess somewhere close to none. And so legally, all those people giving vaccinations are war criminals." The video was published in an article on the website of Charlie Ward, a Briton who has promoted the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory on his YouTube channel. The headline: "Doctors and Nurses giving the Covid-19 Vaccine Will Be Tried as War Criminals." That article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  (Screenshot from Facebook) Coleman’s video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool — in spite of the platform’s recent ban on vaccine misinformation. So we wanted to take a closer look at his claims, which have been promoted by anti-vaccine activists in the U.S. Coleman is wrong. Administering approved vaccines is not a medical experiment, and doctors and nurses who administer them aren’t guilty of war crimes. Other fact-checkers have debunked similar claims. In the video, Coleman cites two pieces of evidence: a page from the National Library of Medicine and the Nuremberg Code. "The United States National Library of Medicine published details of the vaccine program currently underway and they say that the trial will last two years," Coleman said. "Anyone having the vaccine is therefore taking part in an experiment."  The "vaccine program" Coleman referred to is an ongoing clinical trial for the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which is expected to end Jan. 31, 2023. However, that doesn’t mean the Pfizer vaccine is an "experiment."  It’s normal for safety monitoring to continue after the FDA greenlights a vaccine. Pfizer said in December that it would continue monitoring trial participants for adverse events for two years after they receive the second dose of the vaccine. The U.S. and U.K. governments also have systems in place for tracking vaccine safety. Regulators in the U.K., where Coleman lives, approved the vaccine for emergency use Dec. 2, 2020. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its emergency use authorization on Dec. 11. Americans started getting shots three days later.  The FDA authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for emergency use after months of stage three clinical trials, during which more than 40,000 participants received the vaccine. The FDA wrote in its assessment of the trial that the vaccine was safe and effective. "FDA has determined that the totality of the available data provides clear evidence that Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine may be effective in preventing COVID-19 and support that the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks of the vaccine’s use in millions of people 16 years of age and older, including healthy individuals," the agency wrote. RELATED: What we know about the COVID-19 variants and how they impact vaccine efficacy The second source that Coleman cited in the video is the Nuremberg Code, a set of research ethics that resulted from the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. "Nuremberg Code stated explicit voluntary consent from human patients is required for experimentation," he said. "People must be warned they're taking part in a trial." The Code does say "the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential." And since it was adopted by the Geneva Conventions of 1949, breaking that principle would constitute a war crime. However, none of that is relevant to the coronavirus vaccine rollout. The Nuremberg Code was created in response to experiments that Nazis conducted on prisoners in concentration camps. It says nothing about using tested and approved vaccines on patients. In the U.S., all 43,448 participants in the Pfizer vaccine trial provided "written informed consent," according to the FDA. The U.K. requires consent before health care providers administer vaccines. Coleman’s claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!

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Donald Trump

2021-01-22 00:00:00

a tweet:

“Manipulated Video used in House Impeachment Looks to Have VIOLATED House Rules”

Daniel Funke

2021-02-11 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/mark-born/wisconsin-panel-did-back-vaccinations-prisoners-no/

Wisconsin panel did back vaccinations for prisoners, but not necessarily before grandma

The distribution of coronavirus vaccines in Wisconsin has been fraught with concerns about why the state started off lagging its peers and over just who was at the front of the vaccination line. And who was second. And third. Now that the dust has cleared a bit, we wanted to go back and examine what was a common theme, especially among Republicans. That is, that prison inmates should not be near the top of the list. For instance, on Jan. 12, 2021, when a document containing recommendations from a state committee was released, state Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, tweeted:  "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?"  Is it true that a state committee recommended providing inmates with COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the state’s elderly?  Who falls where in line? At issue here is where various groups fall on the priority list for the distribution of limited COVID vaccines. It’s up to each state to establish its own list, though most started with front-line health care workers and nursing home residents. Republicans pushed a bill that would make the vaccine available to anyone in the state that wants it by mid-March and bar Gov. Tony Evers and his administration from prioritizing prisoners in any way as they set priorities. Health officials say there are many reasons for putting inmates near the top of the list, including the fact prisons have been the site of deadly outbreaks and because the state -- and its taxpayers -- have a legal obligation to assure inmates receive adequate health care. If they do not, taxpayers could be on the hook for lawsuits over unfair or inadequate treatment. In any case, in Wisconsin, the committee group charged with providing advice on the vaccine priority list is the Vaccine Distribution Subcommittee of the Wisconsin State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee. Its aim is to provide the best advice from a medical perspective, not taking into account political considerations. Its advice is also just that -- advice. The group does not have the final say in the matter. The panel collects public input on who should be prioritized in the rollout, and gives recommendations to the state Department of Health Services on how to manage each phase of the distribution.  When asked to provide backup for Born’s claim, his office pointed to a document released by the advisory committee on Jan. 12, 2021 -- the same day of the tweet. That document noted: "Current supplies of vaccine limit the ability to provide vaccine to all who wish to be vaccinated; therefore, rationing of available vaccine will be necessary until production and distribution increases to amounts sufficient to meet all needs."  At the time, the group was looking past health-care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities -- Priority 1A -- and was offering guidance for the next group, Priority 1B. The group recommended vaccines be available for anyone 70 or older, noting "the evidence of deaths in that group in Wisconsin, where 71% of deaths and hospitalization are in those 70 and above."  It also called for including staff and residents in what are termed "congregate living facilities." That category includes homeless shelters, group homes and -- yes -- correctional facilities.  It should be noted, the recommendation was not simply to immunize inmates in the 1B group, but also correctional workers, since the virus can be passed between individuals, and even move into a prison from the community via staff members coming to work. This is a good place to pause and note two things: First, our ratings are based on the information known at the time. It’s impossible for people to predict the future and, indeed, things changed after the recommendation was made. Ultimately, the state reduced the age guidelines for the general population in group 1B to 65 and older. Second, it was subtle, but Born’s tweet mentioned two groups: Not only the advisory committee, but the "department tasked with leading during this pandemic." That would be the Department of Health Services. The tweet said both were recommending inmates come before "65 year old Grandma." Another piece of the puzzle That’s where the claim runs into a problem. First, the document produced by the advisory committee -- and provided to us by Born’s office as backup -- includes this label: "Draft -- for discussion only."  While the committee was recommending that "congregate facilities" be included in Priority 1B, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Jan. 14, 2021, but according to Department of Health Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Goodsitt, the panel did not submit its recommendations to the department until Jan. 21, and they were not accepted until Jan. 25. "You’ll also note the eligibility groups are listed in priority order— congregate living settings are the last eligibility group listed for priority group 1B, after education and childcare, public facing essential workers, among others," Goodsitt wrote in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin. Another piece of information arguing against the idea the department itself backed the inmates-before-Grandma approach, is that on Jan. 19, DHS announced those 65 and older -- not 70 and older as the panel suggested -- would be eligible for vaccinations starting Jan. 25.  What’s more, even now, a month later, congregate living facilities are not yet eligible. The next phase, which includes teachers, grocers, and anyone living in shared housing such as prisons, among other groups, is to begin March 1.   Our ruling Born tweeted "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?"  The panel did draw its line for Phase 1B at 70 year olds and included those in "congregate living facilities" -- a group that includes prison inmates. But the recommendations were not sent to the full department until days later. By that time, the department had lowered the age threshold to 65, and started that group before prisons. It’s unclear if blowback to the idea of inmates-before-Grandma prompted the department to take a different approach, as Republicans argue. But it is clear the department had not taken a public position at the time.  Our definition of Half True is "The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.    

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Mark Walker

2021-02-09 00:00:00

an article:

Doctors and nurses who administer the coronavirus vaccine can be "tried as war criminals."

D.L. Davis

2021-02-11 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/kevin-mccarthy/gop-house-leader-kevin-mccarthy-distorts-job-loss-/

GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy Distorts Job Loss Estimates For $15 Minimum Wage Hike

Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour "destroy up to 3.7 million jobs" in the United States?  That’s what GOP House Minority Leader and California Rep. Kevin McCarthy claimed in the headline of a press release on Tuesday as Democrats in Congress began debating the move. On Twitter the same day, McCarthy wrote the wage hike "could put nearly 4 million Americans out of work."  This is a screen shot of the headline from McCarthy’s press release. The Biden Administration last month proposed raising the federal minimum hourly pay from $7.25 to $15, with increases of about $1.50 every year for five years.  To make that happen, Congressional Democrats introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 last month and began considering the legislation in the House Committee on Education and Labor this week.  Here’s what McCarthy said in the body of the press release:  "At this critical point, the Democrats’ big, creative response is to raise the federal national wage to $15 an hour — a move the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office previously found could cost nearly 4 million workers their jobs." President Joe Biden initially included the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. But he predicted last week it would be left out due to opposition from Republicans and centrist Democrats.  Given the debate over raising the wage and its impact on jobs, we decided to take a closer look at McCarthy’s claim in this fact check.  Our Research In his press release and tweet, McCarthy linked to an analysis of the wage proposal by the Congressional Budget Office published on Monday.  The CBO, a nonpartisan research service, predicted the wage hike would eliminate jobs, but would also raise wages for an estimated 17 million people and lift 900,000 people out of poverty. It doesn’t say anything about destroying an estimated "3.7 million" positions as McCarthy claimed. Instead, the CBO said "the average estimate is that employment would be reduced by 1.4 million workers."  The report goes on to say there’s a "one-third chance" the loss will be between 1 million and 2.7 million workers, still far less than McCarthy’s number. "Young, less educated people would account for a disproportionate share of those reductions in employment," the report adds. A spokesperson for McCarthy did not respond to questions.  Deborah Kilroe, a spokesperson for the CBO, said McCarthy likely got his figure from a July 2019 CBO report that also examined raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.  That older analysis predicted the "median estimate" for job losses would be 1.3 million. Meanwhile, it said "there is a two thirds chance that the change in employment would be between about zero and a decrease of 3.7 million workers."  That last figure lines up with McCarthy’s statement of "nearly 4 million workers," but it comes from the high-end of an old report and ignores what the CBO published this week. Last month, FactCheck.org found Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul also distorted the facts on this topic. The senator told Fox News that "the government estimates are close to 4 million people will lose their jobs," if the minimum wage hike goes through.  FactCheck.org examined the July 2019 CBO report [the current report had yet to be published] and found Paul cherry-picked the high-end of that report.  Our Ruling Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour "would destroy up to 3.7 million jobs." McCarthy appears to be citing a Congressional Budget Office analysis from 2019 that said, at the high-end, 3.7 million jobs could be lost from the wage hike. But in his statement, he linked to the CBO’s new analysis published this week which found an average estimate of 1.4 million jobs would be lost, a figure he omitted. The new CBO report added there’s a "one-third chance" the loss will be between 1 million and 2.7 million workers, still far less than McCarthy’s claim. In the end, we found McCarthy cherry-picked a figure from an old report while ignoring current data on the topic that tells a different story. We rated his claim False.  FALSE – The statement is not accurate.

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2021-02-06 00:00:00

a video on Facebook:

"The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?”

Chris Nichols

2021-02-11 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/25/facebook-posts/no-calif-rep-maxine-waters-didnt-say-trump-support/

No, Calif. Rep. Maxine Waters didn’t say Trump supporters ‘not welcome here’

In the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, a 2018 social media post resurfaced featuring one of Trump’s sharpest critics, California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters. The post shows two images of Waters, each overlaid with a quote attributed to her. The first: "We’re sending a message to every Trump supporting American that you’re not welcome here." The second: "We must welcome everyone who crosses our borders, whether they are illegal or not." A caption next to the image, which was shared 44,000 times, captures the irony of the supposed quotes: "So actual Americans are unwelcome but illegals are welcome? Thanks for clearing that up." However, neither quote is accurate. And while Waters did make statements suggesting Trump Cabinet members should be singled out in public, she did not direct her comments at Trump supporters broadly, as this post suggests. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) In searches of Google and Nexis news archives, we found no evidence that Waters had uttered either quote.  But the post appears to allude to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy on immigration, announced in April 2018. The policy led to the separation of nearly 3,000 children from their parents when families tried to enter the United States at the Mexico border without permission. Waters’ Trump comment We did find that on June 23, 2018, Waters made comments about Trump’s Cabinet members during a rally in Los Angeles. During the event, she demanded that children separated at the border be reunited with their parents. Her comments came one day after the owner of a restaurant in Lexington, Va., refused to serve then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and asked her to leave, saying Sanders works in an "inhumane and unethical" administration. Waters said at the rally: "We want the children back. We want them connected to their parents. We want it done now. We’re going to insist on it. If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Already you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants, who are — protesters taking up at their house, who are saying, ‘no peace, no sleep; no peace, no sleep.’" She added:  "And so, let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up, wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents." Our ruling A Facebook post says Waters said Trump supporters are "not welcome here" and that "we must welcome everyone who crosses our borders."  Neither quote is accurate. Waters did say that members of Trump’s Cabinet are "not welcome anymore, anywhere" in a June 2018 critique of the administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, one that led to the separation of children from their parents at the Mexico border. But she did not direct her comments at all Trump supporters as this post suggests. We rate this post Mostly False.

Immigration,California,Facebook posts

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2021-01-12 00:00:00

Twitter:

Raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour “would destroy up to 3.7 million jobs.”

Cassidey Kavathas

2021-02-11 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/25/restoration-pac/biden-didnt-spark-migrant-caravan-question-loyalty/

Biden didn’t spark migrant caravan, question loyalty of US troops before taking office

President Joe Biden had been in office only for a few hours when claims began to circulate about how he had already failed in his new role. "It has been a terrible start for ‘the big guy,’" Restoration PAC, a super PAC based in suburban Chicago, posted on Facebook on Jan. 20, following the late-morning presidential inauguration.  An accompanying image read: "4 Biden failures before taking office: Sparked an immigration crisis — migrant caravan from Honduras is moving towards the US border; questioned the loyalty of US troops in Washington D.C.; invoked race during the U.S. Capitol riot — said BLM would be treated differently by police; calls for unity but goes along with the divisive impeachment."  For this fact-check, we focused on the first two points. The latter two are accurate: Biden said Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated differently than U.S. Capitol rioters were, and his assessment is supported by several examinations that compared police responses to summer protests for racial justice with the riot. And Biden supports the impeachment trial, which he has said he thinks the Senate can juggle with its usual business. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) As a super PAC, Restoration PAC has few limits on fundraising or spending to advocate for or against political candidates. In the 2020 election cycle, Restoration PAC spent $18.7 million on communications to oppose Democrats, and $1 million on communications supporting Republicans.  "Sparked an immigration crisis"  The claim that Biden "sparked an immigration crisis" draws a connection between his actions and a migrant caravan from Honduras that the Facebook post says "is moving toward the U.S. border."  The migrants were attempting to flee Honduras, beset for years by poverty and gang violence and now ravaged by COVID-19. The already desperate conditions in the country were worsened by two major hurricanes in November that left many people without jobs or homes. By the time the Facebook post was published, though, the caravan had already dissipated in Guatemala, stopped by roadblocks where Guatemalan forces used tear gas and batons to turn back the group of thousands. It is not uncommon for migration to occur around the time of U.S. elections and transitions of power, NBC News reported, citing spikes in late 2016, early 2017 and 2018 around the time of the midterm elections.  Opponents of Biden’s immigration plans have sought to link his proposals to the caravan’s movement. U.S. Rep Ken Buck, R-Colo., tweeted a video on Jan. 20 of the Honduran migrants clashing with Guatemalan soldiers, writing, "This is what happens when you announce plans to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Joe Biden’s open borders plan has consequences."  But a Biden proposal to provide a route to citizenship for immigrants illegally in the country would apply only to people who were already in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021, to deter migrants from moving toward the U.S. border.  "Questioned the loyalty of US troops in Washington, D.C." The Facebook post’s claim that Biden "questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops in Washington, D.C." does not include examples or specifics.  It likely is related to the decision to vet all National Guard troops assigned to the city for the inauguration, after concerns about extremism and insider threats. PolitiFact did not find any published comments from Biden or his representatives about the vetting process or the loyalty of the National Guard. The screening resulted in 12 National Guard members being removed from inaugural duties. Two of them had made extremist statements about the event, the Associated Press reported. "This type of vetting often takes place by law enforcement for significant security events," said Christopher Miller, the Acting Secretary of Defense under Trump, in a Jan. 18 statement. "However, in this case the scope of military participation is unique."  Regarding the scope, 25,000 members of the National Guard were deployed for Biden’s inauguration, compared with more than 7,000 for Trump’s 2017 inauguration.  The National Guard presence at inaugural events was beefed up following a Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the background checks were added after the discovery that ex-military members had participated in the riot. Nine of the people arrested for participating in the riot were former U.S. military members, ABC News reported. One of the five people who died as a result of the riot was a U.S. Air Force veteran shot by police as she climbed through a window near the House chamber. We contacted Restoration PAC for comment but did not receive a reply.  Our ruling A Facebook post attacking Biden’s pre-presidential "failures" blamed him for a migrant caravan from Honduras and said he questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops in Washington.  Biden’s proposal to provide a route to citizenship for immigrants is only applicable to people who were already in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021. The caravan that had been headed for the U.S. border disbanded. PolitiFact did not find any evidence that Biden questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops in Washington. The decision to vet the National Guard members deployed for the inauguration followed the discovery that ex-military members had participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. We rate these claims Mostly False. 

Immigration,Military,Facebook Fact-checks,Restoration PAC

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Kevin McCarthy

2021-01-14 00:00:00

a tweet:

Says President Joe Biden sparked a migrant caravan from Honduras and questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops at the inauguration.

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-25 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/17/jake-corman/fact-checking-top-pa-republican-who-said-false-ele/

Fact-checking a top Pa. Republican who said false election claims didn’t play ‘any role’ in the riot

Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman said in an interview last week that unproven voter fraud claims didn’t play "any role" in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The remark came after Matt Maisel, an anchor for FOX43 in central Pennsylvania, asked the state’s highest-ranking Republican about the violence that occurred when a pro-Trump mob attacked the building and temporarily halted the final counting of elector ballots in President-elect Joe Biden’s win. "House Democrats yesterday called on state Republicans to accept some responsibility for some of the violence that we saw at the U.S. Capitol last week because of unproven voter fraud claims," Maisel said. "What role do you think that played?" "I don’t think it played any role," Corman responded. But there’s plenty of evidence that people who traveled to Washington and stormed the Capitol did so because they believed the election was rigged and unfairly stolen from President Donald Trump. He told them so repeatedly. And Corman, like many Republican officials in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, frequently helped advance Trump’s narrative. Asked to provide evidence that supports his claim, Corman spokesperson Jenn Kocher offered none. "You’re asking me to prove a negative," she said. There is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania’s presidential election. Trump’s campaign itself hasn’t presented any such evidence in its numerous legal challenges contesting the result. Rather, its legal efforts have been aimed at disqualifying votes that all evidence shows were legitimately cast under rules the president and his supporters disagree with. Disputes over those rules were adjudicated in court. The postelection controversy has been stirred by unfounded claims of fraud. For two months, Corman and other Republicans across the country repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of Biden’s win. Some falsely claimed widespread fraud, while others griped about procedural issues, in arguments that courts have struck down. A week after the election, Corman accused Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration of attempting to "tip the scales" in Biden’s favor while also acknowledging he had no hard evidence of "any misdoing." He later urged Congress to delay certification of the state’s election results, "to allow due process as we pursue election integrity in our Commonwealth." The letter Corman sent to Congress repeated several false claims that have been debunked, including that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar encouraged only some counties to help voters fix technical mistakes with their mail ballots and that Republicans in Philadelphia were prohibited from observing workers as they counted ballots. "Due to these inconsistent and questionable activities, we believe that Pennsylvania’s election results should not have been certified by our Secretary of State," Corman wrote. Corman wasn’t alone. In November, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry attended a "Stop the Steal" rally in Harrisburg before going on Fox Business Network to declare Pennsylvania’s election "a horrific embarrassment." U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser told Fox News host Sean Hannity the situation is dire: "There is no longer one citizen, one vote." And U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler told the conservative outlet Newsmax that "we know there is voter fraud that occurred," it’s just a question of how much. The president’s Pennsylvania supporters were listening, and before the attack on the Capitol, they told The Inquirer so. Raberta Hans, a 50-year-old teacher from Northeastern Pennsylvania, said she planned to attend the rally to make a stand for election integrity: "It’s too dangerous not to go back and count every ballot." Jackie Kulback, the local GOP chair in Cambria County, said she wanted to gather with other Trump supporters to show the president, who had repeatedly spouted false claims of election fraud, "how much we support him." And Ben Philips, a 50-year-old computer programmer from Bloomsburg, said he was eager to see what Trump would do next: "It seems like he called us there for a reason. I think something big’s about to go down that no one’s talking about yet. I think he has an ace up his sleeve." Philips was one of five people who died in or near the Capitol amid the attack after he suffered a medical emergency. When Trump addressed his supporters on Jan. 6 before they stormed the Capitol, he again rattled off a slew of false claims. Targeting Pennsylvania, he wrongly said the number of votes cast exceeded the state’s number of voters, that ballots received after Election Day were improperly counted, and that dead people had voted. None of that was true. And the president’s insistence that the election was stolen but could still be reversed with Congress’ help is what rioters cited when asked by reporters why they were there and what they hoped to achieve. Our ruling Corman said unproven voter fraud claims didn’t play "any role" in the attack. No role at all? That’s absurd. A false but deeply held belief that the election was rigged and stolen from Trump led thousands of his supporters to gather in Washington and later storm the Capitol. The claims inspired the riot. We rate Corman’s statement Pants on Fire.

National,Elections,Pennsylvania,Jake Corman

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Andrew Cuomo

2021-01-20 00:00:00

a post:

Photos show Joe Biden with a “Chinese handler.”

Jessica Calefati

2021-01-17 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/16/facebook-posts/claim-inauguration-canceled-trump-remain-president/

Claim that inauguration canceled, Trump to remain president is bogus

An article making the rounds on social media falsely claims that President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration is canceled and that President Donald Trump will remain in office.  "BREAKING: Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC to Loose (sic) Licenses," said the headline on the Libertas Writers story.  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It’s 100% bogus. The article copies information from another website, Before It’s News, which has been identified by Columbia Journalism Review and others as a source of misinformation.   But Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration is proceeding. It has been scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will have added security following the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, but there is no hint it has been called off. The Biden transition team published a schedule of inauguration events and sent emails to reporters describing the events in more detail. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol’s West Front. Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez are expected to perform.  The New York Times reported that Biden will be sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sometime before noon and then give his inaugural address. Harris will be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, ABC News reported. Trump announced that he will not attend, but an aide to Vice President Mike Pence told the New York Times that Pence will. Instead of the tradition of nighttime balls, a primetime TV special "Celebrating America" will air, hosted by Tom Hanks and carried live by ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and PBS.  The stories on Facebook include a purported quote by Trump stating, "I have invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807" and that "I will remain president indefinitely until all domestic enemies are arrested." But Trump didn’t make that statement and there is no evidence that Trump invoked the act, a federal law that would allow a president to deploy the military to suppress insurrection.  Other fact-checkers including Reuters, Snopes, and Factcheck.org found that the phony Trump quote stemmed from @TeamTrumpNews on Parler. Reuters found that Trump did not have a personal account on Parler but his campaign posted under the handle @TeamTrump. Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, was kicked off Amazon Web Services following the Jan. 6 riot.  Trump has falsely and repeatedly said that he won, lodging numerous unsuccessful court challenges disputing the results. But on Jan. 7, the day after the mob attacked the Capitol, Trump made it clear he would leave office. "Now Congress has certified the results," Trump said. "A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power." Multiple news reports say Trump plans to leave the White House Wednesday morning before the inauguration and hold his own send off at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before flying to Florida. Our ruling A headline says, "Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office." This information is bogus — there is no evidence that Biden has canceled his inauguration. Biden’s transition team has announced his plans for the inauguration ceremony and a nighttime celebration. On Jan. 7, Trump said a new administration will be inaugurated and called for a seamless transition.  We rate this claim Pants on Fire. RELATED: Joe Biden is right that more than 60 of Trump’s election lawsuits lacked merit RELATED: Fact-checking the House impeachment debate about Trump, Capitol riot

National,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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2021-01-14 00:00:00

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“Inauguration Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office.”

Miriam Valverde

2021-01-16 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/16/instagram-posts/no-joe-biden-didnt-stay-silent-about-violence-blac/

No, Joe Biden didn’t stay silent about violence at Black Lives Matter protests

After a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed and occupied the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, an Instagram post suggested that President-elect Joe Biden, who condemned that attack, remained silent when demonstrations turned violent in the late spring and summer of 2020. The post was an apparent reference to the numerous Black Lives Matters protests held around the country, following the May 25 death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned Floyd’s neck under his knee. Some of the demonstrations turned violent. The post showed four images. Three depicted fire and violence in the streets — one labeled June, one July and one August; superimposed over each was a photo of Biden, with his eyes closed. A fourth image showed a tightly packed crowd and a superimposed photo of Biden, looking forward, with a quote: "This violence is a threat and must end now."   "He was asleep the whole time," reads the accompanying caption. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) During the attack on the Capitol, Biden called on Trump to go on national television "and demand an end to this siege." "This is not dissent, it’s disorder, it’s chaos." Biden said. "It borders on sedition, and it must end. Now." But Biden also spoke out a number of times when violence broke out during some Black Lives Matter protests. Biden denounced violence  On May 30, Biden said in a statement about Floyd: "Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not." In a campaign speech on June 2 about the Floyd protests, Biden said: "There’s no place for violence, no place for looting or destroying property or burning churches or destroying businesses." On July 28, he said: "I’ve said from the outset of the recent protests that there is no place for violence or the destruction of property. Peaceful protesters should be protected — but arsonists and anarchists should be prosecuted — and local law enforcement can do that." After protests in downtown Portland, Ore., for every night for nearly three months following Floyd’s killing, Biden said Aug. 30 in a statement while campaigning: "I condemn violence of every kind by anyone, whether on the left or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same." On Aug. 26, in the wake of violence in Kenosha, Wis., following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Biden said in a video: "Burning down communities is not protest, it’s needless violence — violence that endangers lives, violence that guts businesses, and shutters businesses that serve the community. That’s wrong." Our ruling An Instagram post six days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol  suggested that Biden, who condemned the attack, had stayed silent about violence at Black Lives Matter protests during June through August of 2020.  Biden made several statements during that period denouncing the violence.  We rate the statement False.

Criminal Justice,Race and Ethnicity,Facebook Fact-checks,Instagram posts

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Facebook posts

2021-01-12 00:00:00

an Instagram post:

Says that “the way to reach ‘herd immunity’ is for >70% of the population to get vaccinated.”

Miriam Valverde

2020-12-30 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/30/pat-toomey/fact-checking-sen-pat-toomeys-comment-pa-gov-tom-w/

Fact-checking Sen. Pat Toomey’s comment that Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf is ‘closing down businesses again’

When President Donald Trump threatened to reject the coronavirus economic relief package passed with wide bipartisan support, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey appeared on Fox News to defend the plan and stress how urgently businesses need relief.  "In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again," Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said Sunday before Trump relented and signed the measure into law.  We wondered how sweeping the latest round of virus shutdowns is and what types of establishments are affected.  Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf halted indoor dining, closed casinos, gyms, and entertainment venues, and lowered retail occupancy limits statewide for the first time since the spring. The new restrictions came as the state started reporting more than 10,000 new infections per day.  Wolf said he hoped the restrictions would slow the spread of the virus and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed just before vaccines become widely available.  "This is a bridge to a better future in Pennsylvania," Wolf said.  Before this latest round of closures, all 67 Pennsylvania counties had been in the "green" phase of the Wolf administration’s three-step reopening plan since July 3, even though Trump falsely claimed otherwise on the campaign trail. That allowed many businesses to operate at 75% capacity.  Since the new rules took effect on Dec. 11, the number of new cases reported each day in Pennsylvania fell to as low as 4,621 on Dec. 27, and the seven-day average fell to 7,757.  The restrictions are set to expire on Jan. 4, but Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine said the state may extend them if cases climb again in the days ahead. A local ban on indoor dining in Philadelphia will remain in effect until Jan. 15. Soon after Wolf announced this latest round of restrictions, at least a dozen gym and restaurant owners across Pennsylvania publicly vowed to defy them.  Business owners argued they should be allowed to stay open because internal data they collected showed their establishments hadn’t been the source of any community spread. A recent Stanford University study, however, linked restaurants, gyms, and crowded indoor spaces to 80% of infections in 10 U.S. cities in the early months of the pandemic.  "If I have to prove my point by being taken out in handcuffs, then so be it," said Phil Guarno, who owns Fenicci’s Italian restaurant in Hershey, Pa., which has remained open for indoor dining despite the new order. "It’s gotten to the point where it’s really do or die. It’s time to stand up against this tyranny." The relief bill includes a new round of subsidies for hard-hit businesses like Guarno’s, as well as temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefits for the unemployed and $600 direct payments to most Americans. Schools, healthcare providers, and renters facing eviction will also get relief.  Across the country, at least seven other states and the District of Columbia have joined Pennsylvania and imposed restrictions on large numbers of businesses. They include Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Ten states have halted activity at some businesses, and elsewhere, establishments remain largely open even as the pandemic rages on. Our ruling  Toomey said "in my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again."  He’s right that Pennsylvania shuttered many businesses earlier this month, and seven other states have imposed similarly sweeping restrictions. We rate Toomey’s statement True. 

National,Coronavirus,Pennsylvania,Pat Toomey

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Jon Rosenthal

2021-01-02 00:00:00

a phone call with Georgia's Secretary of State:

A registered nurse in Nashville, Tenn., developed Bell’s Palsy after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Jessica Calefati

2020-12-29 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/29/facebook-posts/nashville-explosion-was-suicide-bombing-not-missil/

The Nashville explosion was a suicide bombing, not a missile strike

Conspiracy theorists say the suicide bombing that rocked downtown Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas Day was actually the result of a missile strike. Their evidence: a grainy black-and-white video. The video, which was posted by a Facebook page called Red Pill Radio on Dec. 28, shows the outline of buildings and a highway in Nashville. Then, a plume of smoke rises behind three light poles. "You can see as there’s a line flying in, there’s a little bit of a glow and then there’s the explosion," a narrator says in the video. "Very, very interesting." "Nashville explosion a missile strike??" reads the post caption from Red Pill Radio, a Facebook account that bears the slogan of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory on its "About" page. (Screenshot from Facebook) The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Similar claims have been shared in hundreds of public posts, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. In its video, Red Pill Radio cites a Dec. 26 article from WorthyPolitics.com whose headline claims the video "proves Nashville explosion was actually a missile strike." We have seen  similar claims from others who say the missile was aimed at the AT&T Building. There is no evidence to substantiate that theory. We rated Pants on Fire a similar claim that AT&T was targeted in the bombing as part of an election cover-up. While federal investigators are still looking into the bombing, law enforcement officials have said a man named Anthony Warner was responsible and died in the blast. The bomb was located in a recreational vehicle that Warner owned. Fact-checkers have debunked claims that the explosion was the result of a missile strike.  The video in the Facebook post is security footage obtained by WKRN-TV, a station based in Nashville. It shows smoke from the explosion over the skyline. The clip does not show a missile hitting the city. Videos from law enforcement officials and local businesses show that the explosion occurred on 2nd Avenue North in downtown Nashville. The explosion injured three people and damaged several businesses, including the AT&T Building. This is video of Friday morning's explosion recorded by an MNPD camera at 2nd Ave N & Commerce St. pic.twitter.com/3vaXhoUOAR— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) December 28, 2020 One clip captured an audio message warning people to evacuate the area seconds before the explosion. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department identified the RV at the center of the blast in a Dec. 25 tweet. On Dec. 27, U.S. Attorney Don Cochran said the explosion appeared to be a suicide bombing carried out by a Warner. DNA from human remains found at the scene matched Warner, and investigators found financial records for components that he may have used to construct the bomb.  FBI agents are investigating whether Warner may have been paranoid about 5G technology. Conspiracy theories about the cellular data networks have blossomed on social media over the past year, falsely claiming that 5G spreads COVID-19 and could be used as a spying tool by the government.  The investigation of the Nashville bombing is ongoing, but the Facebook post is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!

Tennessee,Public Safety,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Pat Toomey

2020-12-27 00:00:00

an

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper "has not left the Governor's Mansion since the start of the #COVID19 crisis."

Daniel Funke

2020-12-29 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/29/facebook-posts/no-t-was-not-conducting-audit-dominion-voting-syst/

No, AT&T was not conducting an audit of Dominion Voting Systems near Nashville explosion

In the wake of the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville, Tenn., a baseless conspiracy theory started circulating online that claims Nashville’s downtown AT&T complex, which was damaged in the blast, had gotten a contract to conduct a "forensic audit" on Dominion Voting Systems machines. The post implies that the bombing was an attempt to stop the audit and cover up voter fraud. "AT&T got a contract to do forensic audit on Dominion voting machines and those machines were being moved to Nashville this past week," one Dec. 27 post says. "So, the explosion ‘just happened’ to be at the AT&T location where they ‘just so happen’ to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives for forensic audit…" "Wait, the bombing in Nashville was at the AT&T data center right after they got the contract to audit the Dominion voting machines?," one from Dec. 26 reads. "That’s an interesting coincidence." But none of this is true. AT&T does not hold a contract to audit Dominion’s software or machines and did not have any of the company’s equipment in its Nashville building.  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The FBI confirmed that a man named Anthony Warner was responsible for the bombing and was killed in the blast. The bomb was located in a recreational vehicle owned by Warner. The explosion injured three other people and damaged businesses in downtown Nashville, including an AT&T switching center, which resulted in widespread communications outages.  Law enforcement authorities have suggested that Warner may have been paranoid about 5G technology, a QAnon-related conspiracy theory that makes an array of unproven claims including that it helps spread COVID-19 and is used as a spying tool by the government.  Spokespeople for both AT&T and Dominion have confirmed that AT&T did not hold a contract to audit Dominion, nor had any of Dominion’s equipment been moved to Nashville in preparation for such an audit. Jim Greer, associate vice president for corporate communications at AT&T, was blunt in an email response to PolitiFact: "That is not true," he wrote. Dominion representatives have also denounced the conspiracy theory, calling it another "bizarre lie" with "zero credibility."  Some posts take the claim a step further, alleging that the former owner of the building was a board member of a firm that owns Dominion. However, the firm cited in that version of the claim — Cerberus Capital Management — doesn’t own Dominion nor is it connected to Staple Street Capital, which acquired Dominion in 2018.  A public relations firm told the Associated Press on behalf of Dominion that the company "has no connection to AT&T, the building, Nashville, family members of the Bidens or the Clintons, and Staple Street is not owned by Cerberus. These are conspiracies manufactured out of whole cloth." In an email to PolitiFact, a Dominion spokesperson said the company and AT&T are calling on everyone to reject these baseless rumors: "Americans should continue to seek information from verifiable, trusted sources, such as law enforcement authorities." Our ruling Posts online claim that the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was an attempt to cover up election fraud because AT&T was conducting an audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and that the equipment was recently relocated to the company’s building that was damaged in the blast. This is bogus. There is no evidence that suggests that the explosion was election-related. Both companies have denied the posts claims, saying that there was no such audit and that Dominion’s machines were not recently transported to Nashville. Pants on Fire!

Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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2020-12-28 00:00:00

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News outlets reported that the Nashville bomber died of COVID-19.

Samantha Putterman

2020-12-29 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/28/facebook-posts/no-recent-study-didnt-find-no-asymptomatic-spread-/

No, a recent study didn’t find that there was “no asymptomatic” spread of COVID-19

Critics of policies to contain community spread of the coronavirus have taken to social media to tout a study they said showed no risk of asymptomatic individuals spreading the virus. This argument was shared on Twitter by Jenny Beth Martin, a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and was later amplified by Tomi Lahren, the conservative commentator and Fox Nation host, on both Twitter and Facebook.  Martin tweeted, "Report: University of Florida researchers have found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of Covid. The study was published online by the Journal of the American Medical Association. This could change everything." Lahren shared Martin’s tweet, adding the comment, "So ya mean locking down the country, destroying businesses, robbing students of real learning and shaming people into giving up our rights was not necessary?! Ya don’t say...." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) So ya mean locking down the country, destroying businesses, robbing students of real learning and shaming people into giving up our rights was not necessary?! Ya don’t say.... https://t.co/xwUZtm5E85— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) December 27, 2020 Neither social media post provided a link to the study in question, but it appears to be a paper published on Dec. 14 in JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal published by the American Medical Association. The article was co-authored by four researchers from the University of Florida and two affiliated with the University of Washington. We reached out to several medical experts, including one of the co-authors, and they agreed that the portrayal of the journal article on social media ignored several caveats included in the article and made unjustified logical leaps. (Attempts to reach out to Martin and Lahren were unsuccessful.) What the study found The study was a "meta-analysis" — a paper that pools existing studies on a topic and tries to draw broader conclusions using a larger data set than any of the studies had individually.  Specifically, the study looked at how much the virus spread within households. The researchers found that among the studies that met their parameters, the "secondary attack rates" — that is, the likelihood of spread from an infected person to a previously uninfected person within a household — were higher among people who had symptoms than among those who didn’t: 18% for symptomatic individuals vs. 0.7% for asymptomatic individuals. The notion that people with symptoms are more likely to infect others is not a new one. Coughing, for example, is a symptom of COVID-19 and an especially effective way to spread the virus. One meta-analysis study published in September by researchers from Harvard University, Canada, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom found that "asymptomatic patients can transmit" the virus to others, but that "such individuals are responsible for fewer secondary infections than people with symptoms in the same studies." Other studies have also shown reduced rates of transmission among asymptomatic individuals.  In other words, there’s consistent evidence that asymptomatic individuals are less likely to spread the virus than symptomatic individuals are. But the paper didn’t find the rate of spread to be zero. Moreover, Martin’s original tweet mischaracterized the paper’s conclusions, and Lahren’s comment exacerbated the misunderstanding.  Here are the two major fallacies, according to experts. Problem 1: The paper notes that there is little data on asymptomatic spread Only four of the 54 studies analyzed in the paper even tracked asymptomatic spread, making it hard to draw detailed conclusions. The paper noted this twice, cautioning that "less data were available" on asymptomatic cases and that "there were few studies" involving asymptomatic individuals. The difference between symptomatic and asymptomatic spread was "notable, but it was not meant to upend" the broader understanding of the subject, said Natalie E. Dean, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, and one of the co-authors of the paper. The paucity of data on asymptomatic spread is not surprising, experts said, since it requires a more extensive testing regimen, raising the cost and difficulty for researchers. Such studies "would require repeated, complete-household testing to ascertain causality and the origin and timing of infections in the household," said Brooke Nichols, an infectious-disease mathematical modeler at the Boston University School of Public Health.  In fact, Nichols said, we simply don’t know enough yet to determine how commonly asymptomatic spread occurs. "The four studies that the JAMA Open Network meta-analysis has reviewed had remarkably small sample sizes, and the studies were not designed to answer this specific question," Nichols said. Problem 2: The study addresses household spread, not community spread The study in question looked only at spread within households. A household is a more limited environment that is easier to control and study than a full community. The study’s focus on households, rather than on community spread, is relevant because Lahren’s critique largely addresses policies that govern community interactions, such as restrictions on businesses, public gatherings and schools. The course of the spread in the United States makes clear that most transmission has been occurring at the community level, said William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine, health policy and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University. "It is self-evident that here in the U.S. and in other countries, when we have let down our guard, that's been followed by an explosion of COVID transmission that results in people being put into hospitals and ICUs," Schaffner said. "Countries such as Australia and New Zealand that have really instituted these interventions, including masking, social distancing, and controlling the size of groups, have controlled the spread better than any other countries." In addition, the papers that have addressed community spread suggest that asymptomatic spread does occur.  Experts added that while one might think that transmission of the virus is more likely to occur in the enclosed spaces of a household, this ignores a key factor: Asymptomatic people will encounter many more people if they’re out and about while infected. "If their viral loads are lower, but their contact rates are higher — the number of people a person sees in one day — then the likelihood of transmission could become similar," Nichols said. Our ruling Facebook posts said a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by University of Florida researchers has found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID. The journal article in question did find lower transmission rates from asymptomatic individuals compared with symptomatic individuals, though the rate was not zero, as the post said. The posts ignore that the paper itself warns that the number of studies looking at asymptomatic transmission is small. And the paper looks only at household transmission, not community spread. Asymptomatic people going about their lives in the community would encounter many more people than someone stuck at home, meaning they could still infect a sizable number of people. We rate the statement Mostly False.

Public Health,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-12-29 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

The Nashville bombing was an attempt to stop an AT&T audit into Dominion software and cover up election corruption.

Daniel Funke

2020-12-28 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/28/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-anthony-fauci-lied-about-masks-fa/

Marco Rubio says Anthony Fauci lied about masks. Fauci didn’t.

At 9:33 on the morning of Dec. 27, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted a verse from the Bible that urged people to rise above the faults they see in others. "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience," Rubio wrote. "Forgiving one another if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do." By 10:45 a.m., Rubio struck a different tone. "Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March," Rubio tweeted. "Dr. Fauci has been distorting the level of vaccination needed for herd immunity." Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March Dr. Fauci has been distorting the level of vaccination needed for herd immunityIt isn’t just himMany in elite bubbles believe the American public doesn’t know “what’s good for them” so they need to be tricked into “doing the right thing”— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 27, 2020 Lying involves the intent to deceive, and the claim that Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, lied about masks is familiar ground for fact-checkers. It doesn’t hold up. We have looked at what Fauci has said at different points during the pandemic, and his guidance has changed. The question is: Why? Top government agencies such as the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted their policies on masks based on new findings about the novel coronavirus. It wasn’t until April 3 that the CDC urged everyone to wear one. Before then, the message on masks was primarily about preserving a limited supply for health care workers, who were at especially high risk of exposure. What Fauci said in March interviews Rubio’s tweet specifically referred to what Fauci said in March. That month, Fauci gave two high-profile interviews. In the first one, which occurred days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Fauci pushed back against the idea of everyone in the U.S. needing to wear masks. It is worth reading Fauci’s exact words from his March 8 interview on CBS's "60 Minutes.": FAUCI: The masks are important for someone who's infected to prevent them from infecting someone else. Now, when you see people and look at the films in China and South Korea, whatever, and everybody's wearing a mask. Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks. HOST: You're sure of this, because people are listening really closely to this.  FAUCI: Right. Now people should not be walk— there's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.  HOST: And you can get some schmutz sort of staying inside there. FAUCI: Of course, but when you think "masks," you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill. The people — when you look at the films of countries, and you see 85% of the people wearing masks, that's fine. That's fine. I'm not against it. If you want to do it, that's fine.  HOST: But it can lead to a shortage.  FAUCI: Exactly, that’s the point. It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it. Fauci’s critics have focused on his words "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask." But in the same interview, he also said that it was "fine" to wear a mask, although it wouldn’t offer perfect protection. And he said the main point was to preserve masks for those who were already ill and people providing care. On March 27, Fauci spoke to a San Francisco NBC affiliate. He said given the shortage of masks, the general public ranked last behind doctors and nurses, and people who are infected. "When we say you don't need to wear a mask, what we're really saying is make sure you prioritize it first for the people who need the mask," Fauci said. "In a perfect world, if you had all the masks you wanted, then you could get some degree of protection, but make sure you prioritize it well." Guidance changed over the course of the month March was a pivotal month for understanding the disease. On March 1, the country had seen eight deaths. On March 31, the figure stood at more than 4,300. When public officials talked about masks, they were talking about high-quality, hospital grade masks. In February and March, when the spread of the virus was still limited in the U.S., the mask shortage was a top concern.  On March 2, the FDA and CDC were saying "There is no added health benefit to the general American public to wear a respiratory protective device, such as an N95 respirator. The immediate health risk from COVID-19 is considered low." On an emergency basis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration relaxed the rules on the sort of masks hospitals could use, citing tight supplies of the high-grade masks. The shortage was nationwide, and became more acute as the virus spread. On March 23, a bipartisan group of physician lawmakers in Utah called on businesses to donate N95 masks for use by health workers. On March 29, President Donald Trump and the coronavirus task force briefed the press on steps underway to increase the supply of masks to doctors, nurses and all care providers. By this time, COVID-19s had spread widely across the country, and public-health officials were rethinking their guidance as they learned more about the transmission of the virus by asymptomatic carriers. On April 3, Trump announced, "From recent studies, we know that the transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood. "In light of these studies, the CDC is advising the use of non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure," Trump said. "I want to emphasize that the CDC is not recommending the use of medical-grade or surgical-grade masks, and we want that to be used for our great medical people that are working so hard." We reached out to Rubio’s office and did not get a formal response, but his deputy chief of staff posted a non-responsive tweet. Our ruling Rubio said that Fauci lied about masks in March. This is incorrect in several ways. Fauci did say, "there is no reason to be walking around with a mask," but to call that lying takes Fauci’s words out of context. The country faced a shortage of high-quality masks, and Fauci also said in his interviews that masks should be preserved for sick people and health care workers. In addition, researchers did not know at the time that people without symptoms were spreading the virus. Once that was understood, wearing masks — even simple cloth masks — took on new importance for preventing community transmission. Lying means there was an intent to deceive. Fauci’s words in March about masks mirrored the widely held belief across government agencies at that time about the nature of the novel coronavirus and the best ways to control it. We rate this claim False. RELATED: Lies infected America in 2020. The very worst were not just damaging, but deadly. The 2020 Lie of the Year: Coronavirus downplay and denial

National,Coronavirus,Marco Rubio

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Facebook posts

2020-12-27 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Cornell University professor Robert Oswald said “COVID-19 was imaginary and fictitious.”

Louis Jacobson

2020-12-28 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/23/facebook-posts/bogus-analysis-leads-ridiculous-claim-about-biden-/

Bogus analysis leads to ridiculous claim about Biden votes

President Donald Trump and his allies have continued to flood social media with falsehoods about the Nov. 3 election, including that the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters by a massive amount. "REVEALED: ‘Simple math’ shows Biden claims 13 million more votes than there were eligible voters who voted in 2020 election," stated a headline on The Gateway Pundit. Trump retweeted the Gateway Pundit story. That story was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The "simple math" about Biden’s voters is wrong.  Gateway Pundit relies on bogus calculation to lead to false claim The Gateway Pundit cites a tweet by Bill Binney, who worked at the National Security Agency from 1965 to 2001. Binney cited a Washington Post story about historic voter turnout in the November election.  The Washington Post story said 66.2% of the voting-eligible population cast a vote. (The United States Elections Project calculates the eligible population by adjusting the voting-age population for non-citizens and ineligible felons, depending on state law.) While the Washington Post clearly cited the voting-eligible population, Binney and The Gateway Pundit instead looked up figures for the number of registered voters — even though not every American who is eligible to vote takes the steps to register.  Binney wrote that if there are 212 million registered voters and 66.2% voted, that means about 140 million voted. If Trump received 74 million votes, that leaves about 66 million for Biden, Binney wrote. Binney’s implication is that there is no way Biden actually received about 81 million votes. "These numbers don’t add up to what we are being told. Lies and more Lies!" Binney tweeted. Binney didn't explain why, under this theoretically flawed analysis, it couldn’t have been Trump who had erroneously received millions of votes. The Gateway Pundit added up the number of registered voters and applied the same math formula and reported numbers in the same ballpark as Binney. The writer concluded that if Trump won 74 million votes, that left 67.5 million remaining for Biden. That means "13 million duplicate or made up ballots were created and counted for Biden!" But just as Binney did, the Gateway Pundit is plugging in the wrong number — the number of registered voters — while the Washington Post cited the number of adults eligible to vote. The United States Elections Project found there were about 239.2 million eligible voters for the Nov. 3 election. Using that denominator and an approximately 66% turnout rate, it shows that about 158 million people voted for president.  The Gateway Pundit also declared that "Biden committed fraud" and stole the election by "millions" of votes, a ridiculous assertion that included no evidence to back it up. Claims of widespread fraud have been debunked by federal security officials, as well as state election officials, including in GOP-led states such as Georgia. Nationwide, judges tossed out dozens of lawsuits by Trump and his allies that attempted to overturn the election, for lack of evidence.  There is one more problem with the faulty claims by Binney and the Gateway Pundit — they rely on outdated data on registered voters. They cited World Population Review’s state-by-state tally of registered voters, but that website shows the number of voters in some states months before the Nov. 3 election. For example, for Florida it shows 14,065,627 voters as of Aug. 31. But the relevant number is how many voters were registered as of the registration deadline, Oct. 6, which was 14,441,869. Our ruling A headline on The Gateway Pundit said, "REVEALED: ‘Simple math’ shows Biden claims 13 million more votes than there were eligible voters who voted in 2020 election." This isn’t a case of simple math; it's a case of flawed analysis. The Gateway Pundit conflated registered voters with eligible voters. The two are not the same. There is no evidence that Biden claimed 13 million more votes than was mathematically possible.  This statement rates Pants on Fire!

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2020-12-28 00:00:00

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Says a recent study found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID.

Jon Greenberg

2020-12-23 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/11/andrew-cuomo/does-new-york-get-less-federal-government-any-stat/

Does New York get less from the federal government than any state?

Does New York get the short end of the stick when it comes to federal funding? Gov. Andrew Cuomo said so in a tweet on Jan. 14. "New Yorkers are just tired of subsidizing other states with our tax dollars. New York subsidizes 42 other states. No state gets back less from Washington than New York state. The federal government must stop shortchanging NY," Cuomo tweeted. New Yorkers are just tired of subsidizing other states with our tax dollars.New York subsidizes 42 other states.No state gets back less from Washington than New York State.The federal government must stop shortchanging NY.#SOTS2021— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 14, 2021 Is Cuomo correct that "no state gets back less from Washington than New York state"? We looked at a comprehensive independent analysis and found that Cuomo’s assertion was close to accurate. The governor’s evidence Freeman Klopott, a spokesman for the New York State Division of Budget, told PolitiFact that Cuomo was referencing a widely cited analysis from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a public policy arm of the State University of New York. The report, published in January 2020, shows four-year totals of funding flows from fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2018. The report found that New Yorkers cumulatively sent $116 billion more to the federal government during that period than New York state received from the federal government. The four major categories of federal spending analyzed by the report are direct payments for individuals under programs such as Social Security and Medicare, federal grants to state and local governments, federal contracts and procurement, and wages paid to federal workers. The institute found that during that period, only 11 states received fewer dollars in funding than they sent to the federal government in tax payments — and of these, New York’s cumulative shortfall was easily the largest.  The other 10 states with negative balances with the federal government during that four-year period were, in descending order, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Illinois, Colorado, Nebraska, Washington, Utah and New Hampshire. In the most recent year studied in the report, 2018, New York sent almost $22 billion more to the federal government than it received. That’s a larger sum than the next two states’s shortfalls combined, New Jersey and Massachusetts. But when adjusted for population, New York isn’t the biggest loser. It’s fourth, after three of its smaller neighbors: Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Cuomo’s mention of 42 states stems from the 2018 figures in the report, which says, "Forty-two states had a positive balance of payments with the federal government in 2018, Why does New York pay so much? Broadly speaking, federal money flows from high-income states to low-income states through spending by programs such as Medicaid. The system isn’t designed to give back each state the equivalent of what its residents and businesses paid.  "Because New York is home to a large critical mass of very high-income households, as well as a considerable number of merely very affluent (mid-six-figure) residents, the Empire State’s residents generate a disproportionately large share of federal revenues through a tax system that is, after all, based on a progressive income tax," said E.J. McMahon, founder and research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank. New York’s balance of payments with the federal government could worsen in the coming years unless a change made to the tax code in 2017 is reversed. In the Republican-backed tax bill signed that year by President Donald Trump, lawmakers limited the size of the federal deduction for state and local taxes paid. This change to the state and local tax deduction meant that some taxpayers in high-tax states like New York would pay more in federal taxes. Our ruling Cuomo said that "no state gets back less from Washington than New York state."  This aligns with a widely cited study by the Rockefeller Institute of Government that looked at every state’s balance of payments with the federal government from 2015 to 2018.  However, that same study notes a slightly different result when population is taken into account. On a per-capita basis, New York ranked fourth, after Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. We rate the statement Mostly True.

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2020-12-20 00:00:00

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"The Clinton Foundation folded.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-02-10 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/10/facebook-posts/fact-checking-whether-biden-family-heavily-investe/

Fact-checking whether Biden family is ‘heavily invested’ in foreign oil, energy

After President Joe Biden paused certain oil and gas operations and killed a cross-country oil pipeline, an image emerged on Facebook making this attack: "I’m confused how the Biden family is so heavily invested in energy and oil in OTHER countries, yet they want to end it in OUR country." The widely shared post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The latest financial disclosure form for Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden indicate no investments in foreign energy or oil, despite False claims on social media that suggest otherwise. But no such disclosure requirements apply to the Bidens’ adult children or to Joe Biden’s brother, James, who has been accused of trying to his brother’s political connections to help his business ventures. In short, aside from what the president and first lady have disclosed, there isn’t publicly available information on what Biden family members have in their investments.  Biden’s actions on domestic energy During his first eight days in office, Biden issued three executive orders affecting oil and energy.  He paused the permitting of oil and natural gas operations in northeastern Alaska. And he paused leases for drilling on all federal land — effectively banning new fracking there for as long as the policy lasts. His moves leave current fracking, a process used to extract oil and gas from the ground, untouched.  Biden also revoked the permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried a heavy crude oil mixture from Western Canada to Steele City, Neb., where it was to connect with another leg stretching to Gulf Coast refineries. Joe and Jill Biden We rated as Mostly True a 2019 claim by Biden that he "entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president" in January 2017. But after leaving the vice presidency, he and Jill Biden wrote books, and he did high-paying speaking engagements. The couple’s annual income, which had hovered around $400,000 for seven consecutive years, reached $11 million in 2017, $4.58 million in 2018 and $985,000 in 2019, according to their tax returns.  In August 2019, Forbes estimated the Bidens’ net worth at $9 million, which included two Delaware homes valued at $4 million combined, cash and investments worth another $4 million or so, and a federal pension worth more than $1 million. But in all of that, there is not direct evidence of foreign investments in energy or oil. Biden filed a federal financial disclosure form required of presidential candidates in May 2020. It said Joe Biden held between $15,001 and $50,000 each in what is listed as a "U.S. brokerage account — cash," and in the TIAA-CREF Lifecycle Index 2010 Fund, which is a mutual fund. A mutual fund is a company that pools money from many investors and invests the money in securities such as stocks, bonds and short-term debt; they typically invest in a range of companies and industries. The form says Jill Biden had several whole life insurance policies and a number of investment funds. She held between $15,001 and $50,000 in the BNY Mellon IP Technology Growth; and between $1,001 and $15,000 each in Invesco VI Health Care, Guggenheim VIF High Yield, Guggenheim VIF Styleplus Mid Growth, Guggenheim VIF Small Cap Value, Guggenheim VIF All Cap Value, Guggenheim VIF S-Mid Cap Value, Janus Henderson VIT Enterprise, Janus Henderson VIT Research. All of those are mutual funds.  She also had between $1,001 and $15,000 each in a utilities fund, MFS VIT Utilities, which includes electric, natural gas and telephone service providers; and in a bond fund, Western Asset Variable Global High Yield. A bond fund is a company that invests primarily in bonds. When you buy a bond, you are lending to the issuer, which may be a government, municipality, or corporation. Son Hunter Biden  Biden’s other family members include his son, Hunter Biden; his daughter, Ashley Biden; and one of his siblings, James Biden. Ashley Biden’s name has not surfaced in news stories that raise questions about Biden family investments. Hunter Biden, a lawyer and former lobbyist, held a directorship with a Ukrainian natural gas company called Burisma Holdings, beginning in the spring of 2014, when his father was vice president. A September 2020 report by Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees alleged that he was paid millions of dollars over the next several years.  George Mesires, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, told PolitiFact in 2019 that the younger Biden was an unpaid board member of Bohai Harvest RST, or BHR, a private equity company, until October 2017; at that point, he took a 10% financial stake in the firm. According to a 2019 Wall Street Journal report, the firm was 80%-controlled by Chinese entities. Mesires later released a statement on Oct. 13, 2019, saying that Hunter Biden would be resigning from the BHR board, without receiving any return on his investment or shareholder distributions. In 2014, BHR had invested about $1 billion in a subsidiary of a China-controlled oil and gas company. And in April 2017, BHR paid $1.2 billion for a stake in a Democratic Republic of Congo-based mining company. In December 2020, Hunter Biden said the U.S. attorney in Delaware is investigating his taxes. The details remain unknown, but several national newspapers, citing unnamed sources, reported that the matter focused on Hunter Biden and his associates, not his father or anyone in the president-elect’s circle. A separate investigation is underway by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, N.Y. According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden’s investments caught investigators’ attention as part of a broader probe into international financial transactions. That investigation includes money laundering. President Biden was not specifically targeted, the report says.  Brother James Biden An investigative article by Politico Magazine published in August 2019 examined whether Hunter and James Biden tried to make money off of Joe Biden’s political connections. There is no indication that Hunter and James Biden ever succeeded in bringing new foreign money into Paradigm Global Advisors, a hedge fund they purchased in 2006, the article said. As reported by the New York Times in late 2020, records produced by Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter and James Biden show that in 2017, Hunter Biden and James Biden were involved in negotiations about a joint venture with a Chinese energy and finance company called CEFC China Energy. The deal ultimately fell apart. Individuals generally are not required to disclose their investment holdings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Individuals who are insiders — such as officers, directors, and those that hold more than 10% of any class of a company’s securities — must report purchases, sales and holdings of their company’s securities. There are also disclosure requirements for individuals who own 5% or more of a company’s shares. None of the Bidens (Joe, Jill, Hunter, Ashley or James) have filed any of those, according to a search of SEC records. Our ruling An image widely shared on Facebook said: "The Biden family is so heavily invested in oil and energy in other countries." The latest financial disclosure filed by President Biden and the first lady show no direct investments in foreign oil or energy. Other family members are not required to file such disclosures and so the extent of their personal investments is not known.  Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his brother James have past financial ties to foreign energy interests. The statement is unsupported. It contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the post Mostly False.

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Viral image

2021-02-10 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

"The Biden family is so heavily invested in oil and energy in other countries."

Daniel Funke

2021-02-26 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/j-bart-classen/coronavirus-vaccine-doesnt-cause-alzheimers-als/

The coronavirus vaccine doesn’t cause Alzheimer’s, ALS

A research article making the rounds online claims that the COVID-19 vaccine could cause diseases like Alzheimer’s. Don’t believe it. In the article, published in the journal Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in January, J. Bart Classen wrote that components of the coronavirus vaccines may cause the misfolding of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. "The enclosed finding as well as additional potential risks leads the author to believe that regulatory approval of the RNA based vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 was premature and that the vaccine may cause much more harm than benefit," Classen said in the paper. The article was surfaced to PolitiFact by VineSight, a firm that tracks online misinformation. It has been shared widely on social media and blogs that advocate against vaccines, so we wanted to take a closer look. The research article is baseless — there is no evidence that the coronavirus vaccine causes Alzheimer’s, ALS or prion diseases. When we reached out to Classen for a comment, he said his paper "speaks for itself." Microbiology & Infectious Diseases is hosted by SciVision, a platform for open-access journals that librarian Jeffrey Beall listed as a potential predatory publisher aimed at profiting from academics instead of offering rigorous peer review. Classen has previously published research falsely linking vaccines to diabetes. He speculates on his website that the coronavirus pandemic "is actually a bioweapon attack and may be linked to the U.S. anthrax attack of 2001." He also included that claim — which PolitiFact has repeatedly debunked — in the body of his research article. Putting the bogus bioweapon claim aside, let’s take a closer look at Classen’s paper. Prion diseases are a family of rare neurodegenerative disorders. They’re caused by pathogens called prions, which can cause abnormal folding of proteins most commonly found in the brain. One example is mad cow disease, a brain disorder in cattle that can spread to humans through infected meat. The coronavirus vaccines use a new but well-researched technology called mRNA, which tells the body how to produce copies of the protein on the surface of the virus without infecting the patient. In his paper, Classen says mRNA vaccines may trigger the misfolding of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and ALS, as well as prion diseases. His evidence? He doesn’t really say. All he includes is a three-sentence methods section summarizing an unspecified analysis of the coronavirus vaccine. In an article debunking Classen’s paper, the American Council on Science and Health, a nonprofit science advocacy organization, wrote that Classen’s paper lacks evidence and is "entirely speculative." "How was (the vaccine) analyzed? What software was used? Did he examine any controls, like cellular mRNA sequences? He doesn't say," the organization wrote. RELATED: Deaths after vaccination don’t prove that COVID-19 vaccine is lethal The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to two coronavirus vaccines: one from Pfizer-BioNTech and one from Moderna. Clinical trials with tens of thousands of participants indicated no connection between the vaccines and neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s or ALS. Millions of Americans have received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines since they were approved. If they caused neurodegenerative or prion diseases, those instances would be documented in the federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — but they’re not. "VAERS has received no reports of prion-related diseases, Alzheimer's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) after COVID-19 vaccination," said Martha Sharan, a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "No evidence to date indicates a causative association between COVID-19 vaccines and these conditions." Classen’s claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!

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Facebook posts

2021-02-02 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Jerry Nadler said “God has no authority in the House of Representatives”

Daniel Funke

2020-10-29 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/29/joni-ernst/joni-ernst-said-she-stood-dreamers-hasnt-always-su/

Joni Ernst said she 'stood with the Dreamers' but hasn't always supported DACA

Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and her Democratic challenger in this year’s election, Theresa Greenfield, squared off in three televised debates to take on several topics important to Iowans, including immigration. Asked on Iowa Public Television the night of Sept. 28 if she supported residency, legal status, or citizenship for Dreamers – immigrant youths qualifying to stay in the United States under the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act – Ernst said: "I have been very clear with DACA. Even in my campaign six years ago I stood for those Dreamers." Asked if this would mean granting legal residency or citizenship for Dreamers, Ernst responded, "I would support more of a legal residency." DACA, which is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, protects juveniles who came into the United States under specified circumstances from deportation. Immigrants in the program have to renew their DACA status every two years. We wanted to look at the statement because of how emotional this topic is and how significant it is politically. We looked into statements from Ernst’s office as a U.S. senator, her voting record, her 2014 campaign for the seat she holds, and her performance in 2014 debates for the seat with her then-challenger, Democrat Bruce Braley. The Ernst campaign did not respond to PolitiFact’s request to comment, although campaign spokesperson Brendan Conley sent on what he called background links to news stories in which Ernst said she would not vote to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Our research has shown that while she has consistently claimed to support the Dreamers, she has voted both for and against legislation that would grant permanent legal residency to those with DACA status. During a U.S. Senate debate on Oct. 11, 2014, Ernst was asked if she would try to repeal DACA. She first responded, "No, I would not." She then elaborated, saying, "There are a number of children who have been brought here not of their own accord, and I do support allowing those children some of the freedoms that are here in the United States. We are a country of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws, which is why with a comprehensive immigration plan I don’t support the amnesty for those adults that knowingly come here when it is illegal to do so." A statement on her Senate website is consistent with what Ernst said at the debate. She says on that website she "supported efforts to block overreaching executive amnesty" but she would like to "modernize our broken immigration system by enacting reforms to promote improved legal avenues for workers and families." Her website also includes a statement on DACA from September 2017 in which she states, in regard to the Dreamers, "…we must show compassion toward these children. While I do not support giving them citizenship, we must identify and pursue a measured approach that addresses their unique situation, but also respects the importance of our immigration laws and discourages future illegal immigration." Ernst also made an appearance on Iowa Press in 2017, where she said she would "vote to grant legal permanent residency to those that are currently covered under DACA." She said while this was a point of conflict, some legislators "would insist on immediate citizenship" while others "would insist on absolutely no citizenship, under any circumstances" for DACA recipients. She went on to say that she stood somewhere in the middle, and that she would like to see a permanent status for those who are covered by DACA. Ernst’s voting record in the Senate shows mixed approaches. In 2018, Ernst voted against two proposals that would have provided a path to legal residency for Dreamers. One proposal was an amendment attached to an Internal Revenue Service bill that would allow a tax credit to be used to pay for unsubsidized COBRA health coverage. The amendment, S. Amdt 1958 to H.R. 2579, was introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and called for an end to removing DACA recipients from the country and to adjust their status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence on a conditional basis. DACA recipients no longer eligible for the designation because of misconduct would not be granted this status change under the amendment. A Senate cloture vote to bring the amendment up for approval failed 54 to 45 in favor but needing 60 yes votes to move forward. While some Republicans voted to move the matter to a final decision, Ernst voted no. The second proposal Ernst voted against was another amendment in the same IRS-related bill introduced by Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, S. Amdt. 1955 to S. Amdt. 1958, which included the same provision for DACA recipients. The Senate decision to move toward a final vote on that amendment also failed, 52 to 47 for cloture, with some Republicans, but not Ernst, voting to move forward. Ernst voted to approve one 2018 proposal, S. Amdt. 1959 to H.R. 2579, which includes an opportunity for 1.8 million DACA or DACA-eligible residents to earn citizenship. She called the legislation in a statement on her government website "a reasonable approach to shielding children illegally brought to our country through no fault of their own while also taking the meaningful steps to ensure nobody finds themselves in the same situation in the future." According to a report from Iowa Public Radio, Ernst said at a town hall meeting in Sigourney, Iowa, in 2018, "I’ve been an outspoken proponent for our DACA recipients. I think we have to find a pathway forward. They are contributing to our communities. They’re very important to us." A year earlier, she delivered a similar message in Cedar Rapids. Our ruling Ernst has stated multiple times during and since her 2014 campaign that she supports DACA recipients and would vote to grant them legal permanent residency. However, her voting record does not completely indicate this. She has voted both for and against legislation that would grant legal permanent residency to DACA recipients throughout her term. When she had a chance to cross party lines and join a handful of other Republicans to support ending Dreamer deportations she voted "no." For these reasons, we rated the claim that Ernst has been clear with her stance on DACA and that even six years ago she stood for the Dreamers as being Half True. UPDATE: Shortly after publication, we updated this story to include response from the Ernst campaign. 

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J. Bart Classen

2021-01-18 00:00:00

a research article:

“I have been very clear with DACA. Even in my campaign six years ago I stood for those Dreamers.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-02-26 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/instagram-posts/chart-comparing-new-york-and-florida-covid-19-flaw/

Chart comparing New York and Florida on COVID-19 is flawed. Here’s why

Who would have thought a global pandemic would only heighten a longstanding rivalry between Florida and New York? Tensions flared early in the COVID-19 outbreak when Florida issued restrictions on travelers from New York, then a raging hot spot for the virus. New York returned the favor in the summer, putting Florida travelers on its own quarantine list. Now, social media users are comparing the two states’ handling of the virus, sharing a pro-Florida Instagram post from an account called "Unwoke Narrative" that points to the states’ politically opposed governors as reasons for differences in state COVID-19 data.  Invoking the names of Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a graphic titled "Cuomo vs. DeSantis: How NY & FL Handled the Virus" lists several COVID-19 figures for each state. "Cuomo maintained strict lockdowns, crushing jobs and freedom," it says. "DeSantis took the opposite route and rejected tyranny. Who was right?" Spoiler alert: The graphic determines Florida is the winner "even though Florida has a larger population," "is disproportionately elderly" and "is visited by more potentially infected tourists."  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It cites as sources the Washington Examiner, New York Post, NBC, Washington Post and Statista. The accompanying text points readers to a website with more information. Some of the numbers check out. The graphic is close, for example, on the spread between the states’ hospitalizations and vaccinations administered. But when we reviewed the overall claim, we found the broader comparison misleads by oversimplifying the relationship between the data and lockdown rules in each state.  Let’s take a look. New York's early battle The post’s most glaring omission, experts told us, was its lack of context about the pandemic’s timing and impact in the two states. "New York was the epicenter of the pandemic last spring, long before Florida had significant numbers of cases," said Richard Mollot, executive director at the Long Term Care Community Coalition, a nonprofit focused on improving quality of care for people in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The virus hit New York early and hard, before there was enough access to personal protective equipment and before health officials or emergency room doctors and nurses knew much about the virus, including the best ways to treat and stabilize it.  The result was mass devastation and death. During that early stage, the state was averaging over 900 deaths a day. Dr. Marissa Levine, a professor of public health at the University of South Florida, said not only was New York’s experience unlike any other in the nation, but it also informed how the rest of the country would manage the pandemic. "There’s no question that Florida hospitals were able to learn from what New York went through and benefited as a result," she said. Nursing home deaths needs context  Cuomo’s administration has faced intense scrutiny over its undercounting of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. New York’s attorney general released a Jan. 28 report that found the state had failed to report thousands of deaths. Hours later, the state’s health department added more than 3,800 deaths to the tally, each a resident whose hospital death had not been previously counted. Yes, New York is reporting higher numbers of COVID-19 deaths of nursing home and assisted living facility residents than Florida, but we couldn't find data that puts it as high as the graphic reports — 15,000+ in New York compared with 9,000+ in Florida. The latest state numbers from Feb. 4, which includes the hospitalization data, show about 13,300 have died in New York. Florida’s total is around 9,700. Priya Chidambaram, a senior policy analyst at Kaiser Family Foundation who has tracked the pandemic’s impact on long-term care facility residents, said the post is problematic because states collect and report data differently. "They're not necessarily comparable," she said. "Non-nursing home settings are defined differently in each state. The best way to compare is to look at recent trends in federal data."  As of Feb. 7, such federal data showed New York had 10.1 positive COVID-19 cases per 1,000 nursing home residents, while Florida was at 6.3. When it came to deaths per 1,000 residents, New York was at 2.99 residents and Florida at 1.85. It’s important to note that the states don’t have comparable nursing home population numbers, at least as of 2019. New York was reporting about 19,000 more residents in certified nursing facilities than Florida, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data. Deaths in each state The post is right that New York has had more deaths than Florida, even when accounting for population. The numbers it says it relies on are not far from what we saw recorded on Feb. 25, when New York was reporting about 247 deaths per 100,000 people compared with Florida’s 143.  But the metric again ignores New York’s unprecedented early peak and the ebb and flow of death rates across states over time. Daily deaths have surged in Florida at times when they remained low in New York, and vice versa. "There’s a time factor here," Levine said. "These pandemics are really epidemics that happen in different places at different times, and you have to really consider that when you’re doing comparisons."  On April 14, for example, when the first wave peaked in New York, the state had a seven-day average of 39.3 deaths per 1 million residents while Florida was at 2.1, according to the COVID Tracking Project. On Aug. 16, Florida recorded a seven-day average 8.5 deaths per million people while New York was at 0.2. "The implication is that the political decisions in Florida versus New York has led to those numbers, but I think that would be a very shallow interpretation of the data," said Dr. Thomas Tsai, an assistant professor in health policy and management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Lockdown measures do work." PolitiFact previously found that some of the more strictly regulated states performed better than Florida, as of early December 2020. And a study that Tsai participated in that has been preliminarily accepted for publication found that first-wave lockdowns did result in a downtick in COVID-19 cases two weeks later. Daily COVID-19 cases by state Daily case numbers provide a snapshot of how one state compares with another on any given day. And the post’s figures showing Florida had 7,400 daily cases as of Feb. 8 while New York was at 9,000 is in the ballpark with what we see in COVID Tracker data for that period. But the metric does not reflect additional data points that place New York in a better position than Florida: the number of people tested and each state’s rolling positivity average. It again ignores that there were times when daily cases were high in Florida when they were not in New York.   On Feb. 8, New York reported a 5.1% positivity rate, according to state data and Florida saw a 7% positivity rate. The seven-day average of positive cases for the week ending Feb. 8 show New York in a better position, too, with a 5.2% average compared with 8.3% in Florida. Job losses Job losses in New York over the course of the pandemic have outpaced Florida’s, but experts caution against making such comparisons.  The graphic shows over 1 million jobs lost in New York versus more than 400,000 in Florida, and that lines up with data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Florida’s economy, fueled by out-of-state tourism and service industries, was hit hard by the pandemic. But the impact on jobs may have been mitigated by its warm weather, which allowed for dining and other types of public gatherings and businesses to continue operating outdoors.  Jed Kolko, chief economist at Indeed, said places that have faced longer-term economic challenges, like much of upstate New York, have lost more jobs in the pandemic. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the right-of-center American Action Forum, urged caution when comparing state economies, including adjusting for time periods when the states were having similar impacts from the virus and state policies. "I’m not morally opposed to compare across states, but you do have to be careful to do the comparison in a fair way," he said. While Florida was able to keep its economy more open, it came at a cost. To better understand the balance between economic recovery and public health, MoneyGeek analyzed the rate of case growth and deaths versus the rate of jobs recovered using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Johns Hopkins.  Looking at job losses from February 2020 and measuring job gains in each state from the point of highest job loss to the point of highest recovery, the report found that red states like Florida "recovered 35% more jobs than blue states — 65% compared to 48%. However, red-state recovery rates came at a higher price, with 99% more COVID-19 cases and 78% more deaths per recovered job than blue states." Florida recorded 50 cases per 100 jobs recovered, according to the analysis, while New York recorded 19. Our ruling An Instagram post says New York’s lockdown measures led to more death and economic destruction while Florida’s more open approach led to less. The post overstates the correlation between the numbers and lockdown rules. It leaves out important factors, including environment and public health initiatives, and ignores that the two states collect and report data differently. Most significantly, it ignores that New York City was the epicenter of the nation’s first wave, before doctors had the equipment, therapeutics and experience needed to fight the new disease. States like Florida were able to learn and benefit from New York’s experience. We rate this Mostly False. Correction, March 5, 2021: A subhead in this story has been updated to more precisely describe New York's position as one of the nation's earliest and hardest hit states in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/xavier-becerra/did-hhs-nominee-xavier-becerra-sue-nuns/

Did HHS nominee Xavier Becerra sue nuns?

Critics of Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, seized on a comment he made while testifying before the Senate Finance Committee. During the confirmation hearing, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., asked Becerra, who previously served as California’s attorney general, about his past work on cases involving abortion. "As attorney general, you spent an inordinate amount of time and effort suing pro-life organizations like Little Sisters of the Poor, or trying to ease restrictions or expand abortion," Thune said, adding, "I think the majority of the American people would not want their secretary of health and human services focused or fixated on expanding abortion when we’ve got all of these public health issues to deal with." Becerra responded that he understands and respects that Americans have deeply held beliefs on abortion. He continued, "By the way I have never sued a nun — any nuns. I have taken on the federal government, but I have never sued any affiliation of nuns, and my actions have always been directed at the federal agencies, because they have been trying to do things that are contrary to the law in California." Becerra’s response drew fire from critics on the right, who pointed to years-long litigation between Becerra, representing the state of California, and the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order. An official with the conservative Heritage Foundation tweeted, "Wow: Xavier Becerra falsely claims twice, 'I have never sued any nuns.' The Little Sisters of the Poor would like a word." The National Review was among those to call out Becerra’s claim. So did Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. 🚨Xavier Becerra is now claiming he didn't sue nuns because he wants to get confirmed. But Becerra did sue nuns. He repeatedly harassed the Little Sisters of the Poor. That's why he should be rejected by the Senate. https://t.co/QOtHvENnLx— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) February 24, 2021 The reality is a bit murkier than either side would like to admit. Becerra didn’t "sue" the Little Sisters of the Poor, although as a representative of California, he was a plaintiff in long-running litigation against them. Case related to religious rights under Obamacare The case in question involved not abortion, as Thune claimed, but rather religious rights as they related to the Affordable Care Act. It was part of a series of lawsuits involving the law’s requirements that employer health plans offer free contraceptive coverage. In particular, the litigation revolved around whether sincerely held religious or moral objections to contraceptives would allow the employer to sidestep that requirement. The Little Sisters of the Poor’s interest in this litigation didn’t come out of left field. During the Obama administration, the Little Sisters had sued to be exempted from the rule, even though it did not fit the strict definition of an exempted religious group under the ACA. The case was eventually consolidated with several related cases and argued at the Supreme Court in the case Zubik v. Burwell in 2016. Several members of the order were present for oral arguments. The court eventually sent several of the consolidated cases back to lower courts for further consideration. Sisters with the Little Sisters of The Poor, including Sister Celestine, left, and Sister Jeanne Veronique, center, rally outside the Supreme Court on March 23, 2016. (AP) When the Trump administration broadened the religious exemptions in 2017, Becerra, as the top legal officer for California, challenged the new rule. Officially, the lawsuit was filed against the federal government, and the complaint did not specifically reference the Little Sisters of the Poor. In a statement to PolitiFact, the California attorney general’s office said that in the lawsuit California vs. Azar, Becerra "sued the Trump administration to defend the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage mandate," citing two Trump-era rules that allowed employers to deny coverage. "By the Trump administration’s own assessment, these rules would have resulted in up to 130,000 women losing coverage." As the case was working its way through the courts, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a conservative legal group, petitioned the court in November 2017 to make the Little Sisters of the Poor a co-defendant in the case alongside the federal government.  About a month later, the court allowed the Little Sisters to join the case as a defendant, though it said the group didn’t have an absolute right to be part of it. From this point on, documents related to the case referred to the state of California and several other states as "plaintiffs," HHS Secretary Alex Azar and other federal officials as "defendants," and the Little Sisters of the Poor and a few other allied groups as "defendant-intervenors." The front page of one legal filing shows Becerra by name facing off against the Little Sisters of the Poor. The case worked its way through the courts, and a related Pennsylvania case that involved the Little Sisters eventually reached the Supreme Court in 2020. The justices ruled 7-2 that the Trump rule changes were valid and sent the California case back to a lower court for further consideration, where it remains today. The California attorney general’s office emphasized that Becerra only sued the federal government, not the Little Sisters of the Poor. The office argues that the Little Sisters’ involvement was thrust upon them by the court, not something the office sought out.  Biden transition spokesperson Andrew Bates took the same position. Merritt E. McAlister, a University of Florida law professor, said Becerra had a reasonable point about not having sued the Little Sisters. Becerra "brought a suit that would affect their religious rights, in their view, but that suit was brought against the federal government, and the Little Sisters inserted themselves into the case, with the court’s permission, because they were interested in protecting their rights, even though the court said the federal government could more than adequately do that for them," she said. But Ryan Colby, associate communications director at the Becket Fund, said this distinction is too cute.  "After the Sisters got into the case and he beat them in lower court, Becerra dragged them all the way to the Supreme Court where he lost 7-2," Colby said. "He's literally still fighting them in court today after that loss." A final footnote As some Twitter users have noted, the Little Sisters of the Poor aren’t technically "nuns." They’re "sisters."  "Nuns live a cloistered life in a monastery and live a contemplative lifestyle — a life of prayer," said Margaret McGuinness, a professor of religion and theology at La Salle University. "Sisters live and work in the world, although prayer is a very important component in their lives." That said, McGuiness added that "in ordinary usage, sisters and nuns are used interchangeably." Our ruling Becerra said, "I have never sued a nun — any nuns." As California attorney general, Becerra did not initiate a lawsuit against the Little Sisters of the Poor. However, the lawsuit he did initiate, which targeted the federal government, involved an issue on which the Little Sisters had long been a litigant — and after a court allowed the Little Sisters to intervene as a defendant in the case, Becerra continued to litigate directly against them in court. We rate the statement Half True.

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Joni Ernst

2020-10-28 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Due to differing lockdown orders, New York has more COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and job losses than Florida, and New York also lags on vaccinations.

Louis Jacobson

2021-02-26 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/dan-crenshaw/wind-subsidies-arent-pushing-out-nuclear-natural-g/

Wind subsidies aren't 'pushing out' nuclear, natural gas investments

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, was one of several Texas Republicans casting blame for the state's blackouts this month as millions of Texans huddled in their frigid homes. As with many other Republicans and conservative pundits, Crenshaw pointed his finger at wind energy as the primary culprit. But in a Feb. 16 tweet thread, Crenshaw expanded criticism beyond frozen wind turbines to include the federal subsidies for the wind industry and "force the grid to rely in part on wind as a power source." "Why don’t we have extra gas power when we need it most?" Crenshaw tweeted. "Because years of federal subsidies for wind has caused an over reliance on wind and an under-investment in new gas and nuclear plants."  "Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out," he said.  There’s no doubt that wind energy now plays a major role in supplying Texas and the U.S. with power. In Texas, wind has grown from supplying 11% of the state’s energy demand to 23% over the last five years. It is now the state’s second-largest energy resource after natural gas.    In the U.S., wind accounted for 7% of all energy generation and was the nation's fourth-largest energy resource in 2019 after natural gas, coal and nuclear, according to the latest data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s accurate to say that renewable energy subsidies over the last two decades have stoked investments in wind energy, said Bernadette Johnson, an energy economist with Enverus.   "Those underpin every major renewable investment in the country," Johnson said.  But is it true that gas and nuclear energy sources across the U.S. have been "pushed" out, and that federal wind subsidies are to blame?  Subsidies for wind, natural gas and nuclear energy generation  For nearly 200 years, federal subsidies have supported energy generation and infrastructure for all resources, according to a 2018 report from the University of Texas Energy Institute. For instance, in the 1800s the federal government leased timber stands and coal deposits to energy companies at generously low rates. In the 20th century, various tax policies sought to promote domestic oil and gas production. And in the 1950s, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program funneled billions of dollars into nuclear energy development.  Before the turn of the century, fossil fuel industries accounted for up to 70% of the total cost of energy tax breaks. It wasn’t until around 2008 that renewable energy sources became the primary benefactor of federal support. "Where once the government targeted energy production generally, it has shifted its spending focus towards cleaner, lower-carbon sources," Energy Institute researchers wrote. Generally, subsidies are defined as direct payments from the government to energy producers and measures like tax abatements.  The most popular subsidy program from which wind energy producers benefit is the production tax credit, which was initially introduced in the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Production tax credits reduce a wind producer’s tax burden by a certain amount for every megawatt-hour of energy produced. In 2016, compensation was set at $23 per megawatt hour, although that amount ratchets down over a 10-year period.   Wind energy producers also benefited from another federal program that reimbursed developers 30% of their capital costs in lieu of a tax credit. Known as Section 1603 cash grants, the program was introduced in 2009 and distributed $25.7 billion to green energy projects before it expired three years later. Between 2010 and 2013, Energy Institute researchers found that federal wind energy subsidies jumped from $5.4 billion to $5.7 billion annually thanks to the Section 1603 grants. Following the program's expiration, however, federal wind subsidies dropped to $2.7 billion in 2016 then were projected to climb back up to $4.6 billion by 2019.  Meanwhile, hydrocarbon-based energy producers, mostly including natural gas, also have enjoyed their share of federal subsidies — from $3.1 billion in 2010 to a projected $6.2 billion in 2019, mostly through production tax abatements. Subsidies for nuclear sources over the last decade have remained relatively steady at around $1.3 billion annually. The amount of energy produced by wind and natural gas sources across the country have both increased. Energy produced by wind turbines has tripled over the last decade, while the energy produced by natural gas-fired plants has increased by 60% over the same period, according to federal data.  Nuclear energy, on the other hand, has remained relatively steady over the last 10 years at around 800,000 megawatts per year.   Wind subsidies and nuclear investments  Nuclear technology hasn’t attracted significant investment in years, since before wind power gained a foothold in the energy market.  According to federal data, no new nuclear generation units have been added in the last two decades — hence nuclear energy’s relatively flat generation output since 2001. Eight nuclear generation units have been retired since 2013, federal data shows.  But nuclear’s flattened investment curve isn’t primarily due to the growing prevalence of renewable technologies. Rather, a 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Staff Report issued under former Secretary Rick Perry lists cheap natural gas as the "biggest contributor" to nuclear and coal plant retirements.  "Production costs of coal and nuclear plants remained somewhat flat, while the new and existing, more flexible, and relatively lower-operating cost natural gas plants drove down wholesale market prices to the point that some formerly profitable nuclear and coal facilities began operating at a loss," the 2017 report says.  The "lower variable operating costs" of renewable resources is listed as one of three other factors adding pressure to the nuclear energy sector. Other challenges include low growth in electricity demand and regulatory costs. Wind subsidies and natural gas investments  The heyday for natural gas investments peaked in the early 2000s after energy markets in Texas and elsewhere deregulated and natural gas technologies made significant efficiency improvements. Between 2001 and 2003, the U.S. added nearly 900 gas-fired electric generation units to the grid, according to federal data.   "That's the only time in the history of power plants in the U.S. that there was anywhere close to that much installation of any capacity. That was the highest rate of investment ever," said Carey King, assistant director and research scientist at the University of Texas Energy Institute. Since then, gas-fired generator additions have remained relatively steady with investors adding new generation units in some years and retiring old units in others.   According to experts, these trends don’t demonstrate a causal relationship between wind subsidies and diminishing investments in natural gas, or, in Crenshaw’s terms, that wind subsidies are pushing out traditional resources.  "There is no pushing out investment," King said. "That statement is not correct in the sense that there is not a quantity of investment that everybody knows is going to happen and then suddenly doesn't happen. That's not a known number."  Johnson, the energy economist, says that it’s common for renewable and natural gas generators to be built in tandem — both serving complimentary roles in a grid’s reliability. While wind turbines generate electricity according to intermittent wind patterns, gas-fired facilities can be fired up and ratcheted down during wind-less periods.  "Generally where you see renewables being built out you see natural gas-fired generation growing because natural gas is the best backstop against renewables," she said. "You can turn on a gas plant pretty quickly, you can ramp it up quickly. It's much more reactive and flexible compared to coal or anything else."  Crenshaw’s office did not respond to a request for comment.  Our ruling  Federal subsidies have been a boon to wind energy producers over the last several years. In a Feb. 16 tweet threat, Crenshaw said that these subsidies are pushing out investments in traditional energy resources like natural gas and nuclear, and that this transition led to the energy crisis Texas experienced during the February winter storm. With regard to nuclear energy, a U.S. Department of Energy report lists the low cost of natural gas as the primary challenge to the nuclear industry, which has remained relatively steady since before wind subsidies became popular.  With regard to natural gas, the number of gas-fired units also has remained relatively steady since a massive build-up in the early 2000s. But experts say that it’s difficult to identify wind subsidies as the primary driver behind investments in natural gas generation.  We rate this claim False. 

Energy,Texas,Dan Crenshaw

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Viral image

2021-02-11 00:00:00

an Instagram post:

“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-02-26 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/mitch-mcconnell/how-much-goes-covid-19-vaccines-stimulus-bill/

How much goes to COVID-19 vaccines in the stimulus bill?

Republicans’ primary objection to the COVID-19 and economic stimulus bill making its way through Congress is that it spends relatively little on the disease itself. In a speech on the Senate floor, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the $1.9 trillion package known as the American Rescue Plan was loaded with "pet projects" that had nothing to do with the pandemic or economic recovery. "All kinds of liberal wish list items that would do nothing to help American families put COVID behind them," McConnell said Feb. 24. "Just about 1% of the money is for vaccines." McConnell’s focus on 1% for vaccines caught our attention. His staff said he drew on the words of the Democrats themselves when they unveiled a key section of the sweeping bill. The chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., highlighted a handful of items in the package in a news release, including $14 billion for vaccines, $46 billion for testing, contact tracing, and mitigation, and $25 billion to reduce health disparities across the country. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget use the $14 billion figure. However, there are different ways to add up the numbers. The same Democratic-controlled committee that provided the $14 billion figure came out a few days later with a factsheet that uses an amount of $20 billion. And they note there’s an additional $5 billion for advanced vaccine development. The different totals depend on what counts as vaccine spending. The lower figure in the first Democratic press release included only work at the CDC, the FDA, and ensuring a reliable supply chain to produce and administer the vaccine. The higher Democratic tally included other activities, such as sequencing the genome of virus variants and paying for health care workers to administer the vaccine. How much does this matter? In percentage terms, not that much. Even a total of $25 billion still amounts to just over 1% of the bill’s estimated price tag. That’s because the overall package includes big ticket items such as $422 billion in stimulus checks to individuals, $350 billion for state and local governments, and $242 billion for expanded unemployment benefits. But in terms of dollars, there’s a big difference between $14 billion and $20 billion or $25 billion. The point is, it’s possible to use percentages to make an amount appear small, and actual dollars to make the same amount look substantial. Context helps The most heated debate in Congress centers on how the American Rescue Plan deals with the economic damage of the pandemic. McConnell’s claim has more to do with the money aimed most directly at the virus and pandemic itself. In that vein, focussing strictly on vaccines leaves out a lot of the picture.  The biggest overlooked piece is $46 billion for testing and other surveillance work.  That work is as important as any other, said Amesh Adalja at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Better surveillance helps target vaccine distribution to certain states or communities, and is part of spotting virus mutations to improve the next generation of vaccines. "There is a continuum and integration between all response activities," Adajla said. "Those include testing, tracing, isolating and vaccinating." Vaccines have to make their way into people’s arms, and the legislation funds several programs to support that work, including $7.6 billion to hire 100,000 community health workers. We found different ways to add up all the spending tied directly to COVID-19. On the low end, the total is about $100 billion. On the high end, the White House says it is $160 billion, which adds items such as $10 billion in medical supplies, $24 billion in child care for health care and other essential workers, and literally dozens of smaller amounts. Depending on which line items you include, the legislation would spend anywhere from 4.5% to 8.5% of the total cost directly on the pandemic’s health aspects. Our ruling McConnell said that in the American Rescue Plan, "just about 1% of the money is for vaccines." Based on Democratic figures of either $14 billion or $20 billion for vaccines, and a $1.9 trillion overall price tag, the math is about right. The American Rescue Plan spends much more on the financial damage caused by the virus than on its health aspects alone, and McConnell picked a way to minimize the health-related spending. The statistic omits a much greater amount of spending on overall efforts to contain the pandemic. That ranges from about $100 billion to $160 billion, or between 5% and 8% of the bill’s total cost. His statement is accurate, but needs additional information. That’s our definition of Mostly True.  

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Xavier Becerra

2021-02-24 00:00:00

statements at a confirmation hear

Says Joe Biden said a racial slur.

Jon Greenberg

2021-02-26 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/26/ron-johnson/johnson-target-keystone-pipeline-job-loss-claim/

Johnson on target with Keystone Pipeline job loss claim

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the March 2019 permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline. The pipeline was to carry crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Neb., where it would connect with another leg stretching to Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline is opposed by environmental groups, but had won federal approval under then-President Donald Trump. Construction began in 2020, but only a mile or so of the pipeline had been completed before Biden’s action. His order cited a 2015 review by the Department of State and then-President Barack Obama, which found the pipeline would not serve the U.S. national interest.  In the wake of the order, several Wisconsin politicians criticized the move as a job-killer for, yes, Wisconsin. That’s because two state-based companies had a contract to work on the project. (House Republicans introduced a bill to bring back the pipeline on Feb. 2, 2021). In a Jan. 21, 2021 post on Facebook, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, listed a series of things that would be lost with the end of the project, including "10,000 union jobs (nearly 2,000 with Wisconsin companies)." Let’s zero in on the last part. Would ending the pipeline cost nearly 2,000 union jobs with Wisconsin companies? Where the numbers come from In its November 2015 report, the State Department wrote that only 50 jobs would be required to maintain the pipeline after construction – 35 full-time jobs and 15 contractors. So the majority of the jobs for the Keystone pipeline would be short-term and construction-related. At the time, the report noted the pipeline would lead to 3,900 direct construction jobs. Of course, that number may have risen in the intervening five years, and in claims about the economic impact of projects, secondary-jobs are often considered. When asked for backup, Johnson’s office pointed to two online posts. One post, from Sept. 3, 2020, was by Michels Corporation, based in Brownsville, Wisconsin. The other, dated Jan. 5, 2021, was on the website for the Keystone XL Pipeline, run by TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. (TransCanada is an affiliate of Canada-based TC Energy Corporation, which was to own the pipeline with the Alberta government.) The Michels Corp. post said the company would employ more than 350 people on facilities projects during peak construction. The career page on the company’s web site says Michels offers both union and non-union jobs. The TransCanada/Keystone page includes a quote from Bobby Poteete, president of Precision Pipeline, an Eau Claire-based subsidiary of Florida-based MasTec, Inc.: "We are extremely proud to put PPL employees and more than 1,600 American union members to work on completing this important infrastructure project…" Later, that post includes, "PPL will be responsible for hiring an estimated 1,600 union workers over the two-year construction period." So over the course of construction, that will be a total of 1,950 jobs – or "nearly" 2,000 jobs– provided by Wisconsin companies. We reached out to Michels and Precision Pipeline, but neither responded. The Wisconsin companies were chosen alongside three Texas companies and a Montana company in October 2020 by TC Energy. Johnson’s claim could lead readers to believe the jobs would be permanent, or that 2,000 are already at risk.  But the jobs involved are temporary, construction ones. And the total number would fluctuate over the course of the project. For instance, Michaels said it would be employing the 350 workers only when they reached peak construction.  What’s more, the jobs would also likely be outside of Wisconsin, because the pipeline’s path is through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. So, that would lessen the impact on the state of any lost jobs -- and related spending power -- due to Biden’s action. Our ruling Johnson said in a Facebook post that shutting down the construction of the Keystone pipeline would result in "nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies" Based on the information we could find, the number checks out. Two Wisconsin companies were among the six that have been awarded construction contracts, and roughly 2,000 jobs are involved. That said, readers could have easily understood Johnson to mean permanent jobs, when they would be only temporary. And the total represents a peak, not current jobs. We rate his claim Mostly True.   

Environment,Energy,Jobs,Wisconsin,Ron Johnson

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Dan Crenshaw

2021-02-16 00:00:00

a tweet:

In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”

Nusaiba Mizan

2021-02-25 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/facebook-posts/facebook-posts-blaming-biden-insulin-prices-miss-m/

Facebook posts blaming Biden for insulin prices miss the mark

Soon after President Joe Biden took office, social media users accused the new president of hiking insulin prices for people with diabetes.  "Insulin went from $60 to $500 with the swipe of creepy Joe's pen," one widespread Facebook post said. "Insulin: Month's supply under DJT, $60. Under Biden, $328," said another. The posts, and others like them, were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The posts echoed a similar statement from a Senate candidate who claimed Biden had raised the cost of insulin for some of the most vulnerable Americans. PolitiFact rated that Mostly False. That claim hinged on the Biden administration’s decision to freeze the implementation of several federal agency rules that had not gone into effect as of Jan. 20. Among those pending rules was an insulin-related executive order issued by former President Donald Trump in July 2020. But the White House’s decision to temporarily freeze the rule could not have raised the current price of insulin products because the rule had not gone into effect yet. It was set to kick in on Jan. 22, two days after the White House announced its regulatory freeze. The freeze on the insulin-related rule is effective until March 22. Moreover, the Trump rule is narrowly targeted and would not apply to most Americans. The rule would apply to federally qualified health centers, which are government-supported clinics that help people facing financial obstacles to care and prescription drugs. Specifically, it would require those centers to pass along to patients any discounts they get on purchases of insulin and epinephrine through a federal drug pricing program called 340B, rather than pocketing the difference. Supporters of the rule say it would help people who struggle to pay for pricey medications, but the Health and Human Services Department wrote in the Federal Register that it believed the rule would have "minimal economic impact" because of its limited scope. "Many FQHCs reported already passing their discount savings onto patients and that the rule would create an administrative burden," the American Diabetes Association said in a statement. The National Association of Community Health Centers said in its own statement that "overall prices of insulin and Epipens across the country are not affected by the Trump Administration regulation or the recent action by the Biden Administration." Why insulin prices fluctuate Rising insulin prices are a problem for the millions of Americans who rely on the medication to manage their diabetes. The high costs have been driven largely by the business practices of manufacturers, health plans and pharmacy benefit managers, PolitiFact reported. PolitiFact messaged the two Facebook posters who said their insulin costs had jumped from $60 to $500 and $328. We did not hear back from either. A November report from GoodRx, a company that reports on drug prices, shows wide variation in the retail prices for 27 insulin products across all manufacturers and insulin types. But over time, "insulin prices are stable," said Tori Marsh, director of GoodRx research, who re-crunched the numbers in a chart for PolitiFact.  A patient holds a vial of insulin during a news conference outside the Olde Walkersville Pharmacy on July 28, 2019, in Windsor, Ontario, where the medication is far less expensive than across the border in Detroit. (AP) What patients pay for insulin depends on several factors, including the type of insulin product they use and the type of insurance coverage they have, if any. Both insurance plans and drug prices can change year to year. "One possibility for those with insurance coverage is that their plan may have made changes to the insulin products they cover, or changed the preferred status of certain insulins, actions which would increase out-of-pocket costs between one year and another," said Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of the program on Medicare policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Insulin costs could have also gone up for some patients because their insurance includes a deductible at the start of each new year, Cubanski said. These patients would have to pay full price for their medications until their out-of-pocket costs surpass the deductible. "The January price increases that consumers may have seen were likely because of their deductible resetting," Marsh said. These explanations for high prices are "just the basic facts of how insurance works, not the result of any Biden administration action," Cubanski said, adding that Biden has not changed any Trump administration policies affecting insulin beyond the regulatory freeze. For example, a Trump administration policy created a new option under Medicare Part D where drug plans can provide enrollees insulin at a flat monthly copay. It took effect in January, and it hasn’t changed. Our ruling A Facebook post claimed insulin prices rose "with the swipe of (Joe Biden’s) pen." Individuals who take insulin could have seen prices fluctuate for several reasons related to their insurance coverage and the specific medication they use. But those changes can’t be pinned on the Biden administration’s actions, experts said.  The Biden administration did temporarily freeze a directive related to one federal program, but that would not have affected current insulin prices, because the policy had not yet taken effect. We rate these Facebook posts False.

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Facebook posts

2021-02-25 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”

Bill McCarthy

2021-02-25 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/act-america/group-makes-bogus-attack-hr-1-over-congressional-s/

Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries

Members of Congress already earn six-figure paychecks. A conservative group says that a Democratic-backed bill would allow them to earn a second paycheck worth even more.  But that’s bogus. The claim from Act for America pertains to H.R. 1, the For the People Act. The bill combines previous proposals that aim to make it easier to vote, and it changes campaign finance rules to help Americans who aren’t rich run for federal office. The House is expected to vote on the bill in March. Act for America wrote a plea for Congress to reject the bill. In a claim about proposals for the use of campaign funds, the group said that based on an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, "members of Congress will be able to draw a SECOND salary from that money worth an estimated $600,000 per year!" This would be "on top of the generous taxpayer-funded paychecks and perks they already give themselves!" the group said.  But there’s no such provision in the bill, and Act for America did not reply to our requests for evidence. After we inquired about the claims, we noticed that the webpage no longer included the $600,000 figure. Act for America calls itself the "nation’s premier national security grassroots organization." The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League say the group is anti-Muslim. HR 1 allows non-incumbent candidates to use campaign funds for child care The Campaign Legal Center, a group that supports H.R. 1, said that there is no provision in the bill to pay lawmakers $600,000. "I’ve tried to figure it out, but I can’t find anything," said Brendan Fischer, the center’s director of federal reform. "There are going to be some claims about H.R. 1 that are misstatements or statements of opinion, but these claims are just made up." The Congressional Budget Office analysis of a previous version of the legislation also makes no mention of a "second salary." A section in the bill about "personal use services" states that candidates can use campaign money for child care, elder care or health insurance premiums so they can campaign, but the provision does not apply to incumbents.  The goal of this provision is to help Americans who aren’t rich to run for Congress. Many lawmakers are millionaires who have wealth and incomes above many of the residents they represent. Current federal law bans candidates from using campaign funds for personal use. The Federal Election Commission, which can rule on whether an expense is legitimate, has given the go-ahead in recent years for candidates to use campaign funds for child care. Under existing policy, candidates can pay themselves a salary H.R. 1 doesn’t change a longstanding policy that allows non-incumbent federal candidates to use campaign funds to pay themselves a salary. The salary has to be whatever is less: the candidate’s income for the previous year or $174,000, which is what current members of Congress earn. In 2002, the FEC voted to allow candidates running for Congress or president to pay themselves a salary using campaign funds. When commissioner Michael Toner, a Republican, sponsored the measure, he said, "candidates of modest means too often have been crowded out of running for office. It may allow people like blue-collar workers, schoolteachers and others who don't make six-figure salaries to run for office.''  But candidates rarely pay themselves a salary. The Center for Public Integrity found that 22 candidates running for Congress collectively paid themselves $155,000 during the 2018 election cycle.  FreeRoots, the hosting platform where Act for America posted its message, responded to an inquiry from PolitiFact, but did not provide any evidence that members of Congress would be able to draw a second salary worth up to $600,000.  Our ruling Act for America said H.R. 1 will allow members of Congress to draw a second salary "worth an estimated $600,000 per year!" We found nothing in the legislation that would allow members of Congress to earn a second salary. There is a provision that allows non-incumbent candidates to use campaign funds to pay for expenses such as child care so they are able to run for office.  H.R. 1 does not change an existing policy that allows candidates to draw a salary of up to $174,000 from campaign funds. That policy doesn’t apply to those who are already in Congress. We rate this statement False. RELATED: Fact-checking misleading attacks on HR 1, Democrats’ voting rights bill RELATED: Claim about congressional pensions is wrong, once again RELATED: Fact-checking Mark Walker's video on HR 1’s campaign-finance provisions

Congress,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Act for America

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Ron Johnson

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Facebook post:

HR 1 will allow members of Congress to draw a second salary “worth an estimated $600,000 per year!”

Samantha Putterman

2021-02-25 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/glenn-beck/no-biden-not-separating-families-entering-country/

No, Biden is not separating families entering the country

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck wrongly claimed on Twitter that President Joe Biden’s administration was doing the same thing that the Trump administration was rebuked for: separating families at the southwest border. Here’s what Beck tweeted Feb. 23: "Just for the record, the Biden Administration IS separating children and parents, and building trailer park cages to hold those children. Where is the outrage from the left. We will interpret your silence as confirmation you never actually cared about kids ‘in cages.’" Just for the record, the Biden Administration IS separating children and parents, and building trailer park cages to hold those children. Where is the outrage from the left. We will interpret your silence as confirmation you never actually cared about kids ‘in cages.’ @AOC https://t.co/gHFse4ZGfX— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) February 23, 2021 Beck’s tweet tagged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who spoke out against the family separations during the Trump administration. It also included a link to a Washington Post story — which did not report what Beck claimed. An increasing number of unaccompanied children are arriving at the southern border and being put in temporary custody. From October to January, U.S. Border Patrol reported encounters with about 20,000 unaccompanied children at the southern border. For context, there were about 33,000 such encounters from Oct. 1, 2019, through Sept. 30, 2020. Typically, children are placed in state-licensed shelters. But due to space constraints at shelters during the coronavirus pandemic, the Biden administration has begun placing some of these children at a temporary facility in Texas. That decision has been criticized by immigrant advocates and people in Biden’s party who say that such temporary facilities are not suitable. Beck’s tweet was wrong on a major point: These children were not separated from their parents at the border. They arrived alone. Biden’s administration rescinded the Trump-era policy that led to systematic family separations. He established a task force to reunite families that were separated under the Trump administration. PolitiFact reached out to Beck through his website and Twitter but did not hear back. More about the children in the temporary facility Children who arrive at the border without a parent or legal guardian are referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of U.S. Health and Human Services. That office is responsible for their temporary care until they are placed with a sponsor, who is usually a parent or close relative in the U.S. HHS reopened a temporary facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, to respond to the influx of unaccompanied children and comply with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, such as social distancing. (That site was also used for about a month in mid 2019.) The Washington Post story that Beck cited was about this facility, which is housing children ages 13 to 17. "Youth who have traveled to the U.S. alone are being placed in this shelter while case managers can locate family or sponsors in the U.S.," says a sign outside the facility. Both Amnesty International USA and Kids in Need of Defense, an advocacy group for unaccompanied migrant and refugee children in the U.S., urged the Biden administration to move children out of the temporary facility and into the homes of vetted sponsors or licensed shelters. "Temporary facilities are an imperfect stopgap solution," said Denise Bell, a researcher for refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International USA. Beck’s tweet said that children were being held in "trailer park cages," and he cited a Washington Post tweet that had a picture of portable buildings, or trailers. HHS told PolitiFact that the structures depicted are "portable offices equipped with air conditioning, paneling, tile flooring, table and chairs, telephones, computers and video conferencing capability." The portable offices are used by attorneys and mental health clinicians providing services to minors, HHS said. According to HHS, the Carrizo Springs facility has "soft-sided structures'' — rigid frame structures with a canvas-like covering — used in areas for taking in children when they arrive, dining and indoor recreation, and serious health care needs. Dorms, classrooms, health care clinics, the barbershop and hair salon are inside buildings, HHS said. Our ruling Beck said, "Just for the record, the Biden Administration IS separating children and parents." Beck linked to a Washington Post article that does not corroborate his claims about family separations. Immigrant rights groups and the federal agency that takes temporary custody of immigrant children said that they were not separated from their parents, they arrived unaccompanied. We rate Beck’s claim False.

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Facebook posts

2021-02-16 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“We’re the only major gas-producing state in the US that doesn’t have a severance tax.”

Samantha Putterman

2021-02-25 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/jb-pritzker/illinois-outpacing-other-large-states-vaccinations/

Is Illinois outpacing other large states on vaccinations this month?

Illinois kicked off February with one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country, fueling frustration among many over the program’s sluggish start. Nearly three weeks later, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the state was making progress thanks to increased supply from the federal government and the efforts of local health departments: "As a result, for the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country," Pritzker said in a prerecorded video address, which aired Feb. 17. Has Illinois come as far on vaccinations this month as the governor claimed? We found Pritzker's statement was supported by one metric measured over a few days, but glossed over an otherwise spotty vaccination record. Different measures, mixed results There are many yardsticks to measure states’ progress getting their residents vaccinated against COVID-19. Illinois performs well on some metrics this month but still ranks low on others. Illinois started off the month 43rd in the nation for total doses administered when adjusted for population, according to Our World in Data, a University of Oxford-based project that has been tracking vaccine statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By the time Pritzker’s address aired, the state had improved to 34th nationally — and sixth place when only the 10 most populous states are considered. The state is also performing better on a different metric: the share of residents that have received at least one dose of the vaccine. By Feb. 17, Illinois had taken a narrow lead over the other nine most populous states, and it has occupied first, second or third place in that group each day since. That measurement goes hand in hand with another, though: the share of people fully vaccinated. There, Illinois ranked last among the 10 largest states — and has continued to rank at or near the bottom nationally each day. Experts say it’s tricky to compare states on this measure, however, due to differences in state policies on how much vaccine to earmark for second doses. Given these mixed results, we reached out to the governor’s office to find out what Pritzker was referencing when he said Illinois was the "vaccination leader" this month among large states. Pritzker spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh said that, per capita, Illinois leads the most populous states in vaccinations administered in February — and has done so "for the vast majority" of the month. Experts said it is fair to compare states based on the total doses administered and adjusted for population. They were split, however, on whether it makes sense to focus on a few weeks in February. Hemi Tewarson, a senior fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, said the February snapshot might be helpful to show recent improvement after a sluggish start because of issues outside state control, such as delays with the federal pharmacy partnership program created to vaccinate those in nursing homes. "If they started out slow back in December or early January, it's hard to catch up," she said. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said that while month-to-month data is important for gauging a state’s progress internally, it’s not as useful for making comparisons because it doesn’t provide a full picture of a state’s vaccine rollout. Regardless, by Pritzker’s metric Illinois’ lead among large states on total doses administered per capita in February amounted to just a few days out of the month, based on our analysis of CDC figures catalogued by Our World in Data. To support Pritzker’s claim, Abudayyeh sent us a screenshot of a spreadsheet containing figures she said the governor’s office had taken from the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccination tracker. The spreadsheet compares how many doses were administered from Jan. 31 through Feb. 11 per 100,000 residents in the 10 most populous states. Those numbers could not be directly verified because the CDC’s tracker only makes available a current cumulative total on each day. So to check the governor’s figures we turned to Our World in Data again, which makes previous days’ CDC tallies available for users to download. Those numbers matched the governor’s analysis. Day to day, however, Illinois claimed first place three times out of the first 11 days of the month, hardly the "vast majority" of February as Pritzker’s spokeswoman claimed. The state’s lead was narrow, and by the time the governor’s address aired, Illinois had fallen back to second place behind Florida. So Priztker’s claim was accurate as of Feb. 12, the last day of his office’s analysis. It was not accurate when his speech first aired five days later. Our ruling Pritzker said that "for the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country." There are many different ways to measure how states compare when it comes to vaccinating residents against COVID-19. On some, Illinois ranks high and on others it ranks low. Pritzker’s office pointed to one very specific metric: total doses administered per capita during the month of February alone. The key issue with Pritzker’s claim is that Illinois only took the lead on that metric for a handful of days prior to the governor’s prerecorded address — and had already fallen back to second place by the time it aired. We rate this claim Half True. HALF TRUE – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.

Illinois,Coronavirus,JB Pritzker

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Glenn Beck

2021-02-23 00:00:00

a tweet:

Says President Joe Biden canceled Trump’s “child sex ring operation, which saw thousands of arrests last year.”

Kiannah Sepeda-Miller

2021-02-25 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/facebook-posts/no-capitol-security-not-only-pelosis-responsibilit/

No, Capitol security is not only Pelosi’s responsibility, but she bears some

More than six weeks after supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, posts spread on Facebook claiming that one person was to blame: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. One widely shared post claimed in all capital letters: "ONLY ONE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPITOL ON 6 JANUARY — ‘NANCY PELOSI’ — SECURITY AT THE CAPITOL IS HER JOB!!!" The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The post echoes the sentiment in a Feb. 15 letter to Pelosi from four top GOP House members. It suggested the California Democrat was at least partly at fault, asserting that "the Speaker is responsible for all operational decisions made within the House."  The post is wrong: Security at the 1.5 million-square-foot U.S. Capitol building does not fall solely to the speaker. Though Pelosi does have a role in the hierarchy overseeing security, there is no indication she controls its day-to-day operations. Responsibility for Capitol security shared Capitol security is provided by the sergeants-at-arms , who are the chief law enforcement officers for the House and Senate, in coordination with the Capitol Police, a federal law enforcement agency. The House sergeant-at-arms reports to the speaker of the House, or Pelosi at the time of the attack. The Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader; in the days leading up to and including Jan. 6, that was Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell.  Security of the Capitol Complex is the direct responsibility of the four-member Capitol Police Board, which includes both sergeants-at-arms, said Jane Campbell, president and CEO of the United States Capitol Historical Society. The Jan. 6 attack On Jan. 6, a joint session of Congress was held in the House chamber to officially count the electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election. The proceedings were interrupted by a mob protesting the election results that showed Joe Biden winning over then-President Donald Trump. The attack left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer, whose death the following day is still under investigation. Former House sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving resigned after the attack, as did former Senate sergeant-at-arms Michael Stenger and Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. Irving told Sund ahead of the riot that he did not want National Guard troops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 because of bad "optics," the Washington Post and the New York Times reported. In Feb. 23 testimony before lawmakers, Irving said that "optics" did not play a role in his decision. He said he, Stenger and Sund agreed the intelligence they received didn't warrant the troops. The Times reported that at 1:09 p.m. on the day of the attack, minutes after protesters had burst through the barricades and began using the steel debris to assault the officers, Sund asked Irving for help from the National Guard. Irving called Sund back an hour later and said congressional leaders had approved the request; the article does not identify the leaders. But another hour passed before Defense Secretary Christopher Miller gave final approval to the request. In his testimony, Irving said he didn’t recall receiving a call from Sund until shortly before 2 p.m. Sund testified that the call was made shortly after 1 p.m. The delay in deploying the National Guard was caused by communication breakdowns, inaction and confusion over who had authority to call for the National Guard, the Times analysis found. Pelosi called for an independent 9/11-type commission to review and investigate the Capitol attack. She also tapped retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to investigate security failures that day. McConnell has blasted Pelosi’s proposal as "partisan by design." Our ruling A widely shared Facebook post claimed that only Pelosi is "responsible for what happened at the Capitol" on Jan. 6, "security at the Capitol is her job." Responsibility for Capitol security is shared, it is not solely the responsibility of the Speaker.  Security is provided by the sergeant-at-arms of the House, the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the Capitol Police. The House  sergeant-at-arms reports to the House speaker, Pelosi. The Senate sergeant-at-arms reports to the Senate majority leader, then McConnell. The Capitol Police is overseen by a four-member board that includes both sergeants-at-arms. News reports indicate that before the attack, the House sergeant-at-arms resisted calls from the Capitol Police to bring in the National Guard for extra security at the Capitol because of "optics," but he said intelligence reports didn’t warrant the extra security. The chain of command for Capitol security does include Pelosi, but it does not fall solely to her as this post claims. Others in the chain of command include the Senate majority leader and the Capitol police chief. We rate the claim Mostly False.

Congress,Homeland Security,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Tom Wolf

2021-02-22 00:00:00

a speech:

“For the month of February, Illinois has been the vaccination leader among the 10 most populous states in the country.”

Tom Kertscher

2021-02-25 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/25/youtube-videos/misleading-video-takes-pelosi-out-context-smear-ta/

Misleading video takes Pelosi out of context on smear tactics

Social media users are claiming that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted she used smear tactics to demonize political opponents. According to these users, a YouTube video even shows her saying so in her very own words.  The video, an excerpt from a June 22, 2017, press briefing, began circulating in 2018 after allegations of sexual assault dominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. Conservative activist groups, pundits and conspiracy outlets all asserted that it showed Pelosi describing the "smear" tactics that Democrats had used on Kavanaugh.  More recent posts have claimed that the clip shows Pelosi describing the tactics Democrats used to attack former President Donald Trump. Here’s why you shouldn’t believe these claims: The video takes Pelosi out of context and misleadingly captions her remarks, making it seem like she’s explaining a political tactic called the "wrap-up smear" that she and other Democrats have deployed in the past. "It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy," Pelosi says in the clip, which has been viewed on YouTube more than 60,000 times. "You demonize, and then you — we call it the wrap-up smear. You want to talk about politics? It’s called the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it, and then you write it, and they’ll say ‘See, it’s reported in the press that this, this, this and this,’ so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called a wrap-up smear. ‘Now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made.’ It’s a tactic, and it’s self-evident." The video was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  That’s because the clip cuts out both the question that Pelosi was responding to and the first part of her remarks. A longer version of the video shows that Pelosi was accusing Republicans of using the "wrap-up smear" against Democrats running for office in the 2018 midterms. She was not laying out a blueprint of how to smear Republican opponents.   Here’s a transcript of the relevant passage from Pelosi’s press briefing, complete with the question she was answering when she made her "wrap-up smear" comment.  Reporter: "Is it worth it to try and I guess like rehab your image in some of these Republican districts, which would sort of present what you’ve done, or are you guys more focused on just–" Pelosi: "Well, people say to me all the time, ‘you raise more money than anybody,’ maybe not the Obamas and the Clintons, but I’ve not run for president. ‘Why don’t you spend some of your money on yourself? Go out there and say what you did, this, this and this.’ But you know, it’s just not… Maybe I should, but the fact is, what I want to do is have these members present themselves. Because basically at the end of the day that’s what people are interested in — their representative and what their representative is going to do for their district. Republicans are afraid of that contrast in a race. Because they’re going to go there to be involved in trickle-down economics, shutting down hospitals, and the rest of it. So they don’t want them to see that contrast, so they focus on something else. And it’s a diversionary tactic. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. You demonize, and then you — we call it the wrap-up smear. You want to talk about politics? It’s called the wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it, and then you write it, and they’ll say "See, it’s reported in the press that this, this, and this," so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called a wrap-up smear. "Now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made." It’s a tactic, and it’s self-evident." This was not the first time that Pelosi spoke disapprovingly of the "wrap-up smear." In a March 6, 2017, interview on CNN, Pelosi accused Trump of using "wrap-up smears" against former President Barack Obama.  Our ruling A YouTube video appears to show Pelosi describing how to demonize political opponents through a tactic called the "wrap-up smear." The video takes Pelosi of context and misleadingly captions her remarks. The full transcript and clip of her comments shows that she was actually criticizing Republicans for engaging in smear tactics, not advocating that Democrats do so.  Pants on Fire!

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/jon-rosenthal/examining-how-science-determines-covid-19s-herd-im/

Examining how science determines COVID-19's 'herd immunity threshold'

The strategy to achieve herd immunity within a population to reverse the spread of COVID-19 has been a matter of intense debate over the course of the pandemic.   One component of this debate involves the herd immunity threshold, or the percentage of a population that must be immunized from a disease, be it through infections or vaccinations, for the spread to abate. The more infectious a contagion, the higher its threshold.  For instance, measles, a highly infectious disease that is at least three times as contagious as COVID-19, requires a herd immunity threshold level of around 94%, meaning that 94% of a population will need to be immune to measles before its transmission rate declines.  But pinning down a concrete herd immunity threshold level for COVID-19 has so far been theoretical guesswork. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say that the herd immunity threshold for any virus lies between 50% and 90%. Researchers in the United Kingdom and Brazil hypothesized during the early part of the pandemic that threshold could be as low as 6% to 21%, although their study has since been found to have critical errors.  Earlier this month, state Rep. Jon Rosenthal, D-Cypress, who has lost a family member and friend to COVID-19, took to Twitter to dispel common myths and "rampant misinformation" about the virus and its vaccines, which are now slowly being distributed throughout Texas. In his tweet thread, Rosenthal echoed a number that has commonly been repeated as COVID-19's herd immunity threshold.  "To defeat this pandemic AND recover our economy, the safest and most effective way is for the population to be immunized," he tweeted Tuesday. "The way to reach ‘herd immunity’ is for >70% of the population to get vaccinated."  Immunity can be reached one of two ways: through natural infections, which create antibodies in people who have recovered from a disease that can potentially ward off future infection (an estimated 20% of the global population has been infected naturally); or through vaccination, a safer way to immunity because it does not cause illness.  The herd immunity threshold for COVID-19 has been somewhat of a moving target throughout the pandemic as researchers grapple with understanding the virus. Let’s review what current thinking is on the virus’ threshold.  Determining the herd immunity threshold  There are two ways health experts think about a virus’ infection rate, mathematically represented as the R value. First, there’s the more theoretical R value known as the basic reproduction number, or R0 (pronounced "R naught"). This term indicates the average number of times one infected person will transmit the virus to another person. For example, measles has an R0 value between 12 and 18, meaning that one person infected with measles will, on average, spread the virus to another 12 to 18 people before they either die or recover. R0 is a theoretical figure that assumes everyone in a population is without immunity and susceptible to infection.  Then there is the more practical version of the R value — the effective reproduction rate, represented as Rt. The effective reproduction rate considers the fact that some people within a population will be immune to a disease, or that certain interventions have been put in place to slow spread, like social distancing or mask-wearing. The Rt value is more of a real-time representation of what a virus’ infection rate is and it decreases as a greater share of the population is immunized or as more interventions are put in place.   The exact R value for COVID-19, however, has not been concretely determined. According to Spencer Fox, associate director of the COVID-19 modeling consortium at the University of Texas, data during the early period of the pandemic suggested that the R0 rate was 2.5. Now it is believed to be within the 4 to 6 range. The Rt value, while much harder to determine, is estimated to be around 1.05 in the U.S. thanks to preventative measures and natural immunities.   "There's kind of been this shifting conversation about what is the actual basic reproduction number of the virus," Fox said. "We try and extrapolate from other populations, but every population will have a slightly different number."  Typically, it is the R0 figure that is used in determining a virus’ herd immunity threshold because the goal is to return to a state of normalcy where interventions are no longer necessary. The threshold is calculated by plugging the R0 value into a formula: [1-(1÷R0)]*100 = threshold %.  With an R0 value of 2.5, the herd immunity threshold for COVID-19 would be 60%. With an R0 value of 6, the threshold would be 83%.  But according to Dr. David Dowdy, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, these numbers are highly theoretical.   The herd immunity threshold is "something that’s easy for the public to understand, but not really reflective of reality," Dowdy said. "The reality is that it’s a spectrum, but people like to see things in black and white and they like to have specific numbers to latch onto."  "At some point we will build up enough immunity. Whether it be through people getting the disease or through people getting the vaccine, that transmission (rate) will start to go down," he said. "It's not like there's a magic number that we have to hit and if we don't hit it we'll forever have this pandemic with us. The more people we can get vaccinated the fewer people get sick and die."  According to Fox, publicizing a herd immunity threshold level, while not accurately reflective of reality, does have usefulness.  "Right now, the main use of providing a high number is to motivate people to actually get the vaccine, because in my mind we should try and vaccinate as many people as possible," Fox said.  The 70% threshold cited by Rosenthal and others is, to Fox, "in the ballpark."   "It could be possibly as low as 50% and as high as 80%, so 70% is kind of in the middle. I would shoot higher. I wouldn't have this expectation that the disease goes away at this point," he said.  Our ruling  On Jan. 5, Rosenthal published a tweet saying that the way to reach herd immunity is for at least 70% of the population to get vaccinated. In an email, Rosenthal said his information came from a Reuters article that cited the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control estimating a 67% herd immunity threshold and the World Health Organization estimating a 65% to 70% threshold.  "There are apparently too many unknowns to be certain, but the 70% figure lines up with some common estimates," Rosenthal said.  The herd immunity threshold is calculated by using a disease’s rate of transmission. Although scientists have not agreed upon a definite rate, and even though these rates are highly theoretical, estimates show that the thresholds lies somewhere between 60% and 83%.  We rate this claim Mostly True. 

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YouTube videos

2021-01-25 00:00:00

YouTube videos:

Says Joe Biden tweeted, “the way white people talk leaving minorities confused.”

Warren Fiske

2021-01-15 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/amanda-chase/amanda-chase-pushes-bogus-theory-antifa-conspiracy/

Amanda Chase pushes bogus theory of antifa conspiracy behind Capitol riot

State Sen. Amanda Chase urged fellow Republicans to attend a Jan. 6 rally in Washington protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. She drove to it with personal bodyguards and gave a speech repeating a discredited statement she’d been making for two months - that the election had been "stolen" from President Donald Trump. Chase left D.C. before demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol. But the next day, she  pinpointed blame for the deadly riot, and it was not on the pro-Trump protestors. "Antifa is the culprit," she wrote on her Facebook page, referring to a loose collection of activists who rally against fascism and far-right groups.  Chase was hardly the first election-results denier to blame the violence on far-left activists impersonating Trump supporters. The fabricated charge has saturated social media sites and has been spread by Republican politicians such as U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. PolitiFact National has rated both of their statements Pants on Fire. We add Chase, who is seeking this year’s GOP nomination for governor, to that list. Shortly after making the post, Facebook suspended her account, which has more than 100,000 followers. Majority Democrats in the state Senate have submitted a censure resolution against Chase for "fomenting insurrection against the United States." As PolitiFact has reported, mentions of "antifa" started to take off on 4chan, an anonymous online forum, around noon on Jan. 6, according to data from the Social Media Analysis Toolkit. Shortly after 1 p.m., when rioters pushed past barricades at the Capitol, posts in pro-Trump Facebook groups claimed antifa activists were to blame. They cited a Breitbart live stream that showed rioters brandishing Trump paraphernalia.  The baseless rumor gained traction on Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, and on Fox News programs hosted by Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., suggested during a nationally televised congressional debate that antifa was behind the riot. Chase blamed antifa the next day, Jan. 7. She offered no substantial evidence, simply linking her post to a video of protesters at the Capitol - whom she called "patriots" - chanting "No antifa."  Her Facebook account was suspended on Jan. 8. She told Newsradio WRVA on Jan. 11 that she was merely passing on already-aired information about possible antifa involvement. "The posts I put up simply said there are reports that antifa had infiltrated those that had gone into the Capitol, breaking the windows and doing the destruction, and there was a company that had some kind of a facial recognition that could identify those people back to antifa," she said. But Chase’s claim of being a mere conduit of reports from others doesn’t hold up. She said, "Antifa is the culprit," presenting it as fact, even though there was plenty of information that contradicted her claim. The supposed smoking gun on Jan. 6 - which Chase referred to on WRVA - was an article in the conservative Washington Times falsely reporting that a New York facial-recognition company had identified antifa supporters among the rioters. The Times retracted the article the same day and apologized to the company - XRVision. All of this happened the day before Chase’s post blaming antifa. And, of course, Trump had been urging his backers to attend the rally for several weeks. Trump identified the mob as his own supporters in a Jan. 6 video posted to Twitter amid the Capitol incident, where he asked them to disperse peacefully, adding, "We love you. You’re very special." The day after Chase’s post, the FBI said there is no evidence of antifa involvement in the riot. Some of the most visible demonstrators who have since been identified or arrested have long social media records of supporting Trump. We should note that Chase is not the only Virginia Republican blaming antifa for the riot without proof. State GOP Chairman Rich Anderson, in a Jan. 7 Facebook post, wrote, "Last night and this morning, I spoke to Virginia Republicans who were present on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and who personally witnessed the group that led the penetration of the U.S. Capitol... According to these eyewitness accounts from individuals who I know and trust, this group appeared to employ the signature strategies of antifa and other leftist groups."  Our ruling Chase wrote, "Antifa is the culprit," in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. She and other Republicans  who have spread this myth have presented no evidence to back it up. There was an array of easily accessible information that refuted Chase’s claim at the time she made it. We rate Chase’s statement Pants on Fire.  

Elections,Virginia,Amanda Chase

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Facebook posts

2021-02-23 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Antifa is the culprit” in the Capitol riot.

Eric Litke

2021-01-15 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/devin-lemahieu/yes-slow-absentee-count-explains-supposed-ballot-d/

Yes, slow absentee count explains supposed “ballot dump” in Milwaukee

Votes from the November election have now been counted, recounted, reviewed by state and local officials and used to nominate electors — which in turn were counted, then confirmed by Congress Jan. 6. This process confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Along the way we’ve seen hundreds (if not thousands) of fact checks and dozens of court decisions explaining why the stolen election narrative fails to hold water once claims are examined closely. Nevertheless, the baseless fraud claims put forth by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have persisted and remain accepted among a large slice of American conservatives. Prominent among these is the idea of ballot "dumps" — where the late reporting of largely Democratic totals in several states are seen as suspicious or proof of malfeasance. But the new Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate says that’s nonsense. Talking about the need to restore voters’ confidence, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said Wisconsin needs to allow work on absentee ballots to begin before Election Day. Wisconsin is one of just a handful of states that ban election workers from starting to process these ballots until then. "It takes quite a while on Election Day to load those ballots, which is why we have the 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. ballot dumping in Milwaukee," LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, said Jan. 10, 2021, on WKOW-TV’s Capitol City Sunday. "It just takes them that long to load in those absentee ballots. So we need to make sure there’s a process in place going forward so that reporting is timely." LeMahieu added that there was not "widespread" voter fraud in the 2020 election. The state senator is precisely right about why Milwaukee ballots were reported in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, as the Wisconsin tally neared its conclusion. (Biden won the state by about 20,000 votes, one of five he flipped from Trump). Let’s review what we know. Here we go again The "ballot dump" claim has been one of the most widespread since the November election. A conservative website trumpeted it as "Voter Fraud in Wisconsin." Widely shared Facebook posts claimed there was a "ballot dump" or "found" votes. Trump himself asserted that his lead in key states "started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted" and that "Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly." This line of thinking also appeared in numerous lawsuits and one nonsensical claim that statistics show the probability of Trump losing in Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania "given President Trump’s early lead ... is less than one in a quadrillion" in each state. Those claims led to unanimous debunking from an array of fact-checking organizations. All are built on a fundamental misunderstanding of the vote-counting process. Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania are among the states that don’t allow absentee votes to be counted before Election Day. So the unprecedented volume of absentee ballots spurred by the pandemic created a bottleneck in the largest cities. That brings us to a simple logical chain that explains the late Democratic votes in Milwaukee (and Atlanta and Detroit and Philadelphia). Milwaukee, like most large cities, is a longtime Democratic stronghold. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the city of Milwaukee 77% to 18%. We knew well before the election that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to vote absentee. Polling showed 81% of the people planning to vote absentee in Wisconsin supported Biden. We knew it was going to take a long time to count the absentee ballots, leading them to be reported later. That counting time is why LeMahieu said he wants to change the law to allow workers to start on absentee ballots before Election Day. "We need clear laws that are easy to follow, and we must instill confidence in the electorate that the results are accurate and free of fraud," LeMahieu said told PolitiFact Wisconsin. "With the proper safeguards in places to ensure transparency, allowing the ballot count to begin early should accomplish both of those goals."  Our ruling LeMahieu said the Milwaukee "ballot dumping" is due to the amount of time it took to count absentee ballots. He’s right We’ve seen an array of nonsensical claims that these ballots were illegitimately added based on the progress of the Wisconsin count. But those all overlook the simple truth that these ballots were reported later because it took longer to count them. We rate LeMahieu’s claim True.  

Elections,Wisconsin,Devin LeMahieu

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Viral image

2021-02-24 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

"It takes quite a while on Election Day to load those ballots, which is why we have the 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. ballot dumping in Milwaukee."

Tom Kertscher

2021-01-15 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/facebook-posts/claim-comparing-adverse-events-covid-19-flu-vaccin/

A claim comparing adverse events for COVID-19, flu vaccines exaggerates raw data

An article widely shared on Facebook from the website of Ron Paul, a Texas doctor and former GOP congressman, carried this ominous headline: "Coronavirus vaccinations seem to be causing 50 times the adverse events of flu vaccinations after just the first of two shots." The article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The article, which appeared Jan. 6 on the website of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, cites a journalist’s reporting of data from a federal reporting system that health officials use to track and study "adverse events" associated with vaccines, ranging from mild side effects to serious health problems. The journalist, Alex Berenson, told PolitiFact he has not reported that the COVID-19 vaccines are causing the adverse events, only that the data are showing many more such events than are reported with flu shots. "I am pointing to a potential problem that this data raises," he said.  Health experts told us there isn’t enough data in the reporting system to indicate whether a vaccine causes a particular reaction, or to accurately compare the adverse events associated with different vaccines.  Claim relies on tweets The article reported on what it called "disturbing numbers" from a series of tweets a day earlier from Berenson.  Berenson wrote that through Dec. 22, with fewer than 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine given, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had received reports of 307 emergency room visits and 17 "life threatening" events, for "roughly 50 times the rate of adverse events from the flu vaccine."  "It gets worse," the article said, noting that Berenson wrote that the COVID-19 adverse events were reported after shots were given mostly to healthy people in settings where problems can be quickly treated and before the rollout to older, less healthy people. Berenson’s tweets said he obtained his figures from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The CDC told us its system does not allow for searches dating back to Dec. 22, so we could not replicate the searches Berenson did, and Berenson told us he didn’t have the earlier search results from the CDC’s database. But Berenson showed us screenshots of results from a more recent search he did of the database, which he said showed that adjusted for the number of vaccinations given, there were now roughly 35 times as many adverse events reported for COVID-19 vaccinations as for flu shots. The search results he showed us indicated 4,060 adverse events after 4 million COVID-19 vaccinations in the three weeks ended Dec. 31; and 9,553 adverse events reported over 18 months for 180 million flu shots given during the 2019-20 flu season. Reporting system’s limitations Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and a physician in the infectious-disease division at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, warned against reading too much into the CDC’s figures cited in the tweets or the article. "The VAERS system is very noisy, so it's hard to compare," he said. The system, he said, identifies "a lot of temporal associations that are not necessarily causal." VAERS is not designed to indicate whether a vaccine caused a health problem, but is good for detecting patterns of events that might indicate a problem, which in turn might trigger further investigation of a possible safety concern.  The site notes that it contains "unverified reports" of adverse events that occur after vaccination. Anyone can make a report. Results of searches on the VAERS database appear with this caveat, among others: "VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness." As part of heightened safety monitoring for COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration "have strongly engaged healthcare providers, public health jurisdictions and the public to report adverse events to VAERS," said CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund. Dr. Werner Bischoff, professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, said he had "several concerns" with the statement comparing the COVID-19 and flu vaccines. "Any adverse events, from mild to severe, are much more closely monitored" for COVID-19, given that people receiving the COVID-19 vaccine are observed for at least 15 minutes, which generally does not occur with flu vaccinations, Bischoff said.  "The range of side effects is broad, as with any other vaccine, and we need more data to accurately estimate the occurrence of severe reactions caused by the COVID vaccine," he added.  "Making comparisons at this early stage may lead to misinterpretation," he said. The Ron Paul Institute did not respond to our requests for further information. Our ruling An article shared in Facebook posts claimed: "Coronavirus vaccinations seem to be causing 50 times the adverse events of flu vaccinations after just the first of two shots." A journalist’s search of raw data from the CDC’s reporting system indicated that the rate of reported "adverse events" following COVID-19 vaccinations is many times higher than for the flu shots. The journalist who surfaced the data that the article drew from said he wasn’t drawing any conclusions about cause and effect. The CDC and experts say the raw data from the reporting system cannot be used to draw conclusions about whether vaccinations cause the adverse events. Experts say the data about the new COVID-19 vaccinations are too new to make meaningful comparisons to flu shots. We rate the statement Mostly False.

Public Health,Facebook Fact-checks,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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Amanda Chase

2021-01-10 00:00:00

a TV

A photo shows Democratic lawmakers wearing clothing and masks with the Nazi swastika.

Nusaiba Mizan

2021-01-15 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/15/sarah-godlewski/black-and-latina-women-carried-brunt-job-loss-dece/

Black and Latina women carried the brunt of job loss in December

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its latest job numbers, the Jan. 8, 2021, release brought a jaw-dropping number to light – from November to December the U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs. Then came another jaw-dropper: As a group, only women lost jobs. Then came this claim, from Wisconsin Treasurer Sarah Godlewski. On Jan. 9, 2021, she tweeted a link to a CNN article about the job losses among women with this comment: "This headline is hiding something from you. It wasn’t all women that lost jobs, it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment. Any response we have to this pandemic and economy has to also address structural inequality." Did Black and Latina women carry the brunt of job loss nationally, while white women gained employment? Digging in to the numbers When asked for a source, Godlewski’s office pointed to the CNN article, dated Jan. 8, that she retweeted. That article noted the U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs overall, with women losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000 jobs. Her office also pointed to this paragraph in the article:  Black and Latina women disproportionately work in some of the hardest-hit sectors in the pandemic, often in roles that lack paid sick leave and the ability to work from home. As schools and day cares closed, many were forced to make hard trade-offs between work and parenting. "Those sectors are less likely to have flexibility, so when employers are inflexible or women can't come to work because of caregiving responsibilities — they have to exit the workforce," said Nicole C. Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. We did our own check of the BLS numbers, and the preliminary November and December numbers reflect what was in the CNN article. But Godlewski’s claim was specifically on the difference in outcomes for Black and Latina women, as groups, when compared to white women. The BLS conducted a separate survey known as the Current Population Survey, which  measures employment for Black, Hispanic or Latina, and white women ages 20 and older. This data was part of the Jan. 8 release of the December jobs numbers. Participating households respond to the survey in the week of Dec. 6. That data, which is not seasonally adjusted, indicates the number of employed Black women decreased by 82,000 from November to December, and the number of Hispanic or Latina women employed decreased by 31,000.  Meanwhile, the number of employed white women increased by 106,000 in the same time span.  The overall number of women in the labor force has been fluctuating since the March-to-April numbers, which marked the first full hit of the pandemic. There was a decrease from July to September. Laura Dresser, an economist with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said prior economic declines were led by male-dominated fields, such as construction and manufacturing. The pandemic-driven decline, she said, has strongly affected areas – such as the restaurant and education industries – with a high number of women workers. "And those jobs are low-wage jobs," Dresser said. "They're held disproportionately by women. They're held disproportionately by people of color." Our ruling With a link to a news article, Godlewski claimed: "It wasn’t all women that lost jobs, it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment."  Federal statistics show that, as a group, women accounted for all of the job loss from November to December. What’s more, the number of employed white women increased during that time frame, while the numbers for Black and Hispanic or Latina women fell. We rate this claim True.    

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/02/donald-trump/trump-misleads-about-hr-1-and-voter-registration-w/

Trump misleads about HR 1 and voter registration for welfare recipients

Former President Donald Trump said that Democrats are racing to pass a bill that would destroy the integrity of elections and automatically register poor people to vote. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Trump reeled off multiple objections to H.R. 1, including that it "automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote." Trump’s statement is misleading. The Democrats’ bill to expand voting rights would require multiple government agencies to help eligible people register to vote when they apply for assistance, but it doesn’t single out applicants for programs associated with welfare. And Trump omits that public assistance agencies already play a role in helping people register to vote. H.R. 1 would expand that effort.  Public assistance agencies already give applicants voter registration information Known as the For the People Act, the 791-page H.R. 1 combines proposals for voter registration, absentee voting, in-person voting, campaign finance and ethics.  We contacted a spokesperson for Trump to ask which section of H.R. 1 he was referring to and did not get a response. We also don’t know how Trump is defining "welfare" — an imprecise term that could refer to any number of public assistance programs.  We found no line in the legislation that calls for registering all "welfare recipients" to vote. But Trump was likely referring to the automatic voter registration section that applies to many people who seek government services. "The goal of H.R. 1 is the full registration of eligible Americans," said Matthew Weil, an elections expert at the Bipartisan Policy Center. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act (often called "Motor Voter") requires most states to offer voter registration at their motor-vehicle departments. States must also offer voter registration at offices that provide public assistance or services to people with disabilities and military recruitment offices.  What is counted as public assistance? It’s a long list of federal programs including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; Medicaid; and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. If states have their own public assistance programs, those are included, too. "Given the language found in NVRA, it's safe to say that a number of state public service agencies are already involved with helping people register to vote," Anthony Marcum, a resident fellow at the R Street Institute, a right-of-center organization that opposes H.R. 1 due to concerns about free speech and state rights. "Just not as broadly — or automatically — as H.R. 1 envisions." H.R. 1 expands the role of government agencies in voter registration Under the 1993 law, public assistance applicants essentially "opt in" by choosing to register to vote. Under H.R. 1, applicants for services would have to "opt out" if they don’t want to register. H.R. 1 doesn’t automatically register everybody to vote who applies for public assistance, said Sarah Brannon, a voting rights attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. If state or federal agencies determined that they had enough information about an applicant to register to vote, they would forward that information electronically to an election official. If the agency lacks certain necessary information, such as citizenship verification, then the applicant would be directed to a voter registration form. Either way, it’s up to the elections official to determine whether the applicant is eligible to register to vote. "It is just an automatic process to share the information so election officials decide who is or is not eligible," Brannon said.  The legislation also applies to applicants who previously sought public assistance. If a state agency has an applicant’s information needed to register to vote — including proof of citizenship, age and address — H.R. 1 would require the agency to forward that information to election officials.  H.R. 1 goes further than existing law by including more government offices that must participate including federal agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and state agencies responsible for regulating firearms — putting eligible registered firearm owners and veterans on the list of those who can choose to opt out of the voter registration process as well. If the legislation passes, would every "welfare recipient" be registered to vote as Trump said? That’s unlikely. Some public assistance applicants may opt out of voter registration because they are not interested. And applicants for public assistance still have to meet the eligibility criteria — including citizenship — to complete the registration process.  H.R. 1 "automatically registers people for whom there is citizenship information," said Wendy Weiser, an expert on voting rights at the liberal Brennan Center for Justice at NYU school of law. "Automatic voter registration does not substitute for eligibility checks; it substitutes the first part of the process: the application. Your application will be transmitted — you don’t have to take additional steps" Experts told us that if H.R. 1 were to become law, they would expect some increase in the number of public assistance applicants who register to vote. But they said they couldn’t predict how many more will register that way. Here’s what we do know: Under current law, adults rarely fill out voter registration forms when they apply for public assistance. State motor-vehicle departments are the most common source of voter registrations, according to the Election Assistance Commission — and would likely remain so. Only about 2% of registrations came from public assistance offices, according to data about the 2016 and 2018 elections. Automatic voter registration is not a new idea, nor one exclusively pushed by Democrats. The Campaign Legal Center, a group that supports H.R. 1, found that automatic registration has been implemented in more than a dozen states, including Republican-led and battleground states. In these states, the DMV is the most common agency involved in automatic voter registration, though a few states use health or social service agencies, too. Our ruling Trump said H.R. 1 "automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote."  H.R. 1 includes an automatic voter registration provision under which government agencies that provide public assistance would pass along to election officials information about people who are eligible to vote as well as any other relevant information including citizenship status. But Trump’s statement creates a misleading impression that people on welfare will have a special path to voter registration, regardless of eligibility. Under the bill, applicants could opt out, and election officials will still review applications for eligibility requirements before moving them to the voter rolls. That part of the bill isn’t exclusively for people on public assistance. It would apply to veterans and gun owners, too. We rate this statement Mostly False. RELATED: Yes, the ACLU has criticized HR 1. Here’s why RELATED: Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries RELATED: Fact-checking misleading attacks on HR 1, Democrats’ voting rights bill

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2021-03-01 00:00:00

an Instagram post:

Says Al Gore said in 2009 that “the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.”

Jon Greenberg

2021-03-02 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/02/rick-scott/gop-treats-trump-era-projects-pandemic-bill-democr/

GOP treats Trump-era projects in pandemic bill as Democratic pork

Republican opposition to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus package centers mainly on the argument that it contains wasteful spending. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., picked out two examples during a CBS News interview. "Less than 1% of this bill is about the vaccine," Scott said March 1. "It's about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi. This is about paying back liberal politicians. It's not about getting our country back to normal again." The 1% figure for vaccines is about right. The $20 billion in the American Rescue Plan Act for vaccines and their distribution might sound like a lot, but set against more than $1 trillion for unemployment and stimulus checks to individuals and aid to state and local governments, it looks small. Scott goes a bit further and uses infrastructure money in the bill to paint most of the package as misdirected political pork. He is repeating a Republican talking point. The legislation does include money for the examples he picked. First, the bridge: The bill would give $1.5 million to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. "to prevent, prepare for and respond to coronavirus by conducting the operations, maintenance and capital infrastructure activities of the Seaway International Bridge," which connects New York state and Ontario. New York is Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s home state. And it would be easy to suggest his fingerprints are on this part of the bill, except for one key detail. The Trump administration first proposed spending this money. In May 2020, the Transportation Department asked for funds to make up for toll revenues that had "dramatically decreased" due to decreased traffic from the pandemic, the New York Daily News reported. The Canadians had put in their share of emergency relief, and the U.S. was going to do its part. The U.S. side of it sits in the district of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a key defender of former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment. As for the tunnel, while the bill doesn’t name a project in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California district, it does have $1.425 billion for federal capital-investment grants to mass transit. Some of that is destined for a 6-mile extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, which connects San Francisco, Oakland and surrounding suburbs.  But like the bridge money, this project also dates back to the Trump administration. In August 2019, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced $125 million for the extension.  Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said the current bill funds the larger mass transit program, and this project is among those that already won approval. He also noted that while the transit system serves the entire region, this work takes place 50 miles from Pelosi’s district. Scott spokesman McKinley Lewis noted that Democrats chose to include these elements in the bill, and the origins of them don’t matter. In any case, set against the bill’s total price tag, these elements amount to a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the total bill. For context, by the House Republicans’ calculations, nearly 50% of the bill goes toward what they consider legitimate COVID-19 and economic relief.  Past pandemic relief bills have included both health and economic stimulus elements. Most Republicans voted for those. Scott’s record is mixed. He voted for the March CARES Act and against the December supplemental aid package. Our ruling Scott said the $1.9 trillion relief package is "about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi." The bill has money both for a bridge between New York and Ontario, and for a mass transit project in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is difficult to tie them solely to Schumer and Pelosi because the Trump administration backed both efforts well before the current bill took shape.  Scott cherry-picked and mischaracterized a couple of examples of the bill’s overall spending. Even Republicans say about 50% goes toward helping households and businesses deal with the pandemic’s damage. We rate Scott’s claim Mostly False.  

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2021-02-28 00:00:00

a speech at CPAC:

The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”

Warren Fiske

2021-03-02 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/02/pete-snyder/contrary-pete-snyder-covid-studies-dont-say-openin/

Contrary to Pete Snyder, COVID studies don't say opening school is 'perfectly safe'

Republican Pete Snyder is focusing his gubernatorial campaign on building a movement to reopen Virginia schools that have been closed during the coronavirus pandemic. "All of the science and data say it’s perfectly safe to have teachers and students in the classroom," Snyder, a Charlottesville entrepreneur, said during a Feb. 22 radio interview on WRVA in Richmond. We fact-checked Snyder’s claim, which he also makes on his website, and found it to be wrong. All major studies do not say it’s "perfectly safe" to open schools. Most say that if K-12 schools adhere to mitigation measures — masking, physical distancing and frequent hand-washing — then there appears to be minimal risk of COVID-19 transmission from schools. Calls to reopen schools have become increasingly urgent in Virginia. The General Assembly on Feb. 25 passed a bill that would require school districts to offer students full time, in-person instruction by July 1. If a school has a high level of COVID-19 infection, then local officials can temporarily return to distance learning or a hybrid plan in which a school is partially open. The bill is being reviewed by Gov. Ralph Northam. According to March 1 data from the state Department of Education, 26 Virginia school districts were offering at least four days of weekly in-person teaching, 91 were operating under various hybrid plans of in-person and remote instruction, and 15 had fully remote teaching. Northam, a Democrat who has been criticized by the GOP as having an overly restrictive approach to COVID-19, has directed all school districts to offer in-person learning options by March 15.  President Joe Biden has set a national goal of getting most K-8 schools "safely open" by the end of April. A Feb. 1 survey of 13,597 U.S. school districts by MCH Strategic Data, a research and marketing corporation, found 18% were fully open for in-person instruction, 51% were in a hybrid plan and 23% were offering only online learning. During a Feb. 3 White House press briefing, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said  "there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen."  The CDC on Feb. 11 released guidance on how schools should approach reopening and repeatedly said there are varying degrees of risk that local education officials have to assess, and steps they can take to lower - but not remove - those risks.  "While fewer children than adults have had COVID-19 in the United States, the number of school-aged children with COVID-19 has been increasing," the CDC said. "...Resuming and maintaining in-person learning may pose risks to children, teachers, school administrators, and other staff in the school environment, and their families and household members." In addition to standard risk-mitigation steps, the CDC recommends inspections and possible improvements to ventilation systems, COVID testing for students and teachers who don’t feel well, contact tracing, dividing classrooms into student learning pods and monitoring community transmission of the virus. Several studies in late 2020 say opening schools may pose little or no added risk to students and teachers if mitigation standards are strongly enforced. Some of the research was cited by Republican state Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant - an Henrico County OB-GYN and sponsor of the bill to open Virginia schools - during floor debate. Let’s take a look: Only seven COVID-19 cases out of 191 were traced to in-school spread in 17 rural K-12 Wisconsin schools that had high mask-wearing compliance and were monitored over the 2020 fall semester. "These findings suggest that attending school where recommended mitigation strategies are implemented might not place children in a higher risk environment than exists in the community," the report said. Mississippi researchers found most COVID-19 cases in children and teenagers were associated with gatherings outside of households and a lack of consistent mask use in schools, but not associated with merely attending school or child care. Thirty-two cases were associated with attending school out of more than 90,000 students and staff members in 11 North Carolina school districts, where students were required to wear masks, practice physical distancing and wash hands frequently. As PolitiFact has previously noted, there are some limitations to these studies, which often rely on contact tracing, a process that can’t always pinpoint where cases originate. Some of the studies also rely on self-reporting of mask-wearing by individuals, which could be inaccurate. We should note that communities are being urged to open schools with mitigation policies by American Academy of Pediatrics, which says staying home can hurt childrens’ mental health and learning. "The AAP continues to strongly advocate that all policy considerations for school COVID-19 plans should start with a goal of having students physically present in school," the organization says in its guidance plan. Snyder, on his website, says "the CDC and President Biden’s own Coronavirus Task Force both say it’s perfectly safe for schools to be open." We asked his campaign to back up the claim and were sent a Jan. 21 article in healthline.com that said, "Experts say that while there is uncertainty about how children in a classroom environment could impact the spread of disease, new data finds the actual risk to be low." Our ruling  Snyder inaccurately says, "All of the science and data say it’s perfectly safe to have teachers and students in the classroom." A number of studies suggest there may be very little - if any - added risk of COVID spread if children and teachers return to schools. But the low risk depends on strictly enforcing mitigation strategies. We haven’t seen a single study that says opening schools is, in Snyder’s words, "perfectly safe." So, we rate Snyder’s statement False.  CORRECTION, March 3, 2021: An earlier version of this fact check incorrectly reported that Pete Snyder’s campaign did not respond to PolitiFact’s request for information. This updated version includes the response, which does not change our rating.    

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Donald Trump

2021-02-22 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“All of the science and data say it’s perfectly safe to have teachers and students in the classroom.”

Eleanor Hildebrandt

2020-11-20 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/tweets/yes-donald-trump-claimed-fraud-after-2016-iowa-cau/

Yes, Donald Trump claimed fraud after the 2016 Iowa caucuses

President Donald Trump telegraphed that he’d claim voter fraud in the November election and carried through with tweets about his unfounded claims of fake votes while simultaneously filing election-related lawsuits.  Republicans came to Trump’s aid. They included Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who defeated Trump in Iowa’s 2016 first-in-the-nation presidential precinct caucuses when Cruz also sought his party’s nomination to be president.  "I believe President Trump still has a path to victory, and that path is to count every single legal vote that was cast, but also not to [count] any votes that were fraudulently cast or illegally cast. And we have a legal process to determine what’s legal and what isn’t," Cruz said in a Nov. 8 Fox Newsinterview on the Sunday Morning Futures program.  On Nov. 11, Cruz told conservative commentator Steven Crowder that overturning the election required Trump’s legal team to run the table in its court challenges to voting in several states:  "I’ve talked with President Trump and with Jared Kushner and with the White House. What I’ve told them is they need serious lawyers to present evidence at this point. It can’t be won or lost in the world of social media, it’s got to be facts and evidence in court. And by the way, you can do it." After Cruz’s comments, some Twitter users noted on the social media platform that they had heard about voter fraud before — after Iowa’s 2016 caucuses.  "Trump is playing you. Before the election even started he admitted he was going to claim fraud if he lost. When he lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz in 2016 he immediately cried that Cruz cheated," said one Another said, "Trump has a history of claiming ‘fraud’ whenever he loses.  Remember the Iowa Caucuses from 2016 with Ted Cruz?"  Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC, quoted a story by colleague Steve Benen: "Four years ago yesterday, one GOP presidential hopeful – I believe his name was Donald J. Trump – tweeted, ‘Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified’." A look at Twitter confirms Trump’s post-Iowa tweets from 2016. Trump tweeted several times on Feb. 3, 2016, about Cruz’s win in a caucus system that collects presidential preference votes from Republicans who caucus but no formal, binding vote. In one post-caucuses tweet, Trump wrote, "Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified."  In another: "Cruz did not win Iowa, he stole it." The tweets came two days after the caucuses and after Trump’s concession speech In Iowa. "We finished second," he said in that speech. "And I want to tell you something, I’m just honored. I’m really honored. And I want to congratulate Ted [Cruz]." Following Trump’s comments that the caucuses were fraudulent, Cruz took to Twitter, calling Trump’s reaction "yet another #Trumpertantrum." When Cruz was asked in 2016 about his comments in a Goffstown, New Hampshire, news conference Cruz said Trump was a person who "finds it very hard to lose." When Trump loses, "he blames everybody else. It’s never Donald’s fault," Cruz said, according to The New York Times story from the news conference.  The Des Moines Register reported that former Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn called Trump’s claims of voter fraud "an absurd allegation." A 2019 book, "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump," reported that Trump urged Republican Party of Iowa chairman Jeff Kaufmann to invalidate the results of the 2016 caucuses.  Trump abandoned his efforts in Iowa as he went on to win other state primaries and eventually the nomination.  Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, whose office did not have a role in the party-run caucus preference poll, said Iowa Republicans would not invalidate the 2016 caucus results for any reason when asked in a 2019 interview. "Iowa has got a good reputation," Pate said on the Iowa PBS program, Iowa Press, in July 2019. "I have confidence that we’ll keep our integrity there, and we’ll make sure our caucuses are run on the up and up." Our ruling Twitter users said President Trump claimed the Iowa caucuses in 2016 were fraudulent. Trump tweeted a handful of times on Feb. 3, 2016 about Ted Cruz stealing the election and the votes being fraudulent. We rate the Twitter users’ claims to be True.

Elections,Iowa,Tweets

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Rick Scott

2021-02-22 00:00:00

a radio

Says Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” advises: “Never admit defeat. You win. If you don’t win, claim they cheated.”

Monique Curet

2020-11-20 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/ron-paul/biden-not-advocating-nationwide-lockdown/

Biden is not advocating a nationwide lockdown

With coronavirus cases surging again in the United States, all eyes are on President-elect Joe Biden, who vowed to change the course of the country’s pandemic response.  Biden has promised more vigorous steps than the Trump administration took to mandate wearing masks, improve access to testing and heed scientists’ advice on preventing infection. But former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul declared that Biden’s plans also include a nationwide lockdown, despite recent statements from Biden and his team that it’s not his preferred plan.  In a Nov. 5 Tweet that became a viral Instagram post, Paul said, "20 million Americans are collecting unemployment, and Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate?"  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Paul is a libertarian and former physician who represented a Houston-area district in Congress. His tweet mostly gets the numbers right regarding unemployment aid and the COVID-19 survival rate, with the caveat that the survival rate does not include those over age 70. But for this check, we focus on the claim about Biden’s view on a national lockdown similar to the stay-at-home orders and business closures that many local and state governments have enacted. Recent statements from Biden and his advisers have created some confusion about his position on a U.S. lockdown:  In an August interview with ABC’s David Muir, Biden was asked whether he would shut the country down to stop the spread of COVID-19 if scientists recommended it. Biden said, "I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists."   In early September, Biden said, "There's going to be no need, in my view, to be able to shut down the whole economy. I got asked by David Muir a question, if I was asked to shut everything down. I took that as a generic question if — ‘Am I going to follow the science?’" On Oct. 31, Biden tweeted: "I'm not going to shut down the country. I'm not going to shut down the economy. I'm going to shut down the virus." On Nov. 12, as cases began surging nationwide, Michael Osterholm, a member of Biden’s newly formed COVID-19 task force, said he believed locking down the country for four to six weeks could help to slow the spread. Osterholm later clarified that his comments did not represent the views of Biden’s advisory team and had not been vetted by them. After Osterholm’s clarification, a Biden transition official said Nov. 13 that a shutdown "is not in line with the president-elect’s thinking," according to NBC News. The same day, Dr. Celine Gounder, another member of Biden’s COVID-19 task force, said that it is "not the opinion" of the group to enact a nationwide lockdown, according to CNBC. She said the task force would prefer a geographically targeted approach to closures and shutdowns.  Misinformation also muddied the waters: Viral posts circulated in October that falsely claimed Biden pledged to lock down the nation until a vaccine is available. Reuters and other fact-checkers found no evidence that Biden said that. Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, said the basis for Paul’s tweet was Biden’s response to Muir in the August ABC interview, when Biden said, "I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists." But Biden qualified his answer by saying he would take the advice of scientists — he did not explicitly say in that interview that he "wanted" a shutdown, as Paul claimed. And by the time of Paul’s Nov. 15 tweet, Biden and his advisers had provided more context on their current views about a national lockdown. Biden’s most definitive statement came on Nov. 19, a few days after Paul’s claim. "I am not going to shut down the economy, period," he said in a news conference after a meeting with governors. "I’m going to shut down the virus, that’s what I’m going to shut down. I’ll say it again: No national shutdown. No national shutdown. Because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there’s no circumstance which I can see that would require a total national shutdown. I think that would be counterproductive." Our ruling In a tweet that became a viral Instagram post, Paul said, "Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate?"  Paul’s post mischaracterized Biden’s position at that time, and Biden has further clarified it since. Biden said in August that he would support a national lockdown if scientists determined it was necessary to curb the disease.  In October, he said he would not shut down the country or economy. And after the election —  before Paul made his claim — Biden and members of his COVID-19 task force indicated again that a nationwide shutdown is not part of their plans. Biden has come out even more forcefully against the prospect of a nationwide shutdown since Paul published his tweet.  While Biden’s earlier comments suggest he is open to seeking a lockdown if it’s warranted, he and his team have made it clear that they neither intend nor want to impose a national shutdown, as Paul claims.  We rate this claim False.

Coronavirus,Ron Paul

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Facebook posts

2020-11-19 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Jill Biden said, “Whatever is on Hunter’s laptop is not important.”

Eric Litke

2020-10-29 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/29/robyn-vining/yes-because-gerrymandering-only-one-republican-ass/

Yes, because of gerrymandering only one Republican Assembly seat has flipped Democratic since 2013

Wisconsin is among the most gerrymandered states in the country, but have Democrats only flipped a single Republican seat in the last seven years? That’s the claim from state Rep. Robyn Vining, a Democrat who accomplished that feat when she beat Republican Matt Adamczyk by 138 votes in 2018. That handed Vining, D-Wauwatosa, the District 14 seat previously held by Republican Dale Kooyenga, who ran for the state Senate that year.  In an Oct. 25, 2020, episode of WISN-TV’s "UpFront" program, Vining said her win was unique during the tenure of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The Rochester Republican has headed the chamber since 2013. "I’m the only Democrat to beat the speaker," Vining said, discussing her 2020 campaign. "This is the first time Speaker Vos has lost a seat, and so he wants it back." A federal court said in 2016 the maps drawn by Wisconsin Republicans in 2011 were among the most heavily skewed to one party of any plan in the country going back more than 40 years, designed to "secure Republican control of the Assembly under any likely future electoral scenario for the remainder of the decade." Calculating gerrymandering is an imprecise business, but two studies have agreed with that court finding, ranking Wisconsin among the most five skewed states in the nation. Has the maneuver really been as beneficial to Republicans as Vining claims? Gerrymandering in Wisconsin Republicans control nearly two-thirds of the 99-member Assembly, a level they have held have since the new maps were drawn in 2011. Wisconsin Democrats enter the 2020 election hoping to cut into Republicans 63-34 majority, while the GOP is looking to lock in a veto-proof majority. RELATED: Attacking Republicans, Democratic state senator says Wisconsin among most gerrymandered states Gerrymandering is done by drawing legislative boundaries in such a way that voters in one party are concentrated in a limited number of districts, while voters from the other are spread out just enough to ensure victories. Lawmakers accomplish this by drawing irregularly shaped districts that strategically include and exclude certain groups of voters rather than cordoning off districts based on geography or municipality. The result in Wisconsin is Democrats tend to win their districts by a landslide, while Republicans win by narrower margins. The 2018 election highlighted this, as Republicans didn’t even bother sending out a candidate in 27 of the 36 Assembly districts Democrats won, Ballotpedia reported. In the general election contests with two candidates, Democratic winners outpolled their Republican counterparts by an average of 37%, while Republican winners won by an average of 20%. In another sign of the lack of competitive districts, a whopping 49 Assembly races were uncontested in 2016. Republican dominance With that context, let’s focus in on Vining’s claim about seat flipping since 2013. There were three elections in that span — every Assembly member is up for election in even-numbered years — and the Republican majority hardly budged. Republicans held 63 seats after the 2014 election, picked up one in the 2016 election, then dropped back to 63 with Vining’s victory in 2018. Most Democratic victories in that span came from incumbents. But a review of the Wisconsin Blue Book’s election results for 2014, 2016 and 2018 shows more than a dozen non-incumbent Democrats were elected to the Assembly in that span.  For all but Vining, however, those lawmakers were filling a seat previously held by another Democrat. The closest call came in 2014 in District 51, centered around Dodgeville an hour west of Madison. Republican Todd Novak won the seat by 65 votes that year, and it stayed close in the two elections since, which he won by 723 votes in 2016 and 332 votes in 2018. Our ruling Vining said her victory in 2018 was the first seat to flip from Republican to Democrat since Vos took over the Assembly in 2013. Almost every Wisconsin district has been locked one way or another as a result of the maps drawn by Republicans in 2011. Only one district flipped from Democrat to Republican in that span.  And only one flipped from Republican to Democrat — in line with Vining’s statement. We rate this claim True.

Elections,States,Wisconsin,Robyn Vining

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2020-11-15 00:00:00

a Twitter post:

My 2018 election was the first time Speaker Robin Vos has lost a Republican-held seat

Veronica Mohesky

2020-10-29 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/29/cheri-toalson-reisch/toalson-reisch-about-columbia-schools-test-scores/

Toalson Reisch is off about Columbia schools’ test scores

On Oct. 6, Cheri Toalson Reisch joined community members for a protest in support of returning children to in-person classes. Toalson Reisch is the Republican incumbent running for Missouri House District 44. In a Facebook post supporting students re-entering classrooms, she spoke about how Columbia Public Schools in her district are affected by the pandemic.  "All schools are open in Boone County except Columbia. Their kids are suffering," Toalson Reisch wrote. Toalson Reisch then made this claim: "The Columbia school buildings in my district have the lowest test scores in all of Boone County." She linked the scores to the fact that CPS schools are online, while other school districts in Boone County are teaching in person, such as the Hallsville R-IV school district. Toalson Reisch’s district includes Hallsville and parts of Columbia.  Words like "most" or "lowest" are warning bells at PolitiFact. So we decided to look deeper into this claim.  The "floor" on performance reports In an email, Toalson Reisch said she was referring to Annual Performance Reports, or "APR" scores, specifically for Blue Ridge Elementary, Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, and Eliot Battle Elementary in the Columbia schools district. We used other elementary and intermediate schools in the county as a comparison.   Missouri APR scores rate schools on their performance using these terms: floor, approaching, on track or exceeding. Floor is the worst rating, while exceeding is the best. A floor rating means the school improved by less than 1% on Missouri Assessment Program tests. An exceeding rating means the school improved by 5% or greater.  According to Mallory McGowin, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Education, the APR is calculated based on three principles: status, progress and growth. Each school gets a rating in one of these principles, as well as a category. For example: growth in math, status in language arts, etc.  Here’s how McGowin explained each principle: Status: Student achievement levels. Progress: A school district’s improvement from prior years. Growth: The gains students are making over time. Columbia Public Schools spokesperson Michelle Baumstark says state assessments weren’t given this year due to the pandemic, and she said APR scores weren’t calculated at the school building level for the 2017-18 or 2018-19 school years. The data that Toalson Reisch is referencing wasn’t calculated since the 2016-17 school year. Any data she is referencing is over three years old.  However, McGowin was able to provide building level data for Boone County. The school data showed how each school performed in different categories like language arts and math scores. We looked at each school based on the number of "floor" ratings it received. Floor ratings ranged from 2 to 21. High schools in Boone County had the most floor ratings on average, between 12 and 21. The range for middle and elementary schools was from two to 12.  According to the data provided by the Missouri Department of Education, here’s how the Columbia schools Toalson Reisch spoke about performed in the past two school years. Blue Ridge Elementary: 10 floor ratings Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary: 12 floor ratings Eliot Battle Elementary: Seven floor ratings But some other schools in Toalson Reisch’s district performed as bad or worse during the past two school years. These schools are in her district but are not in Columbia: Centralia Intermediate: 12 floor ratings Cedar Ridge Elementary: 12 floor ratings Harrisburg Elementary: 12 floor ratings While Alpha Hart Lewis had as many floor ratings as these schools, the other schools Toalson Reisch provided are actually doing better. Our ruling Toalson Reisch said, "The Columbia school buildings in my district have the lowest test scores in all of Boone County."  Elementary schools such as Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary and Blue Ridge Elementary have some of the lowest APR scores in Boone County. However, there are other schools in Boone County that are just as low or lower. We rate her claim Mostly False.

Education,Missouri,Cheri Toalson Reisch

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Ron Paul

2020-10-25 00:00:00

an

“The Columbia school buildings in my district have the lowest test scores in all of Boone County.”

Monique Curet

2020-10-29 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/29/facebook-posts/yes-biden-seeks-eliminate-policy-reduces-inheritan/

Yes, Biden seeks to eliminate policy that reduces inheritance taxes

On the campaign trail back in October 2019, before he was the Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden pitched his plan to provide two years of free community college to students. His campaign said the plan would be funded in part by eliminating a tax policy called "stepped-up basis" that reduces inheritance taxes. Stepped-up basis provides a big benefit to those who inherit certain assets, including real estate. It means that the person who inherited the asset only has to pay tax on its gains in value beginning from the time it was inherited, rather than from the time it was originally purchased, according to the nonprofit Tax Policy Center.  The difference in tax liability can be significant, the Tax Policy Center points out, and Facebook users noted the same thing. One Oct. 25 Facebook post says, "Did you know Biden wants to get rid of something called ‘stepped up basis’??? How does this affect you! When your parents pass and leave you the family house normally you would inherit that property at what it is worth today. If you were to sell that house you would only pay taxes on the gain from what it is worth today and what it sells for. If Biden does away with ‘stepped up basis’ you will inherit the property for what your parents paid for the property. If you decide to sell you will pay taxes on the difference between the original purchase price and what it sells for today." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Although, in this case, the claim gets it right.  Biden’s campaign team specifically mentioned eliminating stepped-up basis in October 2019 when Biden unveiled his community-college plan, ABC News reported. The issue came up again in June, when Biden told donors at a fundraising event that he intends to roll back Trump’s tax cuts and "close loopholes like capital gains and stepped-up basis," according to CNBC.  Stepped-up basis takes its name from the "step up" to fair market value that happens when a person inherits certain assets. The basis — which is another way of saying the original purchase price, plus improvements, minus depreciation — adjusts to current fair market value at the time it is bequeathed.  If the asset is sold after it’s inherited, then the stepped-up value is the base that gains are measured against for taxes. Any gains in value from the time of original purchase to the time the asset is "stepped up" to market value when inherited are not taxed.  The policy has been part of the U.S. tax code since 1921, according to The Hill, which reports that its origins are unclear but likely related to the difficulty in determining the original price of assets at that time. Biden has said he wants to eliminate the policy, and if he is elected, he can propose changes to tax law, but only Congress can enact tax laws.  Our ruling A Facebook post claims that Biden wants to get rid of stepped-up basis, a tax policy that allows people inheriting and selling certain assets to only pay tax on the increase in value from the time it was inherited, rather than on the gains in value from the time it was originally purchased. Biden and his campaign have said that he wants to eliminate stepped-up basis. His campaign says the increased tax revenue would be used to help fund Biden’s plan for free community college. We rate this claim True.   

Economy,Education,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Robyn Vining

2020-10-06 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Joe Biden “wants to get rid of something called ‘stepped up basis’” that reduces inheritance taxes.

Louis Jacobson

2020-10-28 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/28/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-winner-has-be-announced-electio/

Donald Trump wrong that a winner has to be announced Election Night

As Nov. 3 approaches, President Donald Trump has been expressing alarm about ballot counting extending beyond Election Night. "Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd," Trump tweeted on Oct. 26 Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2020 The following day, Trump added in remarks to reporters, "It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws."  However, the president was wrong. When the media "calls" a presidential race — which may or may not happen on Election Night — it is because they feel that projections from the current results are strong enough to announce one candidate over the other. It’s not an official result.  "There are no official results on Election Night — there never have been," said Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University constitutional law professor who specializes in elections. "Election Night tallies are always just preliminary, pending certification of the canvass of returns under state law, which takes time. Every state has a law on this point." Especially in this year’s election, when many voters are sending in their ballots or voting early in person rather than voting on Election Day due to the coronavirus pandemic, experts say it will take a decisive victory by one candidate or the other to be able to declare a winner on Election Night or early the following morning. (Trump’s tweet was later flagged by Twitter as potentially harming the integrity of the election.). Here are some of the specific reasons why Trump is off-base. Absentee ballots According to the National Conference on State Legislatures, 19 states have laws allowing ballots to be counted if they arrive after Election Day, but are postmarked on Election Day (or, in some states, the day before Election Day). This number could vary this year due to pending litigation. In many cases, such postmark rules for absentee ballots have been around "for years," said Matthew Weil, director of the Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center. In close races, even a modest number of late-arriving ballots could prove decisive. Overseas military ballots Many states allow service members stationed overseas a grace period for ballots they mail back to the mainland. For instance, states like Texas and West Virginia will require overseas military ballots to be received by Nov. 9, while others require a postmark, but not receipt, by Nov. 3, such as Georgia and Nevada. Provisional ballots Provisional ballots are those that are cast when a voter’s eligibility is in question. If election officials resolve those questions, the ballot will be counted, but the checking and counting process takes time. The rules for provisional ballots were streamlined by the Help America Vote Act, a federal law passed in 2002. "Provisional ballots by their very nature cannot be counted on Election Day or Election Night and must be verified subsequently as part of the canvassing of returns," Foley said. State certification of results Under federal law, states have until Dec. 8, or six days before the presidential electors vote, to finalize their ballot count. This deadline acknowledges, as a matter of federal law, that states are not obligated to have a final official result on Election Night.  Even if a projected winner were to be announced by television networks and other media companies on Election Night, nothing would be official until the presidential electors cast their ballots on Dec. 14, and Congress officially counts the electoral votes on Jan. 6. As a practical matter, Weil said, "the vast majority of ballots will be counted within two or three days of Election Day, even in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that cannot start counting absentee ballots until the day before Election Day or on Election Day itself." The Trump campaign did not respond to an inquiry for this article. Our ruling Trump said that "counting ballots for two weeks ... is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws." He’s wrong. Post-election day time to count absentee ballots, overseas military ballots, and provisional ballots are enshrined in both federal and state law. In addition, federal law allows states until more than a month after the election to finalize their results for the casting of electoral votes. We rate his statement Pants on Fire. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Elections,Donald Trump

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Cheri Toalson Reisch

2020-10-25 00:00:00

a post on Facebook:

Counting ballots for weeks after Election Day “is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws."

Amy Sherman

2020-10-28 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/28/facebook-posts/no-harris-did-not-break-ohio-law-election-site-vis/

No, Harris did not break Ohio law with election site visit

Social media posts falsely suggest that Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, broke Ohio election laws when she addressed voters outside of an early voting site in Cleveland. "Three strikes for Kamala’s campaign events Sunday, yells at people in line to vote in Ohio, may have broken laws," stated a headline on DJHJ Media, a conservative opinion website. A link to the article was posted on Facebook Oct. 26. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The DJHJ story included a tweet by conservative actor James Woods that showed a video clip of Harris speaking Oct. 24 outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections building. Woods wrote "you can literally be arrested for campaigning at a polling station." Neither the tweet nor the DJHJ article provided proof that Harris violated state laws restricting campaigning near a polling place.  County election officials told PolitiFact that Harris followed the law. Ohio law sets boundaries to prevent campaigning too close to voters States often have laws prohibiting electioneering at polling sites in an effort to protect voters from feeling intimidated. These laws usually set boundaries explaining how far people campaigning must stand from voters or an election site. Ohio laws state that near polling sites: No person can engage in any kind of election campaigning within 10 feet of any voter waiting in line. U.S. flags shall be placed 100 feet from a polling place to mark the zone where people can’t campaign. No person can "solicit or in any manner attempt to influence any elector in casting the elector's vote." Harris spoke to a long line of voters on the first day of early in-person voting in Cuyahoga County, according to the press pool report by Buzzfeed reporter Henry Gomez. There was a "massively long line of early voters snaked around the building on Euclid Avenue, down East 30th Street and around the block," he wrote. Harris spoke to the crowd using a cordless microphone before walking up and down the stretch of East 30th between Euclid and Chester and waving at voters.  In a 39-second video by Seth Richardson, a Cleveland.com politics reporter, Harris didn’t mention any candidates on the ballot but gave a pep talk about the importance of voting. "Thank you for voting and voting early. Your vote is your voice, your voice is your vote, There is  so much at stake — don’t let anyone ever take your power. ….  You are going to make the difference," she said.  Harris posted an 18-second video of the event on Twitter. After her brief comments, she danced to some music being played across the street by a DJ who called out "Senator! Senator! Senator!" according to the press pool report. As for the 10 foot rule, eyeballing the video, Harris appears to be more than 10 feet from the voters lined up on the sidewalk. She’s separated from the line by two traffic lanes, which are typically about 10 feet wide in urban areas. We couldn’t see the flags in the Twitter videos of Harris marking the 100 foot barrier. But Harris was speaking to voters in a line that extended beyond the election office. WKSU, public radio in Ohio, wrote that Harris "made a brief stop across the street from the line — and outside the 100 foot neutral zone — to thank people for voting." Tony Kaloger, Cuyahoga’s election and compliance administrator, sent us a statement about the unannounced visit by Harris to the earling voting site.  Several local elections employees including the director "were outside during the majority of her stop and witnessed no violations of Ohio's electioneering laws," the statement said. Harris did not come onto the property of the elections center. She was surrounded by Secret Service agents, and no voter or bystander was permitted to approach her.  "There are several officers on-site at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Early Vote Center tasked mainly with managing traffic and voter flow," the statement said. "They will step in to assist our staff with the enforcement of the neutral zone (100 feet from the entrance or 10 feet from the voters in line when the line extends further than 100 feet) as necessary. No assistance was required during the Senator's visit." The county pointed to a two-page excerpt from a 2019 directive from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, that explains where people are allowed to campaign. Part of that directive says: "Nothing in Ohio’s election laws prohibit a person or entity from campaigning, displaying campaign material, or distributing food outside of the neutral zone of a polling location (i.e., outside of the flags marking the 100 foot barrier or beyond 10 feet from any elector waiting in line to vote, if the line to vote extends beyond the flags)." Sabrina Singh, a spokesperson for Harris, said Harris "stood behind the 100 foot boundary line beyond the neutral zone." Our ruling A headline in a story posted on Facebook stated that Harris "may have broken laws" when she campaigned outside a voting site in Ohio. A county election official said that Harris did not violate laws against electioneering near a polling site. Police officers were on site during the visit by Harris and are allowed to help election officials enforce the neutral zone, but the county said that wasn’t required. We rate this statement False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.  

Ohio,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Donald Trump

2020-10-26 00:00:00

a headl

Antifa provoked the shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol.

Noah Y. Kim

2021-01-14 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/14/blog-posting/no-evidence-antifa-incited-ashli-babbitt-shooting/

No evidence that antifa incited Ashli Babbitt shooting

Some conservative news sites have latched onto a speculative analysis to blame antifa for provoking the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police.  "Analysis concludes Antifa provoked shooting of Ashli Babbitt at Capitol," read the Jan. 12 headline of an article published by news site WorldNetDaily.  "HUGE! Analysis of video of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt death in the Capitol shows antifa's actions led to shots being fired," read the headline of an article published by the Gateway Pundit.  The articles were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The stories cite a video interview conducted by the Epoch Times, a Trump-supporting news outlet. On Jan. 13 in response to fact checks published by AFP and Lead Stories, WorldNetDaily issued a correction to the article and updated both the headline and subheadline.  PolitiFact has already examined baseless claims that antifa, a broad left-wing coalition of anti-fascist activists, was behind the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. But we wanted to look more closely at this "analysis" that was getting a lot of attention on social media. The headline of the Epoch Times video does not directly mention antifa, but it suggests that "coordinated actions" resulted in Babbitt’s death. (It also misspells Ashli Babbitt’s name.) In the Epoch Times interview, Masako Ganaha, who is described as an independent journalist in Japan, discusses an analysis she did of two videos that documented the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran and Trump supporter from California who died after being shot Jan. 6 by Capitol Police as she joined rioters who overtook the Capitol, disrupting the congressional effort to certify electoral votes in the presidential election. The U.S. attorney’s office has announced that it has opened a federal excessive force investigation into her death.  In the video, Ganaha points out what she considers to be signs of antifa involvement. Shortly before Babbitt’s shooting, Ganaha says, one rioter, who is wearing a yellow flag like a cape, hands a helmet to another rioter, who uses it to begin to smash the glass on the door to the Speaker’s Lobby. Ganaha says that the hand-off of the helmet illustrates that the two rioters are antifa activists working together to incite the crowd. After Babbitt is shot, the person who handed off his helmet is filmed running down a flight of stairs toward police officers and putting an article of clothing in a backpack, Ganaha says.  "He was leading the crowd and communicating with the other guy, and he was changing his appearance. How would a Trump supporter do that?" Ganaha says.  Ganaha does not provide any hard evidence for her assertions that the two rioters are antifa provocateurs. We reached out to her but haven’t heard back.  Ganaha also points to John Sullivan, a controversial activist who filmed one of the videos, and describes him as a member of antifa who helped incite the crowd after the Babbitt shooting by repeatedly exclaiming that Babbitt was "dead." PolitiFact looked into claims about Sullivan and found that while Sullivan was at the Capitol, he does not identify as antifa nor as a Trump supporter. Rather, he appears to be a polarizing figure on both sides of the political spectrum.  Sullivan has told a number of news outlets, including PolitiFact, that he attended the Jan. 6 riot to document what happened. He has used anti-Trump and anti-police hashtags in Twitter posts, and he has been filmed using incendiary language in the past. However, Jade Sacker, a documentary filmmaker working on a project about Sullivan, and Sullivan himself have both denied claims that he is antifa-affiliated or that he led the charge on the Capitol.  No evidence antifa incited violence at the Capitol The claim builds off the unfounded conspiracy theory that antifa drove the attack on the Capitol.  The rumor flies in the face of substantial reporting and documentary evidence. The march to the Capitol was weeks in the making, with plans indicating the potential for violence drawn up in the open on social media forums and pro-Trump websites. Video and photographs from the scene show Trump-branded paraphernalia and flags, and well-known far-right personalities and GOP politicians were filmed participating in the riot. Some even broadcast their involvement on live-streams.  The FBI’s assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington field office, Steven D’Antuono, said in a Jan. 8 call with reporters that there was currently "no indication" that antifa activists had disguised themselves as Trump supporters and carried out the Capitol riot. Our ruling An analysis claims that antifa provoked the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The analysis consists of a series of speculative claims and inferences based on video of the Babbitt shooting.  Those claiming that the pro-Trump mob at the Capitol was incited by antifa have provided no hard proof of their assertions. The claims ignore substantial reporting and documentary evidence that the crowd contained Trump supporters.  We rate this Pants on Fire! ​

National,Facebook Fact-checks,Bloggers

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Facebook posts

2020-10-20 00:00:00

blogs:

Says Rep. Pramila Jayapal was not wearing a mask in Congress during the U.S. Capitol mob.

Bill McCarthy

2021-01-14 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/14/facebook-posts/image-pramila-jayapal-without-mask-out-context/

Image of Pramila Jayapal without mask is out of context

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., blamed her Republican colleagues after she and two other House Democrats tested positive for COVID-19 in the days following the U.S. Capitol mob, which forced lawmakers into close quarters as they took shelter from the violence. "I just received a positive COVID-19 test result after being locked down in a secured room at the Capitol where several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one," Jayapal wrote in a Jan. 12 tweet. Several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has supported the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, were seen on video refusing to wear masks while members of both chambers waited out the siege from the secured room. But some social media users say photo and video evidence shows that Jayapal also didn’t wear a mask as the rioters breached the building and halted congressional proceedings. "There’s pictures and videos of (Jayapal) not wearing a mask that day," says one tweet reposted on Jan. 12 to Facebook, which shows an image of Jayapal from the day of the riot. Posts sharing the same photograph on Facebook and other platforms were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The image — a screenshot from a longer video taken as the mob moved inside the Capitol — purports to show Jayapal maskless in the balcony of the House chambers. But the image is missing context. Jayapal said in a subsequent tweet and later in a Jan. 13 interview on ABC’s "The View" that she had taken off her face mask to put on a gas mask. "We were then under siege," Jayapal said, explaining that she was trapped in the gallery with about 12 other lawmakers. "The Capitol police told us at that point to get off of our chairs, to get on the floor, to take off our masks, and to actually be ready to put on our gas masks. So if you look at those pictures, I am holding in my right hand a gas mask." "We were specifically told to take off our masks, because you can’t breathe within the gas mask if you have the other mask on," she continued. "So all of us had been wearing masks. We took off our masks. We held our gas masks. And we were down on the floor." The full video footage from which the photograph was captured supports Jayapal’s explanation. As Snopes reported, the video shows Jayapal with her gas mask in hand. The video shows another person, seated on the floor a row above Jayapal, with the gas mask already on. "You can see the gas mask in her right hand in the photo," said Jayapal spokesperson Chris Evans. Evans said Jayapal tested negative for COVID-19 on Jan. 5, a day before the Capitol siege. Jayapal criticized Republicans for refusing masks while lawmakers were "locked down in a secured room at the Capitol." The out-of-context photograph shows Jayapal in the House chambers, before she had been ushered to that secured location. Our ruling A Facebook post says a video screenshot shows that Jayapal was not wearing a mask in Congress during the Capitol mob.  The post is missing critical context: Jayapal and other lawmakers taking shelter in the balcony of the House chambers were instructed to take off their masks and prepare to put on gas masks. We rate this post Mostly False.

Congress,Facebook Fact-checks,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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2021-01-12 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”

Jill Terreri Ramos

2021-01-13 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/14/chris-jacobs/jacobs-overstates-election-issues/

Jacobs overstates election issues

Rep. Chris Jacobs, a Republican who represents suburbs around Buffalo and Rochester, said in a statement that he voted against certifying the electoral college vote because of election irregularities, and said states made changes to election processes that sowed distrust. In an interview with WKBW, he told reporter Hannah Buehler: "There’s been a lot of questions about election integrity, but I was going in terms of my constitutional role," he said. "When you look at the Constitution of the United States, it gives specific power to state legislators to control, run and dictate the terms of elections in their states. There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run."  We wondered about whether "outside actors" changed election procedures one or two weeks before the election.  Competitive states We reached out to Jacobs’ spokesperson, who said that the "outside actors" Jacobs referred to are courts and officials outside of state legislatures. Spokesman Christian Chase referred us the U.S.  Constitution, which states, in Article 1, Section 4: "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations."  Jacobs was referring to situations in Pennsylvania and Arizona, Chase said.   In Pennsylvania, the State Supreme Court extended by three days a deadline that had required ballots to be received when the polls closed, Chase said. This happened Sept. 17. Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania had begun to be delivered in some counties in late September, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.  He also said the Pennsylvania Secretary of State "waived a requirement in state law" that required signature verification on mail-in ballots. This guidance was issued on Sept. 11, and was upheld by the state Supreme Court, which found that the guidance was not in conflict with state law.  Jacobs’ spokesman also said that Pennsylvania "allowed for unequal curing of ballots by different jurisdictions." Factcheck.org found that there were inconsistencies when it came to curing ballots, or the process of allowing voters to correct mistakes so their ballots will be counted. Some counties did, and some did not. While the guidance from the state, which was issued close to the election, was uniform, it was applied inconsistently, the site found.   In Pennsylvania, the secretary of state is the state’s "chief election official," and is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate.   In Arizona, Jacobs pointed to changes to the registration deadline by federal courts.  Expert opinion We asked election and voting experts about procedures in swing states.  The laws that were in place for the general election were in place for months, often years before the election, said David Becker, executive director and founder of The Center for Election Innovation & Research, a nonprofit organization that promotes election security and increased voter participation. In states where lawsuits were brought -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin -- the changes were made by legislatures dominated by Republicans, Becker said.  The rules were set in advance, but there was some pre-election litigation, and voters had to rely upon whatever the final rules were, Becker said.  ABC News published a story less than a week before Election Day regarding state election officials who had to deal with the impact of last-minute litigation and the resulting court rulings. County election officials in Michigan and Wisconsin told the network that differing directives from courts had been confusing.     The U.S. Supreme Court also issued rulings affecting election procedures in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, in the days before Election Day. In Pennsylvania, on Oct. 19, a little more than two weeks before Election Day, the court allowed a three-day extension to count ballots to remain in place.  Amber McReynolds, chief executive officer of the National Vote at Home Institute, a nonpartisan organization that promotes voting by mail, told PolitiFact that secretaries of state are responsible for providing guidance and direction to local election officials, so it’s natural for them to provide guidance, especially in emergency situations.  States have different ways of administering elections, and legislatures can formalize these policies in statute, according to The National Conference of State Legislatures.   "State legislatures, with input from their governors, can make state laws about the administration of elections and make or initiate election administration amendments to their state constitutions," according to a 2019 Congressional Research Service report. "State laws and constitutions can also delegate or defer responsibility for decisions about the administration of elections to other state or local officials and to voters." Our ruling Jacobs said that he voted against certifying the Electoral College vote because he looked at the Constitution and it gives state legislatures authority over elections, but that he saw that "outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road" within two weeks of the election.  State laws regarding election procedures were in place months, or years, before Election Day. There were some legal challenges and guidance from state election officials near the election. But secretaries of state and other state and local election officials have duties related to running elections and are not "outside actors." Courts are the place to hear legal challenges to election rules.  It's questionable that three-day registration deadline extensions, extending the deadline for ballots to be received, and offering voters opportunities to correct their ballots are "dramatic" changes to election procedures, as Jacobs states.  We rate this claim Mostly False.   

Elections,New York,Chris Jacobs

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2021-01-12 00:00:00

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The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is "a coup."

Chris Nichols

2021-01-13 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/14/rusty-hicks/no-efforts-recall-california-gov-newsom-are-not-co/

No, Efforts To Recall California Gov. Newsom Are Not ‘A Coup’

In remarks described by political observers as both factually wrong and politically foolish, California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks called the growing effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom as "the California coup." "This recall effort, which really ought to be called ‘the California coup,’ is being led by right-wing conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, anti-vaxxers and groups who encourage violence on our democratic institutions," Hicks said Tuesday at a press conference meant to condemn the endeavor, which remains in the signature-gathering stage.  Sherry Yang, a spokesperson for the Democratic party, kicked off the event by also calling the recall a "coup." Hicks provided no evidence linking the recall to the groups he cited. Nor did he explain how the recall effort, which is a legal process to remove a local or state elected leader and has been allowed by the state constitution for more than a century, was akin to a coup — which it clearly is not.  We’re aware that Hicks was using partisan rhetoric to cast the recall effort in a negative light when he referred to it as "the California coup." He later said the party wasn’t challenging the legality of the campaign. Still, words matter and not everyone who heard or read his comments will fully understand what they mean. So we decided to explore the monumental differences between the two actions in this fact check. What Is A Coup?  Keith Smith, a political science professor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, said the actions aren’t in the same ballpark. "A coup is usually defined as a violent effort to overthrow a legitimately- elected and legitimately-installed government, to somehow by the use of force take power in a government," he said.  Other scholars contend that a coup must involve some portion of the state military, police or security forces, who work to overthrow the government.  What Is A Recall Campaign? The recall effort, on the other hand, "is not that at all," Smith said. "It’s people signing petitions that are being circulated around the state to put something on the ballot, which is a perfectly legitimate and prescribed process in democratic government," the professor added. To qualify the recall for a future ballot, the campaign must submit approximately 1.5 million signatures of registered voters to county elections officials by March 17, all of which must be verified. Proponents said last week they had gathered more than 1 million signatures.  A recall ballot has two parts: A yes or no vote for recall and the names of replacement candidates. When asked at the press conference whether Democrats would list a replacement candidate, Hicks said "Anything and everything is on the table."  History Of California Recalls California voters approved the recall process in 1911. Since then, there have been 165 attempts to recall state elected leaders, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Nine of them collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, and of those, the elected official was recalled in five cases.  The most notable was the recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 in favor of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The recall effort was the first successful recall of a California governor, and only the second recall of a state governor in American history, according to Ballotpedia. Wrong Term And Political Mistake? Regarding the use of "California coup," some political observers say Hicks was both factually off base and committed an unforced political error.  "I don’t think that it’s politically smart. I don’t think it’s civically appropriate,"  said Wesley Hussey, a political science professor at Sacramento State University who wrote about Davis’ recall.  Of the current recall effort, Hussey said "the (state) Constitution very clearly lays out this is an avenue of recourse for people unhappy with an elected official at the local, legislative and executive level in the state." In California, proponents do not need to cite a specific reason for recalling an elected official, he added. Our Ruling California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks described the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom as "the California coup."  Even in the bounds of political rhetoric, his remarks are far off base and wildly inaccurate. A coup is a violent overthrow of a government. A recall is a legally sanctioned effort to vote an elected official out of office midway through their term. It’s been part of California’s constitution for more than a century.  We rate Hicks’ statement Pants On Fire.  PANTS ON FIRE – The statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.  

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Facebook posts

2021-01-07 00:00:00

a press conference:

Says President Trump has ordered the military to take over “major corrupt cities” to stay in office and that U.S. citizens will receive emergency alerts on their devices.

Samantha Putterman

2021-01-13 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/13/facebook-posts/dont-fall-rumors-about-trump-led-military-takeover/

Don't fall for rumors about a Trump-led military takeover, emergency alerts

The warnings across social media are plentiful. Alarmist claims advise people to stock up on food, water, medicine and weapons. In the days following the Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol, online message boards and social media platforms are filled with assertions that a nationwide military takeover is coming.  Most versions of the rumor say the plan is being implemented by President Donald Trump, the final step in an elaborate scheme to release damning information about his enemies that will land them in jail and allow him to remain in office for another four years. But these lengthy and detailed narratives simply are not rooted in reality. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Most variations of the rumor, like this Facebook post, claim without evidence that "military takedowns" and arrests will begin soon and continue up to Jan. 20, Inauguration Day: "Everyone will be getting emergency alerts on their phones, tv's, radios & internet. It will override all other broadcasts and could last for several hours at a time." "DO NOT travel to any large cities (especially Philadelphia) for the rest of the month. Military operations will be taking place in many of the major corrupt cities," the post continues. "...The implementation of the Insurrection Act began after the raid on the Capitol and was marked by Trump's broadcast to the people to disband and return home. This broadcast wound up being blocked, for the most part, by the media. Nevertheless, his address fulfilled the requirements to initiate the Act." It went on to claim that the Federal Communications Commission told media organizations they can’t "block the flow of intel" and concluded that Trump has no plans to concede and that he will remain in office for another four years.  But Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act, and the military is not being sent to take over "major corrupt cities," by him or anyone else. There are no planned nationwide emergency alerts, and Trump signaled he will support a smooth transition of power, adding that he would not be attending President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Any ramp up in military responses in the coming days is directly related to securing the inauguration, military officials told PolitiFact. "From the Department of Defense’s perspective, we are not taking any stance or position, or moving people anywhere to address any of those concerns," said DOD spokesperson Christopher Sherwood. "Other than supporting the National Guard for the inauguration on Jan. 20, the DOD is not taking further action as far as I am aware." The Defense Department encompasses the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. There is also no evidence that U.S. citizens will soon receive emergency alerts on their devices.  The notion that the Federal Communications Commission told media organizations they can’t "block the flow" of the alleged intel is a severe misreading of a routine advisory that was published on Jan. 7, an FCC spokesperson said. "Our Enforcement Bureau periodically issues advisories to promote compliance with FCC rules and, as detailed in the first paragraph, this advisory was informed by the results of the 2019 nationwide Emergency Alert System test," spokesperson Will Wiquist wrote in an email, characterizing this particular advisory as "very routine."  Some of the speculation about the advisory may have come from a portion of the document that states that presidential messages must be transmitted in national emergencies. But this does not mean that the FCC was warning broadcast and other communications providers against blocking an incoming Trump message.  The Emergency Alert System is a national public warning system that the FCC, FEMA and the National Weather Service are charged with maintaining. It is commonly used by state and local authorities to deliver important emergency information, such as weather and AMBER alerts. It also enables the president to communicate via live audio transmission to the public during a national emergency.   The conspiracy theory was initially pushed by QAnon accounts, which are banned on Facebook and Twitter but have found ways to persist. The original posts were turned into forwarded text messages before morphing back into more widespread social media posts.  The overarching theme relies on the belief that Trump’s campaign will culminate in a sort of judgment day when he will unmask and punish his enemies. Q, the anonymous internet persona behind QAnon, has predicted that this would happen on several different days, none of which panned out.  Our ruling Viral social media posts say Trump has ordered the military to take over "corrupt major cities" in order to stay in office and that U.S. citizens will receive emergency alerts on their devices. The rumor was created by known conspiracy theorists and has no basis in truth. Military and federal communications officials both rejected the claims and Trump signaled he would support a peaceful transition to a "new" administration. We rate it Pants on Fire! RELATED: Fact-checking claims about the Insurrection Act, martial law after Capitol riot 

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Chris Jacobs

2021-01-12 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

The second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump was “the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.”

Louis Jacobson

2021-01-13 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/13/jake-tapper/how-bipartisan-was-vote-impeach-donald-trump-histo/

How bipartisan was the vote to impeach Donald Trump, in historical context?

How bipartisan was the second impeachment of Donald Trump? CNN anchor Jake Tapper said it was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in history. Trump’s second impeachment was "not just bipartisan —  it’s the most bipartisan impeachment in American history," Tapper said moments after the vote was taken on Jan. 13, 2021. While the second House impeachment of President Donald Trump was largely approved on party lines, it did attract a higher level of bipartisan support compared with past presidential impeachment efforts. Ten House Republicans sided with Democrats in voting to impeach Trump. That’s more than the number of Republicans who supported the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, which was zero. It’s also higher than the five Democrats who voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on both successful counts in 1998. And it was more bipartisan than the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, which did not receive any Democratic support. (We’ll address President Richard Nixon, who resigned under threat of impeachment, as well.) What happened in the Jan. 13 House vote on Trump’s impeachment The article of impeachment considered by the House on Jan. 13 cited Trump’s false claims about the election results, including at the rally of his supporters on Jan. 6. By having "incited" the crowd, the article said, Trump "gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government." The final vote was 232 to 197, with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for the sole article of impeachment. The Republicans who broke ranks and voted to impeach were Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking House Republican; John Katko of New York; Adam Kinzinger of Illinois; Fred Upton and Peter Meijer of Michigan; Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse of Washington; Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; Tom Rice of South Carolina; and David Valadao of California.  Here’s a rundown of past presidential impeachments, including some committee votes. The impeachment of Andrew Johnson When Johnson was impeached in 1868, no Democrat in the House supported the overall floor vote to impeach. In that vote, all but two Republicans voted for impeachment. The House went on to pass 11 specific articles of impeachment, along largely party-line votes. The impeachment of Bill Clinton The impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 attracted less bipartisan support for the two of the four articles approved by the Judiciary Committee that went on to win approval on the House floor.  The first article that won approval from the full House was Article 1, which said that Clinton had "willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony" to the grand jury related to the Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky sexual harassment cases." This article passed the committee on a party-line vote. On the floor, the article was approved 228-206, with five Republicans voting against it and five Democrats voting for the article. The other one to pass the House, Article 3, said that Clinton had obstructed justice related to the lawsuits against him. This article also passed the committee on a party-line vote, and it passed the full House by a 221-212 margin, with 12 Republicans voting against it and five Democrats voting for the article. Two articles passed the committee but failed on the floor. Article 2 involved perjury during Clinton’s answers in depositions. In committee, this was a party-line vote, except for one Republican defection — then-Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. On the floor, it failed, 205-229.  And Article 4, which addressed obstruction of Congress, passed the committee on a party-line vote before failing on the floor, 148-245. The first impeachment of Donald Trump Article 1 against Trump in 2019 addressed abuse of power, focusing on Trump’s alleged efforts to strong-arm Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden. The article passed the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote. Article 2 focused on Trump’s efforts to block cooperation with Congress on its impeachment inquiry. This passed the Judiciary Committee by an identical party-line vote. On the House floor, no Republican voted for either article. Two Democrats voted against Article 1, Reps. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey. (Van Drew later switched his affiliation to the GOP.) Peterson and Van Drew were joined in voting against Article 2 by Democratic Rep. Jared Golden of Maine.  The impeachment effort against Richard Nixon The impeachment of President Richard Nixon in 1974 didn’t make it to the House floor because Nixon resigned first. So it’s not directly comparable. But we can look at what happened in the House Judiciary Committee when it approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon. Article 1, which focused on obstruction of justice, won support from six Republican committee members as well as all Democrats. That was about one-third of Republicans on the committee. Article 2, which focused on abuse of power, also secured the support of six Republican committee members in addition to all Democrats.  Article 3, which focused on obstruction of Congress, received less bipartisan support, even though it passed the committee. This article saw two Democratic defections and only two Republicans joining with the Democratic majority. Such votes make Nixon’s impeachment the previous high-water mark for bipartisanship, though again it’s not a case of apples-to-apples since we’ll never know what the floor vote would have looked like. That said, the number of committee Republicans joining Democrats for the Nixon impeachment was smaller than the number of overall House Republicans backing Trump’s second impeachment. Our ruling Tapper said the second impeachment of Donald Trump was "the most bipartisan impeachment in American history." Trump’s second impeachment attracted more Republican support — 10 GOP floor votes in favor — than the impeachments of Andrew Johnson or Bill Clinton, or Trump’s first impeachment. We rate the statement True.

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Rusty Hicks

2021-01-13 00:00:00

remarks

Says Nancy Pelosi bought $1.5 million “in foreign oil stock day before shut down of American line.”

Monique Curet

2021-03-01 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/facebook-posts/nancy-pelosi-did-not-buy-foreign-oil-stock-executi/

Pelosi did not buy 'foreign oil stock' before executive order stopped Keystone XL construction

More Facebook posts are claiming that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to profit from advance knowledge of policy changes under President Joe Biden. One such post says, "Pelosi bought 1.5m in foreign oil stock day before shut down of American line." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We found no evidence to back the claim. Pelosi’s most recent government disclosure form for stocks does not include any oil company stock purchases. No media outlet has reported on such a transaction, and her staff said the claim is false. The post’s reference to the "shut down of American line" likely means Biden’s Jan. 20 executive order that revoked construction permits for the Keystone XL pipeline, designed to carry crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.  Biden’s opposition to the project was well-known long before his order, so the executive order was not a surprise. Biden was vice president in the Obama administration, which rejected a permit for the pipeline on environmental grounds. His campaign affirmed his opposition in May 2020, when he was the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. The claim says Pelosi bought the oil stock the day before the shutdown order, which would have been Jan. 19. Pelosi filed a Periodic Transaction Report dated Jan. 21 that disclosed her husband’s purchase of stock or stock options in four companies, none of which were oil companies. The reports are required when members of Congress — or their spouses or dependent children — make stock purchases worth more than $1,000.  The reports must be filed within 30 days of when the member became aware of the transaction, but no more than 45 days after the transaction. The Jan. 21 report was the only one Pelosi has filed in 2021. Any Jan. 19 transaction would have to be reported by March 5. Drew Hammill, deputy chief of staff for Pelosi, said the claim is false, adding that the speaker does not own any stocks. We didn’t get a response to a request for further information. A financial disclosure report Pelosi filed in August 2020 lists substantial holdings of individual stocks by her husband.  The Jan. 21 transaction report was the subject of other claims that Pelosi traded in Tesla stock ahead of a Biden order calling for government purchases of electric vehicles.  PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. Our ruling  A Facebook post says, "Pelosi bought 1.5m in foreign oil stock day before shut down of American line." It appears to suggest that Pelosi sought to profit from knowing that a Jan. 20 executive order would shut down construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline was well-known for years, and his campaign said in May 2020 that he would halt it if elected.  Pelosi filed a government disclosure form on Jan. 21, 2021, indicating recent purchases of stocks and stock options by her husband, and none were oil companies. It is the only such disclosure she has filed in 2021. Media outlets have not reported any recent Pelosi family stock transactions involving oil companies, and her deputy chief of staff said the claim is false. We rate this claim False.   

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Facebook posts

2021-01-13 00:00:00

a press release:

“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”

Eric Litke

2021-03-01 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/scott-fitzgerald/fitzgerald-overstates-claim-pork-covid-19-relief-b/

Fitzgerald overstates claim on pork in COVID-19 relief bill

The American Rescue Plan — the signature initiative thus far in President Joe Biden’s tenure — has passed the U.S. House, sparking renewed debate over what exactly is in the $1.9 trillion package. Democrats are presenting the mammoth bill as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 500,000 lives and disrupted business, schooling and personal lives on every conceivable level. Republicans say it’s a pork-stuffed wish list that’s being opportunistically rammed through a Democratic-controlled Congress. Many Wisconsin Republicans seized on one particular number in attacking the plan: U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald in a statement: "More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief." U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher on Twitter: "9% of the $1.9 trillion the ‘American Rescue Plan’ spends goes to actually fighting the Coronavirus." U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman on Twitter: "The public has been told that today’s #BidenBailoutBill is a #COVID19 relief bill. Only 9% goes toward COVID." Former Gov. Scott Walker on Facebook: "Stop the Pelosi Payoff as only 9% of the bill is for COVID health-related relief." We’re going to focus on Fitzgerald, who makes the broadest claim in the group.      Is it true that the initiative billed as a COVID "relief" bill directs hardly any funding in that direction? The bill The analysis here examines the House version of the plan, which still must pass the Senate before it could head to Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The Senate could make changes — notably it is expected to drop efforts to increase the minimum wage — which would bounce it back to the House. Fitzgerald’s office didn’t immediately respond to our request for evidence of his claim, but we have plenty of information from outside sources to examine it. To be sure, the American Rescue Plan includes many measures unrelated to COVID-19. PolitiFact National rated Mostly True a claim from conservative Stand for America that the bill contains unrelated projects. Examples cited in that fact check included a $1.5 million bridge connecting New York and Canada, a $100 million underground rail project in Silicon Valley, $480 million for Native American language preservation and maintenance and $50 million in environmental justice grants. The bill would also raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and change pension funding rules. All told, about 15% of the proposal goes to "long-standing policy priorities that are not directly related to the current crisis," said the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan, non-profit organization formed to educate the public on federal budget issues.  On the flip side, the 9% figure is roughly in line with the amount of money going to direct COVID-19 intervention.  In a fact check confirming about 1% is allotted to vaccinations, PolitiFact National found between $100 billion and $160 billion goes to direct intervention, depending on whether one includes items like $10 billion in medical supplies and $24 billion in child care for essential workers, as the White House does in arriving at the larger figure. That’s 4.5% to 8.5% of the total $1.9 trillion total. But a long list of other initiatives are clearly related to the pandemic, according to a breakdown by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. About 22% of the total bill comes from the $422 billion set aside for $1,400-per-person stimulus checks. Another 13% ($246 billion) is for extending additional unemployment funding of $400 per week. A combined 12% is going to the following:  Subsidized COBRA for laid-off workers Affordable Care Act subsidies for the next two years Expanded nutrition assistance to replace school lunch programs during the pandemic Funding for testing and contact tracing Disaster Relief Fund increases and covering COVID-related funeral expenses Grants to airlines and contractors to freeze layoffs through September Defense Production Act funding for medical supplies Grants for restaurants and bars that have lost revenue in the pandemic Economic Injury Disaster Loan Advance grants of up to $10,000 per business. It’s hard to describe anything on that list as unrelated to the pandemic and its economic fallout. Another $519 billion — 27% of the total — is going to state and local governments and schools, much of which will make up losses related to the pandemic and spur school re-opening. Republicans note much of the school funding, however, won’t be spent immediately. Our ruling Fitzgerald said, "More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief." Somewhere around 9% of the American Rescue Plan is going to direct disease containment measures such as vaccines, testing and tracing, and other public health initiatives. There’s room for debate over exactly how much of the $1.9 trillion is related to the pandemic. Surely not all of it. But it’s clear the amount going toward pandemic relief is far above 9%. One nonpartisan group identified 85% of the spending as being related to the current crisis. A closer look at the individual spending categories confirms, at minimum, that a majority of the spending goes to address the health and economic fallout of the pandemic. PolitiFact North Carolina rated Half True a claim from U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., that only 9% of the bill was going to COVID, and 91% wasn’t COVID-related. Budd got some credit for referencing 9% in a way consistent with the portion used for direct funding, and there’s a case "COVID-related" could reference only direct spending. But Fitzgerald is farther off in flatly asserting 91% didn’t go toward pandemic relief. That’s a broad claim that badly misstates the figure he’s trying to reference, that 91% didn’t go toward direct COVID-19 intervention. We rate his claim Mostly False.  

Health Care,Public Health,Wisconsin,Coronavirus,Scott Fitzgerald

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Scott Fitzgerald

2021-03-25 00:00:00

a CPAC speech:

Says Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”

Miriam Valverde

2021-03-01 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/donald-trump/cpac-return-trump-falsely-claims-biden-halted-all-/

In CPAC return, Trump falsely claims Biden halted ‘all deportations’

Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden for reversing Trump-era immigration policies and claimed that Biden had crippled the federal agency responsible for deportations. "He has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more," Trump said Feb. 28 at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. "Let's not deport people, and restricting our law enforcement professionals." Biden revoked several of his predecessor’s executive orders on immigration, ordered a review of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation priorities and a 100-day pause on deportations. But the Biden administration has not shut down ICE, as Trump claimed, and criminals, such as murderers, can still be deported. PolitiFact rated a similar claim at CPAC by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as False. Trump’s office did not respond to our request for information. Biden’s 100-day deportation pause did not apply to everyone On Biden’s first day in office, David Pekoske, then the acting secretary of Homeland Security, said that the department did not have the resources to deport every single person living in the country illegally. An estimated 10.5 million people are in the U.S. unlawfully. Pekoske ordered a review of immigration enforcement practices. In the interim, he said the department would prioritize the deportation of people who threatened national security, border security and public safety. (Under the Trump administration, everyone in the country illegally was a deportation priority.) Pekoske also ordered an immediate 100-day pause on the deportation of people with final orders of removal. However, certain groups of people, including those who had engaged in or were suspected of terrorism or espionage, were not eligible for that temporary reprieve. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration over the deportation pause, and a federal judge has since blocked it indefinitely. ICE’s Acting Director Tae D. Johnson on Feb. 18 issued interim guidance reiterating that deportation resources would focus on presumed threats to national security, border security, and public safety.  "Individuals are presumed to be a threat to public safety if, for example, they have been convicted of an aggravated felony or engaged in certain activity as part of a criminal gang or transnational criminal organization and there is reason to believe they currently pose a threat," ICE said. An aggravated felony includes murder, rape or sexual abuse of a minor. ICE also said that while there were specific deportation priorities, immigration officers and agents were not prohibited from arresting, detaining or removing people not on the priority list. Those actions, though, would be "subject to advance review," the guidance said. There have been news reports of deportations happening under Biden’s administration, although the specifics of those cases and exact number of people deported is unclear. PolitiFact asked ICE for details but the agency did not provide that information. It’s also worth noting that beyond ICE’s immigration enforcement unit, the agency also has a Homeland Security Investigations division. That division focuses on cases related to human smuggling and trafficking, money laundering, transnational gang activity, and other crimes. Biden has not ordered a "shutdown" of that unit, either. Our ruling Trump said Biden "has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more." Biden has not closed down ICE; the agency’s divisions are still operating. Biden’s administration established new deportation priorities and ordered a temporary pause on certain, not all, deportations. People convicted of serious crimes such as murder and who threatened public safety are a deportation priority under Biden’s administration. We rate Trump’s claim False. RELATED: Fact-checking claims about deportations in Biden's first month

Immigration,Homeland Security,Donald Trump

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2021-02-22 00:00:00

an

“Republicans have no way to communicate” after tech companies cut off Parler.

Amy Sherman

2021-01-13 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/13/devin-nunes/nunes-falsely-claims-republicans-have-no-way-commu/

Nunes falsely claims ‘Republicans have “no way to communicate” without Parler

Tech companies are cracking down on accounts and services that they believe violate their terms of service or spread extremist messages and misinformation. Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, was kicked off Amazon Web Services following the violent riot Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Google and Apple deleted the Parler app from their stores. Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts affiliated with the QAnon conspiracy theory and booted the @realdonaldtrump account, while Facebook said it would remove "stop the steal" messages claiming election fraud and suspended President Donald Trump at least through Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Google’s YouTube video service also barred Trump at least until the inauguration. U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says the actions have left Republicans with "no way to communicate." Here’s what he said in an interview on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" show: "There is no longer a free and open social media company or site for any American to get on any longer, because these big companies, Apple, Amazon, Google" destroyed Parler. "Poof — it’s gone." He added: "Republicans have no way to communicate. And it doesn't even matter if you're a Republican or conservative. If you don't want to be regulated by left-wingers that are at Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, where you get shadowbanned, nobody gets to see you." Nunes said he has 3 million followers on Parler. "Tonight, I will no longer be able to communicate with those people," he said in the segment. Amazon cited violent content when it shut off Parler’s access to its cloud service. Parler sued Amazon, saying the decision showed "political animus." With Parler’s future uncertain, we fact-checked Nunes’ claim that Republicans have no way to communicate and found it to be a gross exaggeration. Nunes has lost one tool in his toolbox to communicate with constituents, but he and other Republicans still have many others, both on social media and other methods. Lawmakers have lots of ways to communicate with constituents  In the past, it was Nunes who was pushing social media companies to restrict speech that he objected to. He filed several defamation lawsuits against media companies and critics, including one against Twitter over a parody account purporting to represent a fictitious Nunes-owned dairy cow. We contacted a spokesperson for Nunes to ask about his latest criticism of social media regulation, but did not get a response.  Some users on Twitter found it ironic that Nunes was making his claim on Fox News, the most watched cable network, and a favorite medium for Republicans to communicate. "This reminds me of that Lisa Kudrow character on that Netflix mockumentary where she repeats ‘conservative voices are being silenced’ on multiple TV shows, interviews, book titles etc.," replied one Twitter user. And long before social media, members of Congress had several venues to communicate with constituents, including some unfiltered ones. "There is a full time media press corps in the Capitol all day, every day — members of Congress have almost open access if they want to get something out," Brendan Buck, a former staffer to Republican House Speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner, told PolitiFact. "Each one of them has their own website and are able to post whatever they want."  House members can communicate via press releases, send out mass emails or paper mail to constituents, or host phone-in or online town halls. Capitol Hill has places where members can hold in-person press conferences or satellite interviews with media outlets back home or national outlets, or record a video message to email to their constituents. Republicans can give interviews to local media outlets, conservative radio or TV shows that welcome conservative points of view.  "There is no shortage of places for a member of Congress to communicate through traditional media, and still more through direct channels to constituents," Buck said. When members go home to their districts, they speak at gatherings such as chamber of commerce luncheons, civic and religious groups and community fairs (though some such events are done remotely now amid the pandemic). Nunes’ own congressional website includes links to his official Twitter and Facebook pages, accounts he still can use, although they have fewer than the 3 million followers he said he had on Parler. He also has a personal Twitter account that has 1.2 million followers. Nunes’ website also shows he has press releases, and people can subscribe to his emails. Nunes uses Rumble, a video streaming service that is seen as the conservative alternative to YouTube. House members get an allowance of taxpayer funds to pay for staff and supplies, including communications. Separately, lawmakers’ campaign operations receive donations that help fund their communications with voters. Buck described social media as a tool that supplements the other ways members communicate with their constituents. But some former staffers said it became a crucial tool to communicate quickly and directly with constituents without having to involve reporters.  "It is the best way, but it is not the only way," said Rusty Roberts, who was chief of staff for U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., from 1992 to 2011. "It’s immediate communication." Regulation by Twitter and Facebook Nunes said that "left-wingers" at Twitter and Facebook and Instagram regulate users and decide what content is violent and who gets shadowbanned, a practice that limits someone’s reach on the web. Twitter and Facebook have policies that allow them to remove accounts or posts that violate their terms of service. For example, Twitter prohibits tweets that threaten or glorify violence and Facebook removes harmful misinformation about COVID-19, including about the vaccines, and says it doesn’t allow threats. While Trump lost his access to Twitter and Facebook under these rules, other Republicans, including Nunes, still have broad access to various communication channels.  "As Rep. Nunes was on Fox when he said this, he seems to have ways to communicate," said Rebecca Jeschke, a spokesperson Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group which promotes free speech and digital privacy. "Not to mention that these suspensions didn't hit anywhere near all the Republican politicians or voters in the country."   Our ruling Nunes said "Republicans have no way to communicate" after recent actions by tech companies. Trump has been blocked from the major social media networks, and Parler is not available for now. But Nunes is wrong to say Republicans have no way to communicate.  They can use other social media platforms — if they follow the rules — as well as their websites, email and regular mail. Lawmakers can also grant interviews with local and national reporters from mainstream or conservative media outlets and hold constituent forums in their districts (albeit remotely for now). For now, Nunes has lost what appears to be his preferred method of communication, but he has other options, and so do his Republican peers. We rate this claim False. RELATED: U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes on PolitiFact’s Truth-O-Meter CORRECTION, Jan. 14, 2021: This fact-check initially included the wrong last name for Rusty Roberts. The fact-check has been corrected.

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2021-01-12 00:00:00

a TV segment:

Says Joe Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession."

Bill McCarthy

2021-01-12 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/12/greg-kelly/newsmax-host-recycles-out-context-clip-call-joe-bi/

Newsmax host recycles out-of-context clip in call for Joe Biden’s impeachment

As the House weighs a second impeachment of President Donald Trump following the U.S. Capitol mob attack, Newsmax TV host Greg Kelly argued against removing Trump from office and called for the impeachment of someone else: President-elect Joe Biden. Kelly’s justification for impeaching Biden, who takes office Jan. 20, involves a video that the Newsmax TV host presented out of context. "You know, if I were in Congress, I would launch an impeachment effort against Joe Biden for election fraud in 2020, and I would call him as a witness," Kelly said in the Jan. 11 segment. "I already found this. It’s a very interesting clip that I found in a dark corner of the internet." Kelly played a short clip of Biden’s Oct. 24 interview on "Pod Save America,'' a liberal podcast. It showed Biden saying: "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization." "I think that was a confession," Kelly said, laughing. "Could you do anything with that? How would you defend about that? There are credible allegations of voter fraud. He’s admitting to it. What would you say? ‘Oh, well that was a brain lapse.’ Or was that a Freudian slip?" The clip that Kelly played on air, however, was not a "confession" of Biden "admitting to" voter fraud. It was shown out of context, much like a similar clip that White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany shared on Twitter months earlier. PolitiFact rated McEnany’s claim that Biden admitted to voter fraud False. Kelly’s claim is similarly inaccurate. Newsmax declined to comment. The full-length interview shows that Biden was responding to a question from host Dan Pfeiffer, a former staffer of President Barack Obama. Pfeiffer asked what Biden would say to people who had not yet voted or did not have a plan to vote. Biden’s answer was long and winding. (The full transcript is here.) While Biden used the words "voter fraud organization," he was describing a project to help people learn where and how to vote legally. The full context makes it clear that Biden was not encouraging widespread voter fraud or claiming that Democrats were guilty of it. "It can get complicated," Biden said of voting. "Because the Republicans are doing everything they can to make it harder for people to vote, particularly people of color to vote." "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics," he continued, referencing the system Democrats had in place for people that ran into trouble casting their ballot because of long lines or other problems. He described the system, telling listeners a number they could call for help and information "if, in fact, you have any problem." "We have over a thousand lawyers, over a thousand of them answering the phone," he said. "If you think there’s any challenge to your voting, go to 833-DEM-VOTE. Dial those letters on your phone. That will get you the assistance that we have already put in place." Biden’s campaign clarified his remarks by saying Biden had the "most robust and sophisticated team in presidential campaign history to confront voter suppression." Biden had talked about the same voter protection effort during a speech in August and an interview in September. Despite Kelly’s mention of "credible allegations," there remains no evidence that widespread voter fraud affected the election, which Biden won. Dozens of judges in courtrooms across the country rejected the legal challenges brought by Trump and his allies. Our ruling Kelly said that Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession." That’s wrong. The full-context video shows Biden was describing an effort to prevent voter suppression and help people vote when he misspoke.  We rate Kelly’s statement False.

Elections,Pundits,PunditFact,Greg Kelly

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2021-01-11 00:00:00

a screenshot:

A second impeachment means Donald Trump loses his lifetime pension, travel allowance, Secret Service detail, and his ability to run for public office.

Daniel Funke

2021-01-11 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/facebook-posts/fact-checking-viral-post-about-impeachment-and-tru/

Fact-checking a viral post about impeachment and Trump’s post-presidency benefits

House Democrats have filed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for "willfully inciting violence against the government of the United States" after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that temporarily stopped Congress from counting electoral college ballots. With only nine days until Inauguration Day, the Democrats’ move to impeach Trump is unlikely to result in his removal from office. But a viral social media post says it could have lasting effects on his future in public life. The post, published by the liberal Facebook page The Other 98% on Jan. 9, outlined four potential consequences for Trump if the House votes to impeach him for a second time: "For those wondering if it’s worth impeaching him this time, it means he: Loses his 200k+ pension for the rest of his life Loses his 1 million dollar/year travel allowance Loses lifetime full Secret Service detail Loses his ability to run in 2024." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Celebrities like comedian Jim Gaffigan and advocacy organizations like the March for Science have shared the post to millions of followers. (Screenshot from Facebook) The source of the screenshot in the posts is a Jan. 8 tweet from Ben Costiloe, a 57-year-old man who lives in Texas. He told PolitiFact that he copied the text from something he saw on Facebook. "I looked at it, and they didn’t have any followers," said Costiloe, whose own Twitter following has grown more than tenfold since publishing the post. "I thought about it and said, ‘Well, this isn’t completely true, but it could be true in a perfect world.’ So I threw it out there." But Costiloe’s viral tweet paints a misleading picture of what could happen if Trump is impeached again. If the Democratic-controlled House votes to impeach Trump, he would not automatically lose his post-presidency perks — two-thirds of the Republican-controlled Senate would have to vote to convict and remove Trump. Trump could lose his ability to run for office after he leaves the White House, but it would not happen solely as a result of impeachment. The Constitution says, "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States."  Most of the benefits afforded presidents were passed as part of the Former Presidents Act. Two benefits mentioned in Costiloe’s tweet — an annual lifetime pension of about $200,000 and annual travel allowance of up to $1 million — are enumerated in the law, which passed in 1958. The law says those benefits apply to presidents "whose service in such office shall have terminated other than by removal pursuant to section 4 of article II of the Constitution of the United States of America." That section of the Constitution spells out the process by which a president may be removed from office "on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." "Impeaching him does nothing; only convicting him would," said Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University. "And under current law (the Former Presidents Act), convicting him only strips him of those benefits if he is convicted while still in office (which looks certain not to happen)." Meanwhile, a 1962 law provides Secret Service protection for former presidents, at their request, "for a reasonable period after he leaves office."  "The FPA provides some limited security and travel expenses to former presidents and their spouses, but only if they aren't using the Secret Service protection that is provided under the other separate law," said Demian Brady, director of research for the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. "So the FPA's benefits specifically limit its benefits in the case of impeachment and removal, but the other law that provides Secret Service protection does not. A separate law would be required to (do) that." Congress could pass a new law to strip Trump of his post-presidency benefits, and it would not require the same two-thirds vote that a conviction in the Senate would. But impeachment alone — even the second in Trump’s one-term presidency — wouldn’t disqualify Trump from receiving some benefits. On the last point of Costiloe’s tweet, Kalt said Trump could lose his ability to run for office again "even after he has left office," if the Senate votes to convict him. The Senate has never convicted an impeached president, much less a former president. However, Michael J. Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wrote in a post for the Just Security law forum that, "if an impeachment begins when an individual is in office, the process may surely continue after they resign or otherwise depart." "Understandably, members of Congress and the American people might lose the appetite for subjecting a president to impeachment once he has left office for good," he wrote. "But that is a political choice not a constitutional directive." If the Senate did vote to convict Trump, the Constitution doesn’t specify how many votes are required to also disqualify him from holding public office. In the past, the Senate has used a simple majority vote to bar three people, all federal judges, from holding office. Our ruling A Facebook post says that if Trump is impeached again, he will lose his lifetime pension, travel allowance, Secret Service detail, and his ability to run for public office. That claim misses the mark on most counts. If the House votes to impeach Trump, the Senate would have to convict him while he’s still in office in order to revoke his lifetime pension and travel allowance. With only days until Biden takes over the White House, that prospect is unlikely, and Trump’s Secret Service detail would remain unaffected. After Trump leaves the White House, the Senate could bar him from holding public office. Congress could also change the law to deny Trump his benefits. But neither would happen simply as the result of impeachment. The post contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False. RELATED: Using the 25th Amendment or impeaching Trump: Could they happen?

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2021-01-09 00:00:00

an

Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”

Jon Greenberg

2021-02-10 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/10/facebook-posts/courts-have-affirmed-bidens-victory/

Courts have affirmed Biden’s victory

Three weeks after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, some Facebook users are still pushing bogus claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election. In a Feb. 7 post, one user wrote: "Not one court has looked at the evidence and said that Biden legally won." "Not one," the post says. "Biden did not win legally." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It has more than 6,000 shares. Since Nov. 3, we’ve fact-checked scores of claims that falsely say widespread voter fraud swung the election in favor of Biden and that Donald Trump is the rightful president. This Facebook post is similarly wrong. (Screenshot from Facebook) One key point: It’s not up to courts to determine whether a presidential candidate won an election. Judges can hear legal challenges to the way elections are administered or votes are counted, and their decisions may affect the outcome of an election, but they don’t declare the winner. Under the Constitution, states have the power to administer elections and count votes. The states certified their results, some following audits and recounts, almost two months ago. On Jan. 7, Congress finalized those results, which showed that Biden won with 306 electoral votes, to Trump’s 232. Biden won the popular vote by about 7 million. Biden was duly sworn into office Jan. 20. There is no evidence that voter fraud affected that outcome. Election officials in every state said there was no sign of significant voter fraud during the voting process. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called the 2020 election "the most secure in American history." Former Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread fraud.  Trump and his allies filed dozens of lawsuits in state and federal courts to challenge the election results. Not one of them proved that voter fraud affected the election outcome.  The Trump campaign won one lawsuit related to reducing the amount of time Pennsylvania voters had to fix errors on their mail-in ballots. The matter involved a small number of ballots that didn’t change the outcome. Some cases were rejected because plaintiffs failed to present any evidence of widespread voter fraud, while others were dismissed because they contained errors or faced jurisdictional problems. Cases were dismissed by Democratic-appointed and Republican-appointed judges.  In his dismissal of a case seeking to have Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature allocate the state’s electoral votes instead of going by the result of the popular vote, U.S. District Judge Brett H. Ludwig — a Trump appointee — said Trump’s claims failed "as a matter of law and fact." "A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred," he wrote. "This court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits." The post is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire! RELATED: A note to our readers who think President Trump won

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2021-01-06 00:00:00

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“Not one court has looked at the evidence and said that Biden legally won” the presidential election.

Daniel Funke

2021-02-10 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/10/joe-biden/fact-checking-bidens-claim-about-15-minimum-wage-a/

Fact-checking Joe Biden’s claim about $15 minimum wage and poverty

President Joe Biden’s proposal for a $15-an-hour minimum wage as part of his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan may not survive amid resistance in Congress, but Biden sees his campaign promise as a key path out of poverty. "No one should work 40 hours a week and live below the poverty wage," he told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired Super Bowl weekend. "And if you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage." We found that whether a person earning below $15 an hour is living in poverty depends upon various factors, including the size of their household and the cost of living in their jurisdiction. Federal minimum wage has been stagnant for more than a decade Since 2009, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour, though 29 states and Washington D.C. have higher minimum wages, as do some cities and counties.  Among the general public, the $15 minimum wage is popular, although business groups and their allies among lawmakers argue that they would cause job losses. Economists who study wage hikes debate the impact on employment or the economy. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded in February that raising the federal minimum wage in annual increments to $15 per hour by June 2025 would reduce employment by 1.4 million workers but also reduce the number of people in poverty by 900,000. Measured in inflation-adjusted dollars, the current minimum wage is lower than it was from the mid-1950s to late 1980s, and in many years since then. Wages aren’t the only factor in poverty Since Biden didn’t explain during the interview whether he was referring to full-time workers of a certain household size, we asked his spokesperson to clarify what he meant. T.J. Ducklo pointed to the federal government’s poverty guidelines that show a family of four earning $26,500 as living in poverty. Based on a calculation of 2,000 hours at a full-time hourly job, that means the wage earner in a family of four earning up to $13 an hour is living in poverty. If the same worker earned $15 an hour, the family would earn $30,000 a year, placing them over the poverty line. Experts on wages didn’t dispute Biden’s math, but said his comment doesn’t fully reflect the factors that determine if someone lives in poverty. One key factor is varying housing costs depending on geographic location.  Shawn Fremstad, a senior fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the federal poverty guidelines are updated based on inflation, but are otherwise outdated and based on an understanding developed decades ago of the amount of income needed to live out of poverty.  "The antiquated HHS poverty standard used by the White House includes ZERO allowance for child care, health insurance, prepared foods, meals away from home, modern transportation, and other goods and services that weren’t thought of as necessities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when a full-time housewife was assumed and mainstream living standards were very different," Fremstad said.  Experts said that wages alone may not shed light on whether a household lives in poverty. For example, a family with two full-time workers each earning $13 an hour would be above the poverty-level, but if they need child care for two children, it would wipe out more than half their income, said Elizabeth Pancotti, policy adviser at Employ America, a group that supports a $15 minimum wage. "As a result, it’s likely unrealistic to think that all families of four earning minimum wage-level earnings could have both adults work," she said. "I think it’s reasonable for the White House to base their analysis on one income for a household of four."  David Neumark, a professor of economics at the University of California-Irvine, who has found negative impacts on jobs from wage hikes, said the minimum wage is a "crude tool to target poverty" because it targets low wages, not low family income. "A worker gets the higher minimum wage whether she is a single mother (who needs help!), the spouse of someone who makes $1 million a year, or the teenage daughter of that same person," he said. The calculation by Biden also ignores other government programs, most notably the earned income tax credit, which provides a subsidy to low-wage workers. A family earning low wages may also get food stamps, subsidized housing or Medicaid. Our ruling Biden said, "If you're making less than $15 an hour, you're living below the poverty wage." A spokesman for Biden said he was referring to a family of four with one full-time income using the federal government’s poverty guideline, an explanation Biden didn’t include in the interview. Using that measurement, that family with a paycheck of $13 an hour would live below the poverty line. At $15 an hour, the same family would clearly be above the poverty line. So Biden was off by about a dollar, using the existing standards. But experts said wages alone don’t tell the full story about whether a household lives in poverty. Other factors include child care and housing costs, for example, which can vary by geography. Generalizing a "poverty wage" to a specific number ignores the different circumstances that families face. Other experts said the federal definition of a poverty level is out of date and needs changing. We rate this claim Half True.  RELATED: Minimum wage increases and the myth of the $38 burrito RELATED: Bobby Scott is right about falling value of minimum wage  

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Sherrod Brown

2021-02-07 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Photo shows Tampa Mayor Jane Castor maskless at Super Bowl.

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-02-09 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/facebook-posts/social-media-posts-wrong-about-origin-cracker-barr/

Social media posts wrong about the origin of Cracker Barrel restaurant chain’s name

The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain has been serving Southern cuisine and selling rocking chairs in its old country stores since its first location opened in Lebanon, Tenn., in 1969.  But several posts spreading on social media claim the company’s name and logo refer to a slaveholder’s whips and the barrels they were stored in.  "Cracker was a slang term for whip," reads one Facebook post that features an image of the company’s name and logo. "Thats why blacks called whites crackers, from the crack of the whip. A cracker barrel is a barrel that held the whips for sale at the country store. You see the whip going from the R to the K? Racism in your face!!" The story isn’t true, and the company denied the claim. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Merriam-Webster defines "cracker-barrel" as an adjective "suggestive of the friendly homespun character of a country store. Dictionary.com defines the term as "of or suggesting the simple rustic informality and directness thought to be characteristic of life in and around the country store." The company’s name and the logo allude to barrels that were used to store soda crackers, like saltines or northern common crackers, not whips.  Cracker Barrel said its logo does not depict a whip and never has. "The part of the logo being referenced in social media posts is a flourish, which is used in the calligraphy of the logos of many brands," the company said in an emailed statement. "Cracker Barrel rejects racism and discrimination in any form." A 2018 article by Southern Living also covered how the company got its name. The phrase, according to the article, was inspired by the barrels full of soda crackers that were for sale in general stores around the country. Visitors would sit around them to catch up on the day's news. The logo shows a man sitting in the chair, leaning on the barrel.  Photographs of old newspaper ads support this. One image shared on Twitter shows a 1913 ad from Oklahoma’s May Bugle featuring the crackers. Another, from the Newton Daily News in 1965, depicts the "general store era" of cracker barrels. The viral posts may be partly correct on the origin of the term "cracker" on its own as a racial slur. Jelani Cobb, a historian who has written on the etymology of some anti-white slurs, told NPR in 2013 that the word is suspected to be a shortened version of "whip-cracker," and was used in the mid-18th century as an insult against poor whites who handled livestock with a whip. Cracker Barrel has faced accusations of racial discrmination in its treatment of Black employees and customers. A 2004 investigation by the U.S. Justice Department found that the chain violated civil-rights law in its treatment of Black customers at restaurants in seven states. Under a consent decree settling the case, Cracker Barrel agreed to introduce "effective nondiscrimination policies and procedures," improve training and make other policy changes.  Our ruling Social media posts claim that Cracker Barrel’s name and logo allude to a slaveholder’s whip and the barrels used to store them. That isn’t true. The company rejected the rumor and said its logo features a common calligraphy flourish used in the logos of many brands.  The barrels referred to in the name were used at general stores to store soda crackers, not whips. We rate this False. 

Race and Ethnicity,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2021-02-05 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Cracker Barrel’s name has racist origins and its logo depicts a whip.

Samantha Putterman

2021-02-09 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/blog-posting/trump-did-not-win-two-thirds-election-lawsuits-whe/

Trump did not win two-thirds of election lawsuits ‘where merits considered’

Donald Trump and his allies filed dozens of lawsuits in state and federal courts seeking to challenge the results of the 2020 election. Some Trump-friendly websites make it seem like the former president prevailed in the majority of them. The Feb. 7 headline of an article from the Epoch Times, a media outlet backed by the Falun Gong religious movement, said: "Trump Won Two-Thirds of Election Lawsuits Where Merits Considered." "Of the 22 cases that have been heard by the courts and decided on their merits, Trump and Republicans have prevailed in 15," the site wrote. "This means Trump has won two-thirds of the cases fully adjudicated by the courts." The article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The Epoch Times attributed the tally to John Droz Jr., who it described as a "physicist and environmental advocate in Morehead City, N.C." Droz is a political activist who has denied the science of climate change and advocated against legislation aimed at mitigating sea-level rise. None of the lawsuits filed by Trump and his supporters have proved there was fraud, and judges across the political spectrum have rejected their cases. But we wanted to take a closer look at the claim that the challenges were more successful than they appear. The Epoch Times’ headline gives the impression that Trump won several election-related lawsuits on their merits. But only one of the cases cited by the article was decided after Nov. 3, many were not exclusively about Trump, and some were not related to the general presidential election at all. "No one from the Epoch Times spoke to me about their article, so they made their own conclusions," Droz told PolitiFact. After we reached out to the Epoch Times for a comment, the website changed its headline to read: "In Two-Thirds of Election Lawsuits Where Merits Considered Decisions Are Favorable to Trump." Trump won one post-election lawsuit In its article, the Epoch Times cited an analysis of "81 lawsuits that were filed in connection with the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election." Droz and a team of volunteers spearheaded that work and published their findings in a public spreadsheet. It includes cases spanning from March to December 2020 and links to copies of lawsuits published by the Healthy Elections Project, an initiative from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between November and December, Trump and his allies lost dozens of lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results. Some cases were rejected because plaintiffs failed to prove widespread voter fraud. In a statement on his website, Droz conceded that the majority of the cases he logged have nothing to do with allegations of voter fraud. The Epoch Times also included that disclaimer in its article. "The article (and our former and current headlines) clearly indicate that these are lawsuits related to the election, not about the election results," the Epoch Times’ public relations team wrote in an email. "And the article (and the Droz spreadsheet) indicate the cases involve Trump or the GOP — a lawsuit's outcome can be favorable to Trump even if he is not the plaintiff." In his spreadsheet, Droz found that "Trump and/or the GOP plaintiff prevailed in 15 out of 21 cases decided on the merits" related to the election. "Decided on merits" a note in the spreadsheet says, means the plaintiff "was able to argue the facts of the case, and, if applicable, given opportunity to present evidence via discovery."  That’s more or less how the Cornell Legal Information Institute defines the term. The opposite of adjudicating cases on their merits is deciding them on procedural grounds. For example, some lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies were dismissed because they contained errors or faced jurisdictional problems. Of the 15 cases in Droz’s spreadsheet, three were filed on or after Election Day. None of them involved allegations of voter fraud.  And of those three, just one case, filed Nov. 4, had to do with the election results. It centered on reducing the amount of time Pennsylvania voters had to fix errors on their mail-in ballots. The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee were granted an injunction against the secretary of state to prevent extending the proof of ID period by three days. The matter involved a small number of ballots that didn’t change the outcome. "Trump won one case in the post-election and lost 64," said Marc Elias, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm who has represented Democrats in the lawsuits. Trump has not prevailed in any cases that allege voter fraud or seek to overturn the election results. "The key place to challenge election results is in state court election contests. Trump and his allies brought a few and lost because he did not have evidence of any error or wrongdoing in any state that could have affected the results," said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. "Those cases are hard to win by design, and so Trump and his allies shifted to other suits, such as those in federal court, making legally dubious claims." Pre-election cases not all about Trump Trump and his allies have only won one lawsuit since Election Day. But what about those filed prior to Nov. 3? We looked at each of the lawsuits that Droz noted as a victory for Trump on their merits, dating back to March 2020. Among them are cases like RNC v. Miller and Texas v. Hollins, which blocked election officials from prepopulating mail ballots with voter information and sending applications to all registered voters. Other cases are not directly about Trump or his claims about mail ballots, such as a federal court’s decision to stay an injunction that delayed Arizona’s voter registration deadline by 18 days. "What we are trying to do is to identify all lawsuits related to the 2020 presidential election," Droz said. "In other words, these are not all directly about Trump. For example, most of them have to do with things like whether modified state election laws were changed legally."But some of the cases Droz counted as wins for Trump and the GOP aren’t directly related to the general presidential election.  For example, Jefferson v. Dane County, filed in late March, sought to order an election official in Wisconsin to remove a Facebook post about the proper use of "indefinitely confined" status for voters requesting absentee ballots. Ritchie v. Polis, filed in May, had to do with whether a petition to put a measure on the ballot in Colorado had to be signed in the presence of a ballot circulator during the coronavirus pandemic. Among Droz’s tally of wins for "Trump and/or the GOP plaintiff," the Trump campaign was a complainant on four successful election lawsuits, two of which were filed prior to Nov. 3.  Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Marymount University, said, numbers aside, the focus on cases decided on their merits paints a misleading picture of the Trump campaign’s election litigation.  "The procedural dismissals aren’t all small things," Levitt said. "Some of them are bad lawyering. But some of them are dismissals, because Trump supporters tried to challenge laws well over a year after they were passed, well after ballots had gone out to eligible voters who had the right to rely on the fact that the ballots they were receiving were lawful, and well after the election was over."  Our ruling The Epoch Times wrote Feb. 7 that Trump won "two-thirds of election lawsuits where merits (were) considered." That claim is not literally true. The Epoch Times revised its headline after we reached out. Trump and his allies have won one lawsuit related to the results of the 2020 election, and that case did not prove that widespread voter fraud affected the outcome. Judges across the political spectrum have rejected dozens of other cases filed after Nov. 3 that sought to overturn the election. Just because a case is dismissed on procedural grounds does not mean it wasn’t duly considered. While the body of the Epoch Times’ story contains some of that nuance, its previous headline did not. We rate it False. RELATED: Donald Trump has lost dozens of election lawsuits. Here’s why

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Joe Biden

2021-02-09 00:00:00

an Epoch Times headl

"Trump Won Two-Thirds of Election Lawsuits Where Merits Considered"

Daniel Funke

2021-02-09 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/greg-kelly/newsmax-host-falsely-claims-only-one-person-died-c/

Newsmax host falsely claims ‘only one person died’ at Capitol Jan. 6

The night before the Senate began the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Newsmax TV host Greg Kelly falsely claimed that only one person died Jan. 6 during the U.S. Capitol riot at the center of the push to convict Trump. "They’ve been lying about so much, including, by the way, that five people died on Jan. 6, 2021," Kelly said Feb. 8. "It's not true. Only one person died on that day. You know who it was? The unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt. Unarmed woman shot and killed by Capitol Police." Kelly was wrong about the Capitol siege’s human toll. A spokesperson for Newsmax declined to comment. In addition to Babbitt, three others died Jan. 6 from medical emergencies suffered during the riot, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department confirmed. A fifth person, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, died the next day after responding to the riot. Two other officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — D.C. police officer Jeffery Smith and Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood — died by suicide in the weeks that followed, acting Metropolitan Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said Jan. 26 in testimony before Congress. The head of the Capitol Police officers’ union said about 140 officers were injured. Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran and supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she climbed through a smashed door leading to the hallway outside the House chambers. Her death was captured on video. According to the New York Times and other news outlets, the three other Trump supporters who died during the events included 55-year-old Kevin Greeson of Alabama, who suffered a heart attack; 50-year-old Benjamin Philips of Pennsylvania, who suffered a stroke; and 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland of Georgia, who died as fellow rioters fought through a police line.  A friend who was with Boyland told WGCL-TV she was pinned to the ground and trampled by fellow rioters, which lines up with the New York Times’ reporting based on videos from the event that she "died after losing consciousness in the crush of a pro-Trump mob." An incident report published by Snopes said officers dispatched to the Capitol found her collapsed and receiving CPR. Contee reported all four deaths in a press conference Jan. 6. News reports from the day, including a fact-check from PolitiFact, also said four people had died in the violence. Capitol Police announced Sicknick’s death in a press release Jan. 7, writing that the officer died at roughly 9:30 p.m. that day "due to injuries sustained while on-duty." Sicknick was injured while "physically engaging with protesters" on Jan. 6, and he collapsed after he returned to his division office, the press release said. Investigations into Sicknick’s death are ongoing. Our ruling Kelly said, "It's not true (that five people died on Jan. 6). Only one person died on that day. You know who it was? The unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt." That’s inaccurate. Four people died at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, died the following day after he was injured in the violence. We rate Kelly’s statement False. If you or people you know are thinking about suicide, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. 

Elections,Crime,Pundits,PunditFact,Greg Kelly

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Viral image

2021-02-07 00:00:00

a Newsmax TV segment:

“Only one person died on that day” during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.

Bill McCarthy

2021-02-09 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/lee-merritt/covid-19-vaccines-were-not-released-states-until-a/

COVID-19 vaccines were not released to states until after approval

In a YouTube video posted Jan. 16, and shared on Facebook, Dr. Lee Merritt, who owns a Nebraska clinic that offers tattoo removal and other services, casts doubt on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.  Merritt claims in an interview segment that the vaccine was sent to states before it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  "This vaccine was rolled out to distribution centers before they even made a show of caring about the FDA approving it," she tells interviewer Alex Newman. "It went out for distribution, I know in Nebraska, it was in the distribution center days before the FDA even said they were going to approve it."  The article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We looked into the timeline of the FDA’s approval of vaccines for emergency use, and when vaccine distribution began, and found no evidence for Merritt’s claim. We reached out to Merritt twice for any evidence of her claim, but did not hear back. Merritt, an orthopaedic surgeon, has spoken out against mask mandates, and has supported the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, which was touted by President Donald Trump as a possible COVID-19 treatment, has been the subject of several fact-checks by PolitiFact, and researchers have concluded that it’s not an effective treatment for COVID-19.  Approval and distribution The FDA announced on Dec. 11 that it had approved the first vaccine, manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech.   In Nebraska, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Dec. 14 that the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine "arrived in Nebraska today."  In the same announcement, the state said that it expected to receive 4,875 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the day and 15,600 by week's end. On Dec. 21, Nebraska announced that it expected to receive the Moderna vaccine in the next week. The Moderna vaccine was approved by the FDA on Dec. 18.  The communications director for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Khalilah LeGrand, confirmed to PolitiFact that no shipments of vaccine were received before approval, nor could officials order vaccine prior to approval.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website outlines how the vaccine approval and distribution process works. "Distribution of FDA-authorized vaccines begin 24 hours after the Emergency Use Authorization," the site states. "The first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines began December 14, 2020." HHS spokesman Bill Hall confirmed that no vaccines were distributed prior to FDA approval.   We could find no news coverage of any vaccines arriving in Nebraska before they were approved by the FDA.  Speaking at a news briefing on Dec. 12, the day after the FDA authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, one of the federal government’s top vaccine distribution planners said that vaccines were being prepared for shipment. Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, said: "As I speak today, right now, vaccines are being packaged with a lot of emphasis on quality assurance. To that end, tomorrow morning, vaccines will start rolling from manufacturing to distribution hubs." CNBC reported on how some of the vaccine distribution planning included sending protective gear for health care workers and inoculation supplies — but not the vaccine — to states ahead of FDA approval. These early shipments included needles, syringes and mixing vials. The advance planning also included building "freezer farms" to hold the vaccine, which requires cold storage.  Pfizer shipped vaccines from its Kalamazoo, Mich., factory after FDA approval and from a distribution facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., to states.  McKesson, which is distributing the Moderna vaccine, said that its shipping partners would deliver initial vaccine doses on Dec. 21, days after approval.  Our ruling Merritt claimed that doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in distribution centers in Nebraska before it was approved by the FDA.  The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services announced that it received both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines after the dates of FDA approval. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that it releases vaccines for distribution 24 hours after they are approved. A top planner of the federal government’s vaccine development efforts said that the vaccine began shipping after it was approved.  We rate Merritt’s claim False.     

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2021-02-07 00:00:00

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The COVID-19 vaccine “went out for distribution” in Nebraska “days before the FDA even said they were going to approve it.”

Jill Terreri Ramos

2021-02-09 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/facebook-posts/any-air-force-plane-ferrying-president-technically/

Any Air Force plane ferrying the president is technically Air Force One

On Friday, Feb. 5, President Joe Biden boarded Air Force One and flew to his home state of Delaware.  As images of the trip emerged, some social media users seized on the fact that Biden was taking a plane different from the one that often transported Donald Trump when he was president. "Biden’s Air Force One is not the same as Trump’s Air Force One," reads the title of a video published Feb. 6 on Bitchute, which shows the photos of the different planes sandwiched between graphics that show the word "LIE" stamped across headlines declaring "Biden Wins." "Media lied to you about Joe flying on AF1," reads a Feb. 7 Facebook post with a similar claim. "Notice the difference... AF1 is in the top photo complete with seal. The bottom plane is a Boeing C-40 the one Joe flew on … used for high profile government officials to fly on but NOT the President. President flies on AF1 or Marine 1. Notice the little things... and you’ll catch them in their lies!"  These posts imply that Biden is not flying on Air Force One because he is not the real commander-in-chief, furthering a baseless conspiracy theory that the November election was not legitimate. This theory is not based in fact, and it rests on a flawed understanding of Air Force One.  Air Force One isn’t the name of a particular plane. It’s the air traffic control sign designating any Air Force aircraft carrying the president. In other words, any Air Force plane carrying the president is called Air Force One.  There are two types of planes typically designated for carrying the president: a Boeing VC-25A and a Boeing C-32. The VC-25A is the iconic military plane most commonly associated with Air Force One, while the C-32 is typically used for shorter domestic flights and flights to small airports that can’t support the much larger VC-25A.  Biden’s flight from Washington, D.C. to Delaware lasted only 25 minutes, so he took the C-32 plane. Images from Feb. 5 show him disembarking from the plane at Wilmington Airport.  Former President Donald Trump was frequently filmed and photographed taking the C-32 plane as well. So was President Barack Obama.  Joe Biden is the president of the United States. He was duly inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president on Jan. 20. The day’s events were witnessed and documented by elected officials, former presidents, military members, reporters, photographers and performers. They were also broadcast and live-streamed by several outlets including ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, NBC and PBS.  Our ruling Posts claim that "Biden’s Air Force One is not the same as Trump’s Air Force One," which means that Biden is not the real president.  Any Air Force plane transporting the president is designated with the Air Force One call sign.  On a trip to Delaware, Biden took a small plane the president uses for short domestic flights and flights to small airports. Trump also took that plane when he was president. These posts are inaccurate and ridiculous. Pants on Fire! RELATED: Biden took a private plane to his inauguration. He’s still the legitimate president

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2021-02-08 00:00:00

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“Biden’s Air Force One is not the same as Trump’s Air Force One,” which indicates Biden is not the real president.

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2021-02-09 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/andrew-cuomo/cuomos-claim-about-new-yorks-below-average-nursing/

Cuomo’s claim about below-average nursing home deaths was right, but new data shows evolving picture

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to defend his administration’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes following a high-profile independent investigation. Compared to the rest of the country, nursing home deaths linked to the virus are below average, Cuomo said. State Attorney General Letitia James revealed in a report on Jan. 28 that the death toll from the virus among residents of nursing homes had been undercounted in data released by the state Health Department. The report found that the Health Department had reported the overall number of COVID-19 deaths among all state residents accurately.  The administration had said it did not want to double count nursing home residents who died in hospitals. So their deaths in hospitals were not counted as part of the nursing home death toll. The administration has since said the numbers of people transferred from nursing homes to hospitals "is an important data point."  "If you look at New York state, we have a lower percentage of deaths in nursing homes than other states," Cuomo said during a press briefing on Jan. 29. "A third of all deaths in this nation are from nursing homes. New York state, we are only at about 28 percent - only. But we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes." We approached the Cuomo administration for the source of its data.  The governor’s staff directed us to a statement from Dr. Howard Zucker, the state’s health commissioner, from Jan. 28.  In response to the attorney general’s report, Zucker cited data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and KFF, formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan source of health information.   According to the Health Department, from March 1, 2020, to Jan. 19, 2021, there were 9,786 confirmed deaths of skilled nursing facility residents, including 5,957 in nursing facilities and 3,829 in hospitals. Zucker cautioned that the department’s audit is ongoing, but these figures represent audited data so far. The nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 account for 28 percent of New York’s 34,742 confirmed fatalities, which is below the national average, Zucker said.    Zucker compared KFF data to CDC data to calculate that nationally 35 percent of total deaths affect nursing home residents.  Across the country, KFF’s tally is 146,888 long-term care fatalities, as of Jan. 22. This figure includes some nursing home staff members, as well as residents, in the areas of the country where this data is reported. The CDC reported 423,519 total deaths as of Jan. 26, 2021.  Adding the number of deaths of nursing home residents who had presumed cases of COVID-19 -- 2,957 -- brings the New York percentage of nursing home deaths to 29.8 percent, still below the national average, Zucker said.  We asked a senior policy analyst with KFF about Cuomo’s claim.  Priya Chidambaram, who studies COVID-19 in nursing homes, told PolitiFact on Feb. 5 that Cuomo’s claim is consistent with the available data.  "No matter which way you cut it, the New York share does appear to be lower than the national average," Chidambaram said.   In October, we fact-checked Cuomo’s claim that New York was "No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes," and found it to be Mostly False. That’s because Cuomo was comparing New York to other states while not releasing data about deaths of nursing home residents in hospitals, which would have changed New York’s ranking.  KFF also warns that because states report data differently, "data cannot be compared between states."   Comparing New York to a national average "is a more fair reading of where New York ranks," Chidambaram said.  We also spoke with Robert Applebaum, a gerontology professor who tracks COVID-19 nursing home data at Miami University, which has a partnership with AARP.   "I would say that our data continued to show that New York state deaths are on average, per hundred, below the national average by a fair amount," Applebaum said.  People who study the virus in nursing homes warn that data can be incomplete. States have different procedures for collecting and reporting data, such as collecting information about residents and staff, as well as the types of care facilities that are included.  The Covid Tracking Project, an independent research initiative, found that as of Jan. 28, the last data release before Cuomo’s statement, 157,069 long-term care residents, including assisted living facilities, and 423,645 people had died of the virus nationwide, presumed and confirmed cases. Long-term care residents represent 37 percent of total deaths in this case. In New York, 25.2 percent of total deaths involved long-term care residents, according to the Covid Tracking Project, though researchers caution that the data could represent an undercount.   A week after Cuomo made his statement, the New York numbers changed significantly.  The Cuomo administration released more data, through Feb. 4, about COVID-19-related deaths of people who lived in nursing homes. Presumed and confirmed virus-related deaths total 13,163, according to an analysis from the Empire Center, a conservative think tank that sued the administration for nursing home data. On Feb. 5, Cuomo announced overall deaths totaled 35,920, meaning the 36.6 percent of virus deaths were related to nursing homes. The Covid Tracking Project’s national average of deaths of long-term care facility residents, as of Feb. 7, was 36 percent. KFF calculated the national average of long-term care deaths as a percentage of total deaths at 37 percent, as of Feb. 8.     At PolitiFact, we base our rulings on information available at the time the person we are fact-checking made the statement.  Our ruling Cuomo said that New York’s coronavirus-related death toll of nursing home residents was below the national average. Nationally, long-term care residents account for about 37 percent of COVID-19 deaths, according to KFF.  Data from KFF, the federal government and New York state show that New York’s nursing home-related deaths, as a percentage of overall COVID-19 deaths, were below the national average at the time of Cuomo’s claim. Since then, new data about the deaths of all nursing home residents, regardless of where they died, raised the percentage of nursing home residents among the state's COVID-19 fatalities. It is still slightly below the national average calculated by KFF. While his statement is accurate, there are still inconsistencies among the states in how they calculate their nursing home data, and that needs to be taken into account. So we rate Cuomo’s claim Mostly True.   

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Lee Merritt

2021-02-06 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Photo shows Joe Biden asleep at his desk.

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-02-09 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/09/richard-durbin/how-many-daca-recipients-are-essential-workers-ami/

How many DACA recipients are essential workers amid COVID-19 pandemic?

For two decades, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has advocated for passing the Dream Act to grant legal status to certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. As he made his case for the 2021 version of the bill, Durbin cited the role of these immigrants as workers in essential sectors. "In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential infrastructure workers," Durbin said during a Feb. 4 Senate floor speech, referring to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed these immigrants to stay in the country without fear of deportation. "That’s not my term — that is the definition of the Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump," Durbin said. "Among these essential workers are 41,700 DACA recipients in the healthcare industry: doctors, intensive care nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists — all of them in a suspended immigration status because (the) Dream Act is still a bill, not a law." The number of DACA recipients who hold essential jobs during the pandemic has been a talking point for months among advocates of protecting these immigrants from deportation. A few think tanks — including one cited by Durbin — have tried to estimate their numbers, using varying criteria. Their estimates range from the tens of thousands to as many as 361,000. Dream Act and Obama administration efforts For two decades, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have crafted versions of legislation, sometimes called the Dream Act, that would offer a path to citizenship for immigrants who came here illegally as children. But despite bipartisan enthusiasm in Congress, the bills have stalled.  In 2012, the Obama administration created DACA as an administrative program to protect these immigrants from deportation, as long as they reapplied every two years and met certain requirements. The Trump administration tried to rescind the program, but encountered legal hurdles. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued a memorandum directing federal officials to preserve DACA. There were about 641,000 active DACA recipients as of September. Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the Dream Act of 2021 to allow certain immigrants to earn lawful permanent residence and eventually citizenship if they meet conditions, including passing background checks, and pursue higher education, work lawfully for at least three years, or serve in the military. Where DACA recipients work Durbin’s spokesperson said his statistics about essential workers came from an April 2020 report about the demographics of DACA recipients by the Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy research and advocacy organization. CAP drew from a March 2020 memo by the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency identifying essential critical infrastructure workers during the pandemic.  The analysis by CAP included workers in health care, education and food-related jobs, although CISA’s list also included jobs in other areas such as transportation. CAP also drew on its own analysis of Census data to estimate how many people were DACA recipients, and looked at Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational classifications to come up with its employment numbers. "Across the country, 202,500 DACA recipients are working to protect the health and safety of Americans as the country confronts COVID-19," the report stated. "They are ensuring that children are still being educated; food is still being grown, packaged, cooked, shipped, and put on the shelves of grocery stores; patients are being cared for; and much more." CAP found that 29,000 DACA recipients are frontline health care workers, while an additional 12,700 work in the healthcare industry as custodians, food preparers ormanagers, among other jobs. Durbin arrived at his figure of 41,700 by adding those two groups.  We sent the CAP report to the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for low levels of immigration. Steve Camarota, the group’s director of research, said that some of those CAP counted as health care workers are not on the frontlines of the pandemic, such as dental assistants or technologists or technicians for veterinarians or ophthalmologists. "Honorable work to be sure, but not vital to fighting COVID," Camarota said. CAP said its analysis includes 6,000 health technologists or technicians, including dietetic technicians, pharmacy technicians, psychiatric technicians, surgical technologists, veterinary technologists and technicians, and ophthalmic medical technicians. But CAP’s numbers aren’t out of line with other groups that have come up with estimates of DACA recipients who work in essential industries: The Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, concluded that there were between 72,000 and 361,000 essential workers among DACA participants in 2020. The range is based on various definitions of essential industries. The Center for Migration Studies, a nonpartisan think tank devoted to studying international migration, concluded there were about 43,500 DACA recipients in health care and social assistance industries and tens of thousands in other essential industries including transportation, warehousing, retail, manufacturing and waste management. The New American Economy, a bipartisan group of mayors and business leaders that seeks an overhaul of national immigration policy, found there were 62,600 DACA-eligible individuals in healthcare. Our ruling Durbin said "More than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential infrastructure workers" including "41,700 DACA recipients in the healthcare industry." Durbin was drawing from an April 2020 report from the liberal Center for American Progress. The statistics come with some caveats, including that they are estimates and include a broad swath of workers in healthcare, including some who aren’t on the front lines of treating COVID-19 patients. Even so, the numbers he cited are lower than some estimates by other groups. We rate this statement Mostly True.  

Immigration,Congress,Coronavirus,Richard Durbin

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Andrew Cuomo

2021-02-05 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden said, “Buy a man eat fish, he day, teach fish man, to a lifetime."

Bill McCarthy

2021-02-09 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/sherrod-brown/black-lives-matter-protests-faced-more-militarized/

Black Lives Matter protests faced a more militarized response than Capitol mob

In remarks to Ohio reporters, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said there was a big difference in police response between what Black Lives Matter protesters faced and what riotous Trump supporters encountered at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In the summer, "peaceful Black protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response," Brown said Jan. 8. "While this week, white supremacists, rioters were able to breach the Capitol." The ease with which a mob of people fresh from a rally led by President Donald Trump breached the Capitol and ran rampant through the halls of Congress has led to resignations and triggered formal investigations.  While no two protest situations unfold in exactly the same way, Brown’s comparison of the earliest clashes in each event is accurate.    Early use of riot gear against Black Lives Matter protesters After Minneapolis police killed unarmed George Floyd on May 25, protests against police brutality spread across the country. In Minneapolis, protesters surrounded a police station May 28, entered it and set fires inside. There was looting, vandalism and other fires in the city.  Trump vowed the federal government was ready to step in. "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen," Trump tweeted at about 1 a.m. May 29. "Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts."  RELATED: From Miami '67 to Donald Trump 2020: The history of 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts' On the afternoon of May 29, the Black Lives Matter protest movement arrived in Washington, D.C. About 1,000 people gathered in a park across the street from the White House. The confrontation between police and protesters grew more tense. At about 3 a.m., a line of officers in riot gear with shields advanced and deployed chemical irritants to disperse the crowd. The next day, police in full riot gear, again facing a line of protestors — some throwing water bottles and eggs — charged and broke up the group. Video from a local news reporter captured the clash. Insanity outside the White House. Three warnings of an unlawful assembly from the Secret Service before storming into the crowd. A lot of people have been hit with paper spray. In all the chaos, at least one person was tossed to the ground and presumably arrested. pic.twitter.com/Ab2eSkq9CS— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) May 30, 2020 There are iconic images that took place after the initial clashes. Police on horseback and officers firing pepper balls charged through peaceful protesters. Their goal — move them away from a church where Trump was scheduled to have his picture taken holding up a Bible. Lines of National Guard troops stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  But even from the first encounters, the use of riot gear and shields against Black Lives Matter protesters stands in sharp contrast to the security line that met the Trump supporters at the Capitol Jan. 6. When marchers walked up to a portable metal barricade on the Capitol grounds, they saw a handful of officers in their regular uniforms standing on the other side. The marchers and officers struggled over control of the barricade. The Trump supporters overwhelmed the police. The moment it all began. pic.twitter.com/gdyx9Udgc6— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) January 7, 2021 Soon after, a line of police were tussling with Trump supporters on the steps of the Capitol. Rioters shoved police officers, spraying chemical irritants and hitting them with lead pipes. Police deployed flash bangs and pepper spray in an attempt to ward off the crowd.  A couple of hours after rioters breached the Capitol’s first line of defense, police reinforcements began to arrive. Many wore riot gear. They used tear gas to disperse the rioters. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser imposed a 6 p.m. curfew. After curfew, law enforcement officers clad in body armor began to use aggressive tactics similar to their treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters, advancing on rioters and whacking them with batons.  Response to advance warnings While police forces prepared for the worst with the Black Lives Matter protests, the people in charge of protecting the Capitol failed to anticipate the aggression of the Trump supporters.  Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, head of the House committee that controls the Capitol Police budget, said that a week before the march, the Capitol Police assured him that everything was under control. Ryan said he was told they expected a "pretty vanilla" protest. "There wasn't going to be any kind of violence anticipated," Ryan said. "Maybe some dust-ups. Maybe issues around people trying to get guns into the District of Columbia, where they have very strict gun laws, but absolutely nothing like this." The people who study crowds and police say there was ample reason to plan for a much more aggressive group. "There was clear intelligence about where this was headed," said Ed Maguire, Arizona State University criminologist. "All you had to do is go on Parler (the alt-right social media platform) for 10 minutes. I was on the night before. They were talking about violence. This is open source material, and the police would have had more." Just a month earlier, a Dec. 12 Trump rally had attracted members of the Proud Boys, a violence-prone group that showed up again on Jan. 6. In December, they were involved in street fights that led to multiple stabbings. Bowser urged residents to stay home and avoid any confrontation with people coming to the rally. The night before the assault on the Capitol, members of the Proud Boys and a militia group called the Three Percenters were in Washington wearing body armor and helmets, with some carrying clubs. Our ruling Brown said Black Lives Matter protesters outside the White House faced a more militarized response than rioters who assaulted the Capitol. The record shows that early on, federal officials planned for aggressive clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters, while those responsible for Capitol security planned for peaceful protests. Full riot gear was quickly used during the summer, but was not at key spots in the police line set up around the Capitol.  There were ample warnings that Trump supporters would engage in physical violence, but officials did not plan accordingly. We rate this claim True.

National,Elections,Crime,Sherrod Brown

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Viral image

2021-02-04 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Michelle Obama earned a doctorate after leaving the White House.

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-11 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/facebook-posts/no-isnt-video-capitol-rioter-upset-because-hes-no-/

No, this isn’t a video of a Capitol rioter upset because he’s on the no-fly list

A video of a distressed man yelling in an airport has gone viral, and in some cases, it’s wrongly being connected to the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6.  "This is what they do to us. They kicked me off the plane. They called me a f------ terrorist," the man says in a TikTok video.  Another person can be heard asking him to please calm down and saying that she was kicked off a Delta flight earlier. Some social media users are mischaracterizing why the man is upset. "People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on no-fly lists pending the full investigation," one Facebook post said. "They are not happy about this."  This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) But the TikTok user who published the video didn’t say the man was upset because he was on the no-fly list, a Department of Homeland Security database of "known or suspected terrorists."  Rather, the user said that he was upset because he was directed to wear a face covering.  "Homeboy had a full toddler level meltdown bc he was told to wear a mask," the Jan. 10 TikTok post said. USA Today reported that Delta removed two "unruly" passengers flying from Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport on Jan. 8.  Other airlines have reported difficult customers after the wake of the riot, including "non-mask compliant, rowdy, argumentative" passengers who harassed crew members on an Alaska Airlines flight from Washington Dulles International to Seattle, according to the story.  Separately, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a statement on Jan. 7 urging the Transportation Security Administration and the FBI to add those involved in the attack on the Capitol to the no-fly list. We reached out to Delta and the FBI about the claim in this Facebook post — and whether rioters have been added to the no-fly list — but did not immediately hear back.   However, there’s nothing to support the allegation in the post.  First, the TikTok user who posted the video said that the man was upset because he was kicked off his flight for not wearing a mask.  And second, if the man had been added to the no-fly list — a decision that’s made by the FBI and enforced by TSA — it doesn’t make sense that he would have made it to the boarding area, where this video was taken.  If someone is on the no-fly list, they can’t even get a boarding pass, which means he wouldn’t have made it to the gate. We rate this post False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more. CORRECTION, Jan. 13, 2021: An earlier version of this fact-check included a quote from the video that, upon further review, we cannot conclusively say was uttered because the audio is unclear. We have updated the fact-check to remove that portion of the transcription. The ruling remains unchanged.

Corrections and Updates,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Richard Durbin

2021-02-08 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Video shows man upset because he was added to the no-fly list for storming the Capitol.

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-11 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/kim-reynolds/pre-pandemic-iowa-had-largest-workforce-state-hist/

Pre-pandemic Iowa had largest workforce in state history

Going into Iowa’s 2021 state Legislature session, Gov. Kim Reynolds made a bid to draw attention to her administration’s pre-pandemic economic record last year, telling reporters that the state had the largest employed workforce in its history when 2020 started. "We began 2020 last year with our state’s fiscal health strong, our economy was growing, our wages were going up and we had more Iowans working than at any other time in our state history," Reynolds told reporters in a Thursday, Jan. 7, electronic news conference. Iowa’s first COVID-19 case was detected in March 2020. Although the labor force in Iowa had been steadily increasing, the COVID-19 pandemic marked a reversal of that trend. Iowa’s total civilian labor force and the number of those who were employed declined. We’ve checked claims about Iowa’s economy pre-pandemic before, though not the particular claim about Iowa boasting its largest employed workforce at the start of 2020.  Reynolds spokesperson Pat Garrett pointed to Iowa Workforce Development data to back up the claim and a check shows that’s true, though other indicators exist to show when an economy is prospering. In January 2020, Iowa’s employed workforce totaled 1,704,900 people, a March 16, 2020, Iowa Workforce Development report shows. That’s 600 more people than in the previous month and 33,000 more people than in January 2019. No other month in Iowa’s recorded employment has been higher than that January 2020 figure. By November 2020, the number of employed Iowans totaled 1,561,600, about 143,000 less than 10 months prior. The total available civilian labor force declined by 93,000 since April 2020. Ryan West, deputy director of the Iowa Workforce Development told The Daily Iowan in a phone interview that between October 2019 and February 2020, more than 1.7 million Iowans were employed, the most since the data first became available beginning in 1976. The numbers used, he said, are sourced from monthly reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the past two years, Iowa has had historically low unemployment rates for the state. According to the Iowa Workforce Development, nine of the past two decades’ lowest reported monthly unemployment rates were recorded in the last two years. The lowest unemployment rate over the past 20 years was 1.9 percent in October 2018.  But were wages going up? The annual mean wage from May 2019, the last available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was $47,330, up from the May 2018 average wage of $46,150. According to a 2019 State of Working Iowa report by the Iowa Policy Project, which since has merged with another organization and has been renamed Common Good Iowa, the median hourly wage went up about 80 cents since 2009 to $18.40, most of which came in the last two years. However, that wage growth has been "slow to come" according to the report. Iowa’s top 10 percent of earners had the highest share of wage growth. Our ruling Before COVID-19, the numbers show Iowa’s employed workforce was the largest in the state’s history. But the numbers have declined since the pandemic. We rate the governor’s statement as True.

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Facebook posts

2021-02-08 00:00:00

a news conference:

Before COVID-19, “more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history."

Sarah Watson

2021-01-11 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/blog-posting/theres-no-evidence-trump-has-invoked-insurrection-/

There’s no evidence Trump has invoked the Insurrection Act

Social media posts have started circulating false claims that President Donald Trump has signed and invoked the Insurrection Act, and that Michael Flynn will be appointed vice president.  A website called bitchute.com published a video Jan. 10 with the headline: "TRUMP SIGNS INSURRECTION ACT - GENERAL FLYNN TO BE APPOINTED VICE PRESIDENT." The man in the video claims that the Insurrection Act was signed "last night," and that Trump will be staying in office. He says not to expect Trump to bother going to the Capitol to be inaugurated, saying that he believes Trump will be inaugurated in the White House.  Later in the video, the man says he "can’t confirm" it right now, but says to "not be surprised" if Michael Flynn — the former national security adviser who was pardoned by the president after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI — is put forward as the vice president. Other posts on Facebook display a screenshot of what is supposedly a post Trump made on Parler, an alternative social media application that was suspended by several hosting platforms over posts inciting violence. An account called "@TeamTrumpNews" wrote:  "I have invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807, to address the treasonous rebellion conducted by Democrat & Republican lawmakers, CCP agents, the FBI, DOJ, CIA, & others to undermine, corrode and dismantle the United States of America and its Constitution. These entities pose a direct threat to national security. I will remain president indefinitely until all domestic enemies are arrested."  But Trump hasn’t signed or invoked the Insurrection Act, and there’s no evidence Flynn would be involved in any upcoming presidential administration. The Insurrection Act is a federal law that empowers the president to deploy the military and federalize National Guard troops to suppress certain situations including civil disorder, insurrection or rebellion. Before the president could use any of the powers under the act, he would first have to issue a formal proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) PolitiFact reached out to the White House and the Trump 2020 campaign but did not hear back. The act has been used to send the armed forces to quell civil disturbances a number of times during U.S. history, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. It was most recently invoked during the 1992 Los Angeles riots after four white police officers were acquitted in the roadside beating of a Black man, Rodney King, and during Hurricane Hugo in 1989, when widespread looting was reported in St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Congressional Research Service says it is legal convention under the act for the president to first issue a proclamation to get the situation under control before using the powers in the federal law.  "If the President decides to respond to such a situation, generally upon the recommendation of the Attorney General and, if necessary, the request of the governor, he must first issue a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse within a limited time," the report says, citing Title 10 of the U.S. Code. "If the situation does not resolve itself, the President may issue an executive order to send in troops." Trump has not done this, and he signaled in a Jan. 7 speech that he will support the transition to a new administration. In the videotaped speech a day after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Trump said that he’s focused on "ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power" and that "a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th." He also added in a subsequent tweet that he would not be attending the event. Our ruling Several posts online claim that Trump has invoked the Insurrection Act, and a video blog says Michael Flynn will serve as vice president. This is not supported by evidence. Trump has not issued the proclamation required before he can use the powers of the act and he signaled on Jan. 7 that he will support a transition of power.  We rate this False. 

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2021-01-10 00:00:00

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"Trump signs Insurrection Act - General Flynn to be appointed vice president."

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2021-01-11 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/11/conservative-beaver/no-pope-francis-has-not-been-arrested/

No, Pope Francis has not been arrested

Social media users are circulating a false claim that Pope Francis has been arrested by Italian authorities and charged with child trafficking and fraud.  The claim appears to have gone viral through an article for the website Conservative Beaver.  "Pope Francis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio was arrested Saturday in connection with an 80-count indictment of charges including possession of child pornography, human trafficking, incest, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony fraud," it reads.  The article further claims that the Italian National Prosecutor’s Office ordered the arrest, and that Italian police, the International Criminal Police Organization and the FBI will interrogate the Pope at an undisclosed location.  There is no evidence to support any of these claims. This article was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  "I can categorically deny those outlandish accusations. There is no truth whatsoever to them," said Rev. Fr. Roger Landry, attaché for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.  No credible news organization has reported anything along these lines about the pope.  The Conservative Beaver article was published Jan. 10, and said the pope had been arrested the night before. But on Jan. 10, Pope Francis live-streamed an address from the library of the Apostolic Palace. The Conservative Beaver cites several Tweets claiming that a blackout had occurred in Vatican City during the purported arrest. However, multiple people living in Vatican City told the Catholic News Agency that there was no blackout on Jan. 9.  The article also quotes Giuseppe Governale, an Italian prosecutor, as saying:  "These individuals are truly the worst of the worst in society. I can promise you, we will not stop targeting human trafficking until we put a stop to this despicable trade in the Vatican and Italy, as well as surrounding countries around Europe. While I am a lead prosecutor in Italy, my department will strive to protect our citizens, especially those that need us most, our children." The quote is not from Governale. It’s a doctored version of a public statement issued by a different official, Madison County, Ala., Sheriff Kevin Turner, relating to a human trafficking arrest in Alabama.  The Conservative Beaver article swaps out the words "Madison County" with "the Vatican and Italy," the words "counties around our state" with "countries around Europe," and the words "the sheriff" with "a lead prosecutor in Italy."  I can promise you, we will not stop targeting human trafficking until we put a stop to this despicable trade in Madison County as well as surrounding counties around our state.— Madison Sheriff AL (@mcsosheriffAL) January 8, 2021 The Conservative Beaver has published misinformation in the past, falsely claiming at various points that George Soros, Barack Obama and Hunter Biden had been arrested. An investigation by Lead Stories found that a photo purporting to show  Zayden Thornton, the owner and operator of the site according to the "About" page, appears to contain a fake computer-generated face. Our ruling A website claims that Pope Francis was arrested Jan. 9 "in connection with an 80-count indictment of charges including possession of child pornography, human trafficking, incest, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony fraud." A representative for the Roman Catholic Church said there’s no truth to the claims.  Pope Francis live-streamed an address Jan. 10 from the Apostolic Palace.  This claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. Pants on Fire!

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2021-01-07 00:00:00

an article:

Says Pope Francis “was arrested Saturday in connection with an 80-count indictment of charges including possession of child pornography, human trafficking, incest, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony fraud.”

Noah Y. Kim

2021-01-11 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ronna-mcdaniel/yes-aclu-has-criticized-hr-1-heres-why/

Yes, the ACLU has criticized HR 1. Here’s why

A major Democratic bill that aims to expand voting rights and overhaul campaign finance rules has resulted in some unusual allies. "There’s a reason even the ACLU opposes #HR1 – it threatens our freedom of speech," tweeted Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel. There’s a reason even the ACLU opposes #HR1 – it threatens our freedom of speech.— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) February 22, 2021 Known as the For the People Act, the 791-page H.R. 1 combines proposals for absentee voting, in-person voting, and campaign finance and ethics. The ACLU supports the bill’s provisions to expand voting rights and while it has criticisms of the legislation, its senior counsel told PolitiFact that it has not formally opposed the 2021 version, saying "a serious legislative effort to restore and strengthen our republic is needed now more than ever."  But McDaniel is right in that the organization says certain campaign finance provisions would limit free speech — and the ACLU has formally opposed the bill in the past. With the House poised to vote on H.R. 1, we asked for evidence behind McDaniel’s claim. A spokesperson for the RNC pointed to the ACLU’s own writings — letters to lawmakers and statements issued in 2019 and 2021 detailing their criticisms of H.R. 1. ACLU objects to certain provisions about campaign finance The ACLU is officially nonpartisan, but its advocacy for immigrants, the LGBTQ community, women and prisoners is often aligned with policies supported by the left. At the same time, the ACLU’s advocacy for free speech can sometimes put it on the same side as groups or individuals on the right. The ACLU has long opposed certain campaign finance proposals.  In 2019, the ACLU told lawmakers it "opposes H.R.1" and asked lawmakers to amend the bill to "avoid unconstitutionally burdening political speech." The ACLU said it supported goals in the bill to make it easier to vote, including restoring voting rights for felons, stopping the purge of inactive voters, increasing online voter registration and providing for no excuse absentee voting.  That initial bill passed the House but never reached a vote in the Senate. When Democrats introduced a new version in January, the ACLU told lawmakers that it had "significant constitutional concerns." "We have not officially opposed the bill in the 117th Congress," Kathleen Ruane, senior legislative counsel for the ACLU, told PolitiFact. "Following the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on our democratic system of government, a serious legislative effort to restore and strengthen our republic is needed now more than ever, and we strongly support many of the voting rights provisions in H.R. 1." But the ACLU said requirements for organizations to disclose certain donors are "onerous and dangerous." The ACLU’s 2021 letter largely highlights its objections to the Shield Act and the Disclose Act, two Democratic bills rolled into H.R. 1.  While the ACLU said it agrees with the Shield Act’s goal to limit interference of foreign adversaries in elections, the act goes too far.  The group objected to a provision that makes campaign finance law violations deportable offenses. It also argued in 2019 that the Shield Act would prohibit foreign governments or foreign parties from creating paid ads.  "If the governments of Germany, Canada, and France wanted to take out a nationwide advertisement during the Super Bowl in 2020 explaining why it is so important for the United States to recommit to the Paris Climate Agreement, the Shield Act would forbid that speech," the ACLU wrote. The Disclose Act requires additional disclosures related to political spending, including further restrictions on foreign money in elections. It demands that organizations that make campaign-related disbursements of more than $10,000 in an election reporting cycle disclose the names of donors who give $10,000 or more. The legislation makes it harder for "dark money" groups to avoid disclosures. Super PACs can raise and spend unlimited amounts, as long as they don't directly coordinate with candidates or party committees. Super PACs publicly disclose their receipts and expenditures, though they sometimes get big donations from nonprofits, which don't have to disclose their donors. The ACLU said it supports mandated reporting of spending for public communications that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for office, but it said the Disclose Act goes beyond those bounds. The legislation "could harm political advocacy and expose non-profit donors to harassment and threats of violence should their support for organizations be subject to forced disclosure," the ACLU wrote. In 2019, the ACLU also said it objected to at least sections of other legislation incorporated into H.R. 1, calling some of the language too vague or invasive of donor privacy. Reactions to ACLU’s objections McDaniel’s tweet maintains that H.R. 1 "threatens our freedom of speech" — and she posits that she is in agreement with the ACLU on this point. The liberal Brennan Center for Justice at NYU disagrees with the ACLU’s conclusions that the bill will interfere with free speech, said Daniel Weiner, the center’s deputy director of election reform. Weiner said the goal isn’t to target everyday Americans making small donations, but rather big corporations and powerful interest groups.  "It’s misleading to characterize transparency measures as a significant restriction on freedom of speech," he said. "The notion that these (powerful) groups will be shrinking violets who might get criticized from spending and it might drive them from the public square is a bit much to take." In a letter to lawmakers in support of H.R. 1, a few former ACLU officials joined with several constitutional scholars in calling the legislation the "most significant pro-democracy legislation since the Voting Rights Act of 1965." "We do not view First Amendment concerns over the precise scope of disclosure requirements affecting large donors to tax-exempt organizations operating on the margins of electoral politics as outweighing the need for expeditious enactment of the clearly desirable aspects of H.R. 1 into law," they wrote. The Institute for Free Speech, a conservative group that advocates against campaign finance restrictions, sides with the ACLU in arguing that it would chill free speech. "These advocates of restricting free speech want to have it both ways, by arguing that restricting speech is necessary or beneficial, but also that what they propose does not restrict speech," said Bradley A. Smith, chairman of the institute and a professor at Capital University Law School, in an email to PolitiFact. Our ruling McDaniel tweeted that the "ACLU opposes HR 1" on grounds that "it threatens our freedom of speech." The ACLU opposed the 2019 version of H.R. 1, saying multiple provisions would limit free speech. When Democrats unveiled the bill again in January, ACLU said it still held many of their earlier concerns and called some sections "onerous and dangerous." But the ACLU has stopped short of opposing the bill in 2021.  While it is clear that freedom of speech for political donors is among the ACLU’s concerns, the ACLU has not opposed the bill in 2021. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True. RELATED: Group makes bogus attack on HR 1 over congressional salaries RELATED: Fact-checking misleading attacks on HR 1, Democrats’ voting rights bill RELATED: Claim about congressional pensions is wrong, once again RELATED: Fact-checking Mark Walker's video on HR 1’s campaign-finance provisions

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Kim Reynolds

2021-01-10 00:00:00

a tweet:

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

Amy Sherman

2021-03-01 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ron-johnson/johnson-overreaches-asylum-seeker-claim/

Sen. Ron Johnson overreaches with asylum-seeker claim

Since being sworn in as president, Democrat Joe Biden has signed a series of executive actions and orders, about half of which are aimed at reversing policies put in place under Donald Trump, his Republican predecessor.   About 22 of more than 50 executive orders issued as of Feb. 25, 2021, have involved immigration issues, including changes to a Trump-era policy known as MPP -- Migrant Protection Protocols -- that required those seeking asylum at the southern border to wait in Mexico for their cases to move through U.S. immigration courts.  Biden’s action prompted this tweeted response on Feb. 12. 2021 from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin: "Biden’s plan will immediately let in 25,000 asylum-seekers who’d been waiting in Mexico as their cases were judged."  Is Johnson correct?  Department of Homeland Security When asked to provide backup for the claim, Johnson spokesman Ben Voelkel pointed to a Feb. 11, 2021 news release from the Department of Homeland Security that announced the program, then simply reasserted his boss’ claim. Of the 25,000 people who Johnson said could be let in, Voelkel added: "We have been told this could happen within a few weeks." Fair enough. But it’s unclear just who told Johnson or his office this. Voelkel has not responded to followup questions about this from PolitiFact Wisconsin.  Voelkel’s original response also asserted: "These people will be let into the U.S. while they wait for their asylum claims to be adjudicated even though we know a vast majority of them do not have valid asylum claims and will likely stay even when their claims are denied." But the news release from the Department of Homeland Security, which Voelkel cited as evidence, actually undermines Johnson’s claim. The news release, which noted the first phase of a new program would begin on Feb. 19, 2021, quoted Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas saying the Biden administration "is committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system."  The release warned that "changes will take time" and "individuals who are not eligible under this initial phase should wait for further instructions and not travel to the border." Meanwhile, according to a Feb. 12, 2021, Associated Press report, DHS officials said the department would begin slowly, by allowing in a fraction of asylum-seekers — about 300 people per day — from among an estimated 25,000 people with "active cases" in the former MPP program.   In practice, however, that 300 per day was significantly lower when the program launched on Feb. 19, 2021, with just  25 MPP asylum-seekers admitted at a port of entry in San Ysidro, California, and taken to a hotel for quarantine. The group included six families and five individuals from Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Cuba. According to the department, a similar number were admitted each day in San Ysidro during the week of Feb. 21, 2021. On Feb. 24, 2021, DHS announced it would begin processing people currently at the Matamoros camp in Mexico, located across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas.  According to the department, while still in Mexico, asylum-seekers must register virtually on a website. They are then contacted for an appointment during which they are screened for eligibility to enter the United States. They are also tested for COVID-19. If they pass the screening process they are transported to a United States port of entry, where they are processed.  "We will work in partnership with the Government of Mexico, and partners on the ground, to facilitate the safe processing of current camp residents who qualify for this program," DHS said in a news release. "New arrivals to the Matamoros camp will not gain entry into the United States through this limited process." In addition to the San Ysidro port of entry, DHS said on Feb. 25, 2021, another 25 people were processed at a port of entry in Brownsville, Texas, and the department expected to process a similar number in El Paso, Texas. So, after more than a week of the program, it’s clear the influx of 25,000 asylum seekers has not been "immediate" as Johnson claimed it would be. Instead it has been more of a trickle than a flood. Our ruling Johnson said "Biden’s plan will immediately let in 25,000 asylum-seekers who’d been waiting in Mexico as their cases were judged." While the Biden plan changes the Trump approach, and returns to a system that allows asylum seekers into the country while their cases are being considered, Johnson’s tweet leaves the impression there would be a wave of 25,000 people admitted instantly. That’s far from the case, at least as things stand more than a week into the new program. Even if the number does hit the projected 300 a day, that alone would mean it would take some 83 days to reach 25,000. For a statement that contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is Mostly False.  

Immigration,Border Security,Homeland Security,Wisconsin,Ron Johnson

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Conservative Beaver

2021-02-12 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says the Atlanta mayor is “shutting the city down for” the NBA All-Star Game weekend.

Tom Kertscher

2021-03-01 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/ted-budd/budd-says-9-stimulus-targets-covid-rest-not-even-r/

Budd says 9% of stimulus targets COVID, the rest is 'not even' related

A North Carolina congressman claims the Democrats’ proposed stimulus plan has very little to do with the coronavirus. The "American Rescue Plan" calls for $1.9 trillion in spending.  "There’s about 9% of it actually going to COVID, meaning 91% of it is not even COVID-related," Republican. Rep. Ted Budd said in a speech, which he tweeted. Is Budd right about those percentages? The first part of Budd’s quote is accurate. Expert analysis shows a small percentage of the spending is directed at combating the virus through vaccines, protective equipment or resources for health care providers. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the bill isn’t related to COVID-19. A significant percentage of the bill aims to address the financial fallout caused by the pandemic. Combatting COVID Experts we spoke with put the bill’s spending into three categories: coronavirus containment, things that are tightly or loosely related to the pandemic, and things that shouldn’t be considered related at all. Let’s look first at spending that directly targets COVID-containment. Depending on how COVID-containment is measured, the cost ranges between $100 billion and $160 billion.  The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a group focused on reducing federal deficits, put COVID-19 "containment" efforts at $110 billion, or 6% of the bill. The group put vaccine-related activities in a separate group costing about $17 billion, less than 1% of the entire bill.  For his part, President Joe Biden said $160 billion would go towards COVID-19 testing, protective gear, vaccine production and distribution. Even if we take this higher number, that would mean the funds directed to fight COVID account for roughly 8.4% of the $1.9 trillion.  That means the first part of Budd’s claim is nearly spot-on. What’s COVID-related? But the second part of his claim is off-base. While a lot of the proposed spending doesn’t directly go toward combating COVID, that doesn’t mean it’s not related to the coronavirus.  A significant portion is designed to offer economic relief to businesses and people affected by the pandemic. Perhaps the most famous part of the plan, direct stimulus payments to individuals, is estimated to cost more than $420 billion. The plan would also extend unemployment benefits and offer financial aid to help schools reopen.  Erica York at the Tax Foundation and Stan Veuger at the American Enterprise Institute both described economic relief efforts as "COVID-related." "Whether you think they’re wise or not, they’re clearly a response to the economic crisis," Veuger said in a phone interview. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reported that $246 billion would go toward extending unemployment benefits through August and raising the federal supplement payment — a move that would account for roughly 13% of the budget. The Congressional Budget Office also said the proposed unemployment benefits would cost $246 billion. The unemployment benefits, combined with a $400-a-week supplement to state unemployment insurance payments, would cost a combined $350 billion, PolitiFact reported. The CRFB reported that $130 billion, or 7%, would go toward helping schools reopen safely. We asked Budd whether he believes the extension of unemployment benefits is unrelated to the COVID-19 crisis. Spokesman Curtis Kalin didn’t directly answer the question. He said Budd wants to reopen the country. For aid, he said the federal government could use the $1 trillion that hasn’t been spent yet — a claim we’ve rated Half True. Not COVID-related To be clear, the bill does include proposals that experts don’t necessarily see as pertinent. "The Democratic proposal is going beyond what we’ve seen in past relief measures by significantly expanding existing tax credits and making changes to the international tax system," York said.  "For instance, lawmakers are proposing expanding the child tax credit," she said. "Opponents might argue that’s wish list and isn’t a speedy form of relief, but proponents might argue it’s COVID-related because the pandemic and downturn have disproportionately affected lower-income households and so policies are being targeted toward the affected populations." In total, the CRFB estimates the House Democrats’ relief package includes "at least $312 billion of policies that have little to do with the current crisis." The group cited the $110 billion to expand the Child Tax Credit and $50 billion to expand health care access through the Affordable Care Act. The CRFB proposed alternative plans costing $1.3 trillion and $1.1 trillion, respectively. Meanwhile, a group of Republican senators proposed a $600 billion plan.  Our ruling Budd said about 9% of Biden’s stimulus plan "is actually going to COVID, meaning 91% of it is not even COVID-related." In the first part of his statement, Budd accurately describes the proposed spending on efforts to combat the virus itself.  However, he’s wrong to suggest the rest of the bill isn’t related to COVID-19 at all. He may disagree with how much the bill would spend on unemployment insurance and other financial relief efforts. But the bill does aim to address the financial cost of the pandemic. His statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it Half True.

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