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Statement: Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: May 9, 2019
Location: national
Topics: economy;foreign policy;trade
Context: remarks at the White House
Fact-check justification: Trump said that tariffs are "paid for  by China, by the way, not by us." China doesn’t pay the initial tariffs — U.S. importers do. In many if not most cases, those costs are passed on to American consumers, whether it’s directly on the products hit by the tariffs or through an impact on U.S. companies who use raw materials hit with tariffs. China could also take a hit over the longer term in its gross domestic product, but experts say the harm to the U.S. economy would be swifter, more certain and potentially bigger. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "we're losing one voter every 13 minutes.
Speaker: our oregon
About the speaker: Our Oregon describes itself as a 501(c)(4) organization "dedicated to fighting for economic and social fairness for all Oregonians. Our coalition represents organizations and individuals who care about a range of issues, from preserving funding for our schools and critical services to protecting the environment."
Date: November 14, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: elections
Context: a statement on their website
Fact-check justification: Our Oregon said we’ve lost about 119,000 since November 2008 -- one every 13 minutes -- and official figures back them up. The thing is, without the context that this is a pretty cyclical happening, that statistic sounds pretty dire. We think it needs context, so under PolitiFact rules, we’ll give it a . What do you think? Head back to OregonLive and share your thoughts .
Statement: Electric vehicles are more likely to fail in traffic jams.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 27, 2021
Topics: environment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says electric vehicles are more prone to a failure in standstill traffic where heating or air conditioning is required. The post misunderstands the way EVs and their batteries work. Electric vehicles use little power when at a standstill, and their climate settings also do not require much power. An electric vehicle with a full battery would have enough energy to operate for a day or longer while stationary during a traffic jam, even while using air conditioning or heating. We rate the  that electric vehicles are more likely to fail in traffic jams .
Statement: This country's working people actually got a raise.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: January 19, 2022
Location: national
Topics: economy;income
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Biden said that "this country’s working people actually got a raise." They did, with an overall increase of 4.7%. But with inflation at 7%, the average person lost ground in terms of real income. This was particularly  for the middle half of earners who saw a median wage increase of only about 2.5%. The picture was a bit better for low-wage earners, but not enough to shift the broader pattern for 2021: Inflation outpaced wage increases. We rate this  .
Statement: New California bill charges parents with child abuse for refusing to 'affirm' their kid's gender identity.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 18, 2023
Location: california
Topics: legal issues;crime;lgbtq
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says a "new California bill chargesparents with child abuse for refusing to ‘affirm’ their kid’s gender identity." The bill would modify one section of the state’s family code that governs how judges resolve child custody disputes. The bill would add a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender to the list of considerations a judge must weigh when deciding custody and visitation disputes between parents. The bill would not change California’s penal code, which outlines the crime of child abuse.  We rate this  .
Statement: The Biden administration "is spending $30 million on crack pipes.
Speaker: sean spicer
About the speaker: Sean Spicer is former press secretary to President Donald Trump. Previously, he was the communications director for the Republican National Committee.
Date: February 8, 2022
Location: national
Topics: drugs;public health
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Spicer and other conservative commentators claimed that the Biden administration is spending $30 million on crack pipes.  The assertion stems from a federal "harm reduction" grant to prevent injury and death among people addicted to drugs. The grant allows recipients to provide such items as testing equipment for sexually transmitted diseases and overdose reversal medication, along with "safe smoking kits" to curb the spread of diseases among users of smokable drugs. However, the kits would not include crack pipes, and the kits as a whole would cost far less than $30 million, which is roughly the amount the government would spend on all elements of the grant-provided supplies and services. The  contains an element of , but it leaves out significant context. We rate it .
Statement: Rhode Island is "at the top of the country for alcohol-related fatalities.
Speaker: stephen archambault
About the speaker: Steve Archambault was a candidate for attorney general in 2010. A 2000 graduate of the Roger Williams School of Law, he is a former police officer in Jamestown, Lincoln town prosecutor, a lawyer, and a member of the Smithfield Town Council.
Date: August 12, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: crime
Context: a candidate debate
Fact-check justification: In 2005 we ranked 11th, and in 2006 we were 10th. But in 2003 and 2004, we were ranked first in the nation in the percentage of fatalities related to alcohol. Archambault isn't completely correct about our ranking, unless you go back several years. Yet it's clear he did give an accurate assessment of the scope of the problem. We'll give him a .
Statement: Fact: Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared.
Speaker: brad parscale
About the speaker: Brad Parscale is President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign manager.
Date: June 20, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Parscale tweeted, "Fact: Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared." The 90,000 children refers to the unaccompanied minors from Central America during Obama’s tenure. Children were detained by the federal government until they could be released to a parent or other caregiver in the U.S. However, Parscale omits that this group of children detained is a different situation from the recent Trump administration policy. The 90,000 refers to minors who crossed the border without any parents during Obama’s tenure. Those unaccompanied minors were detained until they were placed with a caregiver. The Trump administration policy separated children from their parents when they crossed the border. We rate this statement .
Statement: The "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: March 23, 2016
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a Medium post
Fact-check justification: Obama, in his Medium post, said the "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent." Hats off to the White House for correcting its post based on our inquiry, even before we could publish our fact-check. Still, we put claims to the -O-Meter based on their original form, and in this case, Obama, despite being close to accurate, jumped the gun by shaving off a few tenths of a percentage point before they officially materialized. We rate this  .
Statement: The U.S. spends $4 billion on research and development for energy, while spending $350 billion on oil from foreign countries, "many of whom are our enemies.
Speaker: jeff greene
About the speaker: Jeff Greene, a wealthy businessman from Palm Beach, lost the Democratic primary for Florida governor in August 2018. He campaigned for the U.S. Senate and was defeated in the Democratic primary on Aug. 24, 2010.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: energy;foreign policy;oil spill
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: We're ruling here on Greene's statement that we're spending $4 billion on research and development for energy while spending $350 billion on foreign oil, which goes to some countries that are "our enemies." His numbers are close on how much we spend, but he's off about the countries being enemies. Canada and Mexico are friendly with the U.S. We may not always have the best relations with a few of the other countries on the list -- Venezuela comes to mind -- but we have a hard time seeing how any of them rise to the level of "enemy." So we rate his statement .
Statement: THOUSANDS of fake votes found at Wisconsin Recount in Dane County.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 28, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;state budget
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A story shared widely across social media said, "More than 2,000  votes were found at the Wisconsin Recount in Dane County on Friday!" An amended version instead referenced them as being "suspect" votes. Neither  has any basis in reality. The repeated initials aren’t those of the voter, they’re initials of the clerk who issued the absentee ballots. That’s not sketchy, it’s just a basic element of how elections are administered. We rate this .
Statement: Photos show Joe Biden didn't drive himself during an electric vehicle test drive.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 19, 2021
Location: national
Topics: economy;transportation;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "This rumor is badly misguided. There was only one steering wheel in the vehicle the president drove on Tuesday," said Miller.   The Detroit Free Press reported that Biden’s test drive had been discussed as a possibility prior to his visit, but the Ford staff did not know it was going to happen until the very end of the day’s event. Social media posts featuring two photos — one of Biden behind the wheel of a vehicle and another of a car interior with two steering wheels —  that Biden didn’t drive himself during an electric vehicle test drive at Ford Motor Co.  Both the White House and Ford Motor Co. refuted this , and photo and video  shows that there’s only one steering wheel in the truck, which Biden was operating.   We rate this  !
Statement: Everyone but Trump invited to royal funeral.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: September 13, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Politico reported that it had obtained official documents from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the United Kingdom that said only heads of state and their spouses or partners from each country have been invited to the funeral.   At a press conference Sept. 12, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre whether Biden "would bring any former presidents with him" if he’s allowed.   Jean-Pierre said the decision lay with the United Kingdom’s government.   "The invite was for the president and the first lady only," she said. We rate claims that everyone but Trump was invited to the queen’s funeral .
Statement: Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: October 11, 2007
Location: national
Topics: education
Context: Plymouth, N.H
Fact-check justification: Indeed, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire-based Center for College Planning said in an e-mail that the denseness of the form has become less of an issue since it went online, though some families still describe the process of applying as overwhelming. "With assistance, it can take an average of 30 to 45 minutes to fill out the FAFSA," the center's Erin Hathaway wrote to PolitiFact.com. "If there are complicated asset situations or private business owners, joint families etc., then it can take longer, usually one to two hours." No research has been done on the topic, said Meihua Zhai, director of research at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, making all information on how long it takes anecdotal. Given the disputed number and the lack of research, we find Clinton's statement to be .
Statement: Gov. Roy Cooper has "filed nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power.
Speaker: david lewis
About the speaker: David Lewis is a Republican member of the N.C. House of Representatives from Harnett County. He chairs the Rules Committee and the Elections Committee and is a top budget-writer.
Date: July 31, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: legal issues
Context: a blog
Fact-check justification: Lewis said Cooper has filed "nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power." In fact, Cooper had filed three lawsuits and an amendment over seven months when Lewis made his . Lewis gives the impression that Cooper has been wildly filing lawsuits to expand his powers. But the lawsuits primarily respond to reductions in power passed by Lewis’s party shortly before Cooper took office and afterward. We rate his  .
Statement: President Trump "hasn't built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: November 17, 2019
Location: california
Topics: immigration;border security;infrastructure
Context: an interview on "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: Pelosi’s statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .     – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Virginia's current unemployment rate is "the lowest in Virginia history.
Speaker: richard saslaw
About the speaker: Richard L. Saslaw, D-35th, joined the Virginia Senate in 1980. The district is composed of portions of Fairfaix, Alexandria and Falls Church. He previously served in the House of Delegates beginning in 1976. Saslaw has been the Democratic leader of the Senate since 1996, currently as minority leader. He sits on the Rules, FInance, Education and Health, Courts of Justice and Commerce and Labor committees.
Saslaw ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat in 1984. He has owned several successful gasoline and automobile service businesses. 
Saslaw served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960 and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 1965.
Date: October 5, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Saslaw said during the debate that Virginia’s unemployment rate is the lowest in the state’s history. Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show he’s , and the senator’s campaign says he garbled his talking point. We rate the  .
Statement: The numbers make it clear that Georgia voters are increasingly taking advantage of early voting opportunities.
Speaker: brian kemp
About the speaker: Brian Kemp, a Republican, was elected governor of Georgia in 2018. Previously, he served as secretary of state.
Date: May 19, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: statement
Fact-check justification: In 2011, early voting was reduced to 21 days, ending the Friday before the election and including at least one Saturday of early voting. To sum up, there’s plenty of  that Georgia voters are taking advantage of the chance to cast their ballots early. In the 2012 presidential election, 1.9 million early votes were cast. That’s up from about 420,000 in 2004, the first time Georgians could vote early in a presidential election. We rate Kemp’s statement as .
Statement: The U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: June 16, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: military
Context: Dallas fundraiser
Fact-check justification: While in Texas, Trump said the U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries. The government indeed salvages parts for military planes remaining in action and the U.S. also sells aircraft to militaries abroad. But clarification is needed. The described parts salvaging, which can save time and money, doesn’t appear to be misguided and the U.S. also buys new planes for its forces. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Covid-does NOT exist AS A VIRUS," and Russian doctors performing autopsies on deceased COVID-19 patients violate a World Health Organization law
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 5, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A post claims that bacteria causes COVID-19 and that "Covid-does NOT exist AS A VIRUS." It also says that Russian doctors who performed autopsies on deceased COVID-19 patients violated a World Health Organization law. COVID-19 is caused by a virus, not by bacteria. The WHO does not prohibit autopsies on people who have died of COVID-19. The organization actually provided guidelines for how to safely perform autopsies on COVID-19 patients. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Texas is "last in mental health expenditures.
Speaker: sacramento bee editorial board
About the speaker: The editorial board of The Sacramento Bee says it composes editorials that are its collective opinion. It meets regularly to discuss community concerns and issues of the day, it says.
Date: February 6, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care;pundits
Context: an editorial
Fact-check justification: The editorial says Texas is last in mental health spending. In 2010, the latest year analyzed, Texas spent more in raw dollars on mental health services than 41 states. But in per-resident spending -- the better metric for comparing states --Texas ranked second-to-last to Idaho after ranking last to all other states for several years. We rate this  as .
Statement: Says the inspector general for the IRS said there was "no political motivation" and "no outside influence" for targeting of tax-exempt applications from tea party groups
Speaker: sander levin
About the speaker: Rep. Sander “Sandy” Levin, a Michigan Democrat who's the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982.
Date: May 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Levin told Matthews on MSNBC that, "the inspector general, when asked, Was there any political motivation for the people who were in the exempt organization in Cincinnati, the lower-level people who were working on this, he said no. Was there any outside influence? And he said no." That was the gist of George’s testimony the same day before the Ways and Means Committee, but with the important clarification that he was careful to explain that the assessment was based solely on  turned up so far by auditors. Levin offered no such caveat. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: May 7, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: a statement before signing Senate Bill 4 into law over a Facebook Live
Fact-check justification: Abbott said Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes." That’s a distortion of Hernandez’s statements and her announced policy. The sheriff made it clear she wouldn’t automatically honor all requests to hold suspects for ICE. But the policy specifies several violent crimes for which the department directly grants the hold requests and it reserves the office’s right to exercise discretion in the interests of justice. Abbott, a seasoned judge and former state attorney general, should know better. We find this   and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.