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Statement: Under the "2023 Solar Incentive Program," U.S. homeowners can "now qualify to get a full, state-of-the-art solar system at absolutely no cost from the government.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 11, 2023
Topics: environment;consumer safety;energy
Context: a video shared on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A Facebook video claimed the government "launched a program called the 2023 Solar Incentive Program" which means American homeowners "can now qualify to get a full, state-of-the-art solar system at absolutely no cost from the government." The U.S. government does not provide free solar panels. The Energy Department and the Solar Energy Technologies Office have warned consumers about this type of online scam involving solar panels.  We rate this  . RELATED:  The federal government is providing free solar panel installation and $8,500 incentive checks to eligible homeowners. RELATED: Don’t fall for this Facebook post promising cheap Walmart bikes
Statement: Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent.
Speaker: rudy giuliani
About the speaker: Rudy Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and previously served as a federal prosecutor, as well as an associate attorney general under President Reagan. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a law degree from New York University Law School. He has been married since 2003 to Judith Nathan and was married twice before. He has two children, Andrew and Caroline. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 30, 2008.
Date: January 24, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: Boca Raton
Fact-check justification: Total defense forces also shrank, from 3.3-million to 2.9-million. The Republicans are trying to portray Clinton and the Democrats as weak on defense and to make the peace dividend look like a partisan effort. But contrary to the Republicans' claims, the post-Cold War shrinkage of the U.S. military was very much a bipartisan effort. It began under a Republican president and a Democratic Congress and continued under a Democratic president and a Republican Congress. And so we find, as we did before, that this  is .
Statement: Since taking office, we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: May 31, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;state budget;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Like us on Facebook . Follow us on Twitter: @PolitiFactWisc Among them: The manufacturing and agricultural tax credit gave an estimated $22 million in credits to 11 individuals who had an adjusted gross income of $30 million or more in 2017, according to the state fiscal bureau. Our rating Walker says: "Since taking office, we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief." The state’s official nonpartisan budget scorekeeper puts the figure -- since Walker took office in 2011 and through the current budget that runs through mid-2019 -- at $8.47 billion. We rate Walker’s statement .
Statement: Our numbers are going up at the airport.
Speaker: james bennett
About the speaker: James Bennett is chairman of the  board of the Rhode Island Convention Center and director of Providence's Department of Economic Development.
Date: January 1, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;tourism;transportation
Context: a Gov. Lincoln Chafee YouTube video
Fact-check justification: James Bennett said, "Our numbers are going up at the airport." When experts talk about the success of an airport, they look at the number of passengers using the facility, not the number of seats available to purchase. We believe the vast majority of viewers of Chafee’s YouTube video will come away believing that, when Bennett reports that "our numbers are going up," he is reporting that passenger volume is up. In fact -- as The Journal has repeatedly reported -- the opposite is . The passenger numbers have been dropping for years. Maybe the addition of JetBlue will reverse the downward trend. But the impression Bennett is giving in the video is so at odds from the facts, the judges rate his statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Assault weapons and handguns are allowed in the state Capitol while bullhorns, trumpets, helium balloons and flags on poles are banned.
Speaker: virginia house democratic caucus
About the speaker: The House Democratic Caucus consists of the 32 Democrats in the 100-member Virginia House of Delegates. Its chairman is Del. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax.
Date: January 19, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: guns
Fact-check justification: Calling for reform to Virginia’s gun laws, House Democrats noted that firearms -- including assault rifles -- are allowed to be brought in the state Capitol while helium balloons, flags on poles, trumpets and bullhorns are banned. The list of barred articles holds up. The firearms issue is a bit trickier. They can be brought into the Capitol, but only by lawmakers, valid concealed weapons permit holders and law enforcement. They are banned in the Senate gallery. We rate the  .
Statement: Hillary in hiding as police discover dead body hidden in Huma Abedin's dumpster.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 12, 2018
Topics: fake news;crime;punditfact
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A headline said, "Hillary in hiding as police discover dead body hidden in Huma Abedin’s dumpster." A dead body turned up in the trash compactor at the same apartment building that Abedin used to call home, but we could not find any  that Abedin and Clinton played any role in the incident or were implicated in the police investigation. We rate this statement .
Statement: In April 1997, there was a 'gas out' conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 30, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: energy;gas prices
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: With rising gas prices, calls for a one-day gas boycott are again making the rounds. A Facebook post promoting a "gas out" for April 15  said: "In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight." There’s no  and no data to support this . The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline varied by less than a penny in April 1997. Stand back, readers. This  is highly flammable: ! To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Among states, Missouri ranks "3rd (in) average yearly growth of high-tech industries.
Speaker: missouri department of economic development
About the speaker: The Missouri Department of Economic Development is a state government agency that supports economic growth in the state.
Date: October 19, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: economy;states
Context: a proposal to Amazon.com
Fact-check justification: Missouri officials claimed Missouri ranked "3rd (in) average yearly growth of high-tech industries." While Missouri high-tech industries may have seen growth, the size of base matters. Missouri has seen a growth in high-tech jobs, but the  can be  when you don’t consider the size of the base. Overall, Missouri is about average in the rankings. We rate this .
Statement: The costs for families (in the individual market) for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 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: February 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: the televised health care summit
Fact-check justification: Obama tries to gloss over this by comparing costs "for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving." But the fact is, most would not be getting the same kind of coverage. Some of the shift to better coverage would be due to personal choice -- with subsidies, many people would be able to get better coverage at the same cost or cheaper -- but some would be tied to new government-mandated minimum coverage and the threat of tax penalties if you decide not to get insurance. And for those who opt to grandfather in their current individual policies (even if they don't meet the new government minimum standards), the CBO doesn't see much of a change in premiums one way or the other. And so we rule Obama's statement .
Statement: Illinois Republican lawmakers "have argued that they want an independent [redistricting] commission, but they didn't do anything about it.
Speaker: jb pritzker
About the speaker: J.B. Pritzker is Illinois' 43rd governor and a former Chicago venture capitalist and entrepreneur.
Date: June 3, 2021
Location: illinois
Topics: redistricting
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Pritzker said Republican lawmakers "have argued that they want an independent commission, but they didn't do anything about it." Republicans filed and promoted legislation this session aimed at creating an independent redistricting commission, and in his remarks to WTTW Pritzker cited creating an independent panel via legislation as one of the ways lawmakers could have tried for an independent map. Whether or not the GOP plan would have held up in court, it’s clear Republican lawmakers made at least some effort to create a redistricting commission not controlled by the legislature. We rate Pritzker’s  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says "Property crime rising in Austin. This is the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police. Residents are left to fend for themselves.
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: October 1, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;crime
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Abbott’s tweet made two factual claims: that property crime in Austin is on the rise and that this increase is causally linked to the city’s police budget cuts. He based the first on figures presented in a KVUE article that cited an 11% increase in burglaries so far this year. However, property crime on the whole is not rising this year. In fact, it has dropped by 2% compared to last year. Although property crime increased slightly in 2018 and 2019, property crime has dropped significantly over the past decade. The article Abbott referenced also cited data that showed crime rates as of August, which is before cuts to APD’s budget took effect on Oct. 1. The second part of his , that increased property crime is "the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police," appears to be based on assumption. Researchers have demonstrated how numerous intervening factors confound the relationship between police force size and crime. Rather, strategic crime deterrent strategies are seen as having a more direct impact on crime rates. We rate this  .
Statement: President Barack Obama deserves to be called "the most successful food stamp president in American history" because "47 million Americans are on food stamps.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: May 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;families
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Where does this leave us? Gingrich was close on the numbers of Americans receiving SNAP benefits. In addition, the number of beneficiaries is at a record level, and it has risen every month of the Obama presidency. On the other hand, Gingrich oversimplifies when he suggests that Obama should be considered "the most successful food stamp president in American history," because much -- though probably not all -- of the reason for the increase was a combination of the economic problems Obama inherited and a longstanding upward trend from policy changes. On balance, we rate Gingrich’s statement .
Statement: Says she was the "the only Democrat who voted against the Wall Street bailout.
Speaker: kathy castor
About the speaker: Kathy Castor is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida’s 14th Congressional district, which includes Tampa and St. Petersburg and parts of Hillsborough, Pinellas and Manatee counties. She was first elected in 2006.
Date: February 27, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview with the Tampa Tribune
Fact-check justification: Again, Castor was the lone Florida Democrat in the House to vote against the measure. This is what she said at the time: "After thoughtful consideration and review, I voted against President Bush's $700 billion bailout. The Bush plan does not provide sufficient help to middle-class families in the housing squeeze or taxpayer protections.”    So Castor is right, with the caveat that she was referring to Florida Democrats.    And so we rate her  .
Statement: Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt.
Speaker: george lemieux
About the speaker: George LeMieux is a former U.S. Senator from Florida. He was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist in 2009 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Mel Martinez and served until January 2011.
Date: January 8, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;florida
Context: a message on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Jackson biographers don't note it that way. Neither does the government office that tracks the debt. Scholars also say it lasted much more than a day. And since Jackson was bent on retiring the debt, we'd at least expect him to spend a day or two with an empty credit card account before racking up a bill again. We rate LeMieux's comment .
Statement: We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact, Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country.
Speaker: richard ferruccio
About the speaker: Richard Ferruccio has been a correctional officer in Rhode Island since 1984.  He was president of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers for nine years, stepping down in 2008.
Date: February 23, 2016
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice
Context: a legislative hearing
Fact-check justification: However, the state also has a very high probation rate, which he did not mention.    He also said the prisons do not have an overcrowding problem. He is correct. The Department of Corrections confirmed that the prisons are not "crowded" by the Palmigiano standards. We rate this
Statement: There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools.
Speaker: janet adkins
About the speaker: Janet Adkins lives in Fernandina Beach and was elected as a Republican to the state Legislature in 2008.
Date: February 9, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget;taxes
Context: a House Appropriations Committee meeting
Fact-check justification: Adkins said, "There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools." While charter schools do get a larger per-student share of one kind of state capital funding, traditional schools can bring in much more by taking advantage of school board levies and other sources that charters can’t access.   There are many fine details that can get lost in discussions about the subject. But we found that currently, traditional schools potentially can get six times the capital funding per pupil than charter schools can. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: That meth … it's almost all coming across the southern border and it's been accelerating for the last six months.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: June 16, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: border security;drugs;homeland security
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: But it’s unknown exactly how much meth comes through the southwest border undetected or at what pace. One metric, seizure data, does not show a steady uptick in the monthly number of pounds seized nor in the number of seizure events. Meth seizure at the southwest border has been increasing for years. DeSantis’  is partially accurate but leaves out important details and context. We rate it .
Statement: Says the coronavirus isn't new because "Lysol has it listed as one of the viruses that it kills.
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: January 31, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But that assumption is . The Lysol spray has demonstrated effectiveness against past strains of coronavirus. The current outbreak spreading from Wuhan, China, is caused by a previously unidentified strain known as the 2019 Novel coronavirus. Cleaning products that list coronavirus on their labels are not referring to this strain. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Georgia has "almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: October 14, 2020
Location: georgia
Topics: north carolina;coronavirus
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Cooper said Georgia has "almost 100,000 more cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina." His  about cases requires the most rounding, but isn’t far off. But his  about deaths — in total and in nursing homes — are spot-on. We rate this  .
Statement: We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations.
Speaker: barry duval
About the speaker: Barry DuVal was named President & CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce on April 28, 2010.　
His public service began in 1988 when he was elected to the Newport News City Council. In 1990, he was elected mayor of the city. He served as mayor from 1990 through 1996, when he stepped down to become the president and CEO of a regional economic development organization representing Southeast Virginia.
From 1998 through 2002 DuVal served as Virginia's scretary of trade and commerce under then-Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican.
His private sector experience includes serving as president and CEO of DuVal Associates, Inc, a diversified real estate firm, from 1983-1996. Upon the completion of his term as the secretary of commerce and trade, he served as president and CEO of Kaufman & Canoles Consulting, LLC, an economic development consulting firm specializing in public-private partnerships and strategic planning for business and government agencies.
 
Date: September 25, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: energy;trade
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: DuVal said the U.S. is the only major oil-producing nation in the world that bans export of its crude oil. Two experts we contacted agreed with DuVal’s statement, and officials at the EIA said they’re not aware of any other country with similar export restrictions. But the ban is not absolute -- a small portion of U.S. crude is exported to Canada. So we rate his DuVal’s statement .
Statement: President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan.
Speaker: planned parenthood
About the speaker: Planned Parenthood Federation of America identifies itself as the nation's leading women's health care provider, educator, and advocate, serving women, men, teens, and families. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood Votes is a super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
 
Date: November 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care
Context: an alert to members
Fact-check justification: Obama's promise to the abortion rights group during the primary campaign could now be a liability before a broader audience that includes many people opposed to abortion rights. Still, Planned Parenthood is correct that Obama campaigned on a promise that he would put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan." After all, he was speaking to . . . Planned Parenthood. So we find the group's  to be .